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WAUPACA COUNTY POST

February 20, 1890

 

                        GOGEBIC, MICH., Feb 10, '90

To the Editor of the POST:

            Gogebic is a small station on the M.L.S. & W. R.R., 102 miles north of Antigo and a short distance from Lake Gogebic, the great summer resort and fishing place.  It is surrounded with lumber camps.  Thad Lawrence on the west and Jensen Bros. and Magee & Andersen on the east, putting logs for Hoxie & Mellor (spelling unclear on paper) of Antigo, three camps banking thirty cars a day from the three places.  Lawrence has in one and a half million.  Jensen Bros. have in two millions, Magee and Anderson one and a half million which is about half the amount each party intend to put in.  The la grippe has made bad work in all of the camps up the line and on the Wisconsin and Eagle river and if jobbers hold their own this winter they will have to have good luck from now and out.  It seems as if the grippe worked worst on men coming from Waupaca and Ogdensburg, as some of them had it here before it reached Chicago.

            Thomas Durga, of Three lakes, was a caller at Wm. Hanna's shanty and they had a happy time.

            Frank Barker was a caller at his father's place the same day.

            Wm. Hanna drawed the best load of logs yet, which scaled 5,213 ft.

            Thomas Oleson and Andrew Benson, of Scandinavia, went home on account of heart disease.

            Peter Anderson, who was coming down with consumption from the effects of la grippe, went to Waupaca, his home, today.

            Three bears have been killed in a hollow log at Lawrence camp and five beavers have been caught in Slate river.

            At Jensen's camp there were some bears found in a hollow stump, but they have not been dug out yet.

                                                                                                                            A  SWAMPER.