The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1890-12-06
UPPER PENINSULA NEWS.

UPPER PENINSULA NEWS.
cLiprED AND CONDENSED FROM OUR
EXCHANGES.
The Michigan mining school now has
81 students.
Escanaba will have telephone ex-
change. Better late than never.
Houghton now has two foot ball
teams. The first game was played this
week.
The French publication at Lake Lin.
den has new editor and the Times
predicts regularity of issue hereafter.
Tie First National Bank OF Hancock
declared Dec. 1st it's thirty third semi
annual dividend of fye per cent.
The Edison Iron Concentrating Co.'S
experimental plant, at Humboldt, was
totally destroyed by fire on Wednes-
day.
Two new counties in the Upper Pen
insule are talked of, one to be cut from
Menominee county and tho other from
Ontonagon.7- Gladstone Delta.
The first may come to pass Bro. Mason
but the latter is long way off. Our
people are not anxious for division of
this county, not the taxpayers at least.
--Ontonagon Herald.
The county treasury at Ashland is
attracting more than usual attention
just at present. Bart Scottt the treasur-
or is claimed to he defaulter and his
bondsman refuse to turn over the office.
The matter will he adjusted in the
courts.
Trout Creek, in the homestead dis
trict is suffering with diphthera
epedemic. There is no resident physi-
clan and the people are compelled to
send to the nearest towns either in the
copper or iron district for medical as
sistance.
Crystal Falls promises to be one of
the noted health resorts of the future.
They claim to have mineral spring
near the town, the water Of which con-
tains medicinal virtues equal to if not
greater than any known to this age. A
large commodious hotel, costing about
$50, 900 will be erected and syndicate
formed which will run in opposition to
Pabst and the rest of those Milwaukee
chaps.
According to the Mining Journal
correspondent. Ishpeming will have
next year an electric street railway, at
least one new railroad, in all likelihood
two, with q pos ibility of a third, also
big foundry etc. etc. If they also have
a daily paper and two or three weekiies
as common rumor proclaims what
booming town the gold metropolis will
be in 81. Well here's hoping such may
be the case, Horace.
The silver lining of the dark cloud
that has hung over Ontonagon county
all these years is now becoming notice
able. The prospects for development
of the copper range were never so bright
as at present. With copper command
ing good figure an impetus will be
given to exploratory work all along the
range and some good mines will I'M
doubtedly be discovered. Mining men
say this range has only been skinned
over.
The Mining Journal very pertinently
says regarding the postmaster generals
hobby for one cent postage:
"The postal railway clerks and the
clerical forces in the postofllces are now
overworked and underpaid, and the
entire service is crippled by policy of
holding down expenditures to bring it
as near y as possible to the point of
b' ing self-sustainlng. To cut the let
teE Iutt III tWO uuutl bucoc
would be highly iniudicious, and it is
singular that such an unwiss proceeding
should find an advocate at the head of
the postoilice department"
The Interior Lumber Co. shut down
their mill last Monday night for the
season, having cut % million feet of
lumber. The company is erecting
large boiler house for the purpose of
furnishing the planning mill, dry kiln
and their several other buildings, with
steam. They also started one more
camp last week with a crew Of forty
men, making in all six camps in opera
ton, giving employment to $40 men in
the woods and about 100 around the
mill yard and planning mill. They have
just received car load Of fine draught
horses from Chicago for camp No.'6 6
which is under the supervision of Mr..