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fore would pay fora great part of the whole expense. The price 
for hauling store goods‘and pine lumber to Janesville, on Rock 
river, is 50 cents per ewt., equal to $20 per load of two tons. 
When it is remembered that all the pine used in the southern 
part of Wisconsin and northern part of Illinois in the neighbor- 
hood of Rock river, must be brought in from the lake, and that 
this is the best route; and when also the rapid increase of that 
most favored district, the Rock river country, is remembered, 
confidence may be felt that a line of teams would be almost sup- 
ported by the back loads; and to secure one always, it might be 
an object to the owners to have a depot for lumber at Janesville. 
Pine boards are worth at Racine from $10 to $15 per thousand 
feet, or when carried to Rock river they sell for $25. For about 
two months in the spring and fall seasons, no hauling could be 
done for bad reads, and perhaps for two espace more in the shee 
thirty cwt. would make a load. 
By inquiries made of those navigating the lakes, masters is 
steamboats and schooners, it is found that in common times, whem 
the supply of wheat to be carried east is not in excess, they would 
contract to take lead to Buffalo and forward it by the canal to 
New York for $12 per ton—nearly 54 cts. per hundred pounds. 
That from Mineral Point to New York, was to Galena 20 cts., to 
New York $1 25=$1 45 per hundred pounds. This isaven: 91 
cts. per hundred pounds, or $20 38 per ton for the expetises to 
the lake, to make the amount of transportation equal to that by 
the way of New Orleans; but the estimated expense was $21 75 
The difference and a large balance for any under estimate of the 
expense from the lake to New York, would be supplied by i 
back loads. 
This subject is entitled to the more serious consideration, from 
the fact that the lead now used throughout the whole country 
bordering on the great lakes as well as in New York state, is 
_¢arried from the mines near the Mississippi river to New Orleans, 
thence to New York, and by the canal to the lakes, thus making 
a circuit of nearly the whole Union. To supply shot alone im- 
‘mediately to this vast region, thus saving the expense it runs up 
for transportation, would seem to be a good business. Loads of 
it are occasionally now taken from the tower at Helena, on the 
‘Wisconsin river, across the country to Milwaukie, but more finds 
its way back to the territory, even after making the long tour to 
the south and east. 
