Part 4 (1/2)

_Article fifth_--It is furthermore understood, that for the amount of money or property that any one of the proprietors of the aforesaid company shall invest, advance, or pay for the benefit or use of the aforesaid company, more than his proportional share of the whole amount of money or property invested by the aforesaid company, the same amount of money, with interest, shall be paid or refunded back to said proprietor by the aforesaid co from the business done by the company aforesaid

_Article sixth_--It is furthermore understood, that in case any one of the aforesaid proprietors should at any time hereafter be disposed to sell, transfer or dispose of his share of stock owned in the aforesaid company, he shall first pay to said company all the liabilities or indebtedness of said share of stock, and then give said co said share of stock, at the same rates by which said proprietor may have an opportunity to sell said shares of stock

_Article seventh_--It is furthermore understood that the proprietors of the aforesaid con any obligation or due bill, make any contract, or transact any business of i on, the aforesaid company, except some one proprietor of the aforesaid company should hereafter be fully authorized by the aforesaid coent for the aforesaid company

In testimony whereof, we hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-sixth day of October, Anno Dohteen hundred and forty-three

JOHN MCKUSICK, ELAM GREELY, ELIAS MCKEAN, C F LEACH

Attest: C SIMONDS

This agreeinal book of records in the possession of John McKusick

After this agreened, until Mr McKusick becareeent, except in case of an e, erected in 1845, was burned in 1846, and immediately rebuilt In 1846 J H Brewster built a small store McKusick's store was built the same year, on the southwest corner of Main and Myrtle streets Sos were erected this year

In 1845 a verbal agreeard to land clai the lake shore north of Battle Hollohere the Minnesota state prison now stands

South of Battle Hollow, along the lake shore to Nelson, extending three-fourths of a inally held by Fisher South of Nelson's alley, one-half mile down the lake, three-fourths of a overnment survey was made these clairessional laas in existence es and cities built on unsurveyed lands, that such lands should be equitably divided and surveyed into lots, and the actual settler or occupant should be protected in his rights

In May, 1846, a desire was expressed by citizens of St Paul and Stillwater for the opening of new roads between these cities The traveled road up to that time was by Haskell's and Bissell's Mounds

Louis Roberts and the writer examined a route by White Bear lake A road was established south of this route in June

In July I started up the St Croix river with Joseph Brewster, in a batteau, to put up hay for Elam Greely on Kanabec river We poled our batteau with outfit and cae of Franconia The nextearly we entered the picturesque Dalles of the St Croix, then cordelled our boat over Baker's falls, and landed at the village of St Croix Falls This village, the first Ae mill with six saws The water poas utilized by means of a permanent dam with massive piers A warehouse was perched in a romantic situation amidst the cliffs of the Dalles and furnished with a tra to the suoods A boarding house dubbed the ”Barlow House,” another the ”Soap Grease Exchange,” and a few s business men were James Purinton, Wm Holcombe, Joseph Bowron and Lewis Barlow We spent half a day infair, on the third day we sailed as far as Sunrise island At Wolf creek we passed an Indian trading post In front of Sunrise island and on the west side of the St Croix river, a little below thepost of Maurice M Sa known as one of the most remarkable and notorious men on the frontier He was a Jew, but hadthat he hadto his theory, descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel

On the sixth day we caaed as an Indian farmer

We paddled across the lake to the Presbyterian mission Mr Boutwell, the superintendent, was absent The ement was excellent, the crops were in fair condition, and well cultivated Everything about the ement Next day ent to a hay meadow opposite the mouth of Ground House creek, where we put up on this and adjacent meadows sixty tons of hay We left on the twenty-fourth, ca of the twenty-fifth, while passing down Kanabec river, our ears were greeted with so a bend in the rivera large body of Indians cutting indescribable antics, in the river and on the shore, chasing each other, reeling and staggering to and fro, yelling and firing guns They seemed a lot of Bedlae down the river Pass theht I was in the bow, Brewster was in the stern The yelling and uproar grew each moment more horrible

Brewster said: ”Keep the bow in the best water and pass theth; every set of his pole would al several guns were leveled at us, but such was the noise that if any were fired we did not hear the

While passing we caught a glimpse of the cause of the unusual disturbance, so, fighting or lying on the ground in drunken stupor Landing at Samuels' camp, we learned of him that one Myers had hidden a couple of barrels of whisky on Kanabec river, that the Indians had found them, and the jollification we had witnessed would last till the whisky was all gone We arrived at Stillwater without further adventure

