Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-08
Correspondence OF the Journal.
DIAMOND BLUFF.
DIAMOND BLUFF. Feb. 4. Ist

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nication in your paper Of January 18th. from
Trenten extolling its advantages, and while
it exaggerated the merits OF that PLACE sligl.-
~, did our city great injustice. and. though /
have no doubt it was written through jeal-
ousy Of our increasing prosperity, siill can
not resist the temptation to grasp the mighty
pen and sublimely, obstrepeiously harl back
,hose gross slurs and inIputations with he
force OF a thunder-bolt from an Indignant
heaven, by giving TO the world fair and inn
partial sketch Of our town-its past, present
and future.
Diamond Bluff is town not hid by houses
and is yet young. and Judging Of the future
by the past, (Which is conceded by all histo-
rians to be the best way we may be abl 10
have some idea OF what il will be in ten Years
hence.
presume there was q time when ''the Red
man of the forest" pitched his tent "a rod ev
cry time) and built his camp fires where now
st and the great solid. stately blocks Of our
modern (Which being translated means mod
ED city. Ten wears ago it was but a small
white settlement. and ia that short time has
grown 10 its present incredible size being
bounded on the North by the North Pole
and Pigs Eye, South by the Equator and
Trenton, East by the Atlantic Ocean and
hen house, and West by the great Pacific and
Monte Diamond. lis radiatons. or the points
Of interest surrounding it (and which, l may
aid with proprie'y, viii probably be includ-
ed in oCr city limits at the next session OF our
City Council are. n. f., Hopes Lime Kiln
and Utah: s. E., the Rock bar and Mays
vile n. W.. p creek and Jones Sash
& Door Factory (not yet built S. W. the
great Pacific Railroad ard Jake Mead sham
ty As before olseaycd, the growth Of our
city Las heen aH--nost iucomprehensible.-
Within the last ten years improvement has
followed iInproy, meIt causing addition upon
addition the prir cipal ones of which a'e i
| Quimby's. d. Il Clark and Monte Diamond
on the Northwest Benz. Wethciens, Me-
Connelrs Hooks. Comstock's and Grant 5,
Call woodcn) OH the Southeast. As to her
| beng central, / need but say that besides all
her otner ecnters, the hopes and aspirations
OF few cel ter in her alone.
Besides having all the different kinds Of
lots that Trenton boasts Of she has horizontal
pepindicular slsutindicular and part lar"
lots, and it was on one Of Those "paricular"-
slantindicular lots ON which that magnifctu
Church structure whose spire points tward
Heaven. was erected. Some of her lots stand
(not Ia, OFT in bold relief, (that is relieved
Of houses, and challenge the best engineers in
the world 10 enc unaber them with houses
Now Of her sights. Her stores AMI store
keepers arc a sight. Her manuiactodcs ,Iho-
tcls, saloor $. agencies. dc. are slightly. Ter
| town rruprietors are eight indeed tl.orgh
taken as a hole it is perhaps not qu.io as
site-Iy as 1leiton. But whom speaking Of
our sights, get So suLliInely eniap' rcd il
| my The me ihat / feel myself lor lhe time
transported TO higher sphere by the elo-
querce which pervadcs my poetic soul. but
which my enchanted en- fails 10 describe for
the simple reason That such supernatural
thoughts do not come within tho descriptive
power Of human language.
From this brief retrospective view, think
! It is not unreasonable to infer that Diamond
Bluff t,n years hence will compete with Chi
cage, Milwaukee, Trerton and the. Other great
commercial cities Of the Northwest. E l'lu-
ribus UnCm.
N. B.--As soon as the first thunder storm
in The Spring is past, and the eongenidl sun
/ comes out ard re-animates all nature, and the
/ other dormant animals shake off their letharoy
| and, "a it were, come cut Of their holes, YOU
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