The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-08-24
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present season and we are informed by
some of our old est carpenters that were not
the difficulty to procure lumber so great,
many more buildings would now be going
up than are. This evidence of improve
ment must be truly gratifying to those of
our citizens who started with our city, when
she was merely a trading post some six
years ago. TO the enterprise of the Sc men
do our citizens owe much of her present
prosperity They encouraged those who
came among them-aided them in every
way within their power, and now can look
over their past eXertions with pride as they
behold city of seven thousand inhabitants
as they see erecting ediiices that would be
ornaments to New York, or any of our
eastern cities, and everything around them
bearing an air of substantial prosperity.
While St. Paul has thus been going
ahead, it is equally gratifying to see a cor
responding degree Of prosperity attending
those towns who started in the race with
her. Although they have labored under
disadvantages we have not been compelled
to encounter, their march has been and is.
onward. In Saltwater, many new citizens
have pitched their tents this season, and
the establishment of the contemplated pa
per at that point will do much to swell their
ranks the next season While the various
papers Of our city have heralded forth her
advantages it is impossible for them to be
aware of all the passing events traspiring
there as would the editor Of print So
journing among them, and which are seized
by the immigrant with great aviditv.
St. Anthony too, is pushing ahead Her
beautiful scenery-her immense water pow
er-are calling to her men wishing to en-
bark in manufacturing, and this season she
has acquired an impetus not easily to be
overcome, as the many new buildings erected
there fully attest.
The new towns, just starting on the Mis-
Sissippi and Minnesota, are settling rapidly,
and all things cons;dcrcd-thc sickness be-
low, and the oppressive heat of the sum
NERVE may safely say a larger popula-
ton has settled in our towns and cities this
than in any previous year
The same is equally true of the Agricul-
tural portions Of our Territory, as all will
bear Us out who have seen steamboat load
after steamboat load Of h,lSbandmcn daily
at our leycc, when navigation was at all
paSsabIc 1t is asserted, too, that tie next
census will demonstrate that Southern Min
ncsOta contains at least One-thrd the pOpu-
lation of orr Territory have left the
boats at points on the river without visiting
our city. We have heard it predicted that
the new Territories of Kansas and Nelras-
ka Will draw off much Of the Immigration
tHdl NOltNl ClIlcINiSc Scltlc Nlll us. Iris
we cannot believe but even were it so. the
exodus from the Eastern and Middle States
now going forward will in another year
swell the population of Minnesota to such a
number as will surprise even those the most
sanguine Of our soon-tobc acquired position
as denscly populated State.
Since the lowwatcr, we are told, farmers
from Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois, with their
families, are fast pouring in, by land. and
taking up the valuable country i'll the South
crn portion Of the Territory.
Consequently, We believe the brightest
day for Minnesota is about to dawn. Those
who have settled here have informed their
friends at home of the fertility of our soil.
the salubrity of our climate, and of the
many advantages to be derived here not to
be obtained elsewhere, which will continue
to send forth the hardy farmers to take and
possess the goodly land