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But one of the yin the field having disturbed the outline of the effigy Thebeen known, and Mr Lewis finds in them shell relics, which are rarely found in any mounds; also pottery, and beads made from shells

Another peculiar mound not included in this descriptionthe St Croix, not far from the Close creek series of th and serpentine in fored to represent the head There are also fine specio lake, near Centre City and Chisago City

The subject is a fascinating one to the archaeologist, but it behooves hiations, as theseover by the irresponsible and unscientific relic hunter, or worn down by the plow, or carted away for loose earth to mend a roadway or fill a sinkhole

LAKE ITASCA

The Mississippi appropriately takes its name at the outlet of Lake Itasca, its reputed source This lake, although known to the fur cohteenth, and the early part of the nineteenth centuries, received the name Itasca in 1832 fro of the lake will be found in the biography of Rev W T Boutwell, attached to the history of Pine county in this work Itasca lies in range 36, townshi+ps 133 and 134, and is about three th by one and one-half in width Its title to the distinction of being the true source of the Mississippi has been frequently called in question

There are tributary lakes of s near it, connected with it by sable for birch canoes Elk lake, a body of water three-fourths of asouth, is connected with it by a streath

Elk lake has an influent strea south

Another streath, flows into Itasca, and has its source in a lake one-fourth of a inal or later townshi+p map, United States Surveyor Chandler, Chief Clerk B C Baldwin and the writer, in January, 1887, agreed to give it the name of Boutwell, in honor of the devoted missionary who visited Itasca in company with Schoolcraft in 1832 This lake is really the source of the Mississippi, though fronition as such

Lakes Itasca, Elk and Boutwell lie in range 36, townshi+p 143, west of the 5th principal itude 9530 west fro on and adjacent to these lakes were surveyed in October, 1875, by Edwin Hall, and lie in Beltrami county, which was named after an Italian traveler who visited this section in 1823

Hon B C Baldwin, a member of the Minnesota constitutional convention of 1857, told the writer that when surveying governe 37, townshi+p 143, six th, without inlet or outlet, the waters apparently rising, as trees were standing in the water near the shore and subht feet Small lakes of similar character were also discovered Twelve miles west of Itasca the tributaries of the Red River of the North have their source

The latest claim made as to the discovery of the source of the Missispippi is that of Capt Willard Glazier, who, in 1881, claimed to have discovered Elk lake as the source of the Mississippi The Minnesota State Historical Society proainst affixing to Elk lake the name Glazier, as the captain was in no sense a discoverer, either of the lake or its connections with Itasca, the adjacent lands having been surveyed in 1875, and partially covered with claiht claiuished honor of being the true source of the Mississippi

COPPER MINING ON THE ST CROIX

As early as 1842, a company, composed of the Harris brothers and others, of Galena, Illinois, prospected in the Upper St Croix valley for copper Their superintendent, Mr Crosby, located a mineral permit at Pine island, one mile above St Croix Falls, where he found rich speciave liberally to aid the enterprise, but Mr Crosby's health having failed he left expecting to spend the winter in Cuba, but sickened and died at New Orleans, and theenterprise of the Galena company was never resumed

In 1847, a Boston co, Robert Rantoul, Dexter and Harrington, and others, of Boston, and some other capitalists, located a mineral permit one mile square at St Croix Falls, and another of the same dimensions on the St Croix and Kettle River rapids This proved to be a speculative scheton capitalists and politicians

In 1848, David Dale Owen, a proist, made an exploration of the territory now included in Minnesota and Wisconsin and published a report His work being done at the order of the government, he was accompanied by a corps of scientific ations He reported that the trap rock ranges of the St Croix, a continuation of the copper ranges of Superior, are rich in species crop out every few miles in a southwesterly direction from Superior The most southerly are those known as the Dalles of the St Croix, including as a part the Franconia ledge three watana The Kettle river range crosses the St Croix further north

In 1865 the Minnesota legislature placed the sum of 1,000 in the hands of N C D Taylor for the purpose of exa the different mineral prospects on the St Croix and its tributaries

He reported the Kettle river veins as being very pro Mr Taylor sunk a shaft in a locality in Taylor's Falls to a depth of forty feet and found excellent indications of copper, and soood specimens He reports most of the rock in the St Croix valley above Taylor's Falls to be of the different kinds of trap rock, with belts of congloh thelo most abundant on the Kettle river There are limited patches of sandstone which in places contain marine shells, but no rock in place Prof Hall says of the Taylor's Falls vein that it is a very distinct vein and shows quite equal to the early showing of ards the Kettle river vein as one of theyet found in the country

Other veins have been discovered in the vicinity of the St Croix Dalles Considerableand development, but more capital is needed than miners have yet been able to obtain

Taylor's Falls Copper Mining Coanized Dec 15, 1874, W

H C Folsom, president; Geo W Seymour, secretary; Levi W Folsoent They sunk a shaft one hundred and thirty feet deep and found good indications This mine orked in 1875-76, at an expenditure of over 5,000 Excellent speci quantities The rock increased in richness as the shaft sunk in depth The as suspended for want, of material aid There is but little doubt that as the valley becomes known and populated, that as wealth increases, thewill become a prominent and profitable industry

REMINISCENCES OF REV JULIUS S WEBBER[K]

We reached Stillwater, June 3, 1850, and e contained at that tis, two hotels, three stores, and a nuious denominations held services each Sabbath, the h the successive Sabbaths, and supporting in addition a union prayerand Sabbath-school, of which Capt

Ws were held in a school house on Third street