The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-03-06
TIE MINNESOTA PIONEER
st. pauI, alimfso!a,
Thursday Morning. March s. 1851.
l:aIena.

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Long siscc, ia the Chrcniels. (now dead and
bafisd iu the same grave with its sr,ie banriing.
the Ws.ab, Reveie,) we recellect Of seeing AN
article concerning our trade snd business with
sGsleus. whichwc thought was written IN. an en-
vious and ,llibera spirit and TO which we intended
before now. to have nude some reply. Amongst
other things, j, wss urged that ST, Paul was m
in'menss loser by paying iTeishis and passage
u,cacy. to the Ga'ena and 81. Louis boats.
F; Now we wculd iaqeire. where and what would
sur town and Territory be, without the agency Of
those beats: What other town but Calena would
have furnished Minnesota with regular lines Of
splendd packe, boais, TO Gaiena aud st. Louis,
boats that ihc admiration &C ulI who sit
waters. commanded by gen,senen. WHO ,aae an
enthusiastic Interest IN the growth and prosperity
of our Territory. and who, hy their enterprise,
have literally ereaiei nearly the whole river trade
above CaleHa! Nor is it 81. Paul and Minnesota
alone. tina, indebted 10 the energy aud capital
cf these men; L.. Gaiena, also, destined soea TO
be what 81. Louis how il, has secured thereby,
with St.-Loais, the upper trade. Cor now aud for
sver-a matter CT vas, importance to Gaena. at
this particular jlncture especially, when the
sources of interior trade, fiom the mines, are
gradually dryins up, iio,n various causes, such as
The abandonment; IF niuiag, ard The concen;ra-
ticn Of the retail irade, formerly done i, Galena,
IN villages that have recently grown up in the
mines, and in the diversion Of business TO the
81. q L
pending the cc,np.e,iea If The Galena and Chica-
60 railroad; and more especially. US the concen-
ira.ion Of the upper trade a, Ciaana, by means Ct
these eseriions CT the capitalists and boa,lnen CT
Galena, have made tina, city the necessary and ia
csiiable terminus Of the Chicago rai.road--or at
any rate, the western terminus Of the business Oh
she upper mississippi, the hinge upon which
commerce mus! now turn eastward and north,Sa,d
II not southwark, whether that commerce shall
few eastward through through another, Of
Tue cities Of Lake Michigan. Minnesota might
have waited until doonsday, before Boston or
Philadelphia or any other city, would have fur
nished US with these steamboats,, or b fore their
merchants woald have furnished US with the cred
it,. the capital and the goods, Of all descrpti rs,
d with which Galena and her merchants have freely
trassd us, too often to their own present loss, we
fear. II is true the Caleneans have made these
eseriOns, with reference 10 chershing and secur-
ias valuable trade; bnt what valuable enter
. prise Is ever engaged i1,wthout reference 10 self
interest This does 70, detract in the slightest
degree from the praise due TO them in securing the
trade OF this noble river TO its very sources, where
oy they incidentally build up, populate aud en-
tich the vast regions in the north, watered by tie
Minnesota, the Mississippi, the Red River and all
their tributaries. II there is young city in the
s. weird. not excepting Troy, (Which Is pruyerbiai
for its intelligent catetprise.) that deserves the
credit above all others, Of liberal noble CONNER
eal enterprise, that city Is GaleEa All prosperity
to Gaisna, and he. boa,nen, her ar;izans, and her
k,ercbants.