Lake Superior
LAKE SUPERIOR COUNTRY
BY JOHN H. Forester.
The paper which I had the honor to submit on the Lake Superior country, at the last meeting of this society, brought us down to the winter of 1847. For the decade following I was employed on the west coast of America, so that you must look to others to fill the gap in the history of that country. In the memorable year 1857,memorable for one of the worst panics that ever swept over the country, I returned to the copper mines, or rather to the Upper Peninsula. During that decade much progress had been made all along the south shore of Lake Superior. At the Sault Ste. Marie a tram-road had supplanted the old Indian trail and wagon road, only to make way in the year 1855 for the ship canal. But the completion of the canal seemed to be fatal to the growth and prosperity of the place.
