The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-04-08
NO. II.

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can boast of. We have none Of the lansour
and debility and agues, that turn men into
feeble women, in the harvest field, as they
have south Of US, Labor, here, stands up
firmly on its legs, the year round, and d.ives
things through.
ID. We have as good land---it il useless
to say better-but as good as there is in tba
world. For fertility, Cottage Grove prai-
rie, or The whole valley Of tho Minnesota
river, or the valley Of the Red river Of tie
North, cannot he beat; yes, we UNDER
take TO say that at Pam5ina, in latitude a.,
north, they can raise as sound corn and. a.
much per acre, as can be raised anywhere
on Ihe Wabash. Now if our readers are
not going To believe US, let them stop short
here; for we are prepared to make wager.
that we will raise larger and better crops,
in Minnesota, acre for acre, of any or ali
crops ever cultivated in that State, than can
he raised in Illinois. We will name our
farmer, living here, for our champion, and
will back him up with our money. There
is time enough. May is soon enough mere.
We will give Illinois May the start, and
Minnesota shall come OUT ahead Dont
care what the crop is-any grain, any root
-anytLiIg from castor bean or an appls
or pear tree or n pumpkin, TO sweet potu-
to OF tobacco plant. Why, Sucker, do
you knew you have Irosts about two weeks
earlier III Illinois, thsn we do here? II isa
fact! The Ramsey County Agricultural
Society will 60 into operation here This sea.
son; aud we will show these people sights,
who come up here in May, and go shiyer-
ing back home, saying that Minnesoia 10
''too cold for craps" We can beat them
too, at stock growing, can raise harder cat
tie and sheep and thicker meated, sweeter
beef, than they can any " here down South.
We feed stock a fortnight longer; bu, what
of that! Our cattle are healthier, our grass
Is sweeter aud more iuxurant and our wa.
ter better for stock; and we can make more
at raising stock here, at the sans prices.
But we have higher prices. here, for meat
and for all produce-and always must have,
having soldiers, lunbermen and Indians TO
feed aud make US home market, The
cost of shipping produce from below, ope-
rates as IA perpetual tariff TO protec, our
farmer. He gets the same price he could
below, and the cost Of freight and the
charges beside.
FISH AND GAME.
Wild game, except waterfowl, we do
not consider abundant, in these paris; bur
upon The rice lakes, and the most OF them,
that you ever saw OF heard of. AS for fish,
II Is no eXasgeratiOn to say that Minnesota
her rivers and streams, but especially
lakes, are alive with them We will war
ran, all fishermen in all parts of the world.
an abundance Of sport and Of success, in
fishing fou can catch just as many bass
and l'ickerei as you want. In the river,
right before the door of the Pioneer office,
We catch not only the catfish, (none of
your Shiny, muddy cats ei,her,) hut also the
wall.eyed pike, n most delicious fish. Ia
many streams, the speckled trout abounds,
varying in siZe from inches to ? pounds.
But it is idle for novice, to try TO catch
trout. 1, is is ,csli,h business as fortune
hunting.
INDIANS
On the west shore of the river, are the
Sioux Indians. They are daily on the east
side, begging some, trading little and somo
Of them stealing. They never speak Eng.
Iish, even if they know a few words of it.
They are civil, men, women and boys. At
night, they generally paddle (,hai is the
squaws pahdle) their canoes home, across
the river. ln residence of three years,
we have not seen three drunken Sioux ia
ST. Paul, OF any age, male or female. We
STATE this rs an astonishing fact, credtable
to the character of our liquor dealers; but
still more SO TO the Sioux Indians. They
are under better moral influence than any
other Indians, perhaps, on this continent.
Ii tho Sioux treaties be ratified, these In
dians will be removed before next winter,
to their reset vation, on The head waters Of
the Minnesota river. 4 great many people,
hundreds nrp Il IN rho Indian
country, making all sorts Of improvements,
including expensive mills. Settlers are
pouring in there every day, and will con-
tinue 10 do so; for the Government could
not, if ii would, shut out the swarming mil
lions of our coun,rymen, for a distance Of
many hundred miles, Of country treated for,
Of which The river is the boundary.
POPULATION.
II is hard to answer the question, what ID
your population composed of! The pcoplo
who constituted Minnesota, when i, was Or
gah'zed, were majority Of them Cana
d'ans, voyageurs and their families, and
half and quarter and eighth and sixteenth
breed Indians, running through The whole
gamut Of coIors, from the dusky Indian 70 tho
fair Scotchman; and these people are still
IN Minnesota, quiet, coed people, though
not all rs intelligent and energetic as the
>cberning Yankee. They are living all over
the Territory. OIL both sides of the river.
where our Organic Act found them, and
gave them the political rights they SO high
Iy enjoy. Such is their attachment to our
flag and our Government. that no where
could volunteers he more readily raised,
than anlongs, them, to fight its battles. Sincs
the date Of the Organic Act, settlers from
all parts have come in from the East tho
Middle and the South. However divided
upon other questions, there is not and will
not be in Minnesota, any disposition to suf-
fer any infringement whatever. upon the
rights Of any and all the States Of the Union,
TO manage their own domestic affairs.
STEAMBOATS,.
This river, is just as navigable all the way up
to ST. Paul. when the Upper or Lower Rapids do
not interrupt, us river well can be; although
there have been times, aud may again be. when
the sandbars interrupt the passage Of boats Of the
usual draught. The boats running here, ore Of
the same class that run from ST. Louis to Rock