New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-05
asul, Sc. INSTRUMENTATION on Lake Superior
-Fishing-The Mineral Region, &c.
Correspondence OF The Tribune.
sAuLr ST.. MARIE, July 25th, ls

asuI, So. INSTRUMENTATION on Lake Superior
-Fishins-The Mineral Region, &c.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.
sAuLT ST.. MARIE, July 18th, 1876
The sauit is getting to be place Of some i'm
o,narce. Here is portage Of about mile for
esery thing going to or from Lake SUPERIOR aud
the from the L axe is increasing somewhat Two
hundred barrels of ore from the Cliff Mines, bound
fr Boston, came down yesterday In the Propeller
and as many more shipped for Buffalo few days
Gnce from, the same mines and for the same place
great many passengers going and from continually,
and two steamboats, running from here 10 Detroi. and
Macknaw are well supported OF course stoppage
here Indispensable and the wo Hotels have the facul
y Of crowdng great many persons into small space
They are passab!y comfortable, however-much more
so than the one tha, open last yea. Since then
this place hiss increased quarter in 1t: number Of
buidings number of frame houses, rehouses &c.
have put up and several more are N the course o.
The troops stationed here and at Fort Wikins are
under orders 10 leave for Texas and will be OF mex.
week.
The steamboat Julia Palmer has after great deal OF
trouble and expense been got around the Rapids and will
be launched early week She advertise leave for
Copper Hnrbor &c on I'D. Atpresent the propeller
Independence. which hauled over last year is the
only siean.vessel the Lake and though without su
tcent power 10 go against strong head wind has done
good business in carrying passengers 20 the various
points III The Copper region. some forty fifty OF u
now expecting TO up in her tomorrow, attr wait
ing Tor Vessel nearly week. Sail vessels canno, get
our their way up the Lake unless there IS good
breeze blowing up the River the current being strong
hence owing 10 light winds have been able 10 20
for the week past and there is accumulation Of
passengers These vessels have paid well this year and
last getting high rates for freight and many PASSENGERS
The price 10 Copper Harbor In them IS now i've dol
urs the distance being about hundred and eighty
miles. From Fifty hundred passengers are some
oues taken at single passage The accoHiinodh'lpns
Ire any thing please One can sleep on lne sanu IA
the hold, soft plank On deck, uno ilhoushIui
enough 20 lay in some provision, before haiq can iS
sunpuoGsiy-1ccordlHg 10 the slnd OF ea'"o't ne Has
taken II he has taken nothing be VIII be rcghed WIN
ship ere-pork and beans, with change occasionally
OF t-h If lucky enough 10 catch Lake trout on the
passage.
Apropos Of fishing There is p!en.y OF il here The
delicious whch arc caught very expcrtly IN the Rap
id by the Indians with ,c scoopnets Sturgeon with
decscv of flavor surprising who has only
ed the albany Beef" Of the North RIVER caught
here with spears One shot yesterday through the
head while taking flying leap from the water, and
weighed over hundred pounds Spcckled trout too
are IN grcat abundance caught in the Rapids and every
passenger feels bound 10 take bark and couple
Of bTeed4 ind after catching enough of the peckled
bca,es talf Of 10 take leap over the Rapids which
Is done very safely and -killiuly by the Indians
The 'Sault Rapid Is from one hdf 70 three quar-
icrs Of mile IN length md amount OF descent about
twenty It j. filed with huge boid
us but the only abrupt fail s one OF about tour feet
caIal could easily be constructed around distance of
than mile and VIII be, Is indeed it s now
much needed The appropriation Tor 1t in the Bnrbor
bill vetoed by Tyler $4,000 IL would be- safe to
put It mt $4,000 When once finished what amount
of inland navigation is opened from the mouth OF the
81 Lawrence Fond du Lac, uninterrupted steamboat
navigation /.
We can scarce anticipate what will DO the result Of
the explorations and operations present going along
the chores OF Luke Superior. That vast mineral wealth
s there no one doubts-sO vast that people con-
founded at the innense deposits already exposed The
eyes OF the world 10 be- turned with establishment
toward this region. continuing variety richness and
tent oil mineral before unknown. Copper" Loca-
ton" Lend" Mineral" sc. &C. heard in every
body'- mouth il. the only subject that interesting
here People coming down discourse the richness
Of the mineral, o. pure copper, silver, &c and show
fngcrrings hammered OF pure silver procured there
and with agate from the Lake shore proof OF the
quality OF the metal Very pretty souvenirs they make
OF 80 interesting locale
The propeller independence leaves here the LIST for
La P0ine where Is TO be on the 10th an interesting
Indian payment hope 20 reach there before that time
The Julia ialmcr makes likewise two or three cXcur-
sions there and around the Lake winch will be doubt
not. very interesting.
Tanner the murderer OF choolcrsit still at liberty
and s probably concealed in the woods near here,
which anoat mpenctrablC and il is said he milks
his every night. All here afraid of him. the
hnltbrecds ind Indians. thinknghc Is Great Medicine,
and 20 be killed. especially 1t Is shameful
that energetic means taken TO capture him
One hundred dollars reward has beeu offered and that Is
NIL that has hccn done lie Is vi great courage
and bud temper is well armed, has kept everybody
around him in fear heretofore ana is not 10 be taken
easily. Yours, H. :.
? S.-'rhc woods are fire in all directions
around US Heretofore the burning haA been but slight
consuming slowly and showing itself mere Of smoke than
blaze; but to-day il has burst with great fury West
ward OF aud by night seemed TO have extended over
great OF country The air is iull OF smoke The
appeared when through smoked glass, and
now at evening the Western horizon urd with rc and
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