The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-04-12
PAINT, GOLD And RAILROADS
There Is Heap Talk on
the Latter.
The Cargill Bros. Backing the
prospeCtOrs.

1t is becoming more certain every
day that the McKinleys, in drilling
for coal, came across some valuable
mineral, just what kind they do not
propose to let the public know, prob
ably with the hopes that they will
eventually be able to gobble up the
land.
This conclusion is confirmed by the
prospectors, O. Hedlund and j. E.
Stowell, who have been operating
around Redwood Falls for the past
three weeks, and remaining here even
up to the present time, leaving in a
carriage in early morning, taking
their lunch with them, and returning
late at night.
1t is even more strongly confirmed
by the confession on the part of all
parties interested that Mr.. Stowell
has secured the right from both R.W.
Clough and Frank Clough to prospect
on their lands in the northern part of
the city limits up to June 1st, with
the option of buying the same at that
time, the stipulated price being $1OO
per acre. The lease and option covers
12O acres of land owned by R. w.
Clough and quarter section of land,
Immediately adjoining it owned by
Frank Clough. Both tracts come up
to the Redwood river on the south,
and the tract of R. w. C]ough con-
tains the now well-known Redwood
paint mines. which has attracted more
or less attention during the past twen-
ty-fve years, and before that by the
dusky inhabitant of the forest, who
used it for war paint. Mr.. Stowell,
who appears to represent a Minneap-
oils syndicate, has been negotiating
with Fred J. Peabody during the past
week with q view to securing q similar
lease and option on that gentleman's
tract, joining the Clough farm on the
west, but so far has been unable to
enter into any successful negotiations,
Mr.. Peabody fearing that a valuable
lode might have been discovered, and
he prefers to find and work it himself.
Mr.. Stowell is also attempting to Sc
cure leases of other lands in the Min
nesota and Redwood river bottoms.
Farmers should not hesitate to give
them an opportunity to prospect,
where fair offer is made, as it is on
ly by such men that the mineral
wealth of this section will be ascer-
tanned.
In the interview with Mr.. Hedlund
a week ago last Sunday that celebrat-
ed prospector and discoverer of rich
lodes, limited that if Mr.. Stowell and
he we're found in this city on the fol-
lowing Saturday it would be safe to
say that they had found some valu-
able deposit. At that time Mr.. Stow
ell was in Minneapolis, with some
mineral specimen, and having the
same assayed by leading Mime
apolis assayer. He returned to Red
wood Falls on the following Tuesday,
and at once commenced to negotiate
for leases and options, and the two
men are in Redwood Falls at the
present time, and consequently they
must have struck something.
1t IS not the paint mines that they
are after. They admit that there is an
inexhaustible supply of this article on
the Clough property, but they are
quite sure that there is something
there much more valuable. What
this particular mineral is, of course,
they do not propose to make public
just at present. Quite number of
people, who haye had some expert
ence, and been with others, prospect
ing along the bluffs below the Clough