Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-06-08
EXPLORING FOR
IRON IN JUNEAU
Continued from Page On7)

out with little effort. This ore is in
contact with the Potsdam sandstone
and is no doubt the same geologicallv
as the bed that made several per-
sons rich at Ironton years ago, when
pigs were worth about $50 per ton
and when the smelted product had
TO be hauled by team over the hills
to Spring Green, Mansion, or Kill
bourn.
About a mile from where the ore
outcrops and on the farm on which
resides the son and family, Mr..
Grover has drilled thirty five feet
through the sandstone and there
struck the ore. He has taken out
samples and reports the assay to be
rich. The exploration is in a deep
valley coursed by a babbling stream.
A number of biologists and men in
terested in iron have visited the Sec
ton in order to obtain, at first hand,
information concerning the discovery.
Railroad not Difficult
Mr.. Grover says a railroad could
EARLY be built from Mautson to the
locality. 1t would be necessary to fol-
low one Of the tributaries of the Lee
monweir to its source, cut through a
narrow ridge of land and enter a
tributary of Big Creek.
The locality is in a thriving COM
munity and with transportation a vii
lage could be established, supporting
a store and other business enterprises
necessary in every neighborhood.
There is much dairying and a road
would give an outlet for butter and
cheese without the necessary long
haul by truck.
Springs on the Hillside
Two mineral springs flow in album
dance from a hillside near where the
drill has gone down to the ore. There
is liberal supply of health-giving
water.
Before the Civil war Mr.. Grover
was connected with the mine at Iron
ton. In those days it was necessary
to make charcoal in order to smelt
the ore and he talks entertainingly
of the process used at that time In
1863 he enlisted in the Union army
at Madison and marched with the
boys in blue until the close of the
conflict. Since then he has resided
in Seven Mile Creek, the town where
the ore is located, with the exception
of about thirteen years near La Vale
In the early days there was heavy
timber on all the hills and in the
valleys of Seven Mile Creek and he
operated a number Of saw mills from
time 10 time, reducing the forests to
useful lumber
Interesting Region
The region where Mr.. Grover has
spent much of his life is not with
out interest. The streams have been
gnawing at the hillsides and cutting
deeper in the valleys ever since the
Niagra period in geology. The Ice
King never rode over the land, most
biologists believe, on his mass-mov-
ing, almost imperceptible creeping
glacier, leveling down the hills and
filling the ravines as in the eastern
part of Sank county Had the ice
moved over the land it would have
ground up the soil and showed the
hilltops into the valleys but that
would have taken away much of the
picturesqueness of the region.
The Grover farm IS near the water
shed between branch of the Lemon
sin, and Big Creek which has its con-
fluence with the Baraboo not far from
La Vale 1t is the upland region of
that portion of the country and is
gained by means of winding roads up
the ascending slopes.
Brooks With Waterfalls
Through these valleys dashes fern |
embroidered and timbeE-shaded |
brooks which have been the primal !
engineers and without whose aid no |
roads could have wound about the |
pretty ravines. Some of the brooks !
are full of waterfalls and many of i
the falls are duplicated by thank /
you marms in the highways, places |
made to prevent the water from ero- |
ding the roads and providing places |
for teams TO rest when the wheels /
of a vehicle settle into the little /
hollows.
Care travel these roads. too, and /
Often in the deep woods one gets the |
smell of wild flowers and hears the !
kindly note of some timid warbler |
which does not frequent the open. AS |
M. c. Crandall, Mr.. Grover and the |
writer were quietly going up a little |
valley were a rural road roamed. a |
scarlet tanager gave color to the lux
uriant verdure. He was spending his |
summer is a veritable paradise of /
trilliums, white and purple. They |
grew unrestrainedly as dandelions on |
an abandoned lawn, every wake-rob-
in being a queen CT beauty and max