New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-12
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sissf b,nsIse aiDosphsn ~ Minnesota win|r NV
assIng Tho sp,na snd early summer months tbs nt
psssus ~ nsny ~ them eoYd hardly he gfea,r we
,ss' H. bosa engaged on The drive, ,hst 'non w.
d,e ost be lses INN The smaller SIRENS Into the ~
l,ols, and thence D ihn ~ Cfoiz boom, hye mle'
below 1sylos rsils where they ARE collected, nsaorir1
ssslsd, and delivered 10 their several owners
When Tho slspe ~ water ID favorable u mSttcfs not
What IL The weather, not dag, not ooea 5a'bofh m
opid mssf b. osi Tor tbs lose ~ singr day mol nm
frequently prevents thn inmbrnoan from being able to
market he logs The hrt sessons. which equally affects
e interest Of operator aud lnborer M Tho conirhct
between ibn employer aud eDployt H. That no man 8
Nhgrs are duo III tbs logs hre scDt ~ market aud
,.in,ns received therefor
10 sum up ibar exposures Ia few words,
" In .pe continual scene from the hitter part Of March
ill June or July u labor both IN tbswater aud
oui by day and sleeping IN their wet aud sometimes
frozen clothes nt night
At tho boom 10 which we before referred from
time IN April I'LL midsummer, tho number Of men
employed including raitsmen, varies from fifty b two
hundred Their labors severe In the hot, scaldng
sun, frequently In the water, while change Of dress
account oi wet is seldom thought Of
During the RUNNER months not only the business
continually passing 10 and from St Louis, and
other points the Mississippi, but hundreds are Gu
gseed pilots and laborers in running RATS Of lum
Der aud logs from the boom and other points on the St
Croix river and lake to their destination at the larger
towns On the Mississippi, exposing themselves to all
the diseases so prevalent at that season OF the year
But small share OF the last mentioned class resi-
dents of this County yet most of them within the
borders of il portion of the season.
A colony OF Swedes and Norwegans, now amounting
10 three four hundred have settled in the County
twelve fifteen miles west Of Tay lOrs Falls. Owing
to the distance they compelled to travel aul often
with scanty means, most of them perform their jour
ney in the most economical manner. While the
the third class must answer their turn, steam
boats they literally packed in the steerage cabins
tie hOtbeds Of disease.
Wien they arrive AT their destination, till tempo
rary shelter can he erected they compelled to sleep
in tie open air. or crowd into the close, dwell
irgs Of some of their Swedish friends.
Orc more fact must not pass unnOticed. Within
the space of time about to mention, not less than
thirty or forty infants have been born in the County,
snd in the majority of without medical aid or ad
vice for either mother or child
Yet with al the exposures Of the different classes
We have mentioned, with an average population for
two ears past Of thousand including transient and
Others, and before estimated, present population
al sixteen seventeen hundred, 80 far a. my knowl
edge extends, and have made much inquiry from peO
pie living in different localities since the organization
Of tie County. the LIST day Of January, l-52. now
nearly two yesrs mot sHgie doGh Of afEt, oidf or
ihjGai. has occurred ANSELL SMITH