The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-08-25

by moonlight, ii is not to be set down to
its discredit. Our hotel rests upon an
eminence facing the bay, and, although
iron vandals have run Sram-r9ad on
piles from rolling-mill right across the
eminence, thus defacing the beach, the
distant view is none the less Beautiful.
1t is a consolation to know that the roll
ing mill has been dead year, and that
nature has taken some slight degree of
revenge upon her iconoclasts. And so
tonight I sleep, looking out Of my Win
dow upon the beautiful bay. my room
flooded with moonlight, lulled into slum-
Der by She gentle wash of the waves be-
low, and the vessels ride at anchor in the
|ofing, like painted ships upon paint
ed ocean, and if one misses sweet lit
tie good night, nature comes in and
makes compensation. Our trumpeter, in
the distance, is serenading the ladies of
our party in a fit of romantic maudlin,
and / drop off to sleep while the plash of
the wave weaves a thread of music thro'
my dreams.
s1- NEGAUNEE.
July 16,-We left Marquette at s a. m.
for Negannee, the focal spot of the Lake
Superior iron district. Negaunee is moth
ing if not metaliferous. Iron every.
where. You stumble over it in the streets.
The houses, the churches. the people, and
the pigs are red. Red women and red
back hair perambulate the town. Train
after train runlblcs heavily through the
town, loaded with iron ore from. the
neighboriDg mines, and yet the trains are
insufficient for the transportation of the
ore Cornishmen and Scotchmen, Ger
mans and Irish, all look alike, powdered
with the red dust, The pools by the
roadside are red, and every
stream rushing down to the bay rolls IN a
red torrent In q few minutes the Free
and Easy Club assimilated itself to the
general color of the locality, and was as
led as the rest. The Jackson is the near
est mine to the town, and is the oldest in
the district, and a few minutes walk
brought us into the very heart of the
! mine. We traversed it in all directions
in tunnels running under mountains OF
iron, now emerging into valley of iron
with solid masses of the metal risingthree
or four hundred feet On each side. The
depth and extent of the iron have never
been bounded, and the supply must be
exhaustiess. And this is only one mine
of many in these vast and mai estic iron
mountains of the Upper Peninsula. Less
than twenty-five years ago the first iron
ore in the district was taken from this
mine, and less than half ton of it was
packed upon the backs Of half breeds tt
the mouth of the Carp River, thence
transported in canoes to the mouth of tht
Sault, and pronounced worthless when il
arrived in Detroit. Now fifteen mine
are in operation: the jackson, the Mes
York, Cleveland, Marquette, Lake Supe
rior, Lake Angelina, Iron Mountain, Eos
ter, New England, Michigan, Washing.
ton, Edwards, Champion, Cascade, ant
Marquette county, within a range ST.
. miles wide, running in northwestern.
course from Lake Fairbanks to Kewee
!, nav Bay, a distance of nearly one hun
: dred miles, the most remote being tn
: Champion, near the east shore of LAX
. Michigammi. And as attendants to thes
= mines, there are fifteen blast furnaces il
: the district for smelling, all of which ar
! charcoal furnaces except one. 1t has beel
: estimated that the coal consumed per tol
:. of iron may be estimated at 100 bushel
: for the best stock and work, AM
40 bushels for inferior stock This, a
II cents per bushel, which may be calle'
:, the average for 1859, gives 1880 for flu
v ell, or one-half the cost of the iron, TIL
I ore would average one-fourth the cost, O
r $3.50. The largest item of the remain
:. ing fourth would be for furnace labor
r and superintendent, producing tota
h of abou; $26 as the cost of iron at tn
|. furnace. The freight, commission, ant
y interest account will increase the cost o
/ iron TO, perhaps, not less than $35, gold
! The average cost of mining and deliver
f ing ore in the cars, at the Mines is esti
n mated at 30. The cost of transportation
e to Cleveland, where most of the ore goes
Y cio Marquette, was last year $4.25. A
' these rates the ore is put on thu dock a
5 Cleveland at cost of 1925, where it i
/ sold at $8 and upward, leaving a ne
|, profit of $175 per ton. As the develop
e ment of the Lake Superior iron distric
: did not really commence till 1867, tn
E following comparative statement of tn
/ production of ore and pig iron will b.
t interesting:
YEAR. Iron ore il Els oi Fig. Value
1856 ......J 10000 .l....l 7000S 28, OO