St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-17
RAINY LAKE CITY TODAY.
THE GOLD CITY GETTING TO Be A
HUHKER.
TRAVELLERS GO IN CARAVANS.
A Few Mile Posts Blazed for
Those Desiring to Visit the
New Eldorado Overland-How
the People Live in the New
TOwn-Lots Of old.Bearing
Rock.

present the cry Of the merchants, hotel
Keepers and others at this new ''cty by
the1 lake, is for a closer relationship
with Jack Frost. the present softened
coalition of the roads making travel be-
tween here aGd Tower or Mountain
Iron somewhat slower and more dbl
cult and the receipts of goods from the
different railroad terminals considerably
higher per team load. Under the more
favorable condition of hard roads teams
can haul 5000 pounds from Tower to
Rainy Lake City in about three days.
while when the sun has got in few
days of uninterrupted shining the posi-
bic loads fall off to about 1880 pounds.
A rather unusual incident broke in
upon the routine Of town building the
other morning. when the .'cronk,"
"cronk, 'cronk" Of the avant couriers
of the 1894 tiocks of geese flying north
ward made their appearance. For nearly
ten days the weather has been warm
and almost like early summer, but the
coming of this solitary flock of geese
seems to indicate that the birds have
taken for granted that spring is here.
although the lakes and streams are still
ice bound.
The hauling rate between Tower and
Rainy Lake City is 50 per 100 pounds.
and there are plenty of teams to supply
the demand. On arrival at Tower the
passengers for Rainy Lake City, by
common consent, seem to find their way
TO the Vermilion hotel, where Col. Ed
Bainidge, the hotel proprietor, is always
ready to impart the latest reliable news
about the gold country. The following
little table of distances, which has
never been published anywhere, may
prove of interest to the members of the
exodus" which is daily taking place
from st. Paul and Minneapolis, as well
as the smaller cities OF the state. 1t
applies only to the winter route from
Tower:
Distance
From Tower
Stopping Places. Miles
John Cameron's at head of Lake Yer
John McCane's at Elbow Falls .. 81
Henry Connor's. at junction of Elbow and
Pelican rivers. ......... ................ 80
George Greeks OH Black Duck creek. 49, So
Jack Randolph's on Ash river.......... Y
Rainy Lake CITY w
The charges are very moderate for
| passengers, and the established price is
| 81 for supper, lodging and breakfast at
| all places except Camerpn's, the latter
| cutting the rate to Is cents. At the
| Elbow Falls stopping place there is
| small trading store Kept by Gheen
Brothers; and, by the way, quite a little
| discussion arose near there the other
day between couple of teamsters over
| the whereabouts Of a copy of the Sun
| Or uhjah
about the country for the last couple of
weeks. There were no blows. but con-
! siderable of wordy war. and settle
| ment was obtained by the north-bound
| teamster promising to send the paper
"back from Randolph's!"
| Teams are arriving every day, some.
| times eight or ten teams daily. and from
| now until the opening breakup it will
| be the custom to travel IN caravans in
order that lin case of any mishap) the
I teams may be enabled to help one at.
| other. will give you the established
| water route i'll a future letter, with the
| names Of the landings.
| The Rainy Lake City of today is a
| much different place from what il was
| when | wrote you last. Now dozen or
| more frame buildings are nearly COM
pleted, and fully the same number of
| log structures, and there are about forty
tents pitched. There are four saloons.
| and a very strong prospect that the
| number will be doubled before the close
| of the week.
The asthmatic squeak of the fiddle"
sounds daily from 3 p. IN. to about 8
a. m. in the dance house, and about a
bakers dozen of painted wrecks on
| errors shore" dance or Ogle the con-
| tiding miner or prospector who ventures
| into their log.walled domain. The violin
| will be supplanted later on by piano
| which is daily expected.
| You can get enough food to fill up on
| q don't say mea) for 25 cents here,
and if you get around soon enough you
can get place to spread your blankets
down for 25 cents, or makeshift for a
| bed for so cents. You can get what
courtesy allows to be designated as room
and board from s. to 81 per week, but
| your room Is by no means exclusive, and
where you sleep at night may be the
/ abiding place of the dining table during
the day. There are about 500 people
! here, and there are not TO exceed five q
know of only three bedsteads in the
place. The remainder Of the people
sleep either on hunks or the floor.
The saw mill is here and will De In
running order by the time this reaches
your readers. and the first parts of the
stamp will have arrived at Tower; but
the great bulk of the machinery will
probably be shipped into this place via
the A. Booth lake steamers from Duluth
to Port Arthur: thence, by Canadian
Pacific railroad to Rat Portage. OH Lake
of the Woods. and thence by Rainy
lake steamers to this place. The lakes
| Vermillion, Crane. Namekon and Ka-
betogama steamers will also transport
| considerable freight when the winter
tote road becomes impossible.
The dOubterS who said there was no
gold here are not now to be found with
microscope. The yellow stuff is here,
and it is here in richly paying quanti-
ties, and the extent of the several veins
is practically inexhaustible. New finds
are reported nearly every day, and the
prospect now is that by the time the
stamps are in operation there will be
seventeen mines operated by corpora
tons, as we'll as a number of smaller af-
fairs conducted by individuals. In this
| connection it may be stated that an offer
of 100000 cash has beeu refused for
| piece of thirty-siX acres on Dryweed
! island, where one of the richest finds
has been made. This island is quite ex-