EDITED 7-2015 Ho-Chunk Nation . Black River Falls, WI 54615. Phone: (715) 284-9343 / (800) 294-9343.Jasper County Circuit Clerk, Billy Rayner. Qualifications: 21+ years of age Can read and write NOT a convicted felon, habitual drunkard, or common gambler. Down the Wisconsin. Quote: ~Logs were cut in twelve, fourteen and sixteen feet in lengths. The raft. was made by taking three planks and boring two inch auger holes about. Into these holes, grub. Then the building of the crib. The lumber to go into the raft was laid cross wise and. Oars were very large, the stems thirty feet long, one foot in diameter. Into. the large end of the stem was inserted the oar blade made of a plank. This made an oar fifty to forty- five feet in length. A hole. having been bored in the stem the same size as the pin in the head. It required strength and skill. The man in front guided as he saw the current. Six or seven of such cribs were fastened together tandem fashion, by. To properly operate the . From Grand Rapids to St. Louis. might require six weeks. On these rafts were built the cook's shanty. The dangerous places on the river Big and Little. Bull Falls, Stevens Point dam, Conant Rapids, Grand Rapids, Clinton's. Whitney Rapids, the Dells and Kilbourn dam. Mosinee - Little Bull. Rapids was the most dangerous on the river. Here, the channel. These rapids were a. All rafts were. supplied with a . Should a raft suddenly take a nose. During the flood stage in the spring of 1. Grand Rapids and down the river. In June, John. Farrish sent his two pilots, Ed Wheelan and George Ellison down to. Clinton with one fleet and Henry Rablin took the balance of the fleet. St. We rafted the four- hundred miles on the Mississippi. Wisconsin, because there were. The speed of the raft in normal operations is usually. We never experienced very much trouble between Yellow Bands and the. Dells, because it was early in the rainy season, and we had. In going through the Dells we disconnected our. Where formerly two men handled a Wisconsin raft, consisting of. Dells, run it. through below Kilbourn, and gig back. That is, walking back through the. Upper Dells. I suppose it is a distance, if I remember right, of about. We will be all day running that lumber through the Dells. Credit: ~ John. Wisconsin Raftsman, recounted in 1. John Daly's Arpin Lumber Company raft crew on the Wisconsin.). I was. thus served on the Eau Claire. While at the head of Little Bull Falls. April 1. 5), I accidentally fell in again. In passing over the falls at. No one thus thrown off at this place has been. We passed on down (April 2. Stevens Point and Conant Rapids. On the. 2. 1st we stopped at the Yellow Banks, near Plover, and later were caught. Crooked Riff. We next passed on to Grand Rapids, where three men. May 1, our run was from Grand Rapids to Pointe Bas, over. Whitney Rapids. which are the lowest on Wisconsin River. About sundown on the same day. Dells. The raft ahead of ours struck Notch Rock. After passing Kilbourn City and Newport, Sugar Loaf Rock. Lone Rock, a solitary pinnacle thirty. This is at the foot of the Dells, which are five miles in length. From the Dells we passed on by Norwegian Bluff, Pine Island. Portage City; and still farther down, Sauk Prairie. A few miles below. Honey Creek flats. We next passed Bogus Bluffs, which are. New Helena lay just. The next place I noticed was Cave Rock Slough. From here we. passed on by English Prairie and Prairie Dubay to the mouth of the. Wisconsin, where on the south side the bluffs are 5. Mississippi fronts us, with her. Iowa side. We drifted on to the bosom of the . We had. scarcely got the rafts secured together, when I heard a roaring noise. In less than fifteen minutes we were engulfed in one of the. I ever witnessed. The wind blew a gale. The waves rolled upon the raft, and we were in fear of being. It looked still more awful and sublime, because we were floating along. Night setting in, left us in total. About midnight the storm abated and. I crawled into my bunk, wet as a. Towards morning I heard the shout for all hands at the. Some of. these rafts cover several acres of surface, and when under motion in a. I recollect that. The raft was sagging into a bend, and into that bend it went in. With all this resistance, its headway did not appear. We finally arrived at. Dubuque, where my cousin, another man, and I got into a skiff and went. Galena, a distance of sixteen miles. I began to feel ill, and. I reached Galena was badly off. The cholera was then raging on. Mississippi, and there was great excitement about it. I went to my cousin's and stopped five or six days, then feeling. I started back for the pinery on the steamer.
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