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ONT* WISCONSINHISTORICAL EDITION—i»»ce,eraDtHWith the establishment by the United States Government 01 mm tar posts at Green Bav and Prajne du Chien and the association there with of agencies to control protect and civilize the natives an increased activity became evident in these places as well as the Portage and owitr miei niLUitiiL 1 £u t1 atGovernmental recognition was given this area, still known as the detached portion of Michig n tt ntorj b the creation of a spec al territorial court m 1823 with James D Dot} as JudgeLead Discovered A new region was opened up about this time with the discover} and exploitation of lead deposits m the southwestern portion of Wisconsin, as it is in the present d v, the Dubuque district of Iowa and the Galena district of IllinoisIt is believed that the French trader Julian Dubuque who with the aid of the Fo\ and Sauk Indians of the Dubuque territory mined there from 1788 to 1810 mav have also worked the le*d deposits on the east side of the Mississippi m the Wisconsin area Indians worked the iinnes for a while after Dubuque’s death m 1810 but white men toon invaded the district, also discovering the Galena lead deposits about JO c*rs later In 1819 the “Buck Lead” yielded the greatest solid mass of pure lead ever taken from the earth in the entire lead bearing area” near Galena and with the spread of thisnews there came a great influx of miners from other mining fields and the district was definitely set* tied In a period of three years from 182S to 1828, the population m the lead region increased from 200 to 10000 many of these coming from Missouri, Kentucky, Tennesee,N Cur^l -a, V ~g * Pe^r*} \z a,Ohio, Indiana, but the greatest representation being from Illinois and MissouriFront 1827, when the mining region was fully opened in Wisconsin, up to 183o there was an increase m lead output from 2,313 tons to 13,390 tons, the latter being the record output Of the Wisconsin, Illinois Iowa, and Missouri lead regions Wisconsin was bv far the richest and in 1840 the lead pro-, duction m Wisconsin alone almost equalled the production in all other districts put together Fortunes were made and Wisconsin gamed much prestige, so much »o, that citizens deemed her sufficiently important to receive national recognition as an independent territory and machinations to that end were put m motionGROCERY PRICES IN '95In 1895, according to an advertisement of J V Pritchard, $1000 would buy 45 pounds sugar, 2 pounds tear 5 pounds coffee, 2 sacks flour, 14 pounds currants, 28 pounds rolled oats, 8 pounds raisins, 32 bars soap, 6 pkgs starch, 10 pounds rice, and 14 pounds grapes
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Belmont Success
Belmont, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Oct 23, 1936
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