The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-21

hard and all had hard Struggle
to live. I cut cord wood and
delivered it at Stones dock for
So a cord. We also cut cedar
poles and ties. Many people
moved away because of the hard
times.
We now built another boat, a
scow schooner, of only % tons
burden. We traded up and down
the north and south shores and
went as far as the copper country
in Michigan. In the winters, we
worked in the woods.
In the summer of 1878, Thomas
Sandilands and I bought and
operated the tug John Martin.
We kept her three years and
then sold her to Tim Daugherty.
We then explored in summer and
logged in winter.
Some incidents out Of their
chronological order may be OF in
terest, especially as to the great
changes in transportation. In the
fall of 1862, my father moved the
family of E. S. Ely from Oneota
to St. Paul. The round trip took
him four weeks. In the summer
of 1863, I drove a yoke of oxen
from Superior to St. Paul. Mr..
E. G. Swanstrom drove another
yoke of oxen with me. We moved
family named Gronowold from
Oneota. From what is now Forty
fifth avenue W., there was no
road at all. We drove the oxen
without their yokes singly, over
trail to Rice's Point. 1t then
was covered with Norway pine,
white birch and BURBERRY bushes.
At the end Of the Point we drove
the oxen into the water and
swan them to Corners Point.
We then had to walk them down
the beach for two miles before
we got the road. The household
goods were taken over in scow.
The trip to St. Paul and back
took thirty days.
mound on the end Of Corners
Point perfectly round and fully
forty feet high. From it's sum-
NIT you could look over the tree
tops. It was covered with small
Norway pines and hazel brush. 1t
was there in perfect shape IN
1865 but, later, winds and waves
washed it away.
There were two islands in the
Duluth-Superior bay half way be-
tween Rice's Point and the Du-
luth ship canal. They were
marshy, with quite a number of
tamarack trees growing on them.
After the canal was built, the
swells from the lake loosened up
the islands, broke them loose
and, after floating around the
bay for a time, finally sailed out
of the canal into the lake.
About half way from the end
of Connor's Point to Quebec
Pier at Superior was Vincent
Roy's place. This was the old
site of the trading post men,
toned by General Cass in his
first visit to Fond du Lac in
1920. The old stockade could be
traced in 1856.
General Cass told of seeing the
Bungo family, the father Of
which was a West Indian negro
slave, brought out and owned by
a Hudson's Bay Company officer.
The wife was a Chippewa squaw.
There was a large family of chill
dren. Stephen Bungo, one of the
boys, was born in what now is
Superior, in 1893. He often told
me that he and George Morrison,
a half breed, were the two first
white children born in Superior.
Bungo usually visited us twice
a year, staying four or five days
each time. On one of his trips he
was quite excited because some
one had called him a liar when
he stated that he had seen Robert
Fulton's steamboat on the Hud-
son river in about the year 1915.
He had noticed that we had an
encyclopedia and said to us: 81
want you to look it up and give
me the page and I'll show those
gentlemen that Bungo is not a
liar"
Once, when Bungo was on the
Brule river, some Superior men
stole all his chickens. Bungo
was noted for his politeness and,
going to their camp, he said:
Excuse me, gentlemen, Chip
pewa is my native language, but
some of you gentlemen have
stolen all Of my chickens" He
was we'll paid for his fowls.
He was over 80 years old when
he died. He is buried in Superior
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