The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-04-29
Editorial Correspondence.

OBSERVATIONS ALONG THE RIVER
How happens II that we find fields Of ice ohstruc-
ting Lake ST. CroIx, nearly week after it his
disappeared from Lake pepn, The difference
IN latitude will not explain it. II mus, be entire
y owing to the more open exposure of the sur
face Of Lake Pepin to the action of wind and
waves, 10 break up the ice. The most prevailing
strong wind, Is east or west--5eias highways
OF lh,' lake; while Lake st. Croix extends north
and south
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/ idea Of it, observe The boat uloyio, her ,,ssaue
through mass of dark ice ten inches TIN,
bending and crushing j, down in her nro,resS =.
/ if /, were nausht.
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IS Observe where two masses of decaying ice
are crushed together; aud you sec the broken
fragments f. lay apart, at the poiat Of contact.
IN long slenler flores Of ice, making what an
pears to be 4 wirerow Of ic;c,cs Tbase Ghres
standing perpendicular, form these masses Of
black ice often foot lhic.s, which our boat is
crushing under her bow. They are masses Of
capillary tubes, through which the water rises
and when these tubes are uncaoped BY the action
of ,aiD or sunshine. ,hev ara G,Iel wnb y,,,cr
and the mass of ice becomes black. the water
passes through them over the surface Of ice.
which ,hey compose, and the whole mass sinks.
however thick This capillary formation Of ice
accounts not Only for the Sudden disappearance
OF ice, often times, however thick, but it also
p'ains Why nodeTate degree o. freezing, when
the ice Is IN ihii condition. gives The ice so much
strength 1t IS SIMPLY caused by the siazlng .: er
and closing up Of the uppe. ".:..oe Of these capil-
any tube', which constitute ice A loaded team
NAV often cross a lake AZ sunrise. uDon which
dog could scarcely cross a, noon.
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with fall carroes down, VIC nav therefore r,irlv
count upon 4 reduction Of about cue af, in the
prices we now pay for freight and pas.are.
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Why IS CONGRESS RELUcTANr-Its seem.
impossible that Congress can overlook the I'M
mense national Importance Of n,akinr the nayi
CATION Of the Mississippi uno5s;yuced from St.
Paul down to the Gulf of Mexico. Vhy is it:
Can it be- because the States down the river. are
ravenons for grants Of public land, that the
Government is unwilling to give US an appropria-
ton Of money for tie Rapids, in addition TO Grants
of land TO the States, Cor fear OF dong too much
for the West: The West wants cheap commu
mann '''e's
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