Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-02
The Old River Town - Business
Harvests- HoteIs-Mining.
Cassyille July 80. III.


Friend HERALD Our wheat har-
vest is mostly over, excepting late
kind called the Odessa wheat which
is claimed exempt from the ravages
of chinch bugs. The bug has not
done near as much damage to our
wheat as was first reported, farmers
will have full half crop of excel
lent quality. Oats, corn and pota-
toes never looked better.
Our farmers mostly do their own
work in this harvest and for what
little they hire they pay only S1.25
per day, and the chances for labor
are slim. Our village started off
briskly last spring. Several new
buildings were put up but since they
are finished no more is doing in that
line. Otto Reinke has moved into
his new and ccmmodious store build
ing on corner of Amelia & Frederick
Streets, and everything about him
looks as pleasant as Marriage
Belle. All he wants he says is plen-
ty of customers with lots of cash
and that's whats the matter with the
rest.
The Hotel on Denniston Avenue,
formerly kept by f. j. Ishmael, is
occupied by Theodore Teasdale. He
calls his place the Central Hotel, and
promises to keep good hotel, but
alas two hotels and not business
enough to keep one above starvation.
In harvest time of yore Cassville
would begin to liven up, but this year
it looks like hope deferred.
The only place where little excite
ment and fun is to be found and en-
joyed of evenings is at the Denniston
Corner. Here the miners congregate
and generally exchange ideas as to
the best modaS operandi iof Cassville
diggings. Several transient miners
are boarding with mine host of the
Denniston, MIR. w. w. Forbes
Among them Mr.. o. B. Phelps of
your place. The miners are all exult-
ant over their good show ; are hope
full of big things next winter when
the damps will not trouble them. The
prospects of Lancaster 81 Schuerer,
Foehringer and Dinner, Wesley Will
liams 90 Co., J. Plimpton and Wood
man, and Greybill 81 Co. ARE all called
very promising, and while some of
the prospects are temporarily aban-
doned for reason that the interested
parties are farmers, or because of the
depth they have to 60 and the bad
air, others keep prospecting around
their good prospects to make new
discoveries, and with the advent of
cool weather, new life will be infused
in all.
Mr.. j. ID. Harp has shown us some
relics of part of floor found in a
cave. This floor is in drift run by
Esq Harp through what he claims to
have been cave, but now all filed
up. Esq. Harp believe claims those
discoveries to be some Indian abode
probably antideluvlan.
The best prospect now open is de-
cidedly that of Burgess, Boyd and
Winsor. They, in drifting, followed
some mineral in the bottom of an
opening and finally lost the bottom of
the opening. The rock gave out and
the mineral pitched downward-to
use the miners phrase-they followed
it down in loose ground and tumbling
rock to the depth of about ten feet
they, of course, had no windlass in
the drift-had to hoist by hand. Sat-
isfed that they had good thing they
had the ground surveyed to sink an
other shaft over the discovery. They
did sink the new shaft and in what
they call chimney. When they came
to the mineral they found it in all dl.
rectiops, but also made the discovery
that they might be buried alive any
moment, the ground through which
they came being very loose. They
are now about to have point estab-
lished OH the hill side from whence to
start level. A new feature in the
mining here is that they 60 much
deeper than they used to go 25 years
ago-hence better show, and if the
diggings of Esq. Burgess & Co. holds
out-makes lead, there will be plen-
ty more found. S.