The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-05-19

wont there lie reyulsiOn-WOn't the great
town be at the Falls' how many presses
are there? what will they do for eatables in
there? :.
I Our answers are-St. Paul, except as
little old French trading post, is no year old
the town is about as large as a mob on
the increase-it looks as if the seed for a
multitude Of tenemeDts had been scattered
yesterday upon bed of guano, and had
sprouted up into cabins, and stores and sheds
and warehouses, fresh from the saw mill,
since the last sun shone-it looks just as St.
Louis did within our remembrance. when
the terminating principle of Yankee enter
prise was first infused into it. As for wa
ges, Why at St. Paul as every where else, the
employer hires as cheap as possible, and
the laborer gets all he can--belng an amount
probably bearing some proportion to the
amount. of labor performed. Any man who
is reallyin earnest about it, except grave
digger, can find plenty of work to do in St.
Paul, and chance to invest all his earnings
in real estate which will soon double in val
ue. As for rents, like Rachae's children,
they are not Let no man who wants a
shelter over his head, think of staying in
St. Paul beyond the time OF a visit, without
being prepared to build something of a
house, if it be nothing but dry goods box
with a roof overit. Pine fumerdelivered,
will cost from $l3 to 81 per thousand. As
for the question, what is to sustain the bu-
siness of St. Paul, we answer, it must sus-
tain itself, as all towns have had to do. 1t
creates itself, naturally and necessarily from
its geographical position. The enquirer
says he can see what St. Louis has to sus-
tain it; true, my friend, but when St. LOUIS
was what St. Paul now is, there was class
Of men like yourself, who could not tell
what resources St. Louis had--because they
were not yet developed in the upper and
surrounding country; there were others who
looked with an eye of faith upon the destiny
of St Louis, who could see what resources
that town would have in a few years, and
their faith is now rich fruiton. What are
town lots worth? Well, in our humble
judgment, they are worth all they can be
sold for. The price varies from,$25 to $500
per Tot, of fifty feet by one hundred and if-
ty. If you do not think they are worth that,
n h. 10,
you town lots III other viages-and per
haps larger villages, larger lots and richer
soiI--which cap be bought for less money.
We should be glad to sell some of that sort
10 any gentleman who has a taste for gar
dening, and who wants such resources as
horticulture will supply "to sustain tile bu
siness'' of village. As to whether there
will he revulsion some time in St. Paul,
we can only say, we have no doubt of it.
We should expect nothing else of any town
which has in il the essential elements of a
vigorous growth; but we would not recon-
amend the cultivation Of dwarf apple trees,
for fear that thrifty trees might have the
tips of their limbs nj pped by the frosts of
winter; would you? If so, why go 1t, and
see which will succeed the better in orchard
ing. Z, : go -, : -
Won't the great town be at the Falls?
There will be great town at the Falls, no
doubt; bat whether it will be the great town,
is another question. The Falls will very
soon be connected with St. Paul by rail-
road eight miles long; almost before people
in general begin to talk about il; because it
will pay, and because there are men inter-
ested in both those places, of great capital
and capable of planning and executing as
vancement. Of Minnesota, as the longest
headed of those shrewd Bostonians who
spread their net of railroad over the eastern
end Of this continent, and ensnared in it the
trade Of the st. Lawrence and the trade of
the great lakes, while New York was quiet
by snoozing on the banks of the HUDSON,
and clarifying the great Dewitt Clinton,
whose ditch is npw enrichng the city Of
Notions. When we left St. Paul the other
day, there was only one paper there-the
P.oNEER; perhaps there are twenty there
new--the farther off we get, the more ST.
Paul newspapers we hear of. No doubt
presses will come as fast as they are needed
The press in our time, keeps on the very
foremost wave of advancing population, or
rather, IT sometimes falls down OH the fore
side of the foremost wave The Pioneer.
when she issued in April last. was the nor