The work progressed slowly but surely after a time, the companies became impatient at his slow progress, but his reply was: “I as doing as fast as I can pay up. ” (He always paid promptly. ) But the Sault canal was to be built, and the companies were anxious to be in readiness to [...]
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Eagle Mills,
One Saturday
I was obliged to work night and day to have it ready at the opening of navigation. The bed of the cut was twenty feet wide, with sloping banks. All was completed in due time, and the track laid through it onto their dock where the Grace furnace now stands. The canal at the Sault [...]
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Eagle Mills,
Lake Superior,
North Star,
Senator Sumner