St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-28

lt Is Oh quality tfl3l is IN demand lOr
making steel. The success which has
attended these prospecting operations.
showing, as they do, such a vast guam
tity of ore in sight, was great surprise
to most of the members of our party,
and it speaks volumes on the proba--
bilitieS of the future for the mines;
throughout these districts of Northern
Minnesota. We assembled at the plat
form. and, when the hosting Shaft was
clear, stepped across to the ladders and.
climbed from the cool confines OF the.
earth upward to the sunlit surface. The
streaks of dark red from the drips of
water had marked our faces so that we
looked like group of war-painted
Sioux. John Appel, the engineer, soon
furnished Us with hot water, soap and
basins, and we secured the color from
our faces and hands after considerable
rubbing. The force of the mine NUNS
bered thirty-siX men, and we found fully
four thousand tons of ore on the dump,
nearly all ready to ship. With railroad
facilities. the arrangements for. which
are about completed, the ore would soon
be on its way
To the Smelters.
Mr.. Pratt said that it is proposed to
put smeiter up at the mine i'll the near
future, in which case a drift would be
run along the adjacent hillside. where
he was positive the ore could be SDoy-
eied out with very little machinery.
In the tunnels through which we. went
the ore was just tenacious enough TO
require blasting. and electric wires
were strung through all the tunnels Tor
use in firing the blasts.
We enjoyed hearty dinner with Mr..
Pratt and found group of LADIES' at
the table who are holding down" land
in the vicinity. They looked bright and
happy. A party Of ten men on their
way to the Swan river lumber camps
also stopped and dined there. They
said they were going to put up hay.
The hardy team of brOnchOS was
brought TO the captains office, and we
started back to La Prairie at half-past
L. The horses stepped carefully over
the cOruur0yS where we were rocked
with bump-e-ty-bump by the uneven
logs. but wherever the road was clear
OF bonebreakeTs the horses trOtted
along gaiiy, and we reached La Prairie
in three hours. Then we took ride to
Trout lake: had a boat-ride on its deep
waters. Thus we enjoyed a charming
1tasca county sunset. The lake is well
supplied with boats and fishing tackle.
Ii the county commissioners would only
put another good layer of dirt on those
corduroy roads, there would be little
else To ask for i'll their land OF sport
and business.
At La Prairie, Carl Judson. immigra-
ton agent of the Duluth & Winnipeg
railroad, gave the visitors every atten-
ton. and looked after their welfare.
We met some of the city and county
officers, and they were certainly wide
awake, well-posted men. Mayor Moses
Mansion is predetermined, busy man.
who keeps the interests Of the citizens
at heart. His capable associates on the
fficial roster are Daniel Smith. Ben
ianIn Herrig, S. S. Mcmahon, W. II.
Chapman Qecorder), Albert Eimslie
(marshaD. Courtney A. Buell. and E. +.
tireasurer), and John Fraser street
commissioner. The county officers
are: Ii. r. King, John Beck
felt. Charles Kearney, Wade Blaker,
Ii. W. Garfield. E. r. Lewis, Melville
Manson and L. r. PravitZ. John A.
Bowman, treasurer of La Prairie, is the
well known president of the Itasca
County bank. La Prairie
Has Three HOtels
in operation. but another is about to be
built by ali Eastern capitalist. One of
the st. Paul visitors decided to put
in large hardware store there. Two
fine merchandise stores are running.
The Fraser house, a good-slZed hotel,5
is operated in excellent style by
MeSsrs. TOole and O'Connor. There is.
plenty of room for other lines of trade.
and those established are not averse to
competition. We were introduced to
w. G. Gilbert, of Wausau, Wis, who
had just secured alocation for another
bank. hich will soon be opened. Mr..
Thomas, editor of the La Prairie News,
runs d bright Democratic paper. and
tie town is not behind hand in neat ed
ucational and religious buildings, and
in public improvements. -Four thou
sand pounds of fish are shipped from
there weekly TO Booth Packing COM
pany. of Duluth.
st. Paul men are considerably inter
ested in the Northwest Improvement
COMPANY. which had much 10 do with
the development of the La Prairie
townSite. The officers of this company
ar: President. Gen. Mark ID. Flower, of
St. Paul; vice president,F. A. ClaIkson,
Duluth: secretary, c. F. Hubbard, st.
Paul: treasurer, ". NJ. Fields, cedar
Falls, 10; general manager, r. c. judi
son, Pennington. Mimi; local agent,
Eugene A. Arnold, La Prairie. At the
office of Vice President Clarkson, who
Is general manager of the WellS-Stone
-IGI CditiiC SOillpdiiN. VIC lSdluCu tud6
they have customers located as much
as sixty miles up the Prairie
aud Swan riuerS and throughout
the logging camps of the upper Missis-
sippi. The Prairie and Swan Lake
mines include the Buckeye, Diamond,
j. NJ. Longyears. Mesabi Chief. Wash
ington. Lake Superior, and Comstock.
To these customers should be added the
following leading lumber concerns:
Fagan Bros. Alden & Lawrence, w.
}. Milligan, Hurd & McAvity, S. D.
Hamilton. John Grant, Clough Bros.
l,asca Lumber company, Price Bros,
Kehl II Deary, Powers d Dwyer, Swan
River Logging company, Leighton &
Martin, Clark Clay, j. II. Dunnipg d
Co., Batson McVicker, Torrey d Lib
hey, Ii. F. Brown, Blake Bros, John
". Day, Hartley Mcclure. and others.
Etasca County
is blessed with the purest of cold water,
but it has numerous saloons. The peO-
pie OF La Prairie are alert, active and
attentive to business. Very little card
playing or other gaming was going on.
1t is the division headquarters of the
Duluth d Winnipeg railroad. The
small armv of railroad men make a