The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-04-15

Smelling half way TO ST. Pau, and from For
Smelling, on the west side Of the river, TO the
Falls OF 81 Anthony and above, lies the Military
Reserve of tho Fort, land which Congress viii
probably authorize the sale Of by law, this SEES
sion, excepting small portion.
SAINT ANTHONY.
| Huuying back to St. Paul, (and the boat il
down there before You think of itl you take Ben.
sons stage, to ST. Anthony, passing through as
pretty Il specimen Of Minnesota, on your way, as
need be; and you are soon there, although you
might 90 in half the time, il that plank road that
is TO be, were completed. You will find ST. An
thony right smart village, very neatly built
along the east bank of the river and on bench,
II little back from the river, that overiooks the
Falls and fine region west Of the river. You
may be disappointed in the grandeur Of the Falls,
as you certainly will be in The size Of the river
but not in the unsurpassed beauty Of both, or the
charming beauty of the whole scene that sur
rounds you. The mills, saws, you will find ac-
nv ely employed, and water enough If the throat
OF the channel through which ii is supplied, be-
tween the island aud the shore, were sufficiently
deepened, TO drive all the saw-mils in the world.
Less than half mile below the mill da m which
confines all the water passing down on the east
side OF the island, while on the west side, the
water leaps, unresiraned, down the Falls } there
Is an cutys 10 WHICH lutllCer niuleQ from tnc
mills TO be railed down 10 ST Paul, distant, by
the rver, some II or lS miles. Look upon the
map, and you will see that St. Anthony is only
about miles north Of st. Paul. A railroad of 8
miles therefore, or plank would be Of
great service to both towns. That steamboats,.
lit TO navigate the river below ST. Paul, never can
II they would and never would if they could,
make difficult trip Of IL miles, for the sake of
getting miles nearer to Lake Superior and TO
the North Pole than they are at ST. Paul ia COM
petition with a p'ank-road or railroad, miles
long, Is evident from the fact. that they cannot
and do not do it in competition with common
roads. An extension of railroad in the proper
and natural direction, no,herly up the MISSISSIPPI
| pi river. toward Lake Superior, would not touch
st. Anthony, but would leave il several miles
west Of the line. We should. however, favor the
construction Of the road by st. Anthony. place
where all travellers will desire 10 visit, where
there will be mach manufacturing, especially Of
pine lumber, the University of Minnesota; and a
place, in fact, which viii ultimately ba one of
much Importance, as a beautiful retreat and
place of quiet and repose
81. Anthony is nd to contain 900 inhabitants
bat what they all do for living beyond the few
ged IN numbering, we are unable to say. III
our opinion, the ultimate hope of that town for a
large population, rests upon that class Of retired
pie Of fortune, desiring literary privileges IN re-
tired, beautiful town, who will certainly be more
strongly attracted there than to any other place
we know Of in the Great Valley. They have
there, newspaper the Saint Anthony Express,
which is really the most valuable institution they
possess. Whatever we could do to attract the
attention of The world to such advantages as ST.
Anthony really does possess, we have always
chcer(ully done and written.
ALL SAINTS
This is on the west side Of the river, opposite
St. Anthony. Here is the old Government mill,
which for many years has been made pre-
text, by Robert Smith and others, for holding
claim there the Reserve, there is say
mill now erected there, and several families are
there resident; nd first John Ii. Stevens " no has
IA license, and lives at the ferry. A new county
has Just been carved ont of Dakota, of which All
Saints is the county seat. All Saints, is in all
respects easanty and as adyantageousiy stu
ated, S.. Anthony, for mill purposes, and will
soon be a fiourishins village. A few miles below
All Saints. on the way TO Fort Smelling, is the
Little Falls, where small stream from Lake
Calhoun, they say leaps down perpendicular
ledge, some 20 feet, III way TO Stir up great
many stupid stanZas aud swelling odes, and sub
lime dstiches. few miles, 3 or 1 back, is lake
Calhoun, which IL seems to be generally admit
,cd must be nsidered our classic lake; and all
the little poe,asters Of the Union, when they GO
INTO that region, are compelled to affect if they
do not feel, poetic fervor; they catch the cacOe-
thes scrbendi; and soon they break out in coup
let's sonuets, disiiches odes descriptions, sketch
es, and the various other phenomena of disorder
ed iulaginaiions. From All Saints, you might
take pony and ride 100 miles up The Mime
sofa river, through a varied landscape of rich
prairie and heavy timber, and rich bottoms like
those or the iilioois, The grass so high you could
not look out from the top of your pony-or
through the Big Woods--on across mill streams
on rolling praires of rich luxurlance,
slopiDg away into the wide, blue, dreamy looking
basin of the ADMINISTRATIVE ioveliest view Of
broad fair, voluptuous Nature, 10 all her uncon-
cealcd beauty, that ever flashed upon mortal Wis
ION, to
TRAVERSE DIES Sioux.
Here, it is generally thought, will be the prn-
cipal town in the valley of the Minnesota river.
Here the Upper Treaty was made; ard for many
weeks, hundreds of Dakota lodges, stood every
where scattered about on the slopmg hill side.
shaped like loayes Of sugar, taken possession OF
by The ants, that hurry IN and out and seem busy
to no purpose; at Traverse DIES Sioux (the crossing
of the Sioux there has always been and still is,
"a well worn trail, crossing from the east to the
west side--connecting Lake Pepn on the Missis-
sippi and all that region. with Lac qu Parle and
the regions watered by the head waters Of the
Minnesota, and the high lands Ill which rise and
and flow off TO different seas, all the principal
rivers west of the chain Of great Lakes Abou,
20 miles above The Traverse, IL the mouth Of the
Blue Ear:l,-as delightful fertile, and desirable a
region, as ever ran wild--so indeed IS the whole
river valley, far beyond thore. as far up as the
steamboat Yankee ventured in 1850. Coming
down the crooked river, in canoe, if you miss
Of steamboat, you will find, IL miles below the
Traverse, at the head Of the Big Woods.
LIE SUEUR.
! On the south side Of the river, place which
the energy, capital and enterprise of some e the
merchants in St. Paul, have already made the
most attractive point on the river. lie Sueur, Is
on slope rising from the shore, gradually, like
the site Of Peoria. Ills. 1t is not only IN the
midst of one Of the richest and most inviting re-
gions, for all sorts of human enterprise and IN
dustry, but east Of it, within days drive across
a region Of groves and praues which Nature has
already made a road over, hes lire rich valley Of
Cannon river Uhe River La Tongue of La Hon