, 1870-08-07

md fresh @ meat III tho way from Chicago,
II behooves the traveller to live upon berries
snd dah. The latter are delicious. Tou win
nevcf eat whitefsh from Lake Michigan Il
you can get one from Lake Superior. The lat
teF grove to Elk, eight, and ten pounds III its
clear, cold Eaters, And i4 remarkably rich aud
sweet: Compared with him, his neighbor from
+A1e Michigan ia positively gross- 4 bruiled
Lake Superior wlitetiall for breakfast il the
acme of The culinary art applied to hsb.
iAAaspema hasanAtha upon her who would taiut
his purity n fry pan!
We left Escsnaha At p, H., bY the PENN
eular Railroad, through i barrau stretch Of
country whose burnt pine atumps and white
sseletona Of trees bespoke the 1avxgesof dres.
stonpnE hers and thern. to take on squads Of
lndlAns. laden with pails and tubs Of besrles.
AND \ lew hours later carae into
NAaaOEETE,
inst Is the full red moon Via rising ont OF tho
eaect 3ou eee IN the pictures OF Turner and
Claude Deloraine- II it can boast Of nothing
etse. Marquette eau boast Of rsa bay. lu1 u
the Free ard Easy Club g7ew ro1usntic over
Marquette ty moonlight, It il not to be set
down TO Its discsedit. Our hotel rests upou
an emnence facing the bay, and, although iron
sandsls haFo rnn tram-road On piles from a
.nlnng-kasn right across The emlnence, thus
dei1elng tha beach, the distant view Is none
the less beautiful. It IL = con.ofation that t4e
ro]ln6-nil has been dead 4 year, and that Ia
tnre 9aa some slsght degree Of revenge upon
he[ fconoclasts- And 20 Tonight I eEeep,
looking ont OF my window npon the beautiful
Lay, MT room flooded with moonlight, lutied
into slunbeE hy the gentle wash OF the waves
upon the rock below. and tue vessels rids at
anchor u the ofing, like painted Hlps upon
= painted ocean )" and il one misses sweet
little coed night, nature comes in and rnAkes
condensation. Our tsu,npeter, in the dis
linz I. lSun
NJ u Eonantic 1uaud}in, and drup of to
s'tep Win tie Wash Of the ware weaving u
thread OF uueic through my dreams.
sEaAusEE-
jug 1--we left Ha19uette at 5a. m, for
Neesunee, the focal spot Of the Lake Superior
ifon @ district Segaunoe il nothing il moi met
all''erous Iron everywhere. .iou ntnmtle
ever It ID the streets. The houses, the churches,
tho people, and the pigs arc red. Fed horses
dtiven by red drivers draw red wago1e. Red
women and red back hair perAr1bulate the
streets. Train after trim rlmblea heavily
through the town, loaded with iron from the
neighbotlug mines, and yet the trains nre in
sufficient for the transportation Of the ore.
Cornfsh men and scotchmen. Germans aud
1r1th all look nike, powdered With the red
dust. The pools br the soadaiJe are red. and
every stream rushing slown to the bay rolis in
red torrent In few minutes the Free and
Easv Club astisniAted itself to tho general
color Of the locality. and wss ss red a. the rest.
The Jackson IL tie nearest mine to The town
and is Tie eldest in the district, ard few min
utes' walk brought us into tho very heart Of
ihe mine. We traversed it in all directions in
tunnels running under uoYntaius Of iran.
now emerging into valley Of
iron with tolid masses Of the
meal rising three Of four hundred feet on
haEa never been bounded, and the supply
must be eahaustless. And this is only ons
mine OF many IN these vsst and majestic iron
mountains Of the Upper Peninsula Less
tlat twenty-five years ago the first iron ore iu
the district was taken from this mine, anl less
bscks Of half-breeds to The mouth OF the Carp
| River, thence transported in canoes to tho
mouth OF the Sault and pronounced worth
less when it arrived in Detroit Nov fifteen
| naincs are in operation-the Jackson, the Now
York, Cleveland, Marquette, Lako Superior.
Lake Ange!ine, Iron Mountain. Foster, New
England, Michigan, Washington, Edwards,
Champion. Cascade, ard Eaninm, al located
within the linits Of 3fatque,te County, within
4 range slx miles Hide, running in north.
| westerly course from Lake Fairbanks to ke-
wcenAw Ia I. distance Of nearly one hun
dred miles, the most remote being the Cham.
lion, near the cast shore Of Lake Michigan.
mt- And AZ attendants to these miner
there a1e fifteen blaat furnaces III the dis.
trict for smelling. all of whicl. arc cf.arcoa
furnaces except one. II has been estimates:
That the coal consumed per ton Of iron may 1t
| set down At 100 bushels for best stock aut
work, and 14o bushels Tor infenor stock
Ills. at II cents Per lashel, which may bt
called the average for 1869, gives an avesag;
Of " for fuel, oe onc-half the cost OF I'll.
irru. Tho orc would average one-fourtl, tl,t
cost, or SC 80. The largest item Of the remain
ing fourth would lie furnace labor. and srper
intendence, producing tota! Of about 3:.d q
the cost Of ion at the furnace. The f1ei,:l.t
con1mesion. and interest account will inrreas.
tns oS cot !; Of i.,n TO- perhaps rot lsss y TIP ,5
tnE orc il the carr, at the mines, il estimate.
[ at -. The cost for transportation t, clsyc
| land, wi1ero most Of tle orc goes, ciu Mar
! quette, was Last year 54.25. At these rate
tile ore is put upon tho dock At CleveIanl at
cost Of $G..5, where it is sold at - aud up
| ward, leaving = net profit Of s1.f5 per TO:
As the Development OF tho Lake SUPERIOR iro
district did not really commence until ts56-i
the following comparative statement OF Il,
produc1ion of ore and pig iron will 10 itteres,
| ing: