The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-08-16

cannot he exaggerated. We are particu-
larly delighted with that bench Of table land
back of Water street, some 80 feet high, par
allel to the river, which overlooks the island
and the Falls. Along the bench, a row of
houses has sprung into existence since our
last visit. A healthier spot than ST. An
lthony cannot be found this side of the
White hills. Most of its inhabitants are
from the lumber regions of Maine-people
of industry, energy and enterprise. Those
| who are loafers aud tipplers by trade, will
find no encouragement at St. Anthony
Every person there works for a living
There is not d grOg shop in town. They
go in for water, and they won't have any
thing else.
PROPRTRroRsHIP OF THE FALLS.
i This wafer power was first claimed by
Mr.. Franklin Steele, IL years ago. MIR.
Steele is the Suttler at Fit. Smelling, most
worthy officer, and man who has done not
little for Minnesota. He built the first
house ever built in Minnesota. He built
the first mills on the St. Croix river. He
is emphatically pioneer. Laboring under
disadvantages which no man can imagine,
in obtaining labor and tools and materials
for the work, he succeeded in time in build
ing the dam and getting things in motion.
He has expended at the Falls over fifty
thousand dollars. A few months since,
Gushing and Company of Massachusetts,
having failed to comply with the conditions
of their purchase of a part of this property
from Mr.. Steele, he sold one half of the
water power to Mr.. A. w. Taylor, of Bos-
ton, a gentleman who seems to have had a
keen perception of the capabilities of the
place. Mr.. Godfrey who is also one of the
mill proprietors, is the operating agent of
the mills, under whose thorough and efficient
management the business of the concern
now seems to he abundantly profitable. with
high promise Of still greater and better
things for ST. Anthony-a place OF which
We are constrained To say, IN all sincerity,
that one more inviting TO the invalid, the
laborer or the capitalist, cannot be found
East or West, North or South; nor can
more beautiful town site he found anyw here
than Saint Anthony, commencing at MIR.
Cheever's landing, the head Of navi gatiOn
| for the river below the Falls, and extending
to the head of the Island, where vigation
above the Falls commences. Amongst the
gentlemen interested i'm St. Anthony, beside
those who reside there, we will mention the
names of Franklin Steele, Hon. Mr.. Slbley,
Mr.. Rice, Mr.. Gilbert, Capt. Paul X. George,
and several others whose names do not now
occur to us-all of them amongst the last
men in the world to let St. Anthony stand
still for want of capital, energy and enter
prize, to develope those mighty resources
which God has lavished there.
---sunRnuNDING COUNTRY.
A finer agricultural region than that
which surrounds St. Anthony, cannot be
found. On the east side of the river, down
to the junction Of the ST. Croix and the
Mississippi, is a wide expanse of prairie
! Il ytth lax S
patches of natural moving. On the west
side. the eve extends over vast eXpaDse of
fertile table lands of surprising beauty, ex-
tending to the St. Peters river on the south,
and as far west in the wide range OF the
buffalo as you may choose to 60. In fact,
whichever way you may travel from the
Falls, YOU " i'll pass over a region CT coun-
try designed by nature for the most proflta-
BILE employment of Agriculture. Farmers
must and will turn their attention this way.
There Is certainly 10 spot IN our country
where farming is likely to be so well reward
ed as here To say nothing of the payment
of Indian annuitieS and the demand for pro-
Iuce for the lumber trade, it Is plain that
extensive mills and manufactures must
soon he built at St. Anthony, which will
en,pIoy mutitudes of hands in the manu-
faciure of all articles Of heavy transporta-
ton, and build up that most valuable OF all
trade. the trade of exchanges between the
town and the country. Considering the
bracing climate of this region as we'll as the
prolific soil, it is very doubtful whether rs
many bushels can be produced per annu'n
by the labor Of one man IN any other part
of our continent All crops do well. Corn
is sure and an abundant crop. Ii we were
to specify the crop that is most excellent
and abundant, however, 1t would be the
potato crop. Farmers. especially OF New
England, if they could but once see our
lands. would never think of settling on the
bilious bottoms and the enervatIng Prairies
south of US. What is fertility, what Is
wealth, without vigorous health and aciivl-
ty of body and of mind: These are con
Isidera,ions that will weigh more in future
with the immigrants, than they hitherto
have; a clear, bracing air, an invIgorating
winter To give elasticity tn the system--and
water as pure and soft Us the 'lews of heav-
en-, gushing from hill and valley.
CONNECTION WITH THE ATLANTIC.
When we consider how soon the upper
Mississippi will be placed in direct coninu-
nication with the Atlantic by railroad ex-
tending east from Galena and by steamboat
through the Wisconsin aud Fox rivers and
the Lakes-a work already well in progress
is it too much TO predict for this young
/ Territory and for the manufacturing inter-
est of ST. Anthony, rapidity of growth
unparalleled even in the annals OF Western
progress!
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