278 MISCELLANEOUS. 



He was a " sandy " complexioned man, with red, bushy 

 hair, red mustache, and had not shaved for about two weeks. 

 He wore a pair of red flannel pants tucked in his boots, a gray 

 flannel shirt and (for this occasion only) a short, heavy black 

 coat. The bride was a rather comely but extremely awkward- 

 looking girl of probably twenty summers (and about the same 

 numbers of winters), attired in a " home-made " grey dress, 

 red and white plaid shawl, green knit scarf and a black bonnet 

 trimmed with a large black ostrich plume. 



The groom patronized the train boy liberally, and he and 

 the bride munched pop-corn, peanuts, oranges, figs and candy 

 all through the journey. They looked and acted as if very 

 happy. 



Fire has destroyed large tracts of pine and hard wood in 

 this portion of the state. Whole townships are frequently 

 laid desolate in a single day. After the pine-tree is killed by 

 fire it soon decays and falls. It is truly a sad sight to see 

 thousands of acres of valuable timber thus offered as a sacrifice 

 to the consuming element, and yet there seem to be no means 

 of preventing it. Notwithstanding the frequent ravishes of fire 

 and the millions of trees that are annually cut off by the lum- 

 bermen, there is still but a very slight diminution of the supply, 

 so vast is the extent of this pine region that one may travel 

 twenty, thirty, or even fifty miles in many places, through 

 unbroken forests, without seeing a cabin, a footprint, or any 

 other sign of a white man. It is estimated by good judges 

 that it will take fifty years to exhaust the supply of pine in 

 this state, at the present rate of consumption. 



Next in importance to the lumber interests in this portion 

 of the Lake Superior country are the fisheries. Hundreds of 

 men in this place and Bayfield, as well as at other points along 

 the shore, live by the rich products of this fertile body of 

 water. It is estimated that nearly three hundred tons of lake- 



