New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-20
LAKE SUPERIOR



."a xheres the Gogebic Mine
yosses slns s ~ westerly Of the mines yet orga
49,. ~ c-..asgop district This and the Magnet
~ "a. hs a. and src both under the supernehhenc
Of Mr.. XserDon Aenyweslnea, ,o'n I'D srs CT
INC IL sS[arv nothing except exploring having bee
,heI a, she wsy of mining, the men having been thu
fIIy occupied In clearing lands, building log house
A. Happening 70 meet MT Merryweather at JOIN
60. ~ f6e mouth Of the Ont0nagon, he invited m
20 no the woods with him, and | was nothing 10th
RI Speaking Of johnson, he has put up ne'
kn,.e and spreads the best table on Lake superior
his i not paid puff, II is faet) In answer Z
;,cu;,ies how the journey was to be made, i Wa
informed that We should ascend the river 10 the Unite
e,stss mail boat to COllngss landing, and then follow
~ road to the Norwich and the mines beyond
- pleasant excursion, thought l. On the 18th
a., breakfast, made ready to depart in the mai
s".t THAT is the boat, / suppose" pointing to
isrge. handsome boat near the landing mo, was the
sn.xsr Nor was the large Mackinaw boat lying near
a. ore But about the middle Of the forenoon two
sX;.ns came padding across the river IN a small bark
.noe and 10! the United States mail boat was ready
e. her Messengers The Ontonagon river tor the
sn.n miles which VIC assembled II, though not large
i very beautiful it winds along through the
s:aa Sred only here and there broken by the axe
Of the settler.
y" iesr ,ork and beans at the landing, Mr. NJ had
..dds nat upco one Of his pack horses and we rode
and footed it alternately. Such road! Inc recent
heavy rains had brought out its gloreS ana through
,oud and water and clay over stumps roots ana ial,
L. .,ees we toed ON the rest OF the day. and good
,, of the nex the road becoming less and less like
MrAdamized street. as we passed from NINE to nine,
until nv the time we reached the Gogebc, was ex-
nectinc 4 10 end like the one famous IN history IN
squirrel track and run up tree Ihls place ABOUT
sr,een miles west of the OntOnagon River, and about
soLt west of the Norwich mBe the road for twOthirds
nj the way running along at the foot OF that range OF
bluffs on which the Windsor, Norwich Derby Sharon,
and other mines are situated
The 18th was day Of rain, but yesterday accepted
nm invitation from Mr. Meryweather to visit some new
preemptons on the range about ten miles farther west
The Journey being less difficult, ss we should cross Lake
Agcoebic The outlet Of this lake il the main West
Branch of the OntOnagon RIVER, and b0ws along the
foot Of the aforementioned range. On the shore OF
this stream pair Of dug out canoes had been con-
structed during the previous week, and party OF men
were sent TO take them up the rapids to the lake.
After pork and beans'-synonym for dinner, here
we took the trail for the landing, "Th0mas" leading
the way with small mountain OF blankets fryingpan
teapot quaint sng pork, and -four and sugar, and tea
upon his back. Soon after reaching the landing we
heard the voices of the below, and it not long
before they emerged from the tbickct, with pad
dies some with poles, middle deep in the water
urging along huge boat cut from single pine large
enough for twenty men She had been duly christened
with !" some Of the Dutchmans whisky" and the name
was snnounced-tbe Pre-emptor cheer for the Pre-
emptorl
Now followed the small one, padded along by three
men, Well, what is the namei THAT, Sir, is The
" Tribune" Three cheers for The Tribune.
And sure enough, as she came ashore, saw written
with red chalk the name " The Tribune" That was
not mere empty compliment 10 The Tribune, rs proved
by the unsolicited subscriptions which have sent you
from this region
-Four Of us now entered The Tribune, and padded
up the lake This lake is fifteen miles long the lower end
three miles, lying east aud west, making an elbow with
the rest THERE'S something to me ndescrbaby beaut
full in these lakes in the wildeessthe dark clear wa
ters the shores covered with unbrOkcn mantle OF
forest the beautiful curved outline of the ranges of
hills clad in darkleaved evergreens; silence unbroken
saye by the whispering and signing Of the winds in the
Trees the dashng Of tiny breakers the tr OF an Occa
sional LOOM or the barsber cry OF hawk This lake
Is very beautiful From the nights above IL you see
ia entire length and BREADTH twelve by two miles and
no sign Of mans presence be found far as vision
ran extend
We padded six miles and landed upon a sand beach
Here we hauled up the canoe and after delicious
bath pushed of by hardly dscerniblc trail through
the forest for the preempton house where We were to
pass the night -Four miles up broadway and the ave-
nue. beyond it is one thing-our miles in Lake Supe
rior woods is most assuredly another l wish you
could have seen A" our correspondent following Thorn
Ms Young and his mountain OF pack, over the sand
bank, across the brook ON Il fallen log, up the HILL
down TO the swamp, and through that swamp! have
an impression that there are musketoes in that said
swamp. At all events, there dead cedar branches
TO stick in ones eyes tree trunks to climb and TO
crawl under green moss TO make you slip from rotten
legs into holes of uncertain depth brooks TO tumble
into unless you can keep your footing pole mud,
and mrc and water and tall grass and short grass.
and weeds aud bushes, aud bear trap, and other
things equally interesting and amusing
Talk about trees The who, in small parties of
six or eight, first plunged boldly into this wilderness
away from all other human beings living pork aud
through morasses, wading for days through marshes
,verfowe burned by day by the sum- bitten by rosts
night unsheterca from the storms save by the ru'
,est exempore huts and in spite .; ail Obstacles nave
left no spot of ground that is not included In acts ha
mile square regularly surveyed and marked out by
metes and bounds-these were heroes.
The tales ~ pryation and suffering which She old sur
veyors tell at times very sad We were not sur
seyors though and short tramp through cedar swamp
is very good thing 20 give one slight idea OF the la
Dor Of getting the materials for our handsome maps oil
the Northwestern States. Ii was bad enough to
rross the swamp with nothing but a Ratchet IN my
hand and good trail, winding about TO follow the
easiest route; what must il have been for the poor
fellow who first broke his way through 1t with com
pass In hand The experiences OF some OF these sur
veyors would not be bad book, il well done. Mr. VI
and Thomas belong to this class, and their tales en-
lyened the way aud made the time pass pleasantly, at
ter our supper of pork and bread sat upon some
fallen trees around the fire, which lit up our sitting
room. whose walls were the tall naples and mr. trees,
and whose ceiling was studded with the stars above us
cannot say much in praise of nights lodging in
the little log presumption house We reached II too
late TO cut tIbcughs for bed, and heavy rain had
dcluged those already strewn So n FIRE was made in
corner of the hut and each man. rolled in blanket
deposited himself in the inner side of watersoahed
piece Of hemlock bark, with his feet to the fire. The
two old stsgers slept like topS-Mr {. and myself
didn't
Wehave devoted good part OF this day to the object OF
our jaant namely to examine somewhat the proeabil