Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
Mimin.
March 80. 1874

busy stirring up the voters for the coming
election The Republicans have made theft
nominations for the various town Offices
snd.we believe the best strength of the par
| ty I'd be represented by the selection OF
! the following nominees w. Bainbridge,
Chairman, Peter Jones and VIM. Holmes
j. W. Rewey for Clerk and Harry Cnshman
for Treasurer, with full bench of Justices,
composed Of e. Chritchley, H. Runde!l,
Jams Pedley E. E. Williams; and julius
Oushman and E. Willard for Constables.
The Democrats have not made any
nominations yet, but there is probabili.
ty of their old war horse, James Hird
coming out for Chairman.
During the last few months we have
heard the name of Francis Little mention.
ed for Congress, in place of Hon. j. AL
len Barber. by some of the best men in
this county, and number of prominent
Changers tn ink the District has been long
and ably represented by the law fraterni-
ty and that change would be good to
which we hunbly submit, believing Mr..
Little to be truly representative man and
one into whose hands we could safely trust
the interests of this district. The people
of this comfy could not do better than to
bring him out. His Legislative career is
unblemshed and without spot or stain ;
his reputation for sterling integrity,-his
mature judgment, combined with his
high sense of honor, point him out
as a man in whom the people can confide.
The Patrons of Husbandry will no doubt
cut an important figure in all the political
issues of the day, and will demand of the
Republicans the right of representation
from their own ranks ; and he who secures
the choice must combine all the quail.
ties of first-rate man. an honest politi>
clan and good christian. In Mr.. Little we
find the desired qualities. 1t is right and
proper that our farmers, being the largest
class, should be the choosers id this mat
ter of representation. Let them consider
their own interest, and work to this end.
stated in my last that our mines had
done very good thing this winter. 1t
may not be out of place here to give some
of your mining readers description of the
mines at this place. Our principal ranges
are located at what is known as the Dean
Ross and Mitchell eighty, and have not
been struck off this piece of land, although
repeated trials have beeti made. There
are Eve principal ranges extending from
the bluff edge everything the river in a
northwesterly direction. They run 50
closely together and are worked so that
it is almost impossible to tell which range
you are in but each range has its own
PECULIARLY. Some of them are worked
$50 feet wides The general features are
horizontal sheets and pitching either side
to the clay bed, which overlap the glass
rock line. In many places their openings
are seven feet in height, and the opening
between the sheets, which lays close to
the cap and clay bed, is filled with por-
GUS sort Of conglomerated rock, mostly a
sort of delayed lime formation, and an
abundance of sulphur, Or mundick. The
sheets are from eight to eighteen inches
thick, and are composed alternately of black
jack, drybone and mineral. The Spehcely
range mines are the strongest, and have
made some very good raises then comes
Ram, Young & Co., who will have some
two hundred tons of blackjack and $4,000
to 10000 of lead ore for their half years
work. The number of men now engaged
in working these mines is about thirty,
and the average wages is $3.50 per day.
Our farmers are getting ready for the
seed time, and many in our neighborhood
are changing seed wheat with a view to
raising better wheat This is an outcrop
Of the new era. If they will get upon
more sociable terms one with another we
shall near of no more law suits about
fences, and less complaining about bad
crops, and will have a better system OF
tillage, a greater diversity of crops, and
more concert of action upon questions of
Importance, and withal better attendance
at The different public schools.
For many years our farmers have been
doing their utmost to carry out an old
adage, take all and leave none," or. "per,-
ny wise and pound foolish" Thus by
taking all the grain and straw away from
the land, and returning nothing in the
shape Of manure, they have gothic penny
in hand, but left nothing which would
III afiJ manner contribute toward smaking
more pennies. Thus the flower of the land
is gone, and when they think to make it
their permanent homestead, they End that
most of their land is too poor and will
take too many years to recuperate so
they will move west, i'll all probability, to
repeat the former experience. Now our
farmers are as class the most intelligent,
and we would like to see them bestir them
selves, not only for their own good, but
for the good Of their neighbors. It is very
we'll known that when crops are large work
is plentiful, wages better, and the farmer
better able to pay the harvesting of a good