The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-05
A Trip to the Country
Bristol -Salem Station ilmot-Bassett's
Statlon--Orops---The Weather etc.

mill"-exchanged the cares and perplex-
ing duties of the office for the green
fields and fresh, free air of the country.
Never before have we found the country
so charmingly beautiful; broad fields of
waving grain are succeeded by corn, and
then again by luxuriant meadows, as far
as the eye can reach, upon all sides.
Some one has somewhat unpoetically ex-
pressed it that, though nature looks well
at all times, she is most attractive when
her hair is combed Were we to make
use Of the metaphor we should say that
just now she seems to have taken I'M
usual pains in the arrangement of her
toilet. A drive of twelve or fourteen
miles west brings us to
BRISTOL STATION.
This is the first point Of Importance on
the Kenosha g. Rockford railroad. and
the point at which the Kenosha County
Agricultural Society have located their
fair grounds. There are two large dry
goods and variety stores here; one own.
ed by T. G.. Udall the other owned by H.
Curtis & Co., both of which, we are in
formed, do large business; their sales
amounting in the aggregate to over fifty
thousand dollars per year. Large guam
titles of wheat were bought here during
the past season, their receipts reaching as
high as a thousand bushels per day.
Blacksmithing, boot and shoe making and
other branches of trade and industry are
duly represented here. We are indebted
to the gentlemanly agent of the railroad
company, Mr.. f. j. Chase, for special IA
vors in the way of hospitality and other
attentions. 1t is to Mr.. Chase's enterprise
and industry that the citizens of Bristol
are indebted for so good market almost
at their very doors, he having built near
ly every house at the station, including
the warehouse for storing grain, which,
while it can hardly be called an elevator,
IS yet so constructed as to require but one
handling of the grain for shipment aboard
the cars. Bristol, though unpretentious
and far from imposing in appearance,
transacts large amount OF business and
is yet destined to be Furnishing village.
SALEM STATION,
three and half miles west of Bristol is
also point at which great deal of bus
mess is done. Mr. Alex. Bailey is the
agent and principal property owner here.
His residence is one of the finest in the
county. Benson 81 Co. are in trade here.
and have large and handsome store, and
do heavy business. Between sixty>and
seventy thousand pounds of wool were
bought at Salem during the past month,
at an average of about forty cents per
pound. 1t will be seen that quite a large
sum OF money has been paid into the
hands Of farmers, the effect of which has
been perceptably felt in monetary affairs,
as well as seen in the positive and indie
pendent step and beaming eye of those
who have exchanged their wool for green
backs Our venerable friend and patron,
Isaac Brown, resides at Salem Station.
He is one of the pioneers of Kenosha
County, and though the frost of many
winters has whitened his locks, and
made slow and feeble his step, we met nc
more cheerful and happy face on our trip,
showing that while the lapse Of time may
waste the strength and destroy this NOR
tai frame, the heart may yet remain fresh
and green, even in ripe old age. With a
good-natured laugh he remarked, as he
handed us the subscription for another
year OF the TELEGRAPH: "For nearly
thirty years the old TELEGRAPH has made
me its weekly visits, and here is for an.
other year." 4 remark, by the way, which
was repeated many times to us during the
week we spent in the country. Our next
stopping point is at
WTLMOT. a
beautiful village of some six or seven
hundred inhabitants, situated upon the
Fox River at or near the point where il
crosses the line between Illinois and Wis
consin. The Fox here furnishes an ex-
.cellent water power which is owned and
improved byJ. w. Voak s. Son. They
have large, first class Touring mill and
saw mill. Mr.. Voak and son, since they
came into possession of this property,
have entirely oYerhauled and rebuilt the
mills, taken out the old wooden water