The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-10-24
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken from St. Paul Papers of
Forty Years Ago.

This community has been shocked
a the barbarous and inhuman treat
ment of family of colored people,
several members of which were
attacked by smallpox. They had
been living in small shanty in
upper town, and were ordered by
the chief of police to move. The
board of health was advised of their
pltlable condition, but offered no
aid whatever. They were forced to
leave town, and for several days and
nights have been lying out on the
prairies, near the Lake Como road,
houseless, shelterless, hungry, sick
and dying. These are the naked
facts, and greater case of hard
ship, brutality and wickedness has
never been laid at the door of any
set of incompetent officials. Thou
sands of dollars have been spent
this summer in erecting buildings at
Red Rock for quarantine purposes.
1t is shameful, positively shocking,
to every feeling of humanity that
those unfortunates have been al
lowed to lie out upon the grass
exposed to the weather when there
are Well-paid officials to look aftor
their welfare.
Work has begun on the western
portion of the Sioux City St. Paul
road.
Mr.. Merrill, well-known to the
citizens of St. Paul as a man of
great experience in testing gold and
silver ores in Montana the past four
years, has been for some time in
vestigating the mines at Vermillion
lake, and he expresses his surprise
at finding Montana over again in
Minnesota, so nearly does it resem-
BILE that country. He finds the gran
lite and talcose formations identical,
corresponding in quality and appear
ance, together with all essential
geological features. The best evil
dence of Mr.. Merrill's appreciation
of the value of the mines is found in
the fact that he has taken a large
number of claims for himself and
his friends.
The Madison, Wis, journal, in
abiding to the enthusiastic meeting
at Ingersoll's hall, at which Capt. c.
K. Davis spoke, says: "Cush is a
Wisconsin boy and will make bit
one of these days." We wish to
inform the Journal that Cush has
already made his mark, and the
people of Ramsey county intend that
he shall continue to mark up during
the next session of the legislature.
According to the Forthcoming re-
port of Secretary McCulloch, the
receipts of the United States for the
fiscal year will be $3.50, 039, 500, and
the expenditures of the government
for the same period, $518, 347 1897.
The highest expenditures for one
year before the war never exceeded
$60,O00,00O. What a rapid stride!
George Washington, H m lton.
Adams and Jefferson would have
been amazed at the idea of their
simple Republican government cost
ing this enormous sum.
Encouraging news has been re-
ceived from the Vermillion lake gold
region. Some of the veins have
been opened to a depth of twenty
three feet. The quartz appears
richer the farther down the veins
are opened. Considerable machin-
cry will be taken into the mines
next winter. That is the only sea-
son when heavy machinery can be
transported over the road. A new
mining region, some fifty miles
northwest of Vermillion lake. has
been discovered, and explored by a
small party of miners. The place is
near Bots Blanc lake Tor Eastwood
lake,, on the boundary line. A vein
Of silver ore has been found there
which it is believed will yield several
thousand dollars per ton.
Brick" Pomeroy, who visited