The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-03
The Minnesota Territory.
AnS IuAnhCcOsa AuHIAsVEys
OUR sAUK RAPIDS CORRESPONDENTS.
SAuK RAPIDS, BENTON Co., MINNESOTA,

The Winaebago Tedty-Fdrming-Soi and Productions
Good Land Easy to Obaim-Cdale AMI Shcep-Frospecis
Of Minnesota.
The winnebago treaty which reported for your pa
per last August Is not to be ratified The people who
have settled and commenced farming Grow river,
and indeed all the white from there to and includ
ing the town of St. Anthony perseverngy and indg
nantly protested against it that Governor German has
consented to request the department to withhold it from
the action of the Senate II is doubtful however that
it would have been ratified if this had not been the case
for the Governor instructed by the department
to allow the Winnebagoes to approach within twenty
miles of the Msssspp and his giving them permission
to occupy the whole region from the head of the Grow
river to the bank Of the Mississippi and from the mouth
of Grow river along said bank to that of Clearwater river
(ahou thirty milcs both of which empty into the Mis-
sisspp was of ITSELF sufficient to prevent its fulflment
by the department.
The effect Of this will be, that the Indians are all
in their homes, the roaming about from their old
country to their new backward and forward continually
The first move they made from Rock river Illinois,
to Wisconsin, then to Turkey river Iowa; then to Long
Prairie in Minnesota where they occupy land to the
tent Of 900 900 acres with front the Mississippi OF
nearly sixty miles. This location good one for
them, the land being principally covered with timber
with prairie and running streams sufficient to tickle the
fancy of the red and they found any fault
with II until they got into trouble with the Chppewas
wnen all they discovered that the
mot suitable for their wants and wshes To get farther
from the Chippewas was then their uppermost desire
and accordingly they requested their Great Father at
Washington to take their land and give them in exchange
for II that around the head waters of the river
which from the agency at Long Prairie is about
hundred miles down the Mississippi. the west side
They were much pleased with their bargain and
sooner was the treaty signed than they began to strike
their tents and drift down the great river in their ca
One Of the chiefs remarked while the treaty was
pending, that the Great Father very kind them
for this the first time he had allowed any Of
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white settlements.
Well as fast Lot travelled when he left sodom the
Wnnebagos padded when they started for Crow river
to get out of the way OF the warsc Chppewas; but
IL seems they doomed 90 back to purgatorv again
The question is how they be put back They win be
obliged to go there twice year TO draw their annues
ior they VIII receive no money unless they do that
they will remain there for any length of time no one be.
lieves The idea with some white folks Il that many Of
them VIII go off in souherly direction and amalga-
mate with the Sioux the Missouri, rather than live
near the Chppewas, with whom they always at
swords points. especially when within gunsho; and
even thought that to get them back to Long Prairie the
Great Father win be obliged to turn out his fighting boys
and dragon them all the way; but then it will be
necessary TO watch them TO Keep them there They
large and productive farms at Long Prairie cultivated
for them Sy white men in the employ Of the
happy; but they have made the place hot to hold
them, and as they cannot stay there, of they
This Minnesota is the most wonderful country YOU
ever saw, NJ much as yon have travelled. II is the
of ''Jordans stormy banks" The facility with which
farm can be opened and successfully cultivated here
ceeds that OF starting and carrying threecent grog
shop in your city. take up government land
the Mississippi, little away from it. just suts
him best (or there 10 plenty of IT,. and, without the
trouble Of Telling single tree the share OF his
breakng plow into the prairie and turn up the black
rich, sandy loam which he raise both spring and
winter wheat from fifteen TO forty bushels per acre
corn OF different varieties from the small sweet to the
org hnt and Ohio dent potatoes, the best have ever
seen Three 10 five hundred bushels rutabagas
nve 10 Twelve hundred bushels per barley and OATS
IRON thirty TO sixty bushels; and in short everything
TINT grows in the interior Of New York State grows
mere IN abundance and 10 perfection. As to
garden sarse"-asporagus, tomatoes, okra or
sweet corn peas, beans Of all kinds, Lima included,
peppers onions carrots parsnips beets cabbages all Of
which raised myself last summer thrive ms well here
anywhere. The ground is rich and ouck and vcgcta
ton IL rapid than in any other dgpnqs have vet
heard Of There rs no need of manure to keep Il up
either In garden spot a wheat field Mr. Russell has
field Of hundred acres which he has sown in wheat
ter than the first the second. portion Of IL was
with winter wheat last season, Yielded thirty.
i've bushels 10 the acre of good grain any
raised in The inhabited world or elsewhere.
As 70 taking up land surveyed or unsurveyed all that
person has 10 do Is TO build house of tamarack logs
SCARE timber, mark out his land and 60 TO work No
body viii trouble him but contdire every body will
be glad to sec him, and win encourage and help him He
may raise what he peacs and make enough his farm
before he need fork out the first cent 1T the land Office
For instance, Gen b. Lowry, who Is OF means,
and amateur farmer has taken quarter sections
1870 acree) the west side Of the Mississippi at the
DOT Of sauk rapids Of Qnsureycd government hnds 10