The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-07-15
Inquiries about Minnesota.

Here is letter Of inquiry. 81 want t, know what
inasons wages IS day aud what Is the price Of lay
ins brick bv the thousand and what is brick worth
thousand and what lathing and plastering Is per
yard and what il teaning worth day ard wha. is
board and hay and oats, aud what docs carpenters
get day, and whether they pay money and whether
there is plent, of work please answer this as
, convenient
We learn that masons get fon - 90 to 81 30 per
day. This thing of grading thc labor of all solts Of
workmen of the same trade, at one price is supreme
ly ridiculous. Some masons well As other mcchan-
les, twice as much as others can. This be-
gins be understood. TO give one son the same
price another i)r days work, just absurd
would be for green pethgger to insist upon large
a retainer in a suit, as Daniel Webster would Brick
have been very scarce in s., Paul but will soon b. plea
tier. B.awey is makilg brick Of BITTER quality
than have before seen. ilhas been common fault
with oar brick, that they are b.tl and poro,,s-ab-
soibin5 too much water; and it Mil b, hard 70 con-
vince us that the immense quarry Of rock, Wing un-
dermaath half of ST. Paul in layers easily eNcaNated,
i, not tn" proper lcom which t. draw the ma
torialt1s bald, al wall, OF all ON Buildings. Brick
counted and soi at 20 90 pes thousand; or fur
niShcd laid in the wall. III So %. Ii measured in
the wall, thea OF Course tn contractor saves the OPEN
iass. Ii We are not mistaken, good finished job oi
iaths and pilstering, costs about % cents ward -
Lime has hitherto been mostly brought here from Ga
lem, Dubuque, Prairie du Chen; although there
is aaartc!a of lime made in ht Of ST. Paul, that an
swcTs some good purposes. Linz said to b, very su-
perIor, Is now being manufactured up III, Minnesot,
river, which will b. likely TO supply our market soon.
if good article cannot BE- had nearer. Lime sells on
our evee, usually, at II 20 per barrel. Good sand,
rs delivered at from 80 to 10 cents "A load. We have
very beautiful white sand Also white as paper and
perfectly clean, that easily b. had for finish
OF putty coat. The price Of good team and driver is
IS 81 per day; and certainly W. have the largest
best team horses, in and about ST. Paul that can be
found anywhere. The price of common board with
lodging, is s. 90 per week, or 50 50 if You sleep
Yourself Washing is about so cents "A dozen and no
insurance shirt buttons, and ten cents a hole for
iatniag your stockings Hay sells at 50 90 or SO 90
per ton, if delivered; and although wild is Of excel
lent quality Oats sell a about 35 cents. If you bus
Minnesota oats, always buy by measure and YOU Will
save 20 per cent by it-our oats being heavier than
any that are brought up the river. Carpenters get
from 81 80, 81 Is to 81 90 per day according to the
kind of pay and their skin and ability to accomplish
work well and speedily Most people who build here
pay money; bat not always to the workman who
earns IT. This is about the way it j.. A. wants a
house that viii cost him 500 lie is in hurry for
IT, He has not the money by him. but b. viii have il
in four months. lie borrows money enough. at hrh
interest, to pmohas half the materials and then he
makes arrangement with some store to DAY goods on
his orders He looks about for some workmen with
"n'i'es' ir whom store pay is just good
as cash. Tie hires them At cash price, nominay,
because m fact, the Frequency Of such transactions
has necessarily Inflated The price of labor. and there
really IS cash price. The shrcwd man who has
money in his pocket and would build, finds it better
to ioan his money or invest it in "A stock of goods
with which 10 pay Off the orders of others. who arc
building few months credit. After the four
months, the merchant who h1s paid AS orders
in goods, receives his pay from A. in cash.
A sends the money below to pay his debts and buy
more goods with which to repeat the same operation
with Ii. and {. who also want to build. The consc-
Quencc Of all this is that the ect1p;c ne,y SECS d2y
lar # cast-he pays the merchant high profit for all
that he buys he ccsariiy gets high nominal price
Tor his work A. who has he house built. pays more
for It than ii is worth and in fact might better have
waited or hired money az per cent a month: and
the man who has ready cash to build with. does no,
BULL AT all; for he do better with his money!
Another letter. from OF our subscribers in Ohio.
is as follows:
Herewith find one dollar, for which continue nv
subscription to Pioneer. Mn highly interested IN
the history Of your young and vigorous Territory and
next Spring SHALL move into it with my family !
shall come without first taking look reiv ,pon the
Pioneer for true and faithful, account of the country
aud expect to embark IN farming when arrive there
am dG0nasned that the country sAaH suit as can
put up with anything but sickl, and chanreabc eli
mate. Can dairy do well! Where should pur-
chase my COWS 70 drive into Your country! How
mach would it cost to send them on steamers from
Galcia!''
1t quite faitesn5 to have such evidence Of COM
hdence in US, journalist We say however 10
the writer we have invariably said to others edo
not take our word but come and for yourselyes'
But of one thing certain that we stake our
credit Tor vcraci,y upon it--a more h.althf inygo
rating Climate than ous, is not in the world. SET,
tier no more fears the fever and aguc here in the tim
Der, on the prairie the lake shore or the bottom
or the river bank, than he docs the yellow fever here
How it may be along up the rich bottoms Of the Min
nesota, yet inhabited hut by handful of whites. we
do not vet know, by observation; but we never We,
knew or heard Of Of fever and ayc originating
in all Minnesota Right glad are we to find people
this season, engaging here in farming; for of all p,,
suits. farming is the certnin and profitable and
pre- eminently IN Minnesota The climate is r;rb,
the market high and for SOIL to sy nothing of the
rich belt of land stretching along up tn, Mssssi,p
liver, there is the valley of tae Minnesota orc than
200 miles long, with intervaes annually overtioyed.
and enriched by ietilizng deposites, land equal tn
that waterod 10y the famous Nile--unseted and most,
y unclancd-with natural meadows of grass Of sur
prziag uxuriancc which need oaly be turned over b,
the plew and sowed with timothy and rd-top and
fowl meadow, to make them u perpetual source Of
W 'ath t. the dii'ymaa but why repeat ,,cse facts