Year: 1859

tho Ashhei hhu are growing repioly Inc


next place Of Importance at the end Of oui
route, Milwaukee, is lovely city Of some


fifteen thousand inhabitanta 1t is acknowl,
edged to be one Of the best built towns in
the west IL is situated on high elevation
of gradual ascent, the junction Of the Mil
wsukie river and the Lake, and looks beau ,
tiful from the Lake. 1t is called "the city Of
bricks" from the fact that the clay around
the city makes the handsomest brick ia the
Union. They are Of lyelow cast and
make up handsome without paint.


The Quincy Stone Custom House, in
charge Of Collector ClasOn, formerly of
the Dayton Empire, is much larger and
handsomer than that at Cincinnati. Through
the politeness of Mr.. Q. we had fine view
Of the city from the top Of the Custom House.
The Newhall Hotel is said to be the largest
house in the west, and they boast of having
the largest hardware establishment.


We should like to have fingered longer in
Milwaukee, but the hour Of 3 soon arrived
and we returned to Chicago, eighty five
miles, at half past 7 in the evening,


This evening we have taken another glance
at the elephant We find he is seven miles
long on the Michigan shore, and three and
a quarter miles broad. He is only
about twenty-five years old, and if he
grows as fast for the next twenty FIVE years
as he has the last twelve. il is supposed that
he will contain population Of Eve hundred
thousand A warehouse 10 here to be found
that will hold seven hundred thousand bush
els Of wheat from which . vessel may secure
cargo of ten thousand bushels in one hour.
This house is owned by Sturges & Bucking.
ham, late Of Ohio and is built on made
ground in the Lake. Ii is two hundred feet
long and one hundred feet wide, FIVE stories
high, Of white stone or marble, procured
near Joliet The foundation cost thirty thou.
sand dollars and tho whole building three
hundred and fifty thousand. Near this house
they were filling up the Lake with dirt
brought from vessel in wheelbarrows. II
reminded us of the ants in the mole hill, but
in this way they make moro ground The
amount of grain purchased in Chicago last
year-a poor one-was twenty one million
bushels and the State will soon produce, in
good seasons, one hundred million of BUSH
els yearly.


The first cargo Of corn was shipped from
Chicago in lS47. Now it is the greatest corn
market in the world. Lumber and Beef are
the next two great staples shipped from and
to Chicago. -Four hundred and fifty seven
million feet OF lumber was sold last year.
1t is also the greatest lumber market in the
world, and always will be, as the vessels
loaded with grain down the Lake can return
with load of lumber at cheap freights from
Michigan. The amount Of beef packed here
is enormous, but have no means Of ascer-
tanning the sum total White Stone of most
excellent quality is procured by Canal some
miles south of the city. The Quarry covers
an area Of fifty miles OF unknown thickness,
and Of course is inexhaustible. Stone coal
in abundance, good quality, is procured one
hundred miles south, but the most of the
coal is brought by vessels from Buffalo, ON
their return trip.


But the town clock admonishes me to re-
tire as it is now A. NJ We have been to
see the Ravels, at the Theatre, by invita-
ton.