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Michigan Crystal Falls
In such places the teamster and myself used a shovel and one of our hats to carry snow under the runners, so as to be able to move on. Hungry and tired, we arrived at McDermott's half-way house on the plains (about four miles from here) at about 10 o'clock P. M. There we took a rest and had a box of sardines (all we could obtain) for supper. After paying the requisite seventy-five cents for the same, we started anew, and at half-past 11 o'clock we arrived at what we called Crystal Falls, stopping in front of the half-finished store-building which I was to occupy, and for which the material had to be hauled from Florence. Commencing to unload the boxes and bales, we found one of the latter, containing about fifty pounds of cotton batting, missing. The teamster assured me of having seen it on top of the load only a few minutes before arriving. We came to the conclusion that we must have lost it only while coming down the hill. We accordingly went with a lantern to search, and found it hanging on the limb of a tree in front of what is now Doncett's Opera Hall.
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