The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-12

The failure of a vessel TO arrive az
it's destination in the fall meant SUI
fering aud high prices. Flour was
dollar a pound and other necessities
of life were proportionately high,
Ia 1867 and 1868 John n Danlelson
teamed the cargo of vessel frozen
i'm at Marquette. to Calumet receN-
ing sl2O per ton for his services. They
made "A round trip each week lie says
the most luxurious nights he ever eN-
Dcricnccd were those spent AT the halI-
way house, where spreading his blan-
ketg on the dirt flooor and with his
! feet toward Il huge fire made 81 ten
/ foot logs drawn I'm 10y horses, with an
opening at the ridge of the ROOF 10
allow the smoke to escape, he rested
from the ardous duties of the day
The trail. afterwards = bride path !
from EAGLE River To ioughton, d.
vcrged from the present county fuau
at Seneca lake, passed through the OLA
| Fulton location, thence along the
lblufrs near the present 81. Louis prop
erty then to what Is now Quincy mill
thence 10 Dollar BAY and Portage
Lake.
The first product of the Calumet
mine was hauled by team TO the Top
of the Franklin incline and stamped
in the Franklin mill, IA hundred teams
being engaged in the traffic ana
: double roadway maintained.
Nearly all the old writer's speak OF
landing at the canal and going over a
trail across the portage to the lake'
thence To the Portage Lake settle
ments. | presume this was because
= all vessels were destined for the west
side of the point and did not so into
Kcweenaw bay.
I'm later da,s when the Portage
,, Lake settlements assumed Importance
y, The vessels anchored in hoWeenaW
y Bay and discharged their carGoes OH
,s scows, which were towcd up the rlNe'
:. there being three feet of water al
!. least, throughout.
D., The Shaw interests were originally
l., in the Huron mines AT Portage Lax
is and ". j. hubert was iheii aStr
or there. Hubert was al, enthusiasts
al lnINoys. and about the time he dlsco\
~ for treating Huron rock by grlhdin'
ne instead Of stamping 1t. raining
no got the directors of the company u
r. auproyc his plans, he placed his Cat
70 umot stock as "A guarantee 'hat III
-, nntbod would be successful. The eX
pertinent proved costly, and coihpie'
ny failure. and his stock was sold 10 re
~ imbursc the company for its loss, thu
rnsyjnr onto the hands of the presti
Inc holders. In 1865 Calumet stock wa
id worth but one dollar per share ana
n probably took u vast number ol si"''
ed. to rccoup these men for even POI
.cd ton Of their losses. In after year
suil was brought against the ne
ro- owners it being attempted to make
a jd appoar that the settlement had II
D. been fairly made After the III
mo-. judgments were all made lin laNor
thc tho new owners, Of tho stock, th
and generously placed Il sufficient numo
nal of shares into the hands oi lfuste'
r,. th, income of which gave MI ii'
Iul bert an income for liieo
Professor AgassE came TO Ca'uh'
M IN tho spring of 1867, to represent l
oy- now owners and lived in the preao
,ge. general managers residence. lie
- manned for two years. He direct
de- the building OF the II. q !. L. ralIN
ous. land the Hecla stamp mill lie u
H., snecial charge of the Hcela nine J.
fac exercised control over the Calun
mine also. It is likely he would
in known in these days as mahasl
i'm director. In 1866 the Hccla mine j
,r,ls been set off from the Calumet III
and given To the Calumet stockhold
,eu- as u stock dividend, the shares be
the valued at 81.
ain The frs, house built on the site
I'm thc nrcscnt village of Red Jacket v
ON ornstcin's corner on Fifth STR
prC- i'm iS5G. The town was incorpora
ppcr in 1874. John Ryan, the copper M
mate. clerked in the Ryan store, WI
the WAS one of the first in the village.
HUI Where the Fashion store now sta
the vn,! "A small building in which
lotcr madam trcnchman of the name
not la, Chapellc, kept a tailor shop'
,aw- varied this vocation with that oil
ncn- doctor ami peddlcd an eye lotion q
ripc. in., his dull season lie afterwa
and moved TO lshpeming ana was kh'
cur as DIR. LaChapcllc. He then mo
,rop- to Butte. where ne died, leaving II II
ocks ilv of children for his wife To
car mort. which she did as many Wol
,ager has done before, by working over
alton ,,nsh Tub one of her daughters
,orgS cited with beautiful voice sen
by Clark assisted in sending her To
Is in rope to complete her musical sd'
ton. Upon the death of his vic
have married his ward He built hci
cula. SO 900. O0o mansion ON Fitth ave
case New York city, over which she
gar presides.
500. Horace Greedy was president oil
there. old Northwest mine at the now !
$ of ware. The cabin in which he i've
was siill standing ana its location Is
cmed posite the superintendent house
o, for the Copper Harbor road.
Il the George Saunders. who bcca'i
ltilizc wei, known politician and rebel
10 re- uathizcr. was agent of the sup
,btain mine west of Copper Harbor
mile. singular fact that the copper cou