Year: 1875

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left here few days ago tor Daven-
| port to be present at the funeral.
In a wooden country, like this,


with the best of white and yellow


birch, and maple right atsour doors


it may seem strange that it is about
as cheap, if not cheaper, to burn
coal, brought all the way from
Pennsylvania, than to burn wood
that is cut right on our very town
size, but such appears to be the
ease. Stove coal can now be


bought at $3.50 per ton, delivered,
and = ton of coal is considered as
good as at least two cords of the
best dry wood. Now dry maple
costs $3.50 per cord and the saw
mg and splitting, AT least, $l.25
more: or $4.75 per cord, when
made ready for the fire; OF two
cords, $9.5O-or just the price Of q
ton Of coal ; and then, coal is much
nicer to handle and far less trouble
than wood. We think the people
Of Duluth should, as matter Of
policy and principal, encourage the
use Of wood, rather than coal, for


the simple reason that it is better to
keep the money necessary to fur
nISh fuel, IN circulation at home,
rather than to send ii down to Penn
Sylvania, where it is slow about
coming back; but in these times
when everybody is practicing the
most rigid economy and when every
dollar counts, if people can buy
coal for fuel cheaper than wood,
most Of them viii certainly do so.


While it is not fair to ask our wood
dealers to work without any profit,
still. we think, that III times like
these, they for the sake of getting
employment for themselves, their
teams and their men, during the
approaching long and dull winter,
should furnish wood at SO low a
margin, if possible, that almost
every one would use it instead of
coal.


Have WE A SILVER MINE UNDER
DULUTH w hat would our read
ers say if we should tell them that
there isa silver mine Of great wealth
underneath the city of Duluth?
W ell, we are not authorized to say
positively that such Is the case,
but we are enabled to state a fact
which will satisfy our readers that
there is ''something in the wind
Some three weeks ago, the news
came to us that Father Gennin, the
pastor of the Catholic Church here.
WAS identified with recent discov-
cry of silver right in our own city,
but some days elapsed before we
could satisfy ourselves that there
really was any foundation for the
rumor; but that there is something
III 1t, we are now satisfied that
there can be no doubt Hearing
the other day that Father Gennir
had obtained the right to dig the
precious metal reported to have


been found, we paid a visit to the
Office OF Register of Deeds . few


days since to see what could be
found, and we there found upon
record an agreement between J. d.
Ray and wife, John /. Dodge and


wife, parties Of the FIRST part, and
Father Gennin, party Of the second
part, whereby Messrs. Ray and
Dodge and their wives, in considera-
ton of the sum Of 81 900 cash in
hand paid to them, and q guaranty
Of one-tenth interest IN the net
profits Of all minerals found below
the depth Of fifteen feet from the
surface, the party of the second
part was granted full permission to
carry on all necessary mining opera
tlons upon any Of their real estate
IN this city-and also in this OF
Carlton county. That Father
Genuin thinks he has got q good
thing, is evident from the. fact that
he is willing to pay out $1,000 III
cash for the privileges above re-
ferred to. This is all that we car
state about the matter at present
but future developments will be-
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