Part 87 (2/2)
The St Croix river in its passage through the Dalles is compressed into a cos driven down the streaether, so closely as to soenerally occurs at a point known as Angle Rock, a huge pro into the middle of the channel fro The river le with the channel above At this point jams are, under certain conditions, almost inevitable
Sometimes they are of ss gather in such quantity and becoed that it is a labor of weeks to break the the prevalence of high water It is, in fact, only during high water that ja, and the logs apt to accuular drives, fros that have been stranded in former seasons or at loater are floated off, and the river is thus filled with logs from bank to bank These are crowded into the narrow channel of the Dalles faster than they can be discharged, and a ja to cos arrested, croard until they rest upon the bottoht of twenty or thirty feet above the surface The river thus checked in its course rises, wedging the logs her
In the jam of 1865 the river channel was filled nearly to the St
Croix dale Rock This being the first of the great jams excited unusual attention
Excursionists came up daily in the boats to look upon it It was indeed a wonderful sight The logs were heaped together in the wildest confusion, and wedged in at all angles Men and horses were e to the inexperience of the workers, was no light task The _s fro which serves as a key to the jas above co one, in a short time the s are so heaped above that no water is visible It matters not; the tres along, and the spectator beholds a wonderful scene, a river of logs, the current swiftest in the centre of the strea, sometimes snapped in sunder like pipeste and hurrahing, and so fro their escape to the shore Others on the lower part of the ja are carried down the river
Though apparently a scene of great danger, comparatively few accidents occur The workers are cool, experienced men with steady nerves and stalwart arms, a race of men not surpassed for muscular develope as that of 1865 This jae that spanned the river at the head of the Dalles Many of the logs carried high in air by the pressure of the logs below struck the bridge, and at tie has since been replaced by an iron structure, her than the first, but even this occasionally received a blow fro by the current at a ”present arms”
In 1883 another jam of considerable dimensions occurred, but it was removed with less labor and expense than its predecessors, and stea it It cost froreatest of the jah, the current strong and the river above so full of logs that a log driverto other causes than those mentioned in the account of the jam of 1865
The dams at Snake, Kettle and other rivers had been sis in these streams all set free at once in the current of the St Croix On they ca procession with but little obstruction till they reached Angle Rock, where they were suddenly arrested, and, owing to the force of the current, wedged her than on any previous occasion, and the river channel was filled with logs to a point two miles above the St Croix falls formerly known as the daines, several teams of horses and over two hundredthe six weeks that occurred before it was broken, thousands of visitors came by rail and stea its continuance 150,000,000 feet of logs
POPULATION OF WISCONSIN
The first census of the Northwest Territory, taken in 1790, does not show the population of the region non as Wisconsin The census of 1800 gave the following figures: Ohio, 45,363; Indiana Territory, 5,641; Green Bay, 50; Prairie du Chien, 65 According to the census of 1880, the original Northwest Territory contained a population of 12,989,571, or more than one-quarter of the population of the United States The population of Crawford county in 1820 was 492; in 1830, 692; in 1834, 810; in 1836, 1,220; in 1838, 850; in 1841, 1,503; in 1847, 1,409
In 1836, when Wisconsin Territory was organized, the population of the Territory was, 11,883 The whole number of votes cast at the election in 1836 was 2,462 The population, according to the census taken at the close of every five years, was as follows: In 1840, 30,945; in 1845, 155,275; in 1850, 305,301; in 1855, 552,109; in 1860, 775,881; in 1865, 868,325; in 1870, 1,054,670; in 1875, 1,236,729; in 1880, 1,315,480; in 1885, 1,563,423
The official co details: Total population, 1,563,423; white, roes, in full, 5,576; Indians, 2,695 The nativities are divided as follows: United States, 1,064,943; Germany, 265,756; Scandinavia, 90,057; Ireland, 36,371; Great Britain, 32,731; British America, 21,887; Bohemia, 15,838; Holland, 7,357; France, 3,963; all other countries, 20,030; subject to military duty, 286,289; soldiers of the late war, 29,686
POPULATION OF ST CROIX, PIERCE, POLK, BURNETT, AND SAWYER COUNTIES
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1840|1845|1850| 1855| 1860| 1865| 1870| 1875| 1880| 1885| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ St Croix | 618 | 809 |624 | 2,040| 5,392 |6,255 |11,039|14,957|18,838|22,389| Pierce | | | | 1,720| 4,672 |6,824 |10,004|15,101|17,685|19,760| Polk | | | | 547| 1,400 |1,677 | 3,422| 6,736|10,095|12,884| Burnett | | | | | 12 | 238 | 705| 1,436| 2,980| 4,607| Sawyer | | | | | | | | | | 2,481| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
POPULATION OF MINNESOTA
In 1849 the Territory had a population of 4,680 The census taken at periods of every five years shows the following population: In 1850, 6,077; in 1855, ----; in 1860, 172,073; in 1865, 250,099; in 1870, 439,706; in 1875, 597,403; in 1880, 780,773; in 1885, 1,117,798
The following table gives the population of the counties on the St
Croix waters
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 1850 | 1855 | 1860 | 1865 | 1870 | 1875 | 1880 | 1885| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Washi+ngton | 1,066 | ---- | 6,123 | 6,780 | 11,809 | 9,994 | 19,562 | 29,763| Chisago | ---- | ---- | 1,743 | 2,175 | 4,378 | 6,046 | 7,982 | 9,765| Pine | ---- | ---- | 92 | 64 | 648 | 795 | 1,365 | 2,177| Kanabec | ---- | ---- | 30 | 31 | 93 | 311 | 605 | 1,119| Isanti | ---- | ---- | 281 | 453 | 2,035 | 3,901 | 5,063 | 7,032| Carlton | ---- | ---- | 51 | 28 | 286 | 495 | 1,230 | 3,189| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MINNESOTA STATE CAPITOL
By the organic act of Minnesota Territory, 20,000 were appropriated for a capitol building At the tianized, however (June 1, 1849), the _perovernment had not been determined on, and the money was therefore not available The Central House in St Paul, a log tavern weather-boarded, situated at the corner of Bench and Minnesota streets, where the rear of the Mannheiislative assembly It was for some months known as ”The Capitol”
On the lower floor was the secretary of state's office, and the house of representatives chamber On the second floor was the council chaislative halls was over sixteen or eighteen feet square The rest of the building was used as an inn The Union colors, floating fro, was the onlyhis entire term of office, Gov Ramsey kept the executive office in his private residence, and the supreme court met in rented chambers here and there