Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-04-19

miles, the country consists OF beautiful
prairie openings for circuit of a num-
Der of miles. The prairie are rolling the
land. now broken with low ridges, now
stretching away in magnificent distances
of plain country. The future of Dodge
vile is very promising if they only sue
coed in getting railroad. 1t is backed
up by as good farming country, with as
industrious and frugal farmers as the
State can produce, and the wealth of a
large mineral region is tributary to this
place. The wonderful attractiveness OF
its location; the courtesy, gen;ality and
hospitality of its citizens good character
of its business men, &c.,-all are in her
favor, and if steps are taken in the right
direction, she will develop into fine
and prosperous city.
In company with Messrs. Reese and
Carter, one Of the legal leading firms in
the county. we visited the nursery and
vineyard of Ellwood Brothers, situated
about half mile from the village. We
did not visit this place for the purpose
of seeing the grapes in their natural
state, nor the apples hanging on the trees,
but for the purpose of shaking hands
with four of Iowa county's enterprislng
and whole souled citizens. These four
brothers have been engaged in this bust
ness for the past sixteen years, and as
natural consequence thoroughly under
stand their business. They now have
thirty. two acres devoted to trees and vines
Heretofore they have been shipping their
grapes to the large cities. bat last fall the
thought occurred to them that there was
more money in wine making; consequent
ly they built very fine wine celler, and
last fall made 1000 gallons of delicious
grape wine, which they are selling for the
small sum Of $l,75 per gallon. Their OBJ
jeet in selling their wine thus cheap is to
put it within the reach Of ALL We do no;
profess to be judge of wine, as our edu-
cation in that direction has been sadly
neglected, but it has been and daily il
being pronounced by competent judges t.
be superior wine. 1t behooves every citi-
zen of Wisconsin to encourage home in
dustry, which may be done even in small
way. Instead Of buying expensive Cali
fornia wines just try Elwood Brothers,
which we are inclined to think will prove
far more pleasant to the taste and mos
assuredly less inursome. We are under
great obligations to Ellwood Bros, for theil
pains in showing us through their estab
lishment, also for samples of their wine.
May success attend them.
Dodgeville is a village of some 1000 in
habitants, and the county seat Of lows
county, most Delightfully."- situated, som'
% miles from Arena, the nearest railroad
point on the Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail
road, and miles from Mineral Point, thu
present terminus Of the Mineral Poin
Railroad. The inhabitants are principal,
Cornish and Welch with mere sprinklins
Of American born citizens. This we were
unwilling to believe at first, as we imagin-
ed the greater portion of the inhabitant'
were Americans, which they are virtually
though not native born. The buildin.
blocks are principally frame buildings
with few Of brick. The place va
named after Governor Henry Dodge, wh'
occupied the Governors seat when Wis
consin was a Territory, in 1926, making
Dodgevlle one of the oldest towns in thi!
part of the State. The place has five hotels
which will compare favorably with country
hotels, the Commercial Hotel, by Jane:
Jones, the United States Hotel, by
Thomas Thomas, Western Hotel, 10y j
R. Roberts, Dodgevlle Hotel by Richard
Rogers, and the City Hotel by Stephel
Bennett All of these hotels appear to b.
we'll patronized They have one goot
local paper, the Dodgev;lle Chronicle, th'
official paper Of Iowa county, edited ant
published by W. j. & E. 7. Wriggleswortl
The Chronicle does good service for TIT
county and village that it represents.
During our stay at Dodgeville we wer'
the recipient of many favors from Messrs
! Reese & Carter, the Messrs. Wrigglesworth
assistant postmaster, Rogers, and others
who did everything in their power t.
make our visit profitable and pleasan
one, and we herewith tender our SINGER
thanks. S. w. Reese Esq, long residen
here, associated with him last fall Richart
Carter Esq, of Platteville, very promis-
ing young man and an excellent attorney
} and he is very fortunate in forming /
partnership with such reliable and ex-
perienced attorney as Mr. Reese. May
their shadows increase III. r. F.