Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-10-19
From the Detroit journal.

From the Detroit journal
Indian Cesson Of Lead Mines in 1900 WA h,,o
been favored by Lucius LYON. Esq II g re w. nave
gineer, with an account of the Boundary Ino CIV
veyed by him, the last Summer, of the conn,ru 80
erased IN 1929, OF the Wnnebagoes, Chippewpvs.
Pottawatomies and Getaways, at Prairie du Chg
and OF the country bordering upon it, which we trans
crloe with pleasure for our columns:
Inc ooSndary line between the coded and unco
aed lands commence near Grasse Point on Lake
Michigan, about twelve miles north of Ch,cago. and
runs thence due west eighty-four miles to Rock Ri;
yer; thence up Rock River forty one miles m the
mouth OF the Peek-a taR-oke up the Peek-a-,an-oke
seven miles to the mouth of Sugar Creek; up Sugar
Creek sixty three miles, to the road eadino from t6
Blue Mound to Bort Winnebago by the most nor,h
eriy OF the four Lakes; thence along that road frty
one miles to Duck Creek, four miles from the Roy,.
anu thence north 81 deg east twenty-one miles in ~
oirect lne TO the most soutbcry bend of Lake Puck
away thro which Fox River of Green Bav masses -
Inc boundary ofthe purchase runs from Lake Pnck.
away up Box River to the PORTAGE thence across tn
the Ouisconsn and down that river to the M;sv;s.n
pr. The length ofthe Portage fron the Iand;nsr an
Fox River to the Landing on the Ouiscon,in ;s ono
mile and one hundred and fifty rods " wv
inns boundary is the first connected survey ever
ma de west of Lake Michigan and besides div;d;nr
he Indian lands from those that have been purchased
VIII De OF some Importance the geography of tho
country as 1T fixes with certainty several noints TINT
nave been varlously laid down on maps Fort Win
neDago, Tor example, at the Portage of the Fox and
Ousconsn rivers, is important point and ia fo,,nJ
TO De distant from Chicago l42 miles in very nearly
nothwesterly direction, aud is miles from the Bjue
| mound, In northeasterly direction.
fhe Indians who have no way of exprssino tho
cardiha points,. east and west, but by snvpu ssto
aus Tue sun rising and setting knowing that the
Dounoary was to run west from the Lake TO Rock
River, were, at first, good deal dissatisfied thot
their Urea Father had chosen the season tn ,ar
the line when, they said would run SO far north
a. to embrace half their country; and their a@ent
| Dr Wocott, was at considerable pains to sst;sf,
them on this point 'y
! The country IN the neighborhood of the boundarr
surveyed, and to the south and west of it, is almost
universally of that description usually denominate8
open except between Lake Michigan and Rock Pi
yer, where there Is small a proportion of Wood
iand that 1t may more properly be called prairie
country Inc pralrles are covered with grass and
great variety of wild flowers, constantly succeed
ing each other with the change of the sesson. On
that they resemble immense Aower gardens Tho
timber OF the wood land is principally burr black
and white oak-the first species however predomi
hates' ne surface OF the country is rolling and in
some places hilly, but there no mountains All
the principal streams seem TO have worn their beJs
considerably into the calcareous sandrock which en-
/ iar as observable is the surface rock from Lake
slchigan 70 the Misslsslpp and contains the great
deposits OF lead ore, from which about forty millions
pounds OF lead have been made since 1925 while aft
tine mines In missouri, once thought to be greatest
In America only about eight millions have been
maze IN the same nne. How far this lead formation
extends southwark IN Illinois is not known to The
north 1t extends beyond the Ouisconsin and all or
nearly all, the lead now manufactured at the mine,
on the upper Mississippi, comes from this Territory
The population of the mining district in 1925 was
estimated at zen thousand is not SO preat now yet
the quantity of lead manufactu ed in the three first
quarters OF the present, exceeds that made in COR
responding time in any former year."
bron the Nec- England Palladium of Oct ~.
Gen Observation-Disclosures of letter to the Editor
dated Portsmouth, ~. III. Oct o, 1890
Having been here for few days. INV attention
was attracted by trial in the Court Of Cemmon
Pleas now siling here, Timothy Upham VS.. Hin
q Barton, Editors of the n Fl Patriot for libel
II has produced considerable excitement. and the
! Court has been engaged three days on the trial
Isaac Hill was present, and took deep interest in If
giving directions, and occasionally prompting or adj
] vIsing the Counsel for Defendants
Ihe case was ably argued by Messrs Sullivan
and Bartlett, and committed to the Jnrv last evening
al The Jury returned this morning, and stated
that they could not agree, and were dismissed
! 1.-The trial has been reported, and will probably an
pear IN PRINT and no doubt Will be worth readnn as
was proved by the opinion of IL or Is able
Witnesses that three four of the papers made
of prove the charge against Gen. Upham TO be
true, were fors cries MIR. Isaac Waldron was the
only respectable witness on Defendants side to
prove them genuine, and he was called up or 10
times.
There appears to be no doubt, from the out door
talk, who committed the forgeries. .
/ "a majority of the Jury are said to be Jackson