The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-15
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... %'s NUMBER vi. '.-
From our Special Correspondent.

DU LUTH. LAKE SUPERIOR Sept, 1860.
To the Editor Of the Pioneer:
While our party is packing the provisions
and necessary baggage for voyage down thu
North Shore we make another survey OF d.
Luth and gather few additional items. Tit
land in the rear of the city slopes back fol
about ten miles, and is covered with a densl
growth of heavy pines, sugar maple, black and
white birch. The soil is rich and very pro
ductive and where under cultivation the pres
ent year, is loaded with the heaviest crops we
have ever seen. There seems 70 be some
magic-like power in the soil Of this far of
northern CLINE, that can nrush vegetation
ahead with greater strength, abundance and
speed in latitude 46.4O, than we have ever seen
ten degrees further south. ..5sts
Du Luth being ona gradual inclined plane.
has drainage equal to any city in the world,
and as it has quite Q number of mountain
streams emptying into the Lake, it can at very
slight expense be bountifully supplied with
water as pure and clear as crystal. The occli-
pants of the Government building supply
81 themselves with water direct from the Lake,
+ and we have never seen its superior. Hearing
that it was our first visit to Du Luth, Mr.. Luce
invited Us to partake with him OF glass of
{ ice water. AS the day was excessively warm
!, we gratefully imbibed, and paid compliment
to the enterprise of the Du Lutheans in erect
ing an ice house for their own convenience.
IN care you sure there's ice in that water in
1ouired Mr.. Luce, with one of his peculiarly
modest smiles, and un-provoking winks.
"" "Certainly!p we replied; "it is most en-
phatically an ice drink. and no one can deny
that il has been in contact with ice within the
past few minutes" ''f t@ ~
We need no ice in this town, remarked Mr..
Luce. as the water from the lake is sufficiently
cold without it That water has just been
dipped fresh from the surface, and it has seen
no ice (unless it was at the bottom Of the lake,
since the opening of navigation on the 18th of
April last!
And thus we found it in after experiments.
When the wind blows. from the shore, the sur
face water is driven down the lake and the re-
mainder is as cold as ice. 1t chills the hands
when immersed, just the same as handling ice,
and is sure death to bathers unless they scram-
BILE out as rapidly as from bank of snow and
salt. . ...... ...-..
When the wind is toscard the shore, it brings
in immense bodies of surface water, which,
though cold enough to drink, is free from that
iciness peculiar to the under currents.
We found on examining weather tables that
the winters are less severe at this point then at
st. Paul, while the summers are about the
same. The air is peculiarly charming, bracing
and invigorating. We constantly feel the elias.
ITCHY and yigor of youth, and shall not be sur
prise, detecting oursef any day making mud
pies and playing leap frog with the dog.
The population of St. Louis county Gust
taken) is as follows: Du Luth County seat),
S.; oneota ia; and F8n du Lac, 100; total
In making careful and extensive survey of
the land facing the Lake and Bay, We find q
route almost perfect level, and everything
favorable for railroad. The cars might be
made to run from the bank directly into the
second story of grain warehouses to load the
vessels and also by switch on to the dock
to obtain Eastern merchandise. Lumber and
rock are here in inexhaustable quantities, and
men can be boarded for much smaller sum
than In st. Paul.
AS evidences of the remarkably pure water
of the streams Of Du Luth, we have only to
mention the farm of Mynheer Bushs Brewery
at this place. So famous are the ales here
brewed, that they find ready market not only
in all the towns in this part of Minnesota, but
are ever sought after by the thousands Of min
ers far down the southern shore in Wisconsin
and Michigan. And it is the pure limpid water
that gives them this reputation. The Brewery
stands back perhaps halt mile from the Lake.
ON beautiful laughing, dancing stream NAM
I'd Silver Brook. little to the north of this
is another equally delightful stream known as
Feather Creek, and few rods further north,
still another called Crystal Stream. Those
streams are all very pure, rapid and never-fail-
inp. and would in St. Paul be above all price
for furnishing an abundant supply OF crystal
like water to every inhabitant in the city.
The xreets and avenues of Du Luth, are 20.
n, and 100 feet in width, but unless they are
re-suryeyed. they will remain for years a.
stnmpv as at present, and ''as far as heard
FROM they have yet to be introduced to the
frst wheel-track. BY the way, isn't 1t . funny
picture to contemporaries city without
horse or carT1AGe. Anu yee tuis 10 Uu Ao'n 10
aSi
Friend Marvin says that farmers get along
very well with oxen, and as for himself. he pre-
ters, tor city and suburban locomotion,
"shank's mare" or o little skif and spank.
ing white oak breeze. We suspect that Mar
vim has fairly won his cognomen of the st
Louis County Economiser." It is said that
when he took the Authorship, the County wa
head, neck and heels in debt. and was on the
verge OF bankruptcy; but b. strict economy
an indebtedness and has laid aside nearly two
dollars and q half tor future road improve
nnents. This news win, of course, be re
ce;ved with acclamations of joy in Superior, q
tSev claim over there that st. Louis County
hasn't properly 'chalked up" in keeping il
co5 repair the stage road from Superior {,
'' Pani. knowing nothing of the merits o
he case. we shall, Of course, not allude to it
Wen the old woman ma s ssSrws hay
pTnntinS. in and about Du Luth, is tip-to.
Good. careful hunters can here shoot plenty {
bsars' cartridges, woodchucks, currabou,
O0o.Ss oopt;fs dncka and ni00Ons