Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-06-02
FOR DULUTH.
on TIE WAY. May 20. 1870.

OK THE WAY, May 20, 1870.
At Hinckley, point ON the railroad. the
freight and passengers Tor Superior City and
Duluth are landed whence they make the best
of their way through the woods and through
the mud TO Kettle river station on the stage
road. Thence ten dollars viii insure ticket
by stage To Superior, distance of fifty eight
miles. This is an exalted privilege for when
you have paid your fare.you have Your choice
10 walk before or behind the stage, since to
ride is quite impossible. The number OF
passengers is from fourteen TO twenty or
more, daily, and the stages-that IS TO say
two coaches and several lumber wagons
make the trip each way every twenty four
hours. There will be an improvement, on
this. however, next week, as the cars will
make Twin Lake station Tomorrow night,
leaving freight ard passengers within twenty
five miles of Superior.
So far. the travel has all been northward.
and we have mt but two teams since we left
Taylors Falls Now. however. we find men
and teams making back 10 Hinckley and
thence homeward and they remind US of
men who have been to law. looking sorry in
deed. And now. by the way, L think L can
impaFt wholesome
ADVICE,
Or notes, to any of your readers who may be
little uneasy at home And the old dog
gerel comes to my aid as follows:
- If you re fond of pure We xatiOn,
And OF long procrastination, .
You are just in a situauon-
TO make an overland trip TO Lake Superior.
You will find more gnats, more musquitss,
more buffalo flies, aud more aggravation t
all sorts, names aud kinds in single minute,
than you could otherwise imagine would
properly belong TO lifetime.
THE TIMER.
leaving Kettle river. we very soon find some
excellent pine, but it reaches distance not
10 exceed ten miles. We have, also, seen
many fine hemlOck and some spruce, but
poplar and white birch constitute the main
bulk of the timber till We reach a stream
called Black HOOf
Between Kettle river and Moose Lake we
started up two deer, which were both brought
down by Ned. with only two shots of his
revolver. This relieved the monotony of
travel, and added fine stock as we'll as yari
ETY. TO our provisions.
By the way. omitted place called
GRINDsTONE.
which. as its name indicates, is hard place,
and hard place to grind. Like all the rest.
however. it has poor apology for a hotel,
and very few inhabitants. BY far the greater
majority of the people we have seen are half
breeds or Indians from very few of whom
we are able TO gather any information what
ever. And this reminds me of an
modest.
While in camp near an Indian village one
night, our guard fell asleep. and as L lay
before our campfire, a steathy red man, as l
suppose, picked gold ring from my finger
This, or something else, disturbed me, add
1 woke in time to save our carpet sacks and
other loose TAPS which might have been easily
transported. The lesson was cheap one, and
we have lost nothing since.
l confess that we might have been little
timid while travelling through this wilderness,
large share of which is quite too poor ever
to be occupied aud improved by white men.
Ned expressed it ali graphically, when lac re-
marked one day, that q" a crow had Ro busi
ness travelling over this country unless he
carried his hayer sack.
And now at
TWIN LAKES
we are in camp for the night distance of
only twenty-one miles from the big Lake
Watchy. Aimwell and William Boniface
have gone ahead. the latter taking the route
by Fond Gu Lac, new village on the St.
Lous river about sixteen miles from Duluth.
At Twin Lakes there are three houses. in
one of which there is a post-Ofiice, the first
we have found in a distance oi sixty miles
Nearly opposite 10 this rla e. at distance Of
four miles. there is now established RAILROAD
station But the most remarkable feature 20
he noticed by the Traveller Is, that, at or about
This place he very suddenly and most percep-
5ibly experiences change of
CLIMATE.
One hour ago we were sweating in our shirt
sleeves. and fighting flies and musquitos with
desperation. But now we are shiveriug in
- OvercOats and hose" A cold. piercing
breeze comes down from the lake, which
chills every soul of US ill we SILVER like an
aspen leaf. They tell MS that the ice is still
floating in the lake. and we have good reason
TO believe it, Our horses and cattle hover
around our camp FIRE, not as before, To rid
themselves of Ou= common enemy, but to
draw comfort from the blaze and smoke.
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