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


sion, excepting small portion.
SAINT ANTHONY.
/ Hurrying back to st. Paul, (and the boat is
down there before You think of tl you take Ben
sons stage, to ST. Anthony, passing through as
| pretty 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,
Il lilIle 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-
lively employed, and water enough, if the throat
oi the channel ihrough which it is supplied, be-
tween the island aud The shore, were sufficiently
deepened, TO drive all the saw-rniIIs in the world
Less than half mile below the mill dam, (Which
confines all the water passing down on the east
side of the island, while on the west side, the
water leaps, unresrained, down the Falls } there
is an eddy, to which lumber is hauled from the
mills TO be RATED down 10 St. Paul, distant, by
the rVer, some IL or lS miles. Look upon the
map, and you will that St. Anthony is only
about , miles north Of ST Paul. A railroad Of 8
miles therefore, or a plank-road, would be Of
great service TO both towns. That steamboats,.
ht TO navigate the river below ST. Paul, never can
if they would and never would if they could,
make difficult "Trip Of Is miles, for the sake of
getting miles nearer to Lake Superior and 10
the North Pole than they are at ST. Paul, in com
petition with plank-road or raroad, miles
long, is evident from the fact that they cannot
and do not do it in competition with common
roads. An extension of i railroad in the proper
and natural direction, notherly up the Misslssip-
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
place, in fact, which viii ultimately ba one Of
much Importance, beautiful retreat and
place of quiet and repose.
81. Anthony is said TO contain 900 inhabitants;
but what they all do for living beyond the few
engaged IN numbering, we are unable TO say. In
our opinion, the ultimate hope of that town for
large population, rests upon that class Of retired
people OF substance as well as invads and peo-
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
chcerfuliy 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 so many years has been made pre-
h,-R Rntn b,t,l
claim there on the Reserve, there is new say
mill now erected there, and several families are
there resident; and frst John Ii. Stevens, who has
d license, and lives at the ferry. a new county
has just been carved out of Dakota, of which All
Saints Is the county seat. All Suints, is in all
respects as pleasantly and as advantageousiy stu
ated, as S.. Anthony, for mill purposes; and will
soon be fourishing 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 a perpendicular
ledge, some 20 feet, In way to stir up great
many stupid stanzas aud swelling odes, and sub
lime dstiches. A few miles, 3 or back, Is lake
Calhoun, which il seems to be generally admit
ted, must be considered classic lake; and all
the little poetasters 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 scribendi and soon they break out in COUP
lets, sonnets dsiiches, odes, descriptions sketch
es, and the various other phenomena Of disorder
ed iulaginaiious. From All Saints, you might
take pony and ride 100 miles up The Mime
sofa river, through varied landscape Of rich
prairie and heavy timber, and rich bottoms, like
those Of the iiliaois, The grass SO high you could
not look out from the top of your popy---or
through the Big Woods--on across mill streams
on across rolling prairies Of rich luxuriance,
slopng away into the wide, blue, dreamy locking
basin of the Mnnesota--the lOveliest view Of
broad, fair, voluptuous Nature, 10 all her uncon-
ceacd beauty, that ever flashed upon mortal Wis
ion, to
TRAVERSE DIES Sioux.
Here, it is generally thought, will be the prin-
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 sloppg hill side,
shaped like loaves of sugar, taken possession OF
by the ants, that hurry IN and out, and seem busy
TO no purpose; at Traverse des Sioux (he crossing
of the Sioux there has always been and still is,
u well worn trail, crossing from the east to the
west side---connecting Lake Pepln on the Missis-
sippi and all that region. with Lac qul Parle and
the regions watered by the head waters Of the
Minnesota, and the high lands iii 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, ID the mouth Of the
Blue Earth--as delightful, fertile, and des,rabiea
region, as ever ran wid--so indeed is the whole
river valley, far beyond thore. as far up as the
steamboat Yankee venured in 1850. Coming
down the crooked river, IN canoe, If yon miss
of steamboat, you will find, l2 miles below the
Traverse, at the head OF the Biz 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-
gons, for all sorts of human enterprise and in
dus,ry, but east Of it, within days drive across
region Of groves and prairies which Nature has
already made road over, hes Ire rich valley Of
Cannon river Uhe River La Tongue Of La Hon
ian) which will have its easies; and most natural
avenue of river trade, through LIE Sueur and down
the Minnesota river TO st, Paul. Now if you get
back with your pony to the Fort. you can send
him back by boy to St. Anthony, take boa,
at the Fort, and directly you are back again at