Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-03-13
Cassville Notes-Big Shipments in
l678-The River and other Inter-
esting and Racy Items.
Cassyille, March II. 1873

Cassyilie, March IL, 1873.
| FRIEND POLLOCK: / see from different
places along the Mississippi reports in the
HERALD as to amounts of shipments and have
been trying to approximate TIE amount o.
business done in Cassville, but can not nov
get the exact amount Of freight received here
| by the G. D. & NJ R. r.
| The firm of Klindt, Geiger Co. shipped 81
car loads of hogs and car loads of cattle
and Grimm & Mccoy Brothers shipped some.
| thing over hundred car loads or hogs and
| 10 car loads of cattle. Oats was rather the
best hold our merchants had; they have shipped
ed $4,000 bushels; wheat, $1,000; fax seed q.
SEQ; barley 1850; rye, 900; potatoes, $500
| wool $500 lbs, and of miscellaneous freight
such as hides, butter, lard, poultry, beans
&c,, kiindt, Geiger & Co. give the figures a,
| $4,000 lbs, besides having received car loads
OF salt and cement, ditto of machinery and
| $4,000 lbs of merchandise OF these latter
items, miscellaneous freight, Prior & Son can.
not hive skipped and received much less, and
| approximatng the business done by the other
dealers, John Bernhard, f. Binkert, Chris
Knapp, and Anton Weiss, besides the mech
anic's stock the amount shipped is four fold,
or in round numbers $4,000 lbs and that of
merchandise received 100000 TBS. A large
| amount of the heavier freights is of course re-
| ceived and mostly all grain shipped by boat
But the amount received on the G. d. & NJ.
| road is large, as the former items do not include
any articles that are not strictly for Cassville.
Old Mississippi is open again. Last Friday
| the Ferry Buss came over on the ice heavily
laden with me rchandise, and on Sunday after.
noon the ice gave way and Monday the river
was clear-a quick change. Old SOILS rays
mellowed the ice on short notice and it broke
up and went without doing any damage, even
Sneclode's dam escaped, contrary to the ex-
probation and prediction of his friends
Ducks and geese are coming up in such
swarms as have not been seen here for num-
Der Of years and our sportsmen with their
dorgs are seen down by the river banks cast
ing wistful glances at the mallards as they
pass up, and it is amusing to hear them pros
nounce their benedietions on our Solons for
the game law they have gwen rs. To be
sure, just to keep their hand in you knows
they dc occasionally shoot at Fish duck, but
aary mallard can you get
One item as matter of freight | had al
most forgotten and that is our beer. Our
brewery firm are shipping large quantities of
their manufacture both up and down the river
by the G. D. & N. and Turkey River railroads
and they are in fair way of supplanting the
famous Milwaukee beer entirey-that is here.
| abouts. The gentlemanly foreman, when not
too busy engaged otherwise will always take
| pleasure in showing a visitor all over the
premises and if you choose will let you taste
rs much as you like. And now you can see a
marked change from what the place used to
be. Every nook and corner is kept scrupu-
lousy clean and you can take glass with
some appetite None of the employees are al
lowed to get tight and Wilhelm is in his CLOS
ry when calling on his customers with his GUS
tomary '.a6er Elm Biercheni
Our Saw mill is in full blast, Messrs. Ste.
vens & Bartlett have secured q large number
| of hardwood logs, than ks to the good ice the
past winter. They have added largely to their
| clearing and now II, Grimm is clearing him q
coon farm on the Turkey river bottom. Coon
oil will be cheap next Fall. s.