Newberry Library - Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1856-1858

Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1856-1858

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Open book Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1856-1858

Title Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1856-1858

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1856-1858

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription Each have 1/9 and the Mill 5/9 of the profits. The Mill cost about $2000, the Mill owners have to make their own insurance and pay taxes, The Mill owners have a contract for from 3 to 4 million of logs, now being cut, to be delivered in the St Paul Boom, for $4,25 per ?, they will cost in The Mill Boom about $5, which we have at cost, lumber is selling for from $10 to $20 per the planed siding and flooring for $25, but the great draw back will be to sell all we can make, and then we have to trade a great deal of it, I think we can saw boards for $200 and can hire men and pay them 2/3 of their wages in lumber, I cannot see why we may not make a good business of it, I wish now that I had not bought the farm at the Grove, but I hope to sell it soon, I am now on my way into the woods where the logs for our Mill are being cut, I have been up once before this winter about 4 weeks since, I shall stop in the woods this time two or three weeks. It is about 125 miles from St Paul a few miles west from Fort Riley, There is a man now engaged in drawing the machinery and light portion of a steamboat from the Mouth of the Crow Wing River to the Red River of the North where he will build a new Hull for it. The portage is about 120 miles from here (St Cloud) to Breckenridge which is the head if navigable water on

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 2 Folder 52

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2983px × 3797px 64.84 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_52_005_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEVR

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