The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-06-12
WIDOW OF FISHERMAN
MAY RECEIVE MILLION
Land Settled on Forty Years Ago
is Believed To Be Worth
That Much Now.

Forty years a poor shermaA' :
wife and widow-irearly half a CEN
IT," of the hardsdips tie depr va
q ms and the Loneliness attuda1,
,oa .lc Ives If chose vino draw the.l
liv lih.Od from the Wa. rs, two score
y,ars spent away from ue world il
Il tile f.sang s.Nnty on tle barron
stretches of the southern end CT Lake
NJ Caigan-aud now, the prospect OF
acquir.nT property roughly cst.ma.-
cd US vauOIl at $l,000,00O.
So runs The life story II Mrs. Dru-
LA Carr, of M.l,er's Beach a p.:ch
Of the lake shore four miles east Of
Gary, Ind. A decision is to be hand
ed down in the LePore county SUI
per or Court next month Gil tine ease
regarding squatters' rights. A ruling
favorable TO the claims Of the fish
erman's wife has already been made
IN the lower courts.
1t was early in 1874 that Mrs. Carr,
then q young CIR, came with her
husbail TO the Indiana shore of The
lake. 1t was barren reach Of coun-
try, WA It's ever shifting dunes, us
scrub timber and the inland stretch
ing marsles. nee the last Of the
Pot awattam!es had struck Their wig
vans and moved Westward, years be-
fore ,aL the threatened approach of
the white mans civihzat ion, the land
bordering the water had been desti-
tute of hum;l1 life, and ttIe tiny nut
winch the young couple erected on
the beach was the only hab.tatiOn
for miles.
Carr set his gil nets and drew his
Sc mes for the whitefish and sturgeon
then SO plentiful i'll Southern Lake
NJ Gil gan, and from the fruits Of
his fishing made his living. To mark
ct his catch, ne had to tramp he
changing trails inland TO the village
of AllleIs, then a small cluster of
nuts, which made pretense of being
a town, and from there ship it in to
Chicago. The timber land and marshes
were filled with game and fur-bear.ng
animals, and trapping was an impor-
tant adjunct to the business of earn
ing a living.
AS years went by he aspect of
the lake shore country did not change
much. AS land it was considered
worthless. Even as a place of Aab-
itation it was Stunned, for the storms
sweeping down the lake were a con-
slant menace, and thu sand, shifting
with every wind, piled up until at
times scarcely more than the roof of
the fishing shabby was visible and
the fisherman had to dig his way out.
He still cast his nets, assisted now
by his SONS, and, though the white
Iish aud sturgeon were no longer his
spoil. he continued to market herring
and the smaller fish for his living.
THE land We claimed runs from
the mouth of the Calumet River down
there" said Mrs. Carr, pointing to
the east, ito uhe west bounardy line
a mile down the beach. The mouth
Of the river has been filled in for a
good many years. We never thought
he land would be worth anything,
and it wasn't umkl few years ago.
Then the United States Steel Cor
came and iii built up that
great town. People coming out from
own began TO notice that the beach
along here was the finest along this
)art of phe shore. They wanted to
'ut up little summer cottre 5, and SO
leaser them bits CT Ia ! and they
,ad well for it. Then someone ,h,d
ne that my land was wort4l from
1000 an acre up. couldn't believe |
t. Why, before the steel mills came
'ou couldn't have sold an acre of
his sand for $10."-Chicago News.