Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-07-29
THE LEAD MINES.

Correspondence of the Rochester Daily Advertiser.
DU BUqUE, Iowa, July 8, 1916.
The DIR. and have been mining, but with
little success; yet they don't give it up. 1t is the
most seductive business in the world, to see two
oafers, perhaps within two rods of your ''dggns,"
after two three days work, lifting up S0Oth tub
the amount of millions of pounds is enough turn
the brain of any spectator.
A "green horn few days since, asked some mi
to show him where to dig; they offered to do it:
provided he would treat to quart of .Prdric De,c
which he did, and they set him to work under sha-
dy tree, in mere sport. Before night he struck
"Lead' and the next day sold out for $4,000.
Some fellows digging for another person last year,
gave it up, asked for their pay and left the country.
This spring third person came back and bought the
"diggns;" the others then appeared, went down the
hole, and opened cave of which no one knows
the extent. 1t is lined with the richest of mineral
ore, and more lies loose on the floor than will be be-
llered were to give You any kind of an idea. tis
in word, immense. | am to explore 1t in a few
days, as get better. / have had some fe-
yer, just enough to make feel measIy and mean.
The weather is very hot here; the river low. and
fears entertained of alarming sickness as the mi
asma of the flats is very sensiby smelt at every
step.
| shall stop here about month; think it is
wonderfully curious country; there is nothing like it,
1t has many advantages and some disadvantages
think vegetation more forward here than with you.
The prairies are most beautiful. Millions
of acres without tree, house, or scarcely living
thing upon them, and an endless variety of flowers
and plants which know nothing of. Green houses
are at discount in these dggings, lean you.
MARKETS.-"The market yesterday exhibited
the same firmness the part of holders, which has
marked it for sometime past with fair inquiry for
wheat 5000 bushels Southport sold at zoe; 1000
Little Fort at &c. The sales of flour continue lin
tied, account Of the light stock on the market, &
the difficulty of obtaining boate. 200 barrels Mon
roe brought 1881 1000 mixed Michigan, So, 25.
Buffalo Courier, July 25M.
"There is good demand to day, for the East and
other supplies are moderate. The market in conse-
quence, is rm, and has if anything, an upward ten
dency. There is also shipping inquiry, but not
at present rates. We quote Michigan at S4,o6 4
l2a; Genesee 81, 12a a 4,1sa.-Ttibune, July "a
From these data farmers can Judge of the pros
pect before them as well as we can. One thing we
wish them to remark, viz that lo,o as the price is,
it higher than be obtained for Shipment the re-
peal of The Corn-Lnscs Notwithstanding. Let them
remember this fact illustrating the Importance of the
Home Market.
Our mllers are brushing up their mills and machine
cry, and we doubt not will be on hand to open the
market on terms favorable to the farmer as their
own safety will admit.
Zacheus Greedy, grandfather of Horace Greedy of
the Tribune, died at Londonderry N. H. on the l6
ultmo, aged 80 years.