Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-07-02
LANCASTER BOYS IN CAMP.
BROKER AND TOM ORION AWAY Up
NORTH.

RIVER, Wis. June 2ath.
DEAR TONY: As per promise | write
you of our trials. tribulations and adj
ventures since leaving Lancaster. As
YOU vel know we left Lancaster on
the morning of the Path inst, putting
in the night at Milwaukee, where we
purchased fishing tackle. over-alls,
drugs. etc. Iet me say right here
that the articles under the name OF
drugs. etc, are important things to
have on such fishing trip as now
stands before us-lot O. things in case
of heart failure. also little something
pleasant for Brookens in case OF a
snake bite.)
We left Milwaukee on the oslo
train in the morning and after going
through the moss-measley country
under the American flag. landed or
was unloaded rather at Eagle River
about the middle of the afternoon. We
noticed coming that the country about
rs miles north of Milwaukee up was
very poor, fiat sandy soil and where
the pine has been cut off nothing but
!, wilderness of underbrush, stumps,
small spruce and large and small
boulders-the boulders in some spots.
where some poor devil has tried to
open up farm. being so thick that
YOU could start at one end of the field
and step from one granite rock to an
other the full length without stepping
on soil mighty poor show for
your COW to get living and give all
cream, as you claim yours does. but
lust the same we noticed that num-
Der OF cows were existing on what
little soil there was. but maybe not all
cream COWS like yours. Tony.
There was one redeeming feature
about the country. and to Us it seemed
the only one, and that was the beauti-
full lakes of water which are so thicklv
studded throughout the northern por-
ton of Wisconsin. The fisherman's
paradise. surely 1t seems as though
nature intended nothing but fish and
pine should exist and now the pine
being about all cut it is all fish. All,
Touyl How you would enjoy what
Brookens and Fuzzy are now having
Il bite Of, right now. for George has
Just came into the tent as | write
with IL! pound piekerel BY the gills
having caught it with No. z Skinner
spoon But | am ahead of my story
let me see; we had just got to eagle
River That night and the next morn
ing we had to put up at the hotel
until we could get turned around. We
were .'taken in.n by the way more
ways than one At the Tourists Home
we had strawberry short-cake for a
change. Ny piece had two very small
wild straw berries on at least; thought
they were wild they being so very,
very small. George asked for broiled
while fish. wanting to get his mouth
in ORDER for fish, and was dished up
salt white fish direct from Chicago,
(65c per klt.) Ye Gods and little
fishesl just think of putting up salt
fish for breakfast in such fish country
as this
As you well know. Tony, we shipped
up the main part of our boating out
fit by rail. We went 70 the saw mill
and purchased enough lumber to make
top or box which rides on top of the
tubes made out Of canvass. Another
thing we noted was that lumber up
here where they make it was just as
high as in Lancaster. we paying at
the rate of $23 per thousand fora very
poor quality Of flooring. Brookens
soon had the top made. making it
while laid in stock of bread, lard,
canned stuff. butter, etc The butter
was not as good as it might be al
though the butcher told us it was
No. /. having come from New London,
Wis. OF course the name made the
butter good. as | have found to my
cost at home. See Baxter & Draper
as to what mean.
Everything being ready we loaded
up and launched the Rosy Ann and
with many cautions one to the other
set forward on our way to the lakes
s, 18th OF Eagle River. We found when
everything was loaded we were pretty
well down in the water but the Rosy
Ann was built 80 staunct by George
we had no fears of sinking although