The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-07-26

gagged in getting it out for market.
The Thunder Bay "SentineP'
says that on Friday night last news
was brought by the tug "Three
Friends, that gold in paying quaint
ties had been discovered on the
property of the Mcclellan Brothers
at or near Pic River. The "Three
Friends" with a party Of explorers
had been gone about ten days, at
last they discovered a large vein.
About ton of orc was brought
home, and it is the intention to have
it crushed at that place. Some OF
the ore was tested at the Silver
lslet mine and pronounced very
rich.
Ashland has some pretty smart
saw mills, and we think other points
must look well to their laurels or
Ashland will take the belt and keep
it. Last Saturday the Union Mil
cut III ten ard a half hours run
50, 800 feet Of mill run lumber and
$4,000 shingles. The same day the
Ashland Lumber Cos. mill cut 55,-
| 232 feet of lumber IN eleven hours
rum Both mills claim that they
can cut 6O,O0O feet and head SAWYER
Martin of the Union says hais going
to do it soon, while foreman Peck
sends US word that he is after the
belt and is going to do even better.
Both mills contain rotary saws, and
are smart ones 'Efor sure. We feel
like challenging all the Mills do wn
lie line to beat them. Let's hear
from Medford. Spencer, Ogema,
etc, ETC. Ashland Press.
The Brainerd Tribune says
that Sioux City firm is erectirg a
steam saw mill on Serpent Lake at
Wilmington, station on the n. p
L. r., : miles east of Braincrd, and
that colony of about IS families
will shortly settle or the excellent
lands around Serpent Lake. There
are many districts along the n. ?.
road between the Mississippi and
/ the St. Louis that contain choice
lands, and it Will not be long be-
fore they will be eagerly sought for.
Island Lake, % miles west of the
Junction, is surrounded by large
body of as good lands as exists any.
where, well numbered with birch
maple and pine, Astounding in lakes
and streams, and III every respect
desirable country. Already there
are several settlers there, but there
is government and railroad land and
room for many more In the
vicinity Of Kimberly station are
| fire timbcrcd lands, and at Sandy
River are extensive blue joint
meadows and rich bottom lands
Emf grants going west would do
well to halt this side Of Brainerd
and examine the country. They
will find it much better than il
looks from the ear windows.
A SUPERIOR FARM.--A few days
ago We visited the farm OF Judge
& ". Perry, situated about mile
west of town, the extension OF
Becker avenue passing nearly
through the centre Of it. The tract
embraces 40 acres Of land, is all en-
closed by a good pole fence and
drained by several long bitches. 1t
is on the fiat that exists on the
summit between Superior and
Pokegama Bays, and, although
several feet higher than Second
Street, was originally a tamarac
swamp. The winds and forest fires
OF late years having thrown down
and destroyed toe timber and
burned up the moss and most OF
the stumps, left the soil bed Of
ashes and black loan from one &c
two feet deep resting upon the
ordinary red clay subsoil of thi:
region. Judge Perry has beer
clearing up the tract and extend ING
gradually the area of cultivation fol
the past six or seven years, nntil
now nearly the entire forty acres
are under guilty alton or in grass
| This season he has eight acres o.
oats, five acres of spring wheat and
q little over an acre of winter
wheat. We have seen gratis
growing in the Red River valley
and other famous localities, but we
never before saw wheat and oats
that looked as well and promised
as well rs that on Judge P's. farm.