A preliminary railroad survey in Wisconsin in 1857

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Saturday, July 18, we were all day at work run¬ ning over a patch of line which had been originally run by Mr. Woodward in the winter time.  The trees were blazed six or eight feet from the ground, and brush was cut three or four feet from the surface.  The level pegs were one and a half foot to two feet high; all indicating snow when the line was run.  Our oamp was on the line near the Paint Creek Tload,
On Sunday we walked into Chippewa Falls, a brisk little town^where we found some letters.  We received instruc¬ tions here to go to Hay River instead of to the foot of Bake Pepin.
On the morning of July 20, we went back to ihere we left off Saturday night, and got out of the woods, onto the
"open land plain" on P^nt Greek (J^n a little_jyMi5^, At night we found oamp number (^0yon a branch of Paint Creek,
Tuesday, July 21, we reached Chippewa River with the line, and at night found camt) number(4^just opposite ..oncMown. on the .an.s of tl/river.
Wednesday, we were engaged in running tentative lines across the river and spent the night at the same camp,
Thursday the work was very largely in swamps at the foot of the bluff on the north side of tfea Chippewa River and we spent the night at carrp number (^^on Trout Rives HRwy, where the fishermen of the party found much enjoyment.