A preliminary railroad survey in Wisconsin in 1857

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w© found oamp  nuiriberQ^ ^^  ^^^  woods near  the lina,
Tuesday,  June  2,  was rainy,   tut we  worked along as well ae we  oould,  and the wagons  followed along  the  line.     At night VQ found them a short  way hack.     Canp number(is)was  in the woods.
On Wednesday,  June  5,   th© day was  fair and we  work¬ ed along at the  foot  of the hills  in  ths  Little  Yellow Fiver bottOBL, At night we went back to  the  oai:^  for provisions,
found that  the wagons had left.       Tffe  followed the  trail  for a coxrple  of miles up  the  ridge,  and found Qantp tte-, 4§Ji^ beautiful wdocIb on the ridge-
On  the morning  of Thursday,   June 4 we  followed a section"line  to our work,  and  after a very disagreeable day's work found  our cajqi  nuicber(SO)c 1 ose  to our  line  and near where we  stopped work,
June 6,  we  started <mt  to work as usual-,   the  line lay all  day through a finely wooded country.     At night we had no news from the oamp.       We  therefore  struck  off  in  a , Jfcrthorly direction,   takini^  the  Stovens Point J^oad—   After a while we hoard  some  oattle bells.       They proved  to be  on eonte  animals  at  a log house.    We    travelled back  on our tracks and fired pistols. They were  answered.       It  turned
out however,   that  the  firing  oarje  from another oabin.     We   ' stopped  there  for  the  night  and  slept.on wolves  skins on
the  floor^J^ry oomfortably)