Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23

Local news. July Is, 1857: There will
be meeting at the Forest House on
the 18th, for the purpose of forming an
agricultural society,"" DR.. d. B. Wylie
has purchased "a foot lot on Main
street where he designs building store;
VIM. Beers, Jr.. left Wausau with a
fleet, six RATS and a crew of II men, on
June 18th and arrived in st. Louis on
July Sth.
Local news of July Goth, 1857: That
+. Gudsole was building a boarding
house on Washington ST., the work be-
ing done by john and Robert Dobbie;
That COL Shutter is building residence
on north Main ST.; that arrangements
are being made to have saloons closed
from Saturday nights until Monday
mornings; that the partnership between
Jacob Paff and B. Williams has been
dissolved; that several loads of German
families passed through the village the
other day. They will settle in the county.
Many more families are expected to
arrive before fall.
In the issue of July Goth, 1857, Levi
Fleming writes a letter telling of his
trip to lake Superior; the various port
ages made; description of the country
and an estimate of the cost of COM
plete road to Ontonagon. In brief, Mr..
Fleming said: Left Wausau on the 90 of
May, 1857, with one man, taking L!
bushels of mail and provisions for inc
trip, in birch bark canoe. Poled and
padded from Wausau to Jenny Bull
Falls; portrayed and kept on in the same
way 10 Grand Father Bull rapids; here
was the longest and most tedious port
age of sill, one and II miles in length,
in which distance there is fall of 125
feet. Along the river banks at this
place, is site for manufacturing city.
The water power is almost sufficient to
turn the world" None of it has yet
been improved; the country around is
good for farming and there is great
plenty OF pine; the next portage was at
lO-mile rapids; John Hanchen, Mr.
Fleming's assistant, became lost, and
it was three days before start was
made again by Mr.. Fleming, and he
was enabled to go by the help of other
men going his way. Hanchen finally
reached the settlement below and
reached home all right. Hat and Pub
lican rapids were portrayed aud IS miles
further on he reached Eagle lake. The
river is very crooked above the rapids
and in one place there is bend of
about 20 miles around and six miles
across. At Eagle is the best region of
pine timber in Wisconsin. 1t is large
and stands thick and there is no limit
to the quantity. Mr.. Fleming left ais
canoe at Eagle lake and had to go OF
alone from there, distance of nearly
80 miles to Ontonagon, taking only a
part of the mail. He tells of going along
banks of beautiful streams and lakes
and finally reaching Lake Vieux Desert,
the head waters of the Wisconsin river,
and then to White Beaver lake which
waters drain northward He reached
Ontonagon, June 8th. He returned
after the balance of the mail and reached
Eagle lake on the 18th. The quantity
of mail left, was sufficient for three
packers to carry, and the way he man
aged it was to take all he could at one
time, go few miles, unload and cover
il up with bark to protect it from rain.
and then go back after another ,oad.
Ia this way it took him 10 days to carry
everything into Ontonagon. But few
Indians were seen on the route
Mosquitoes were very troublesome and
there was much rain. Nine-tenths of
all the land between Wausau and Super
ior is valuable for farming and the pine
inexhaustible. In 1851 the people of
Ontonagon started to build a road