n search of the Mississippi
River, the Illinois country and Canada, he was killed by his
followers in March, 1687.]

Elkhart is a city of factories. Band instruments, furniture, telephone
supplies, drugs, carriages, and many other products are included among
its manufactures, which have an annual value of more than $15,000,000.
Two Mennonite papers are published here.

915 M. SOUTH BEND, Pop. 70,983. (Train 3 passes 5:30a; No. 41, 10:38a;
No. 25, 7:45a; No. 19, 1:43p. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 12:20p; No. 26,
2:22p; No. 16, 3:32p; No. 22, 7:45p.)

South Bend is situated on the St. Joseph River. Just north of the city
is the portage between the St. Joseph and the Kankakee Rivers, by means
of which P[`e]re Marquette in 1675 and La Salle in 1679 made their way into
what is now the state of Illinois.

This portage was part of the long land and water highway by which
the mound-builders in pre-historic times conveyed copper from the
Lake Superior to points as distant as Mexico and South America.

As there is no place in the U.S. but the south shore of Lake
Superior where native copper can be mined, its presence in the
mounds, at remote points is an infallible guide in tracing the
commercial intercourse of the Mound-builders. Copper boulders are
also found on the shore, and even as far south as Indiana and
Illinois. That the whole extent of the copper-bearing region was
mined in remote times by a race of whom the Indians preserve no
tradition there is abundant evidence, such as numerous
excavations in the solid rock, heaps of rubble and dirt along the
courses of the veins, copper utensils such as knives, chisels,
spears, arrowheads, stone hammers creased for the attachment of
withes, wooden bowls for boiling water from the mines, wooden
shovels, ladders, and levers for raising and supporting masses of
copper. The high antiquity of this mining is inferred from these
facts: that the trenches and pits were filled level with the
surrounding surface so that their existence was not suspected;
that on the piles of rubbish were found growing trees of great
age, such as hemlock trees having annual rings showing that they
began before the coming of Columbus. Copper wrought into utensils
is found in the mounds all the way from Wisconsin to the Gulf
Coast, and the supply is too abundant to authorize the
supposition that it was