Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-13
For the Grant County Herald.
HardscrabbEe correspondence


For the Grant County Herald.
HardscrabbEe correspondence.
Mr.. Editor-It is now an almost fixed fact
we are to have at least one Steam Engine on
what is called Hardscrabble Rranch,'' near
Hazel Green, for the purpose of draining and
exploring our mining region. | understand
the land-holders and the NeU- Yoric Minin *
Company's Agent, are about drawing up arti
ccs of agreement. The most important par
ticulars are all agreed upon, and It now onls
remains for them to be properly embodied and
signed by the respective parties; when pre-
sumo the Company will almost Immediately
commence operations, and prepare for putting
on the Engine as soon as it can arrive In the
spring. ] also learn it is intended to put ano
Their Engine on the same branch about mile
lower down, and / have been given to UNDER
stand that all the land-holders where the En-
CINE is 10 operate. with one exception, have
lacceded to the terms proposed by the Compa-
Ipany'a agent; andlthnk from what hear ofthe
gentleman who as yet refuses to comply, there
Will be no doubt about there being in full blast
two powerful Engines on the Hardscrabble
Branch. The gentleman's name is Captain
CHARLES Mccoy. He has spent considerable
money in running levels, &C., and desires TO
reserve some privileges which the Company's
Agent, (who is most genlemanly man, )thinhs
would be inmical to his employers interests.
spirited gentleman, and will not let trifies con-
nected with bis own private interests interfere
with important public interests.
/ 80 that we may fairly reckon upon having
two Engines, of one hundred and fifty horse
power, each laying dry the long hidden treasure
In our ead-f fields It is the calculation among
our miners that there will be employed in less
| than two years at least one thousand more
h nds than we have now; so that you may hear
iof Hazes GFeea having a Mayor, Aldermen
and all Tte paraphrenasia OF City But dear
Mr.. Editor, roll out your thunder and let us
have the Name Law before that time or We
are gone suckers!
Yours, CIvIs.
kEMARKs.--Yankee Doodle, with
Home Sweet Home for variation! On
ly think of Mayor and Alderman a,
Hardscrabbie! But it's not all dream,
nor one of young Americas decisions,
that Hazel Green is 10 be the bright cen
Ter of the galaxy of mining towns. We
see things working that wa, there
is '',nanifest destiny" pointing to mi
ming metropolis somewhere in the south
part Of the County, and we can almost
hear the spirsfs whisper that Hazel Green
is the favored spot of that "desiiny."
The people by their votes lass fall, roll
led out thunders enough TO authorize the
Name Law. We can hardly see how
The Legislature can get around providing
such law, especially when ii is known
that its friends have largely increased
since the election. You can hardly find
"a man since, who voted against it, and
we verify believe if the vote were taken
over again this day, 'sProhibitory Lii
Iquor Law Yes'' would carry by 10000
majority in the State. There are some
however, Gall of them enemies 10 the
Law, that sdon't believe such law
can be enforced Well guarantee
prohibitory law is better enforced than
the present liquor law is. In our opin-
ion, the sale Of liquor can be easier pro-
hibiied than regulated. Had liquor sel-
lers lived up to The letter TO laws here
'oiore existing, there never would have
been so much wraHgling abont their bu-
siness, but their rule seems to be TO sell
legally, if onyenient-if moi, sell any-
how; and strange as it may appear.
Courts, Lawyers, District Attorneys and
Juries, generally have been on their
side.
We think there is a spirit brewing
through the country above that of STAN
ding by and clearing at all hazards, eve
ry violater Of our laws. Judges, Law
yers, District Attorneys, Jurors and
peace officers have accumulated, landed
property containing valuable timber, and
minerals. They find that it they allow
the laws violated III one case, they must
in another; and we think they begin to
see their clear duty to stick for the iri-
umph OF law, whatever that law may re-
quire. If the law be wrong, the ballot
box is the place to remedy it.
1t matters rot what our opinions are
upon the merits of Prohibitory Law.
Since majority of The votes OF Wiscon-
sin are in favor of it, we want the law
enacted and then we want lis provisions
fully tested, by carrying them out 10 the
letter. II it 9iminishes drunkenness,
pauperism, and crime, and promotes in
dustry, peace, good order, and domestic
comfort, as lis friends say it will, then
ii will be one Of the best laws enacted
since the days Of Christ and his Apes
ties.
We'd like 10 know. CIvIs, whether
the Plank Road will be continued from
the Illinois State line TO Hazel Green in
the spring. More than three-fourths of
the people Of Grant County want that
road finished TO your village.