New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-21

i, ors.cr il must not be forgotten that the explori
ops ~ each successive yesr besides developing nc"
,ens and deposits upon lands already occupied by CON
NAMES are extending continual. the limits OF b'h the
conner and iron producing districts. At irs', bat
lew poipts upon tie keweenaw Peninsula. and spo'
=. turn ,esr the Ontonagon, were known. Now the
entire range from Copper HarbOr to some distance
,o. of the Ontonsgon has passed into the hands OF
mining companies Last season the advanced posts
had reached Agogebc Lake, and their itoors mao 50
much Of success that they have gone beyond that
lake and new companies are forming at tine to
commence upon that part of the range and that too
with prospects as encouraging as those upon many
locations now considered of established value. We
hear of successful explorations still further west and
even round the point of the lake.
To this region shut against commerce almost ssinst
intercourse with the rest of the country for hall the
year. there must be a railroad And this railroad Is
rendered question of national Importance by the con-
santy increasing demand for and price OF copper ana
iron No State no city village farm Or plantation but
is interested in it, We have previously advocated upon
what We consider substantial grounds, the establish
rent Of this upon route indicated by nature WHICH,
connecting with all the great eastern and southern
lines at Winnebseo Lake in Wisconsin follows the low
ridge dividing the waters flowing into Lake Michigan
from those flowing into the Mississippi and proceeds
through the break in the copper range oil hshiapdS
made by the OntoDagon River. to the mines OF Lake
Superior The opinions Of TIE TRIBUNE IN relation
TO tie wholesale grants OF land proposed TO the thou'
md and one embryo Projects daily starting up are upon
record IT, however Congress sees fit to favor any OF
these proposed grants which shall open the Lake
Sureror country TO the rest Of the United States az all
seasons through Michigan and Wisconsin should not DC
overlooked.
Our attention has been called again 10 this subectby
the receipt of chart of tie route above Indicated
made under the Instructions and from data iur
nisbed by Algernon Merryweather, Esq, of the Goge
bic Nine gentleman formerly connected with the aud
surveys Of that region, and familiar with railroad en-
cheering. 3Ir Merryweather left the Forks OF the
OntoDacon the 18TH December, accompanied only by
Cant Angus of the Clifton Nine the rest of the party
and the men hired to attend them not having courage
TO undertake. the journey when tie time of departure
arrived.
With their provisions, blankets and necessaries upon
their backs these two gentlemen lef the usual winter
route on their way down, for the purpose OF recon
noitering the proposed line OF railroad. The first
twelve miles from the Forks of the Ontonagon Is
table land Of no great elevation and emioently
ada pted TO the construction OF railroad The next
eighteen miles crosses the Southern or Iron range.
The route here would be necessarily crooked but in
9th er is favorable the grades would be easy
and the road would open deposits of iron whose
extent is yet unknown. This brought them nearly
TO Lac Vieux Desert, upon the boundary between Wis
consir and Michigan.
From this point the travellers bore away toward Big
Bull Falls leaving the route of the proposed road little
to the east For 90 miles south of Lac Veux Desert to
Pelican River they traversed what known at the
West as white pine lands country slightly rolling, with
very rich SOIL well watered with lakes aud brooks,
tanning immense bodies of pine woods, and rayersed by
low ridges covered with maple They then kept along
the left bank of the Wisconsin for % miles to Prairie
River country rolling rocky with many granite
powders, and Astounding in pine-a district known as
the Pine Berrens From Prairie River, leaving the Wis
consin which here makes great bend, they crossed
moderately rolling and rich country, twenty miles to
Pine River; thence eighteen miles through pine and
maple lands brought thea to Big Bull Falls, where q
village has grown up of 500 inhabitants engaged
in numbering They were twelve days on their way,
the having increased from six inches at the time
of starting to eighteen when they arrived at the Falls
AS stated above, the latter part of their journey
little to the west of the Shswsno route. Their course
they describe as perfectly feasible, and indeed favora
bic for railroad but agree with all the other accounts
that the route is TO lakes Shawano and Wnnebago
The entire distance from FOndu Lac (Wis) to the
forks of the Ontonagon cannot exceed 100 TO 10 miles,
and great portion Of this is through lands of the Uni
ted States not yet surveyed. To the hunter the
trapper and the occasional traveller we indebted for
cur knowledge of the country, which is sufficiently
tensve to render US certain of its great value when
once surveyed and opened to the public By the coz
strucion Of road through it.
NEW-JERsEY AND NEBRASKA.
We learn that the Senators and come of the Repre-