Wisconsin and Missouri Lead Region. 53 
delay the immediate sale or shipment of lead for a rise in the 
river, when one has capital to go on with in the mean time. 
From Galena to New York $1 25 is considered a fair estimate 
for the expenses of transportation per 100 Ibs.; but it is said this 
amount may be diminished one third, besides the airing in time, 
if one goes on himself with a large amount. 
_ Attention begins to be directed to the probability of the ports 
on the lakes becoming the shipping points for the Wisconsin lead. 
In this case those mines farthest east would be the most impor- 
tant ; these are on Sugar Creek, and a reverberatory furnac¢e has 
lately been put in operation there. No great confidence, how- 
ever, is expressed by the miners generally in the continuance of 
the ores; I did not see them. They lie about one hundred mites 
west of Rintivie. the nearest port on Lake Michigan, to which runs 
the national road, finished to Rock river, on the direct way to the 
mines at Sugar Creek. This is one of the best roads in the ter- 
ritory ; all the gullies are bridged over, and, excepting a few 
months in the wet-season, is very passable. I have made the 
following estimate, from vehi some idea may be obtained of the 
expense of hauling lead across the country. 
Estimated expenses of hauling lead one hundred miles east to 
Racine. : , 
Four horses (or mules better) will haul two tons and come back 
in eight days, will eat a bushel of oats to a span of horses, or half. 
a bushel to a span of mules, per day.. Oats neh: at Saris 
in the eastern part of the territory 25 cts. _ : sa 
Whole amount of oats for four: oat $4.00 
Hay (if horses are put up at aight) 32 nights, 12h . 4 00 
Driver 50 cts. perday,. . |. “ oe 4-00 
Board of driver, 75 cts. per day at oe . 6 
Wagon costs $75, horses $75 each, inne $35,) macht days 
interest at 10 per cent., . 1 
Allow for wear and tear a wagon owe hem, $25 
Shoeing four horses per year, . 
Risk of horses per year, .« Pe ae S days, 2 75 
igh ¢ $125 oe 
Fs SE = "Mert $21 75- 
: WN ; es ee ee ae es ee 
‘Ov river viens no little amount. 
of transportation is constantly going on, and the back loads there~ 
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