The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-12-02
Our dcStiny.

While most Of our citizens, clearly to their
satisfaction, the destiny Of Minnesota, there is a
small class Of persons Of ,imorous cast, who can
never see any thing tina; is nut demonstrated by ex
pertinent and already standing forth before their eyes
The one class have, as with glance of the eye, the
FIR t day after landing upon shore, that our
Territory must be all that its warnest friends have
assumed for il, AMI thereupon have fixed their location
and invested their all in a home. The ether class
have been here year or more, dabblng about the
shore Of enterprise, ever uncertain whether they shall
embark in a large business OF wait and see This is
TO be expcctcd-men differently constituted, some
are 50 bold as 10 make fortune wherever they make
"A strike, and others are to follow after like sinking
Peter. IT'S true, that many instances of success
are now bcto'e this latter class, that if they now
doubt, they would not believe prophet from the dead
Yet, there is class Of persons who have recently
come among Us, and large class in the States Who
read our papers, and who intend to come next spring:
to such it is proper that should speak for our Ter
ritory, and Of the hope that is in us. OF Our soil,
cur climate, distance from the seaboard as it now
is AMI As it is to he when abbreviated by the facilities
already in and being constructed we PROPOSE not
now to discourse. Indeed, we will pass by the con-
sidcraion of Indian trade and the present avails
of or pinorcs, and will cut our calculations out Of
new cloth, whc! we shall need to take up after the
last band Of Indians has faded ava, into the West
and after oar llnhclmen have done wit, the back
woods labor OF rafting logs to St Louis. What shalt
we do then! We shall rails cattle for those States
where they canaot do i. we'll Our beef and horses
will he rs much more valuable than the same products
oi the States below Us, the agricultural pro-
ducts Of New England superior in q,at, to those of
the general West. Our meats will have higher flavor
and orr horses more activity We shall grow wool
10 great advantage, all the way to Pe.nbina, 500 miles
north. We shall grow flax, and prepare il for the
Eastern market, at our numerous places for water
power. We shall export potatocsa source of income
which of itself would sustain us as il now nearly
S'stans Nova Scotia. Dut We believe that our
chicest reliance article Of export, viii be our
manufactured lumber. We have facilities for this
branch of business that scarcely be found else
where. All the States on the MississipDi. 3. 600
miles, to it, mouth, and the West Indies and Mexico
woii be oar natural markets for this production No
section Of the world could compete with Us. The
pine may here be converted, ana principally by ma
chincry, into thousand forms, from a meeting house
to nogsin.
81. Amhony VIII delight to fill ORDERS
la the order Of things it cannot be but the mines
on our lake shore Will be the fun lltion for wealthy
towns, the lake itself the field Of the Most important
fisheries, and as consequence there will be avenues
of trade opened between the head of southern and
northern navigation. The capital Of distant cities,
emulous for this trade, will be invested in these
works. Labor viii flow in at the call of capital and
population will increase in ratio with the profits Of
such investments. There are IA hundred topics Of
intellectual speculation like these, that we might take
up, bat our chickens so many that we will not
attempt to them, but ask the world to come and
see them hatch