Michigan historical collections . f land, which, as special agent of the State, Ihad selected and reserved as a part of its quota of 750,000 acres, receivedby act of congress for building the canal. In that connection I visitedOntonagon, then the copper mining center and main shipping pointof that metal on the lake. I proposed to return to my main oflSce atMarquette by the last steamer going eastward that season, about themiddle of November, but it passed in the night of the 19th, and thelandlord at the hotel failed to keep his promise to awaken me, whetherby accident or design I never felt su
Michigan historical collections . f land, which, as special agent of the State, Ihad selected and reserved as a part of its quota of 750,000 acres, receivedby act of congress for building the canal. In that connection I visitedOntonagon, then the copper mining center and main shipping pointof that metal on the lake. I proposed to return to my main oflSce atMarquette by the last steamer going eastward that season, about themiddle of November, but it passed in the night of the 19th, and thelandlord at the hotel failed to keep his promise to awaken me, whetherby accident or design I never felt sure. I then had to solve the verydiflScult problem of how to pass out of that isolated region. To thesouth intervened 400 miles of wilderness through which only Indiantrails led to the nearest lumber camps or villages in Wisconsin. Eastward, an overland trip of sixty miles to head of Keweenaw bayand about 140 miles of lake coasting would enable me to reach Mar-quette, and this route I decided to adopt. But the overland section was. MAP PRESENTED THE STATE OF MICHIGAN AND PLACED IN STATE LIBRARY SHOW-ING LAND GRANTS TO AID BUILDING RAILROADS. GREATg^RAILWAY CONNECTIONS OF LAKE SUPERIOR. 171 impassable until the swamps had frozen suflSciently to permit snow-shoeing over them, and to insure this condition two weeks at leastmust be allowed, which could only be spent in waiting at the that time the idea of promoting the extension to Lake Superiorof the railway system—then only reaching as far north as Lake Winne-bago, in Wisconsin—came into my mind and led to the writing of anotice and pinning it up in the Bigelow House (then the only hotel onLake Superior) that a meeting would be held to consider that over half a dozen residents attended, but that did not affect thelength of the resolution which I had drafted, calling on congress for aidto that end. The proceedings certified that I had been appointed adelegate from the northwest to visit Washington and d
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