St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-29
SALTWATER NEWS.
A Lady to Celebrate the Fiftieth
Anniversary of Her Residence
in Saltwater


Mrs. Lydia Carli will to-day celebrate
her hftleth anniversary as resident
of Saltwater. Mrs. Carli came to what
is now Saltwater June 20, 1S4l, and has
been resident here ever since. She is
the Oldest lady resident in this part of
the state, and her husband and brothers
built the first residence in this city.
Mrs. Carli, in conversation with GLOBE
representative, stated that the first few
years of life i'll Saltwater were pro-
ductive of number of hardships, but
in some way Or other the early settlers
managed to get along, and many of
them have lived to see beautiful city
spring up on what was then nothing
but a quagmire and a swamp. She
lives in a cozy little cottage
on the north hill, back of the
prison, where she can view Lake st.
CrolX and the city. and would not, as
she says, exchange her present home
for the most magnificent residence in
he city, provided she could not be in
plain sight OF the lake. When Mrs.
Carli's folks came there was no settle
ment here, and it was not until two or
three years afterwards that settlers
began to arrive. The only way of Sc
curing supplies i'll early days was twice
q year, when the so-called sGow boats
came up the river, and many times they
were out of supplies for many days.
She is now seventy-three years of age.
in good health, and hopes to see still
further progress in this city and the
Northwest. She is an entertaining
talker, and her "reminiscences of early
days are interesting.
There was not much life in the log
market last week, owing to the limited
CnnnlU lat ri oil
of the logs here have been sold, and a
number Of buyers were in the city last
week endeavoring to secure logs,
but many claimed that the prices
asked were too high, and that
they preferred to wait until some of the
drives come in. Nearly 800 men were
Sentup on the drives from here last
week, but so far very few logs have
arrived at the dam. The rivers have
risen trifile. but not sufficiently to
move the drives. In many places dams
have been built, and ere many days
some of the drives will come in. The
boom was to have started up again this
morning, but there will probably not
be enough logs in to start. Loggers in
this city do not expect to get in all of
the logs this season, but hope to get
enough to supply the demand from now
until the lake freezes up. Most of the
logs will be left where they can be
moved easily heXt spring, inSuring a
good season on the lake next summer.
Nearly all of the mills on the st. Croix
have enough logs on hand to keep saw
ing until August 1. The demand for
sawed lumber remains good and very
little has been piled.
During the heavy rain storm Satur-
day afternoon Gus CarlSon'S residence,
at South Saltwater, was completely
shattered by stroke of lightning. The
occupants were in the back part of the
house and escaped uninjured. Two
other buildings at South Saltwater were
struck, and the damage done Will aggre-
gate nearly $1,000.
The Glenmont left yesterday with "a
raft of logs for Laird, Norton g. Co.
Winona; the Nina cleared with a raft
for Charles Boettcher, Red Wing: the
Bart E. Linehan took raft to the Bur-
llngton Lumber company, and the
Meta Durant cleared with raft for the
Clinton Lumber company, Clinton. To-
Louis Eckstein, the general passenger
agent of the Wisconsin Central rail-
road, was in the city Saturday looking
over the field for putting on additional
passenger trains between this city and
st. Paul.
The German Lutheran schools held a
picnic yesterday at Prince & Dixon's
grove. The attendance was large and
the programme of festivities was excel
lent.
The Hersey & Bean base ball nine
defeated the Saltwater Juniors yester-
day, on the Burlington street grounds,
by score of % to 6.
Rain prevented the ball game yester-
day between the dry goods and grocery
clerks.
Judge Williston will preside at term
of district court to-day.