Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
NUMBER II.

I over, Sarah said, ssthere Is some one
10 the parlor that wants TO see you.
When | went found an old friend o
mine from the Valley and q woebegone
home sick man never saw. He came
on Tuesday to see all the sights. the
exposition aud the fair. But being q
total stranger in the city. knowing nc
one. saw all strangefaees- 10 all thai
great city not face that ne had ever
seen before. / did not wonder at it,
Ny friend bad reached there just few
| minutes before I did. He said he
wanted to stay until morning aud he
was going home. He bad not had q
bit of sleep since he came to the city
and was tired and sleepy. Could he
stay? They told him he could stay,
and when supper was ready and Mrs.
Martin. who is a jolly soul, and the
girls cheered him up. and he had had
good nights rest, he felt like auolh-
er man entirely. o. what healer
of all our woes and troubles is woman,
to bind up the brokeu-hearted aud wipe
the uuhidden tear away-yes. her
name is woman.
among the saw mills. all along the
railroad, have seen so many long logs
and train loads of these logs, have
wondered where all those logs went to
and for what use. As came in sight
of the river at Riverside. on our way
up to the city, saw on the east side
of the river long rows of those long
logs driven in the sand few feet apart
from the bank on the east side to the
waters edge, and more than half of
the river bed was now built up with
sand and in few years that part will
be as high as the river bottom, aud
covered with thick growth of young
cotton wood. Some of the way there
would be two rows, or rather double
row. When high water come, those
post fences catch all of the drift aud
floating trees and make dam. That
throws all of the water to the west
side and cuts the channel deeper, so
the large boats can come up the river
in low water. saw some very large
boats coming up the river loaded with
passengers. fleeing from the yellow
fever districts. and the river is said to
be very low. But for the work that
has been done to narrow the channel
and deepen the river, no boat could
come up the river at the present time.
/ saw a dredge-boat pumping up sand
on one of the bars and that sand was
carried in great iron pipes way over
to the Illinois side, and in few
years Illinois viii have added to her
dc nf ~ In 4laN
had belonged to the State of Missouri. |
While Missouri will get the river, IL |
linois will get the land. saw hun
dreds and hundreds of acres of corn
over on the bottoms that in June were
all under water. Some of that corn
looked quite green. You see that
made land is all sand aud in few |
hours after the water sinks out OF |
sight, you can plough and plant.
The people that own those fields /
don't care for the high waters If it will |
get off by June. They can make a
crop any way. In the early days the
Indians would come and plant corn.
beans and water melons on the sand |
bars, then move back into the country |
TO hunt until the corn and other things |
had grown. Then they would return
and hold the corn feasts and gather
the crops and feast on the watermel-
pms, roasting-ears and succotash. o,
those were good old times they had at
the annual corn feasts, when all the
tribes met and bad their corn dinners. |
When / was boy often read of those
times and would wish | was an Indian.
Well, / must stop for this time. My
head is getting crazy. 7. P. r.