The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-17
FROM ST. PAUL TO DULUTH.

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FROM ST. PAUL TO DULUTH.
On Friday morning June Goth ou'
party very much lessencd in number start
ed on the Lake Superior and Mississippt
Railroad for Duluth. And as this road
is leased by the Northern Pacific for nine.
ty.nine years il is frequently called the
Northern Pacific. For some distance from
St. Paul the country may be called fair
perhaps good, being intersperced with
prairie, openings and small lakes. And
there appeared to be aourisbing villages
with surrounding country to support
them. But the country soon became more
uninviting for settlement and cultivation
and showed evidence of being what it is,
and probably always will be, to con-
siderable extent, it anything, a lumber
country. Finding that the railroad pass
ed through Pine County and through
Pine City the present county seat of Pine
o.-Ckengwatana, three miles from Pine
City having been the County Seat till the
completion of the railroad-and having
paid taxes on land in Pine County for
thirteen or fourteen years, we inquired at
the depot at Pine City for map of the
county but was answered that there was
probably no map of the county in the
county. Inquiring on the cars for soma
one who could give information of land
in Pine County the Superintendent of
the road referred to gentleman in the
opposite seat who would be as likely 70 be
able to give Information as any one. From
this gentleman we learned on the Ger and
at dinner at FL ,nckley that the lsn3 2roba
bly, lay within three or four miles of Pine
City, that It could not at that time, the
Mississippi being very high, be got to
without going through water twenty
inches'deep, that the land would always
be overlooked in the spring, that it was
not worth anything and never would be
except for the timber on it,and that there
was, or probably had. been, pine timber
on it, but being near the river, it had
probably been stolen off it, and that the
best time to get to land in that vicinity
was in September when the water was
low. Other lands in Kanabec County
for which we inquired being farther away
and in the opposite direction, the gentle
man thought might perhaps nave 81 me
value. This description, except as TO
pine timber, seemed as applicable fer
many miles as it did to lands about which
we inquired. Much of the land we think
will never, or at least not very soon, be
cultivated Perhaps as is often the case
the land few miles off from the railroad
may be higher, drier and more susceptible
of cultivation. Before reaching the st.
Louis River emptying into the head of
Lake Superior, the land seemed higher
and drier. And from the crossing of the
ST.. Louis for seven miles there is decent
in the railroad of sixty feet to the mile
Thomson at the crossing of the St. Louis
is place of some note, and Fond du Lac,
an old village at the head Of navigation
of the st. Louis, is of still more note, for
age, at least. There are several villages
or stations between Fond du Lac and
Duluth but as yet they are of bat little
note.
At Thomson delegation from Dull
nth consisting of Mayor Smith and others
came on the cars to accompany the ex-
cursionists to their city. Soon we ap-
preached,
THE pALLEs. CASCADES FALLS.
or whatever they are-of Che st. Louis
River. Before arriYing President Sey-
mour made an effort ID prepare the COM
pany for seeing one OF TIE greatest won
ders of the world with only partial sue
cess, With all his eff1rts and the support
OF the Duluth delegation the company
failed to appreciate the grandeur and
magnificence of the scenery which they
were fast approaching. Emerging from
the forests and swamps and hearing the
roar of the st. Louis reused the company
and raised their expectations. AS we ar
rived in sight of the river the train moved
slowly, the river could be seen from each