411. 1877, in presence of Charles E. Hinds and W. H. Putnam. lection of directors was held on the first Saturday of seven and a half o'clock P. M. eeting of the stockholders shall be held on the first Satear, commencing in 1878, to elect a board of directors year, and to transact any other business of the associaall be no special meetings unless called by at least five otice thereof be previously given by the secretary, in the by-laws may direct. all regular meetings the stockholders shall have the py-laws defining the duties of the officers of the associaposing of reasonable fines, assessments and dues upon -gulating the subscription upon the issue and transfer of nent and investment of its funds, loans to members, and culation of the business of the corporation. are, in effect, the same as those governing other similar tion is already in a flourishing condition, and it has the very popular and well managed enterprises of the bers are all men of standing in the business circles of RED WING FERRY. Ise is owned and operated by James W. Day, and it really ost useful pieces of property in this part of the State. spring, summer and autumn, it does duty between the t kissing the borders of each and bearing back and forth eh of peace. A large amount of business is carried on for a medium between Minnesota and Wisconsin, and people pass to and fro across the great river on this The channel where the boat plies is 820 feet across at k, but about 1,000 feet of wire cable is used in operating yond the island Mr. Day operates another ferry across nel, or slough, as it is commonly called. The latter is - about 200 feet. Mr. Day built the "Robert Harris," a small steamer of ns burden. She is a snug little coaster, costing $3,500, ed for excursions and a coasting trade on these upper Robert Harris is a busy little body, light draft, easily tul but 9 useful carrier between. RED WING AND TRENTON TRANSIT COMPANY. This company was organized with a view of bridging the channel beyond the island, commonly called "the slough," on the Wisconsin side of the river. The association is composed of citizens of Red Wing, and their object is to make the industrial interests of the other side more accessible to the market and mercantile interests of their city. With the completion of the bridge it is designed to establish a free ferry across the main channel, next to Minnesota side, thus making it a free highway between the two States, and thereby establishing closer commercial relations. At an election held last spring, the city of Red Wing voted bonds to the amount of $25,000, to aid in the work, and the enterprise is now virtually in the hands of the city. All the way across the island a heavy embankment is to be thrown up for the roadway, in order to bring it above high water mark. According to profile, the length of the road across the island is 8,700 feet, requiring 49,488 cubic yards of embankment in its construction. There are to be ten pile bridges along the road between the two channels, to allow the escape of the overflow; four of 64 feet, three of 96 feet, two of 144 feet, and one of 480 feet; an aggregate of 1,312 feet of dry land bridges. The bridge across the back channel will be 496 feet in length, resting on nine bents of piles, consisting of two rows of five piles each. There is also to be an ice break above each pier of six piles, driven in a cluster and securely bolted. The superstructure is to be a lattice bridge of eight spans, 62 feet to the span. It is designed to have the embankment and pile bridges completed by the 15th of December next, and the bridge across the channel by the 15th of March, 1879. An approximate estimate places the aggregate cost at less than $20,000; the contract has already been let and the work is in progress. RAILROAD STATISTICS. E. F. Dodge, Esq., agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, at Red Wing, furnishes us the following statistics of the shipments over that road from his station for 1876: Freights received, 12,532,603 pounds; charges, $53,260.99. Freights forwarded, 46,432,596 pounds; charges, $100,868.97. Number of local The first sale of land office, a formed to pr and Hancock wa and Rezin ted by the s and bid in the rel had a writte en the number & Bentatives of the rel, who stood c to Mr. Lovel, ber of land spe take advant ith August 1, 1877, and ending with July 31, 1878: Wheat, nds; flour, 53,699,120 pounds; 268,495.6 barrels of 200 Allowing five bushels of wheat to the barrel of flour, as the millers, the wheat turned into flour amounts to nds, which added to the wheat shipments as given above, grand aggregate to 116,154,890 pounds; counting the r as all wheat, 300 pounds of wheat to a barrel of flour, ound numbers the same as nearly 2,000,000 bushels of by rail during the crop season of 1877, to say nothing of nt taken away by water. - the railroad office for the calendar year, beginning with 7, and ending December 31, 1877, inclusive, show the f freights shipped to be 56,002,088 pounds. Beginning 1, 1878, and concluding with July 31, 