The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-04-25
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Pleasure and Health.

John johnson, one of Milwaukee's leading
fnanciers, says in the Journal
You ask me to write something
about northern Wisconsin, but what
can I say? I never cut down tree,
I never turned a spadefuli of dirt,
I never dug pound of ore in north
ern Wisconsin, yet know that it is
land where the deer and trout
abound, and any territory where the
deer and trout thrive is, think,
good place for men and sheep.
Geoiogically. the Lake Superior
region is the oldest soil upon the
globe While the balance of this
earth lay under it's primeval waters
the shores of Lake Superior were
dry land.
What a country it is to take an
outing in! To breathe air of the
pinesl What a country to sleep in
with nothing but canvas between
YOU and the blue vault of heaven!
Driving along we come upon lake
after lake, one after another taking
you by surprise, changing as they
do in shape and environment.
Biologists tell us there is no other
region of equal area in North Ameri
ca east of the great Cordilleras, that
SURPRISES northern Wisconsin in
geological interest, whether we con-
slider the magnitude of the form
ations involved, the difficulties of the
problems offered for solution, or the
unique character of one of it's great
rock systems. Moreover, there is
none which has been so inadequately
studied. We have here, in a region
containing some 10000 square miles,
to deal with series of strata
measuring probably 100000 feet in
thickness and including four great
systems, each uncomfortable with
regard to its predecessor, the Laur-
entian, Huronian, Keweenawan and
Lower Silurian.
There appears to be great varie-
ty of soil. | understand that the
wise men who cultivate it classify it
under four different heads: The red
marty clay soil, cold and heavy, not
very good for agriculture, but a
most excellent soil for grass; the
loamy soil which contains more sand
and more decomposed vegetable
matter than the marty clay soil, and
IS in every way superior and makes
fine farms; the sandy soil known as
tho "barrens" of Bayfield, and Doug
las counties, which is of poor quality
and covered with a scant growth of
scrub pines, yet not few farms
have been located even on this soil;
and the humus soil, of a swampy
character; covered with white cedar
tamarack and spruce, which l pre-
dict will eventually be of great agri-
cultural value when it is drained.
There is not a vast variety of
animal life in northern Wisconsin.
There are the deer, brown bear por-
cupine, wood-chuck, squirrel, beaver
otter, mink, fisher and marten. The
only game birds in any numbers is
the ruffed grouse or partridge. One
can travel for a day throughout the
woods without seeing single bird.
The water is soft and the smaller
streams pure and cool and abound
ing, as I have said before, with
trout.
It is an ideal land for those who
desire to shake off the dust of the
city and enjoy quiet, bracing, life
giving retreat.
You need not look through any
great vista of years to see northern
Wisconsin populous and prosper
Gus region.
A Sensible View.
The passage of the Puerto Rican
bill is an excellent solution of the
difficulty 1t will promote revival
of business, it will provide revenues
without taxing property. and it