Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-10-27


ing party and the former oaptives
started back, thew voyaged down the
Mississippi to the Wisconsin river,
ana thence 10 that stream and over
portaaes to Green Bay. For this
journey the chief of tho Isanti tribe
traced the route on paper and
marked it's portages, this beng pro.
badly the sarliet mapping of any
Three years afterward. In 1853,
Pierre Charles LeSueur came to lake
Pepin and the Mississippi by this
canoe route Of the Wisconsin river,
for fur trading; and at some time
within the next few years he made Q
canoe trip Of exploration up the Mis-
sissippi to the neighborhood of Sandy
lake. He was one of the witnesses.
In 1850. of the ceremonious procl anna
ti0n of Nicol Perrot. at his Fort St.
Antoine on the east shore of lake
Pepin, claiming for the monarch of
France all the country of this upper
Mississippi basin. In the spring of
1895 LIE Sueur established q trading
post on Prairie island: but In the
summer of the same year he returned
to Quebec, and thence the next year
ne sailed TO france
LeSueur had discovered mineral
wealth. rs he enormously thought. In
q blue or green earth which the Sioux
d1g from the rock bluffs of the Blue
Ear tn river few miles from Its juno
ton with the Minnesota river. near
Mankato. The Sioux ueed this earth
as pant. but LeSueur thought it to
be an ore Of copper. he. submitted
the supposed ore to Ona of the kings
assayeIs. secured a royal commission
to mine it, and. after surmounting
various obstacles. came over from
France with q party of thirty min
era, landing at Biloxi. near the
mouth of the Mississippi, In Decem-
ber. 1899. He voyaged mp the Missis-
sippi, and spent the winter of 1900
1901 on the Bloc Earth river, where
he arrived the hrst day of October. A
fort was built. and for the susEenance
of the large company of miners. with
French traders who came to them,
and visiting savages. they hunted
down and slaughtered four hundred
buffaloes at the beginning OF the win
ter. and kept the meat frozen. In
April, 1901, with the opening of
q ring, the miners took out fully &c..
O0O pounds of the Supposed copper ore.
of which, under LeSueur's direction
they selected four Thousand pounds
to be carried to the fort This guam
tity was taken down the Mississippi
and despatched to France, but no
further record of it Is known. LIE
Sueur at the time sailed again to
France, and died on his voyage to
Louisiana, or not long after his arriv
al.
The next and last noted explorer en-
the upper Mississippi, previous to
Pike, was Captain Jonathan Carver.
Indeed, with the exception of Veren-
orye and his sons, who were pioneers
of the fur trade along our northern
boundary and in Manitoba. In the
year 1881 and onward. and also ex.
cepting, at later dates, Alexander
Henry and his nephew of the same
name, Sir Alexander Mackenzie. and
David Thompson, all of whom ira.
versed chiefly our northern border. be-
You'd the Mississippi basin. Carver
was the only very noteworthy explorer
and writer who came into the limits
of Minnesota during the eighteenth
century. In the year 1895 he travled
from Boston to Minnesots, coming up
the Mississippi from Prairie du Chien
to the sites Of St. Paul and Fort Smell.
ling, and thence went up the Mime
sofa river and spent the winter among
the Dakota Indians near the site of
New Ulm.
Thus We have very briefly reviewed
the history of explorations OF the up.
per Mississippi, within the area of
by Lieutenant Pike, and
by those who came after him, and by
the much earlier discoveries who pre-.
coded MIN.
Only within the last two thirds of
a century, Since Il few Swiss and
Scotch farmers came from the Selkirk
colony to settle near Fort Smelling
and in the vicinity of the present
city of st. Paul. have real s.ttle.
ments for agriculture and home MAX
ing succeeded the long continued but
always sparse occupation of this re-
gion by the fur traders and voyageurs.
Within the memory If men still iv-
ing, as of the zeal historian of your
city and comfy. Nathan Richal dson.
the we'll cultivated farms Ut all this
county have been made. and the PROS
porous industries of this city, partly
utilizing the water power of the Great
River, have sprung up. The city of
Little Falls, its homes, schools, and
Oh urches, its railroads, mills. and fac
tories. have grown from the wilder
ness of fifty years ago.
What shall be their future progress,
as tho next century speeds away with
the proverbially swift flight Of time.
onlv the energy. esrnestness, and no
bio purpose Of the present citizens,
aud # their cLildl en- and their clill.
ren's, children. under the leading of
the same benetcent Providence which
planted these homes and these indus
trial. social, and religious institutions,
shall decide. Let us treasure all the
of record and examples re-
ceived from the Past; let % act we'll
our part in the ivingPresent :and then
shall We transmit that Inheritance,
unimpsired and increased, to the Fu-
ture.
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