In July I made another visit to Prairie du Chien The , on which I expected to return, broke her shaft and returned to St Louis for repairs The postmaster at Prairie du Chien offered me seventy dollars to carry the ht a skiff, blankets and provisions, hired onecurrent, the loater co us to keep near the centre of the river We arrived at Bully Wells' on Lake Pepin on the fifth evening and politely asked the privilege of stopping with hi very hard at the time We drew our skiff up on the shore, turned it over for a shelter, and crawled beneath it with the ht, we suffered severely As ere passing an island above Red Wing, the day following,sowams, and, as we had no firewater and no food to spare we kept close to the opposite shore We were, however, observed An Indian appeared on the shore near the ams and beckoned to us to cross over We ,through the brush, apparently bent on overtaking and waylaying us We kept a respectful distance, and fortunately were able to increase it, but not till ere beyond rifle shot did we dare to pause for rest That night we caht, and next day arrived at Point Douglas I went no further The hardshi+p and exposure of this trip brought on a severe illness Mr David Hone, at whose house I remained for teeks, under the care of Dr Carli, of Stillwater, took theSoon as able I returned to Stillwater

In May of this year I had s sufficient for a water power While I was sick at Point Douglas, Joseph Brewster, Martin Mower and David B Loo business They had agreed upon me as a fourth partner and to build on s, Brewster and Folsom to build the mill We moved to our claireed upon the name of Arcola for the new settlement The mill was not finished until April 3, 1847, at which time Brewster and Folsom sold out their interest and returned to Stillwater

STILLWATER IN 1846

Living in Stillwater, Jan 1, 1846, were the following married men: Cornelius Lyman, Socrates Nelson, Walter R Vail, Robert Kennedy, Anson Northrup, Albert Harris, John E Mower, Willia the unmarried men were: John McKusick, C Carli, Jacob Fisher, Elam Greely, Edward Blake, Elias McKean, Calvin F Leach, Martin Mower, David B Looan, Phineas Lawrence, Joseph Brewster, John Carlton, Thomas Ramsdell, William Rutherford, William Willim, Charles Macey, and Lemuel Bolles

Here follows a list of the pioneers of the St Croix valley, in 1846, not h, who became a river pilot and settled at Montrose, Iowa; Jaht, an ingenious, eccentric man, who left the valley in 1848; Joseph Brewster, who left in 1848, and settled in Earlville, Illinois; Sylvester Stateler, blacks county, Minnesota, and O H Blair, who followed lu, a man of talent, but eccentric He died in 1878 The first school was taught in 1846, by Mrs Ariel Eldridge, forht in 1847, by Mrs Greenleaf; the third in 1848, by Wm McKusick A school house was built in 1848 Rev W T

Boutwell, a Presbyterian minister, preached occasionally in the reception room of Northrup's hotel Rev Eleazer Greenleaf, an Episcopalian, caular services

Prior to the organization of Stillwater, Rev J Hurlbut, a Methodist minister, had preached in Dakotah, St Croix Falls and Marine, but organized no societies

The winter of 1845-46 was very open All tea business was done on wheels, except for a few days in Dece A new feature in the trade of the valley this year was the rafting and running of logs to St Louis

In December, 1845, Dr Borup, of La Pointe, and others went by ice and overland with tea thelas, at the confluence of the St Croix and the Mississippi Between Stillwater and Point Douglas, on the route we followed, some distance west of the lake, we found but one settler, Joseph Haskell At Point Douglas there were David Hone, a hotel keeper; Hertzell & Burris, merchants, and W the second day At this place lived the famous Jack Frazier, a Sioux half-breed and Indian trader, one Presbyterian missionary, Rev ---- Denton, and a man named Bush James Wells, more familiarly known as ”Bully Wells,” lived with an Indian squaw on the west shore of Lake Pepin, where stands the town of Frontenac On the third day ent as far as Wabasha, on the west side, three miles below Lake Pepin, where we found several French families We stopped at Cratt's hotel On the fourth day we reached Hol, now Fountain City There were then but two houses, both unoccupied About noon we passed Wabasha prairie, now the site of Winona It was then covered with Indian tepees At Tre of the fifth day, we found two French families On the next day we reached La Crosse and found there two Aht us to Prairie du Chien On the e passed a few French families, and these, with those previously named, constituted the entire white population between Stillwater and Prairie du Chien