1878, inclusive, the e 73,873,310 pounds, an average of over twenty cars daily nds to the car for the entire seven months, allowing rking days to the month. LAND SALES-CLAIM ASSOCIATION. e of government lands in Goodhue county occurred at the e, at Red Wing, on the 29th of August, 1855. The sale a frame building that then stood on Main street, at the is now Potter street. William Le Duc, of Hastings, now ioner of Agriculture, was the auctioneer. e there was a Claim Association, or combination of seto protect each other from land sharks and speculators. k was president of the association; P. Sandford was secezin Spates was assistant secretary. Royal Lovel was the settlers to represent them, stand close by the auctionthe lands to which they respectively laid claim. Mr. written description of every tract of land claimed, and ber and description of the land was called off by the repf the government, it was bid in for the claimant by Mr. od close to the auctioneer, and the settlers stood pretty ovel, ready to back him up, if occasion required. A large for mutual protection and very determined. They finally concluded it would not be healthy to bid against the settlers, and abandoned the field. at the lowe eld Lim as ch MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. FIRST MAIL ROUTES-FIRST STAGES-MAIL CONTRACTS. In 1857 the United States postoffice department awarded the following mail contracts, which were the first to be established from Red Wing, (the old route between Prairie du Chien and St. Paul, along the course of the Mississippi River, which made Red Wing a point, excepted :) Red Wing to Austin, 84 miles and back, once a week, $400. Red Wing to St. Nicholas, 91 miles and back, once a week, $400. The supply of these routes was awarded to David Hancock. Red Wing to Winnebago City, 110 miles and back, once a week. [Figures not now to be had.] This route was let to Carter & Hall. The first staging done in this part of Minnesota was along these routes, except along the old Fort Snelling route. On the 18th of September, 1878, Sheriff H. H. Schell, of Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, arrived in Red Wing, in pursuit of a white man named Mueller, who it was alleged had committed a crime on a colored girl, in Floyd county, Iowa. The man was arrested in Wisconsin on a requisition from the Governor of that State, and brought into the city of Red Wing on his return to Iowa. irst settler bew Streeter. her family. D Beson and C sel over the er did not a John E. Eg sley Wood, M Zebulon Pike, who was a son-in-law of Gen. Harrison, visited Red Wing in 1806, and found the Indian chief Red Wing and his tribe, already here. In a report he gives a description of Barn Bluff. Red Wing died here about 1806. The Indian name of Red Wing was Proymueche, or Mountain-in-the-water. nin various p the spring of deceased in A grave opened on Main street, near Chas. Betcher's lumber yard, disclosed a medal on which was the head of President Jefferson, which is now owned by Mrs. Frank Sterritt, of Red Wing, bearing date 1806. Col. Colvill believes this medal was given Red Wing by Capt. Pike, on the occasion of his visit here, as it is stated in his report that he promised the Indians medals. August of th -Cora Cutler. the winter Walking Buffalo was the son of Red Wing, and succeeded him as chief; he married the daughter of an English trader; he died about 1825. Wacoota, the son of Walking Buffalo, succeeded his father as chief; but as he was not pure Indian blood, his mother being an Eng er agency in 1858. His son, also named Wacoota, succhief, and is now with his band on the Nebraska River. BURNSIDE. lers in this township were Andrew Catter, John Lesson, er, James Shaw, John Bronson, a widow named Wright , Leland Jones, Rev. Norris Hobart and three brothers, d Charles Spates, in the summer of 1854. Rev. R. Spates he ground, however, the fall before, 1853, but the real arrive until the following summer. In the spring of Eggleston, Joseph Eggleston and family, Willard and , Marshall Cutter and several others, came in and took us parts of the township. -" I of 1855, Mrs. John Bronson died, being the first white d in the township. of that year the first white child was born in the townler. er of 1856-7 the first school was taught by Mr. J. E. o marriage relations entered into until October 30, 1855, and Miss Mary F. Wright were united. the town was organized, 1858, it was named Spring 1859 it was changed to Milton, owing to there being and post office of that name in the State. The same in regard to this last name, and in 1862 it was again name it now bears, "Burnside." In 1864, the township nd the western portion called Grant, thus honoring the lations taken from those generals whose rames at that on the role of military achievements at the head of the lection held in 1858, there were fifteen voters. non preached in the township was by the Rev. Reson house of John Leason, in 1854. srs. Sterns and Hobart built a flouring mill, on Spring ree and a half miles from Red Wing, in the southern pornship. |