The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-04-10

= lars per thousand feet. A single saw viii
cut in season one and a half million feet
for which il receives more than ten thou.
sand dollars. The constantly increasing de
: mand for lumber in the valley south Of II:
will sustain permanently the present prices
for however extensively men engage in lhs
business the supply will not exceed the con
sumption.
i There are other branches of manufac
lures to which we can look--New England
purchases wool in Illinois, Wisconsin, lowe
and Missouri, transports it several thou
: sand miles and after manufacturing il into
cloths sends it hack 10 cloihe the west, anC
. is getting rich from the operation. If, a:
we have seen reason 10 believe, this is to he
a wool growing country, surely with the IA
cllties we have in these fine water powers
we shall manufacture our own satinets
casineres and broad cloths and along with
our own, those of our neighhors who have
not the facilities which we possess.
The cotton fabrics which we use are
brought from Massachusetts and other New
England states. The raw material Is as
near us, land is cheaper, water power i.
: cheaper; we can produce our own provIs-
ions which New Englagd cannot; then why
cannot Minnesota manufacture cotton and
WOODEN goods at as little cost rs they? All
that is wanting IS capital and labor; the re-
duudancy IN the older states will soon sup
ply both. Minnesota need not import a
pound Of sugar from the south, her own
forests will supply more than her people
want; we will yet compete with the Green
Mountain state in producing maple sugar.
The lakes of the Territory will furnish
ice in few years that will supply the
whole Mississippi valley. The Bay State
must find n market in the Eastern hemi-
sphere for her ice, or ut least keep it away
from the Mississippi when the Minnesota
article gets abroad.
Gaiena, ST. Louis, and New Orleans will
by and by call on US to furnish granite and
other stones for their buildings, and already
believe, we have Il call from Cincinnati
for sand, to be used in the manufacture OF
glass.
OF the commercial advantages Of Mime
sofa we can have no mean opinion. She
has Lake Superior on the north east, which
at no distant day, will he connected by q
ship canal with Lake Huron. Boats can
then receive their cargoes at Buffalo and
discharge in Minnesota. At the head OF
Lake Superior, Fond du Lac, we shall see
a Chicago and Milwaukee in one city. The
Mississippi flowing through almost the ell
tire extent Of the Territory, will, by the re-
moval at a trifling cost, of few Obstacles
afford a steamboat navigation of three or
four hundred miles thrOug the heart of the
country. The Mississippi ard ST. CroiA
forming our eastern boundary, give naviga-
ble water for distance of two hundred and
fifty miles The Missouri river on the wes
and south washes also several hundred miles
of the Territory. Ii will be seen that Min.
nesota does not lack for water communica
ton to give her commercial advantages
The country heing generally level, will af
ford peculiar facility for the construction o.
railroads. New England is becoming a he
work of railway, and with every increasing
mile her wealth is augmented and her inf1u
ence extended. The iron horse has started
westward; already he traverses the peninsu
la Of Michigan, and westward Of Lake
Michigan, over the wide prairies oe Illinois
he speeds his way. Soon his iron track
will mark the prairies of Minnesota.
It will not do in this age of the world to
say that anything is impracticab|e. thing
may be impracticable to-day but will not b,
Tomorrow. The genius of man, and es
pecaliy the genus Yankee is triumphins
over every opposing obstacle. Things a:
incredible to past times as anything possibl,
can be to US, hare been accomplished. 4
railroad from Boston to Albany, would have
been, twenty-five years ago, as stupendou
an undertaking, as extending one 10 the Pa
. cifc now.
; The enterprise Of railroad from thu
: Mississippi to the western coast, seems late
5 ly TO have been taken hold Of with an ardo
worthy Of The spirit of the age. ST. Loul
takes the lead, but we can tell her she Is no
, too soon awake. The head Of Lake Supe
\ = ,bo Nt ia
, Here at the Falls of ST.. Anthony, We ar
almost as far west as Independence on th
e western confines of Missouri. Taking int
! consideration the direct COMMUNICATION fror
y Minnesota To the Atlantic--frOm Fond d
, Lac, when the ST. Mary canal is opened
5 down the great chain of inland seas, by tn
v WeIland canal 10 the ST. Lawrence, or b.
= railroad to the Hudson, New York aud Bos
/. tou-with this channel Of commerce stretch
E ing half way across the continent, identify
, ing the commercial interests Of the eDtir
e north and east with Minnesota--can the re
D naming link to connect the two oceans b
y long wanting! This question is Of grea
t magnitude, and let it he considered atten
j lively.
5 The fact that California is now the centr
: Of attraction on the Pacific, is supposed I
x determine the Bay Of San Francisco to b
e the western terminus of a road. to lie III
e highway Of the world. But California wi
/; soon be stripped of her mineral wealth, an
d what has she beside? The intrinsic natur
J. of all auriferous deposits forbIdS that he
n stream Of gold should flow forever; otht
e mines as rich as hers have been davelope
T. and exhausted. Those of South Americ
x were little, if any, inferior. The differcnc
l. is, that Califarnia is discovered in the nins
n teenth century-when improvements and il
J. ventions have outstri pt the widest concev
= tions Of the past--when the world is wid
'e awake in enterprise, and discovery Of ii
'r kind blazes up to its meridian in day =
Il Former developments of the kind require
" many years 70 reach their zenith, and II
D. world in its slumber, was not startled by Il
e, meteor glare that now infatuates men.
n without a precedent in the history
ne any other country, has been Il
I'd sprng-tide Of emigration that for Il
rs last year has broken away the basis of Il
d. Sierra Nevada, this will only hasten Il
at sunset Of California's golden glory. S
e. has not tie elements Of enduring prosperit
e. like the inebriste in eihargy, will sink
IL correspondingly low, rs the unnatural sti'