. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. ver, re-torted by asking IMadden to bring a halfbushel measure in order to measure the sil-ver money in Bolducs cellar. Anotherwealthy trading firm was Menard & firm was established in 1817, the yearthat the first steamboat made its way up theMississippi river. Pierre Menard, one of thepartners of this firm, was the Indian agentand controlled a great amount of tradethroughout the west. Pittman, who visited Ste. Genevieve in1769 says that the town was settled 28 y
. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. ver, re-torted by asking IMadden to bring a halfbushel measure in order to measure the sil-ver money in Bolducs cellar. Anotherwealthy trading firm was Menard & firm was established in 1817, the yearthat the first steamboat made its way up theMississippi river. Pierre Menard, one of thepartners of this firm, was the Indian agentand controlled a great amount of tradethroughout the west. Pittman, who visited Ste. Genevieve in1769 says that the town was settled 28 by persons from Kaskaskia at-tracted by the goodness of the soil and theplentiful harvest and describes the situationof the village as very convenient, being withinone league of the salt spring, which was forthe general use of the French subjects. Therewere a number of works at the spring andlaige ciuantities of salt were made for theIndian hunters and other settlers. He saysalso that a lead mine which supplied the * Eozier, History of Mississippi Valley, p. 123. HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ^MISSOURI 57.
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