The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-01-26
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Westward Ho!
The editor Of the WDdhan (Conn) Telegraph.
after acknowledging the receipt Of copy OF the
'oheer thus Contrasts The present condition tf ST.
raui with that OF his own place. We nser, the arli-
Gle merely To show what our Eastern cctenporaries
think of us, and also the Kind manner in which We
are regarded by the Press generally throughout the
| Union:--
| The Pioneer commenced publication little more
Than i've and halt Years since, aud lust four week
ai'er ihis paper But little previous 10 that time
n'v'd H. Fuller. native Of Scotland Parish, " md
nam had erected the FIRST frame house in St Paul.
ana We believe IN Minnesoia Soon after was started
TINS Pioneer Of newspaper enterprise in the then al
/ most namcess settlement. How divergent has Lpen
! the course oi the events in the two ocali,icsi In
81 Pau there are now published, and If the Pioneer
ne m specimen, are well supported, three newspapers
iieie one sufficiently answers the public demand of
s support we have ouy to say that il has neye, been
~ uer than al present Several experiments o estal-
i'sh a second have on, demonstrated that one was
siiicient for wants.
! he population OF St Paul, then Minnesota in it,
sell, was reconed only hv hundreds: in those E voa,s
Il has increased to 400 while the adjacent town Of
-. Anthony has grown from notf inn 10 700 Onr
PopEiion AZ this time is scarcely larger than il WIS
-the increase by Incomers having been almost bal
ahced by the out-goers hom our lack of life and Of
nome puoi'c spirit has driven from The busness
capital Of 81. Paul Is nearl. $50 600 is ,a.ed
property nearly S90' ,000aln1ost all Of il bcnr the
result ot the same five years growth and business
" 10 tins we adj, for the same items in the adjacent
town ot ST Anthony, miles distant, S332 OCO, we
sna nave an addition 10 the actual vaualio Of that
Territory o 81 237 900 as the result Of between five
ana SIX years labor. Let Wndham COUNTY nIac.
TINS beside the accietons to her home capiial from,
profits and from in-comings during that peiiod-and
'hnk! that Ierrery has attained 10 this prosperi-
y by drafts on the whole country but mostly on New
England, ior the men and the means which she in.
Ntes; As specimen take the following statistics
mhch we f'nd IN The Pioneer, Of the business Of Mr.
Fuller, the same aboye named:
Steam Saw Ali!i, owned by II. L. Fuller Inner
Landing, one upright saw, which cuts 1000 GOO ieet
OF lumber per year. Nen employed ten. Capital
invested, $4,000. Abo,t one-h.li or the lumber
cut at this min is for home consun,r.ioo. The rest
hnds market below" And tins is but one of five
lumber mills, oi large production, much of whose
lumber Is s. cut Tor home consimpiion.''
Among the dry goods, clothing and grocer, stores.
with an aggregate capital Of $500 900 is rained tina,
OF -. l.. Fuller "w no imported the first c,ockcry
brought into the Territory"
ID. l.. Foiler manufactures 900 900 Of bricks
per year; employs for four months IN the year sixteen
men Capital, $4,000 We have selected Mr.
fuler only that he is Windham County man. and
as such the information of his success viii be paiic
ulaily interesting 10 readers of the County The
full statistics from which We have extracted these
statements show thorough division OF labor and Of
business, and, let add, Of home cnterprise and
public spirit, as witness three ewSpapers in 81 Paul
and two M s. Anthony. two public two church one
end wed, and several select Schools seven cLuycbes
OF different denominations and other such nnblic
matters in like proportion
The excellent and valuable article from which the
above statistics are gathered, preparedas reply
to the numerous inquiries OF those proposing e,ngra
ton to that country lis business its resources.
MS prospects, and the ten thousand a cetras which
decide IN the choice Of a new home OF III. climate
the editor oi the Pioneer speaks in terms such as we
are wont TO hear applied to the Italian climate asd
skies, yet warranted, think, by the testimony of
Al, whom We have seen from thence OF the nre sent
character OF the people, and the class there wanted
he says" Let the emIgrant remember that this is "A
ad o energy, industry and enterprise that we move
with the progress Of The age that sleepy he ads and
doient persons had better remain at home: and that
IT they make up their minds come here they must
make "p their minds to work then success will crown
Their efforts and plenty smile upon tbem''
We have quoted and condensed rs above uaulv
because that we believe example more effective than
precePt IN intoxicating home public aprit partly that
contrast might show our shortcomings and nartlv
that we might show what class Of community the
more thriving, sections OF Country as we'll as Of
or State, invite from among us, and our own stag
nant od-osysrn permits leave us withou, an en-
deavor TO retain it. And. TOO, we have quoted and
coped for the good of COUNTY looking west
ward. And we expect that this publication of the
Pioneer will help to send there some Young man from
this sccioa OF our State, this land OF sereot,ped
stagnaon in public spirit, who viii there develop the
enterprise aod public spirit which our bad customs
t. tnaclousy clung to by Of influence, repress
and IN time destroy.