Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-11-29
WYALUSING.
Lumber Trsdc-Once Commercial Importance
An "Opening"- Hearth and Home
Scientific Bosh-A House that Had a
Fireplace-Thrifty Farmers
Growth of Timber.

Westward from Patch Grove, and
bordering on the Wisconsin and the
Mississippi rivers. we find the town
ship of Wyalusing. The village bear
ing this name is not quite as large as
Paris, and hardly as stirring and full
OF business enterprise rs one or two
other cities that might DO named !;
but Notwithstanding all this tho place
is one OF some note. has good river
location and may be written about
to the extent Of several paragraphs.
Here Messrs. Brodt 4 Eggleston
have their steam saw mill, which
turns out plies of lumber weekly,
and which supplies with good build
ing material the whole adjacent
country. These gentlemen believe
IN the virtues of printing ink, as
their advertisement in the Herald
concluslvely testifies. AT the large
| Wyalusing warehouse grain is some
times bought and stored for ship
ment to places up and down the riv-
ness is therein carried on, and an air
of sober silence broods over the once
commercial place. There is no store
here now, but it is the well-consider-
cd belief of the oldest inhabitant that
a profitable and prosperous mercan-
tile business might DO carried on by
men of much confidence and little
capital.
In many parts of Wyalusing town.
ship, where timber is abundant, and
fresh air plentiful, we find those sug-
gestive reminders of the olden time,
the good, wide-mouthed roaring,
cracking freplaces. Hearth and
home always go together. In stor-
my winter weather, when the snow
falls and the gales roar, it is pleasant
to sit by such fire "with good old
folks, and hear them tell sad tales Of
woful ages long ago betid." The
popular notion that freplaces are
"more healthier" than stoves has re-
Gently been exploded by some of our
sages who are nothing if not scientif-
ic. DR.. Draper claims that they
take all the good air out of room,
and that-but what does DR.. Draper
know about it? and what is oxygen
to him or he to oxygen TOO much
scientific meddling is not good for
the human system or the human
soul. Sages ought to let our few
homo comforts alone, and content
themselves with tracing mans ances-
try to ape or Adam, finding out
whether Shakespeare was an oyster
or a squash, and proving that it is
the property of fire to burn, of water
to wet, and of cold TO chill.
In house that has fireplace, the
wandering journalist usually finds
the best kind of accommodations.
AT such q place we once enjoyed q
feast good enough for the Grand
Turk or any other potentate. 1t was
famous, we can tell you. Stacks of
steaming buckwheat cakes, globes
OF yellow butter, oceans of good syr-
up, and well-sugared, wel-creamed
''cotfee as was coffee = these were
the chief ingredients in the bill of
fare.
Away up in the rough northern
parts of Wyalusing, where the Wis.
consin river flows along, and where
| the houses of Prairie du Chen CLEAN
in the November sunlight, few in
telligcnt and thrifty Herald readers
have their semi-rural, semi-sylvan
homes. They have opened good
farms, raise fair crops, and sell sheep,
hogs and cattle by the drove. In
some places, however, we found
only here and there clearing, with
its rude and new farmhouse. But
this rude state of things can hardly
last longer than another decade for
the spirit Of agricultural enterprise
will not brook restraint, and the free
use of muscle and machinery will
never be prohibited.
Old settlers out here contend that
this part of our county is now better
supplied with timber than it was
twenty or thirty years ago. But
many have their doubts about this,
and argue that the supply Of good
forest trees is now more scant than
it ever was within their recollection.
When clearings are made, and farms
rough hewed, more or less timber is
Of course wantonly destroyed, and
one would naturally be led to the
belief that the supply Of wood must
be suffering constant dminution !;
but when the retaining labors of
man begin, the destructive ravages
of prairie fires cease, young trees
have chance to attain their matu-
rity, and places whore farming could
never be made practicable are grad
ually covered with vigorous growth
of oaks, naples, elms and lindens.
Thus it may be seen how indispens-
ible mans presence is in Natures
workshop. Yours,
On THE TRAMP.
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