The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-04-09
auadrnpled the present wear. One auctioneer.

quadrupled the present year. One auctioneer,
Collins, has disposed of real and personal prop
erty the past year amounting to $4,000. The
auction business is dull one here No one
scarcely ever is compelled to SELL and besides
our people are rather shy of auction sales. Tru-
man NJ. Smith, real estate agent, informs us that
since the first of January, three months, he has
bought and sold property, ndhandled the cash
for the same, to the amount OF S33 900.
There are two extensive Livery Stables in ST.
Paul, with excellent teams, coaches and car
rlages, ready to carry strangers and citizens at
any time, to any part of the Territory or the
adjacent portions of Wisconsin. st. Paul has
also recently been made the starting point for
all the mail routes of the Territory east, west.
north and south.
A considerable amount of capital is invested
here in fire, marine and life insurance. This
business has heretofore been transacted by the
agencies of foreign companies; but at the late
session of the Legislative Assembly, an act of
incorporation was granted to the St. Paul Fire
and Ma rine Insurance Company which has
been organized, ard will be ready to transact
business in a few weeks.
Conclusion.
In approaching the conclusion of this rough
and imperfecty sketched picture of st. Paul,
we also, as our readers must likewise. arrive at
thC luItlcr nut tidt Il III On
and glorious position among the commercial
and manufacturing marts of the Great Western
Valley is rapidly approaching her. In fact, it
may be said to be already upon her. The con-
tracted columns of our sheet afford but very
circumscribed limits to give even the outlines
of what the picture should be. And even this
must be done with an imperfect and hurried
hand, although it were another and gifted
one, witfsNuch crude materials at command,
and the labor of arranging and placing them in
the slightest possible regular shape crowded
into the time of two OF three days
We have cndcavOrcd to present ST. Paul as
it now is. How far short we have come of ac-
complshing the task perfectly, we are well
aware. But our friends must take the will for
the deed and judge accordingly. The histor-
zeal "reminiscences we have thrown into the
background, are generally derived from per-
sonal observation-most of which we saw and
part of which we were The statistical results
arrived at have chiefly been furnished rs by
reliable citizens: and we think will he found
correct in the main. That some. and perhaps
this sketch, we have not the slightest doubt:
but we are confident there are none of any
great or material magnitude.
Our chief object has been to make the stran-
ger acquainted with the history. rise, progress
and prospects, present and future of st. Paul
We wish the Immigrant When he arrives to
know where he is--amOng whom he is--and
what prospects of success await him by re-
naming with u.s. We have also had in view
the compilation of historical and statistical da-
ia, as the foundation of future notations aud
spcculatious in regard to the onward progress
of this predestincd emporium of the North
west. 1fwhat we have here written and COM
piled should never be of future use to ourselves
perhaps it may be of some slight aid to those
who are to come after us. We thus take leave
of st. Paul at the opening of the business sea
son of 1853. There she standsr