The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-08-18

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was concealed in the bushes, he discovered
a hobo come into the garden and com
mencc to help himself to everything he
wanted. After he had loaded up and was
about to depart, the parson fired off his
revolver in the air. The hobo dropped
his load md as he lit out for Fargo. the
dominic fired another volley. Faster and
faster went the early visitor until he was
a mere sp-ck on the southern horizon.
Since then the garden of Rev. Marine has
not been disturbed.
Where he is Now.
Communicated)
EDITOR PIONEER: After a long and
wearisome trip, we find ourselves at Fort
Francis, Ontario, after travelling a dis
lance of three hundred and fifty miles by
land and one hundred and twenty by wat
err. Thinking that the experience of our
trip might be of interest to my friends and
neighbors in Bottineau. I think the only
safe way to reach them soon, is to write to
you, hoping you can give me space in your
columns to tell how l have seen things
since leaving Bottineau.
Arriving in Grand Forks the following
Monday after leaving Bottineau, we began
making inquiries for a route. and hap
pened unlucky enough to find Stephen
Collins and another gentleman who had
been there, who directed us to Warren,
on the Crooks.on & St:'.Vincent line of
the Great Northern. l say unlncky be-
cause the trip has been an unlucky one
for US all, and myself in'particular. From
Warren we went north and east, through
a sandy and scrubby country, through
Marshall and Roseau counties of Mime
sofa, with swamps or marshes N either
side of us which seemed to be settled with
foreigners that we could not understand
or make understand us, until we came to a
little town called Jadis, situated on the
Roseau River, in the county of the same
name, about thirty miles from the Lake
of the Woods, which we reached after a
long drive over roots. stumps, corduroys
swamps and rivers, when we found our
al LC uAOulh " kAC d"lodu 1NiNCt
where there is an Indian village of the
same name as the Chippewa tribe. After
waiting sixty-6ve hours, we loaded our
stuff on a barge and got on the the boat
and had the novelty Of seeing a storm ON
the lake, and were furnished amusement
at the expense of those who got seasick.
After reaching the mouth Of Rainy River.
we were put ashore at a fishing station on
a sand point to wait for another boat to
take us up the river. We had to remain
on the sand point from Wednesday even
ing till Sunday morning, when we got
aboard again and got about half way up
the river, when we we're again hung up
below the first rapids on account of logs
floating down the river to the boom. AT
ter a delay of twenty-four hours, we start
again, procuring an Indian pilot and reach
Fort Francis at four o'clock Tuesday
morning, August 9TH, when we unloaded.
After unloading, l took another boat above
the rapids and took a trip up the river and
across the Lake to Rainy Lake City where
they have a stamp mill that turns out $40
worth of gold per day. The mill is only
a small one. AS to the country we passed
through. we saw some good crops and
some very poor. Around Churches Ferry
they were good, also at McCanna and
north of Grand Forks, on the Minnesota
side of the Red River. for twelve miles.
Rainy River is beautiful. There are lots
of little streams running into it and the
scenery on both sides is nice, although
there is more improvement on the Canad-
ian side, but for country to make a home
in, I do not like it myself. The kind of
people his country needs is the sturdy
pioneer with lots of muscle and no lazi-
ness. The timber is small with a growth
OF very thick underbrush along the river.
Rainy Lake, as nature has left it, is the
most beautiful scenery l ever saw. The
lake is as smooth as glass and studded
with innumsrable islands. Fort Francis
is beautifully situated on the river, about
q IAiiiC dIu d udll AIOll us SOURCE, WITH q
grand water power if only utilized, having
a fall of twenty-three feet in about two
hundred. Across the river is Couchich-
ing. a new town just starting. There are
three new buildings and quite a lot of
tents. AS for work, there is no such thing
to be had for wages, except an occasional
chance on a boat or at the fisheries, which
are not working it being out of season un-
til the last Of this month. When it freezes
up, there will be numbering but wages will
be small. l have described this country
as far as I see it and have just a few of
my ideas in words. l have made a bad
mistake in coming to Rainy River. and
would advise any of my friends who may
have the Rainy River fever" to come and
see for themselves before bringing fami-
lies-o stock, for have not found it at
~tractive enough to Eeep me any longer
than l am obliged to say. With best
wishes to all who NAV take interest enough
II my s~taNt 10 read it, | rtnNn AS ever,
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