The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-02
FROM LAKE SUPERIOR.
EAGLE HAEBoR, Dec. %, 1879.
rrosponIence Of Tbs true Nortnerner.


EAGLE HAEBon, Dec. %, 1879.
Correspondence OF Tbs True Northerner.
This country IS quite peculiar in soma re-
spests, being made up, as il is, OF rocky hills
from which native copper in almost ingot pure
ness projects as from 10 other such hills IN the
known world. Ths peculiar physical shape OF
this point is very "natively' described by the
early Catholic rnissoasres. In speaking OF
Lake superior they picture it as a nonstrous
bow, with the Keweenaw point, as the arrow,
and the string, not then but now, passing .hro'
Portage Canal stretching from the "Sou" 10
Duluth. Numerous and remarkable are the
contrasts. In Southern Michigan we speak OF
"up NORTH" then "wsy up north,' aud then If
we would go still farther 1t is the 4" Upper PEN
insula"; aud those no better acquainted than
was think OF it as wild, new country in the
wilderness. And 80 1T is; yet 1t is old My
home is now with gentleman who came here
from Ohio as agent OF mine, tirty- years
ago. Others are hsrs who have been here from
thrty-fve to forty years. Men and women
are here who were bora here, have grown 10
man and womanhood married with families
we'll started (and they rear them OF the old
Patrlarchal kind, fro IN nine to nineteen being
the rule); and yet very much OF the country is
little better than q howhng Wilderness The
whole country is owned entirely by mining
twenty Thousand acres each Wherever pros
pecting has developed vein OF copper Of suf-
ficient richness TO warrant, thers you find To-
Gated the mine, consisting OF machinery for
hosting, crushing and stamping the ore. to-
gether with from two to four frst-class resi-
dences and sufficient number OF other build
ings Casually log) to accommodate the force Of
hands employed,-th whole occupying space
OF half dozen acres. Start ing from one of
these locations you may travel three, six, per
haps ten miles, before reaching another dwell
Ing. Thus III an old settled country We find
ourselves n the wild woods. III not using the
necessary precsutlon in keeping your reckon
ing when out for days sport, you may easlly
become bewildered among the cedar swamps
and forced to accept the snow for feather
bed aud the twInkling stars as coveret, as
your correspondent came near dong seme
time since
We may also Zee here wealth to compare IA
vorsby with men OF rank below: culture
AID scholarship from the first families aud bsst
schools OF the land standing side by side with
poverty and ignorance; men of science as well
as the most illiterate. Thsy are all connected
in one way and another With tho mining inter-
eat, aud between these two extremes there
seems TO be an impossible chssm with no level
upon which they all meet as common-a higher
and lower class. Really the mino locations are
in a small way kingdom, everything on the
location being subject to the will OF The agent.
Society is migratory, each month some receiv-
ing their settlement and gsing, while others
come in to ill their places. The miners ara
nearly all Cornish FROM Cornwall, Eng. while
the surface laborers are mostly German and
Irish. The Cornish are Familiarity known as
Cousin jacks and they seem not TO be very
apt in becoming AmercauEed, especially do
they murder the Kings English. Their ex-
pressions are often ludicrous In the extreme
aud frequently quite unintegbe. Not long
since we put on our broadcast grin in passing a
dwelling to hear IN repiy to q remonstrsnce for
letting the "httle one' out in the snow" No
use we to try keep she her go out anyhow no
use we to tell she her can't walk No more
amusing, perhaps, was this than was the min
ing captain who, calling down the shaft to
some workmen below, says: Low many are
yeas adown there? When the reply comes up
"Three,' aud the order is as promptly trans.
mitted back, The one alf Of yeas come up
We might multiply these dd infinituna, but
forbear taking your space.
Winter In oil his kngly majesty has sur
rounded and nearly covered us up. For tht
past ten or twelve days il has raned" snow il
torrents until we can now scarcely fathom lti
depth with four-foot measure, aud still i
comes. The bay is completely covered, and tn,
lake ss far as the eve can reach enshrouded
with a coating OF ice and snow. Four degree
below zero is the lowest yet reached by tht
thermometer. g. w.