Connecticut western news., 1872-02-23
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the valleys and beneath the hills of Berk shire, away cross the Hudson and through the capitol city ot the ''Empire state, creeping carefully across Suspension bridge
 into Canada, passing for moment to
 allow n noisy and officious custom house
 officer to put stamp on our baggage, and
 away we whirl to Detroit. and the next
 morning after leaving "The Bridge" we
 stand amid the ruins of Chicago. We will
 not try to describe it's desolation. Adler
 pens than ours have essayed the task and
 failed. We look at the work of the frey
 element briefly, and then suddenly the de-
 sire seizes us to hasten on still further. Nor
 is this desire lessened when we learn the
 amount of our hotel bill. Whatever else
 Chicago may have been purged of, she
 still retains her rapaci'y in wonderful
 state of preservation. We take the Chicago
 and North Western railroad, and at night
 reach Fort Howard at the Southern ex-
 tremity of Green Bay. Here we rest till
 the morning and then push on. Soon we
 reach the burnt district. Mile after mile
 of prostrate forests that have withstood the
 blasts of an hundred winters, greet our
 eyes as they lie stretched out before us
 like slaughtered army of giants. Anon
 the conductor calls ''Peshtigo," and we
 turn to the window almost expecting to see
 the charred remains of the three hundred
 souls that perished there. But no! all was
 calm and the new buildings on every hand
 spoke of life rather than death.- and PrOvi-
 dcnce had mcrcifully cast has mantle of
 purity over all, or if he would say to the
 sorrowing and afflicted. forget the past and
 live for the future. But as the word Niles.
 opotamia" had power to melt the heart to
 tears, so the worl "P-shtigO" will for long
 years stir our hearts with it's tale of horror.
 Soon We reach Marlinette where we leave
 the iron horse and return to more primi- tive methods of travel We have a born
 stage driver in the person of ''Jim Man.
 wakes the echoes. while his splendid -four
 in hand" dasl, away towards Escanaba at
 the northern extremity of Green bay> There
 are now twelve in our party, the sleighing
 is excellent, and with the irreprrssblc
 Clark from Green Bay, on the seat with
 ,he driver, we are right merry crowd.
 Here we are at EIcanaha. We take Glin- ner at the "Silden House" Gan excellent
 one. and then by railroad again 63 miles
 to Negaunee. What is here a village of
 some three thousand inhabitants. We go tu
 the Ogden House and leave our baggage. and go in search ot our old friend E 5.
 Green. Not much of search, for every body knows him. We are told that the large store across the way lettered ''1ron
 Cliffs Company" is where he is donnie ed,
 a b-. snake of the hnnd assures us of his "c,r- c"rGiality. But what store carrying stock of over $lOO.OOO. al under the entire and personal super vision ] of Mir. Green, who is us much at home as if he WAS not selling cool thousand dol l lars worth of goods day. Hon. Wm. H. r Barnum is the president of this company ] he knows how to put the right man in the right place; nor did he mnHe a mistake when he secured the services of Mir. Green. We must not forget another gentleman, whose kindness and courtesy has placed, us under the deepest obligations We mean the accomplished book keeper of the Jack
 son mincs," Wm. Sedgwick. And here comes our old friend Barley, honest hear ted Merritt" whose genial countenance
 fairly beams with delight at seeing some one from old Connecticut. This is Wed nesday night. Thursday morning. MT.
 Green takes us in sleigh drawn by fine
 pair of blacks (Thelm"meter 24O below zero. and we go to the village of 1shpem. ing, 3 l-2 miles from Negaunee, and con- taining about 5000 inhabitants. Within Il radius of l2 miles, there are IA blast fur
 naces, all doing a good business. From Ishpcming we took the cars to Marquette, the county seat on the shore of l. ike Supe- ror. It is beautiful town of oyer 1000
 or 6,OOO inhabitants l should judge. per haps more, and must be most delightful
 place in summer Our story here was
 short, as we must go back to MT. Green E to supper. Here for the first time We met
 Mrs. Green. who with her easy grace and kindly manners went straight to our hearts. ' At her summons we sat down to A supper
 that would tempt Epicurus himself, and were piled with good things until we cried ''peccavi" per force.
 The iron mines of Ntgaunee and vicin , itv are something wonderful. They are , very rich yielding about 63 per cent of iron
 of superior quality. The largest of these :, mines is the J .cKs,n mine. which shipped
 last year l5O. GOO tons of ore, besides wha :, the Jackson mining Co. used in their owr :. furnaces. Through the courtesy of thci l. very grntlemanly hookkeeper, Mir. Wm Srdgwick, we were shown through th' :, mine, and we have much cause To be grate ful to this accomplished gentleman, fo ', many kindnesses shown us. With lik courtesy Mir. Green took us to the Barnun d mine u, Ishpeming, 3 l2 miles from NJ
 gaunee, where we found every applanc
 for the successful opperation of the mine
 as we might expect when Informed that tn i. master hand of the "Iron Barnuln" guide n the "Iron Cliffs Co.," Tue Cleveland min i. shipped last year 1000 ,ons; the Fosle d mine, 10000 tons; the Parson mine, TO- IS GOO; Sec IS mine, 10000 tons; PiOnee L. mine, l5.OOO tons. Lake Michagaumi -r ln the same county, and here Mir. Barnur IT, hus opened another mine and formed y joint stock corporation, with capital stoc r- of $500. O.OOO. New mines are constant
 heinz opened, and the prospect now i'
 that the supply is almost inexhaustabl' ls The Barnum, Pioneer, Foster, Section c. and Parsons mines are worked by tll y Iron Cliffs Co.," Time and space will nt