The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-08-09

from the iumDer regions OF Maine-peopie
of industry, energy and enterprise. Those
who are loafers and tipplers by trade, will
find no encouragement at St. Anthony
Every person there works for living
There is not grog shop in town. They
60 in for water, and they won't have any
thing else.
PRoPRIETORsHIP OF THE FALLS.
This water power was first claimed by
MIR. Franklin Steele, IL years ago. Mr..
Steele is the Suttler at Fit. Smelling, most
worthy officer, and man who has done not
a 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 part of this property
from Mr.. Steele, he sold one half Of the
water power TO Mr.. A. w. Taylor, of Bos-
ton, 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 be abundanty 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 be found anywhere
than Saint Anthony, commencing at Mr..
Cheever's landing, the head of navigation
for the river below the Falls, and extending
to the head of the Island, where navigation
above the Falls commences. Amongst the
gentlemen interested in St. Anthony, beside
names of Franklin Steele, Hon. MIR. Sibey,
Mr.. Rice, Mr.. Gilbert, Capt. Paul r. 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.
SURROUNDING 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
is wide expanse of prairie
and oak openings, diversified with lakes and
patches Of natural moving. On the west
side, the eye extends over vast expanse 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,
way you may travel from the
Falls, you will pass over region of coun-
try designed by nature for the most profta-
Die employment of Agriculture. Farmers
must and will turn their attention this way
There Is certainly no spot in our country
where farming is likely to he so well reward
ed as here. To say nothing of the payment
Of Indian annuities and the demand for pro-
uce for the lumber trade, it Is plain that
extensive mills and manufactures must
soon be built at St. Anthony, which will
employ multitudes of hands in the manu-
facture 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
braciug climate of this region as well as the
prolific soil, it is very doubtful whether ms
many bushels can be produced per annum
by the labor of one man in any other part
Of our continent. All crops do well. Corn
is sure and an abundant crop If we were
to specify the crop that is most excellent
and abundant, however, it would be the
potato crop. Farmers, especially of New
England, if they could bat once see our
lands, would never think of settling on the
bilious bottoms and the ehervating prairies
south of US. What is fertility. what is
wealth, without vigorous health and activi-
ty of body and of minds These are con
siderations that will weigh more in future
with the immigrants, than they hitherto
have; clear, bracing air, an invigorating
winter to give elasticity to the sys,em--and
water as pure and soft as the dews Of heay-