Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-20

Over thirty brick stores are being
built at LudingtOn. Being burned up
was evidently the best thing that ever
happened to that place.
The Record says that over $4,000 has
been subscribed for an observatory at
Albion college. 1t is proposed to put
very good telescope in 1T.
The fruit growers of Benton Harbor
and st. Joseph have decided to make q
fine showing at the great Boston hOrti-
cultural exhibition next month.
The Grand Rapids school board has
voted 20 raise by taxation during the en-
suing year, $66,390, of which amount
$3S, is for teachers wages, and $1,000
for the library.
The Ludingt0n Record says: Accord
ing to present indications, some of the
mills are likely to lie idle for want of
logs in the near future. At present the
stock is hung up on the south branch.
A company with 100000 capital has
been organized to manufacture and
operate the Langley electric light in
Indiana. This is under the patents
owned by Prof. Langley, of Ann ArbOr.
James O'Neill, who has been resident
of Ann ArbOr for 40 years, is probably
the oldest man in that section of the
state. He has passed his Tooth birthday,
and was soldier in the Irish rebellion
of '98.
The skeleton of man and boy named
McCafferty, father and son, who were
missed from near White Rock, during the
terrible forest fires of 10 years ago, have
just been found in some underbrush near
the village. They were recognized by
some spectacles, knife, and other things
with them.
Recent sales of lumber at MuskegOn
were 100000 feet Of boards and strips at
$15.25 and $3.50, green, on dock; 3,O0O-
600 feet No. 2, green, on dock, at $1O.50;
100000 feet green, on dock, at $15 for
boards and strips, and $10.50 for No. 2;
100000 feet of choice boards and strips
crOss-piIed at $3.50; 100000 feet at
$10.5O, $11.25 and $13.
The state board of education has grant
ed Prof. +. II. Pease, of the state normal
school, leave of absence of one year, in
which he may go to Europe and take an
advanced course of study in the musical
cOnservatOriss of Leipsic and Milan.
During his absence, the department of
music in the normal school, as well as
the conservatory of music at Ypsilanti,
will be i'm charge of competent instruc-
tors.
The Chippewa County News says the
largest mortgages ever in this section
were recorded in the registers office
last week. There were two of them for
four and One-half million dollars each,
intrest at six per cent, per annum. One
of these mortgages is due in 1911, and
one in1921. They were given by the ID.
M. & M. Railroad Co., one to Detroit
parties, and one to the trust and loan
company in New York. The descriptions
are extensive, covering the road and
over 100000 acers, and the recording am
Ounted to Oevr $14OO.
The increase in the value Of Michigan
forests within the last dozen years is
probably unprecedented in the annals of
the lumber trade. Twelve years ago q
man with few thousand dollars to in
vest bought a tract of land in MenOmi-
nee county, Michigan, from the United
States for $1.25 per acre. Last week he
sold 2,S75 acres of pine timber from the
same section to Chicago lumber firm
for 1926 per acre, reserving the land for
himself. The investment has therefore
paid profit Of over $68,0O0 on the 1876
acres in only II years, the original in
vestment being less than $500, and, as
| the land is worth something, "the re-
turns are not all in yet"
Marquette Mining Journal: 1t is safe
to say, judging from the way the ore is
now going forward, that the output this
year will exceed 100000 gross tons. OF
the increase in the output of the upper
peninsula mines, over 30 per cent, IS to
be credited to the MenOmlnee range,
/ Al .hrrfa nnI friA Ia Axtavs
one-third of the whole amount of ore
mined and shipped. The lake shipments
of ore during the week ending the 10th
inst. footed up to 10O082 gross tons, of
which GO. .445 tons were loaded at Escan-
aba, 32 432 at Marquette, and 4,205 tons
at L'Anse. 1t was, perhaps, the largest
weeks work ever accomplished in this
district-The Lake Superior iron COM
pany. Marquette county, has declared
dividend of $5 a share, or 100000 on the
capital stock.
The PetOskey Record gives the follow
ing interesting reminiscence: "COl. /.
| ID. Toll rejoices i'm having for guests his
mother (nOw in her SD Year,, and two
sisters. Mrs. Toll settled with her hus
band, Capt. Philip r. Toll, in Centreville
| i'm 1884. and at Fawn River and Monroe,
where she was noted for her great active
benevolence. Her father, Isaac DeGraff,
served during the entire war Of the rev.
Olution as a major of New York troops,
and her brother John assisted the gov
ernment in very trying emergencies,
particularly in getting our fleet ready to
meet the British squandr0n on Lake
Champlain in the war Of 1872, the United
States then being without resources
owing to the capture Of Washington.
Mrs. Tolls faculties of mind and body
are remarkably preserved"