The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-07-04

cry IN the United States. The -four
manufactured BY tie City mill has
always stood among the highest in.
the market. Fifty thousand feet of
lumber have already gone fol Yard
for its construction
The claim owners at Eermillion
e are daily growing more en-
thusiastic as their work progresses.
a report from there says daily
assays made on the spot are showing
not only magnificent fissure veins
and lodes,. containing gold averaging
$50 to the ton Of ore, and silver
ores yielding from 500 to S., 700
per ton, with the finest prospects Of
rich yields. There is not a claim
yet duly Investigated and tested
that can be bought at any price.
There are hundreds Of tons Of both
gold and silver ores already thrown
out.
The reports Of quartz blasting
reverberate thru the hills and noun
tains like artillery on an extended
battle field. The Vermillion Falls
company have already taken out
over a hundred tons of ore from
their silver lode, which yields 500
to the ton Of 1000 pounds. A New
York company, under the leader
ship of Mr.. Simonds, St. Paul's big
ice dealer, has erected saw mill on
Pine island, and are running on a
large scale. This, with the Yer
million Falls company's mill, which
is in full operation, will be able to
supply all the lumber needed. The
road between the lake and Duluth
is in good condition for pedestrians.
Quartz from the mines on Ely island
is also showing an increasing rich
ness at each assay. Major Newson
is back at the mines, after visit to
St. Paul, and is one of the busiest
and happiest men there. The mem
bers of his Mutual company are all
on the high road to great riches.
An excursion party of about fifty !
from Eau Claire, Wis, came
sailing into this port yesterday
on the handsome little
steamer, Cutter. She was decorated
from fore to aft with evergreens,
with flags and streamers floating to
the breeze, and keeping time to the
stirring music of a fine brass band.
They start on their return trip to-
morning.
An era of great prosperity has set
in after the long years Of depres-
sion caused by the war, and St. Paul
is preparing to count itself among
the solid cities of the land. Two
hotels are now in course
Of completion the Park Place and
the enlarged Merchants hotel "a
splendid opera house is rapidly as
its huge proportions on Wa
basha, between Third and Fourth
streets; several fine churches are E
going up (St. Mary's and Christ
grain elevator and freight
lepots will soon be ready to accom-
modate the rapidly increasing de-
mands of commerce and trade; bust
ness blocks of rare beauty and
solidity are rising on every square,
and superb residences are multiply
ng in every direction.
Every man, woman and child in
superior city has gold on the brain.
Merchants are closing their stores,
farmers leaving their work, and
business generally is at standstill.
The cause of all this is the discovery
# large placer or gulch diggings on
he Whiteface river. People from
here say it exceeds anything they
ever knew as to richness. The en-
ire population of Superior seems to
lave started for there.
The last Of the volunteer troops
n this department were mustered
'ut yesterday. Five years ago the
POSTS in this district were first gar
'isoned with volunteers who took
he places of the regular troops
south.
A number Of our nimrods are