Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-13

who brought the team through was quarter
breed named Richard Lyons. His passen-
ger was a man named Mosher, who had re-
ceived word that his brother down in Mich
| igan was badly hurt and seriously sick,
having recently lost an arm through. an ac-
cident, and he spared no effort to reach him.
The Indian said that the way they came to
make such good time was by their taking
turns at running at dog trot behind or be-
fore the toboggan about every five miles, of
course using snow shoes.
Thirty miles of the trip was over smooth
pathway across frozen lakes. The rest was
through the bush by trail known to the
Indian. The latter is now at Tower, or was
when lett, awaiting the return of Mosher,
who expects to bring on his brother if he is
well enough to stand being moved. If he
has sufficiently recovered they will under
take to carry him back in the toboggan
across the wide e1panse of snowy wastes to
the northward.
mentioned to-day the dog team to Captain
McDougald, of whale-backed steel barge
fame. The Captain says that along in 1873,
he used to drive hundreds of miles in a win
ter behind dog teams, and that there used
sometimes to come in here as many as 20
good teams from the northward in day.
DOGS USED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
He stated that about that time the
Canadian Government employed as many as
it could get to aid it in hunting out an
available route for the Canadian Pacific,
and to that end agents secured the country
way north into the Hudson Bay region. 1t
was some of those teams which appeared
here then, and were the finest teams he had
ever seen. Some of the dogs seemed to be
crossed with foxes others with wolves, and
some were said to be crossed with bears.
At all events they were so like bear as to
be scarcely disting guishable at little dis
tance.
Captain McDougald says that between
now and the season of 1891 ne expects to use
10000 or II, 900 tons of steel plate not yet
contracted for. He has now just arriving
about ], 300 tons from Carnegie, the Park
Brothers and the divers, and about 1 900
tons will be coming on soon. At Superior
he is working hard to get the shipyard in
shape. With five steam drivers and one
team driver they have driven about 5000
piles in two weeks time, and he wants to
know if that record was ever beaten. They
have about 1000 feet of dock line at Su-
perior. They have thus far arranged for
five slips or ten berths, which will permit of
their building ten boats at once. He hopes
they will succeed in building 20 new boats
before the season for 1891 opens. The
Captain thinks real estate values in Duluth
little high.
MORE RAILROADS NEEDED.
The great need in the matter of develop
ing this mining country is railroad facilities.
The Duluth and Iron Range is the only road
in the Vermilion section. To the northeast
of these gold and silver have been discov-
cred. What is known as the Western
Mesabi country is being reached at one
point in lower Itasca county at Grand
Rapids. Possibly existing roads are not in
favor of new lines, but even if this be so the
general interests OF the country and the
people are paramount, and the necessities
are such that they will certainly come.
1t seems as if this part of Minnesota had
been held back to a surprising degree.
Much less Is known about it than would
seem possible. Within two weeks party
of surveyors will begin to survey township
"a, range IS, and township 63, range H.
For some years very little has been done in
the way of township surveying. 1t looks
now as if there was going to be change in
this respect, and it is likely to be followed
with extensive Developments.
am informed by party concerned in
the transactions that there has just been
consummated two of the largest land, tim
ber and mining deals which has ever been
effected in this country. One is with an
English syndicate, some of the members of
which recently visited the locality in per.
son. Not word about il has been pub
lished, my informant states, but it will soon
be given out, and am promised early in
formation concerning it.
ORL1N M. SANFORD.