Otto Klotz Diary - September 07, 1887 (Vol 10)
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Title
Otto Klotz Diary - September 07, 1887 (Vol 10)
Creator
Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923.
Source
Part of R6645-0-4-E (LAC)
Publisher
Stakeholders Project
Date
1887-09-07
Contributor
University of Ottawa Library
Faculty of Arts
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Diary entry
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Klotz_Vol10_1887_09_07
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Rat Portage is prettily situate on the Lake of the [Trounds]. Its population is less than a thousand and composed principally by men who were employed on the construction of the railway and on completely thereof went into business. The place never had any enviable reputation, only last night at 8 o’clock a man was sandbagged, shot and robbed. It is supported by tourists, who sojourn on the numerous islands in the lake, by railway employees and those of a sawmill. The surrounding country is two rocky and broken to be adapted for agriculture.
Having slept well my indisposition of yesterday had fled and with electric step I moved about and attended to my business of obtaining the necessary material for the erection of my observatory. To make sure that there would be no delay about the shipment of the lumber I attended to the loading of it on a car myself, + well it was that I did so. Having several hours at my disposal in the afternoon I took the ferry to [Kinevalin] three miles distant. This steam ferry was no “[Jolaws]” of Oakland for the “captain” asked me to sit on the other side to make her train. Two stops were made at sawmills before we reached our destination, when stopping the captain who is also wheelman jumps from the bow and hols the craft until the passengers are on or off, there is no shorting of make first your head line “—“ hold in your show line. [Keavalin] also lies in one of the bays of the lake, it consists of several large sawmills which supply most of the timber for Manitoba. The [logs] are brought from various points of the lake and from [Rainy] river, which flows into it at the International Boundary. There is here also in course of erection an immense flouring mill + elevator by the [_____] of the C. P. R. Immediately to the north runs the Winnipeg River which [neer] by discharges water of the lake, the difference in level between the two at the mill is 23 feet and this fall gives the [motion] power for the mill. At [4-30 or 16-30] I returned to Rat Portage. Before leaving for [Kinevelan] again at [21-45] I called on Mr. [Gimmeman] - superintendent in his [parish-car]. Not desiring to wait for the passenger train at 4 in the morning I left on a freight. Sitting in the enclave I got to talking with a Mr. McKenzie who has charge of the tanks and windmills. He told me of several has sink holes near by on the line, in one no bottom was found after driving piles down 135 feet. The track keeps continually sinking [theroud] and many a time he saw he had stood on the platform or on top of the car ready to jump in case the train [west] to go down in going over the bridges. From what I saw in the mountains last year and his [Kuverleg] of this section we both remarked that it was well passengers did not know what danger they are subject to, and how they have to run the gauntlet. Midnight found me in my adopted temporary home.
Rat Portage is prettily situate on the Lake of the [Trounds]. Its population is less than a thousand and composed principally by men who were employed on the construction of the railway and on completely thereof went into business. The place never had any enviable reputation, only last night at 8 o’clock a man was sandbagged, shot and robbed. It is supported by tourists, who sojourn on the numerous islands in the lake, by railway employees and those of a sawmill. The surrounding country is two rocky and broken to be adapted for agriculture.
Having slept well my indisposition of yesterday had fled and with electric step I moved about and attended to my business of obtaining the necessary material for the erection of my observatory. To make sure that there would be no delay about the shipment of the lumber I attended to the loading of it on a car myself, + well it was that I did so. Having several hours at my disposal in the afternoon I took the ferry to [Kinevalin] three miles distant. This steam ferry was no “[Jolaws]” of Oakland for the “captain” asked me to sit on the other side to make her train. Two stops were made at sawmills before we reached our destination, when stopping the captain who is also wheelman jumps from the bow and hols the craft until the passengers are on or off, there is no shorting of make first your head line “—“ hold in your show line. [Keavalin] also lies in one of the bays of the lake, it consists of several large sawmills which supply most of the timber for Manitoba. The [logs] are brought from various points of the lake and from [Rainy] river, which flows into it at the International Boundary. There is here also in course of erection an immense flouring mill + elevator by the [_____] of the C. P. R. Immediately to the north runs the Winnipeg River which [neer] by discharges water of the lake, the difference in level between the two at the mill is 23 feet and this fall gives the [motion] power for the mill. At [4-30 or 16-30] I returned to Rat Portage. Before leaving for [Kinevelan] again at [21-45] I called on Mr. [Gimmeman] - superintendent in his [parish-car]. Not desiring to wait for the passenger train at 4 in the morning I left on a freight. Sitting in the enclave I got to talking with a Mr. McKenzie who has charge of the tanks and windmills. He told me of several has sink holes near by on the line, in one no bottom was found after driving piles down 135 feet. The track keeps continually sinking [theroud] and many a time he saw he had stood on the platform or on top of the car ready to jump in case the train [west] to go down in going over the bridges. From what I saw in the mountains last year and his [Kuverleg] of this section we both remarked that it was well passengers did not know what danger they are subject to, and how they have to run the gauntlet. Midnight found me in my adopted temporary home.
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Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923., “Otto Klotz Diary - September 07, 1887 (Vol 10),” stakeholders, accessed September 20, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/stakeholders/items/show/480.