The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11
Over the River.
Over the River.
on Saturday. very little persuasion
from N. Munger induced one of us to try
the realities Of a ride from the dsnot hu;,d-

On Saturday. . very little persuasio
from N. Munger induced one Of us to tr
the realities Of ride from the depot build
ing up pretty we'll towards the north poin
OF Prairie du Chen. Across the rive
with Sherwin is always pleasan. trip, an,
out on the beautiful roads Of tho prairi
can De nothing else but a fine drive. Til,
old Fort, as We passed It, looked like tn,
remains ct American hope aud in spite o
ourselves we could not but see, in the ruins
reminder Of tho situation which this
dreadful warts introducing us to. But We
are nor In the humor for sadness or phi!o.
sophy and so let all gloomy thoughts Pc
about their busincss--we started on a
pleasure trip and We had it.
We called a moment at the Courier
office and exchanged cordial hand shake
with Mr.. MERRILL senior, the oldest prin-
ter in Wisconsin and one Of the best typos
known to the craft--heard "Bill' was out
on hunting breeze, drove up to the Office of
Major VIrtE and found it locked; onward
then north, and we met Col. Brisbois;
talked politics, railways and the weather
t'r fifteen minutes; forward again milo or
two and met Gen. Dousman who was lust
returning from his Now Mill above, got an
invitation from the Gen. to look at the
Mil, shoot few pheasants and quails on
The premises, and pull out Gf we could)
halt dozen trout from the stream that
supplies him with power; and we passed
on. Ten minutes drive brought us to the
coulee and ten minutes more We struck the
neat, money.making, little edifice painted
"Dousman Mills" Here we found an old
friend and one whose latch.strng is an
outside ornament at all times. Our team
put up, and ourselves refreshed by partici.
pating, with Mr.. MosHlER and his excellent
lady, in the discussion of good dinner, we
took look at the Mill and found it to be
one OF the most complete jobs ever in
spectcd. 1t is too small for the business
now doing and arrangements are making
to enlarge its storage room to double it's |
present capacity. The stream is little
spring brook, only four miles in length, the
lam holds but few basins of water, the
ace is short and small, and yet this insig
,iticant power runs 24-foot overshot
wheel, propels two pairs of burrs and,
leoer ceases running; the same supply of
water comes regularly to the wheel and
'ecps it moving. The frame Of this mill
S so strong that you can scarcely feel the
ar, while it is running the completeness
Il tho machinery is such that it works al
nest in silence. We never saw any
hing like it before. Mr.. NJ. is a superior
in everything that pertains to q
nil. After this frame was up he went to
and ordered al the castings,
'heels, shafts. &C., &C., and on putting
hem up not single one failed to come to
ne exact spot Designed for it. It will paw
ny ono to 60 and look at this model mill.
Well, we went up the creek, got our feet
ret, captured few speckled beauties,
aappsa at several plleasants all of which
late says "ignominously fed" voted we
ad pleasant ride and got to the Ferry
andins ir time to cross over homeward
n the last boat Showed our trout to
lends, carried them to Browns, saw them
ome on tie table elegantly prepared for
Sc and in few minutes--all was over.