The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-03-02
Answer to respo nd ents.

An extent tina, has caused US to neglect answering
Of the many letters Of enquiry are constantly
receiving relative to Territory, and its business
We will forward the Pioneer this week
to each Of the persons whose enquiries answer
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Any Young Of industrious habits do well in
Minnesota, but he expect to live by prac,is-
ing medicine alone. There more doctors
than patients. There are, however, new settlements
where the practice of medicine, in connection with
other business, would do well, the population Of
the Territory is rapidly the increase.
There is fair prospect, almost certainty, that
road to the Pacific, but how it will b. completed,
or when commenced, is still hidden in the womb of
time. The most feasible, and least expensive, az
well AS the most expeditions route to Washington
Territory, is by way Of ST. Paul, the Minnesota Val
ley, Fort Union and Stevens Route through the
mountains. There will he no difficulty for g train
of ten teams or more to obtain guide to Fort Union"
The trip from ST. Paul b. made with good teams
in about twenty-five thirty days. The first of May
{ is early enough to leave St. Paul.
Claims are made by locating on unclaimed land
and marking the bounds of the claim in IA manner
be easily seen. From the moment the land is occu-
pied, il becomes the property, to speak, of the &C.
cupaut. Custom has made this law, and it is seldom
violated. When the land is surveyed the laws o.!
Congress prescribe the mode OF procedure under that
law. Generally, the people occupying the land in a
ashbo hood, j,in in association for the protec-
ton Of the claims, and the land is purchased by a
person appointed Tor the purpose. for the individual
claiming the same. This saves expense and time,
where the Land O lice is distant.
Navigation opens about the first, and boats arrive
from the first TO the fifteenth April. There
'Ee!isible sites for founding College and Fee
mule Seminary" Many beautiful villages are being
built, any OF which would in a short tim, support
such institution. There are, exclusive Of our
common schools, three "insti,ntio MS of higher
class the Territorial University at ST. Anthony
the Baldwin School at ST. Paul, and the Ham'int
University a, Red Wing. The greater portion OF
the lind east of the Mississippi in this Territory to
which the Iiiiaa title has been extinyuished, ha
been surveyed and in market. A small portion o
the land ives, Of the river has been surveyed. bat
none has yet been offered Ear sale. Settlements are
being made along the navigabe streams, and at man,
eligible points distant from those ST. Pau
offers Inducements for opening institution of learn
ing, if property conducted; the people Eayoraby
disposed 10 the support Of such institutions Land
cannot be had for Congress price anywhere within
ten twelve miles Of St. Paul. Within five miles
it will command from five TO five hundred dollars pc
acre, according to location. ST. Paul is considere'
the head of cation the Mississippi, but boat.
do sometimes reach ST.. Anthony. Boats run up t.
Fort Kidsely on the Minnesota in high water. Tbs
road is opened from Lake Pepia to the South
Bend Of the Minnesota, but may be travelled wi;l
teams to the Cannon river.
tn, best route to Fort Ridyc!y is to leave the Min
nesota at Henderson; the distance across is abou
forty five miles The country is prairie with tmbc
Of the best quality surrounding it. Farms can be
selected with any quantity Of prairie timber sui
the wishes Of the occupant.
There is good road from 81, Paul to Henderson
and thence to the New Fort. or to the Rocky Noun.
tains. The lani on either sile of the Minnesota
in the world. There are schools both at lie Sueur
ana Traverse des Sioux.
The prospect, ior farmers near the head Of Cannon
river are good The settlement there is some TWEEN
ty-iive miles from Henderson, and little to lie
Sueur or Traverse des Sioux but Il direc, road ha.
not been opened to either point. There " i'll b.
road opeaei LIE Suaur AID Henderson early in til,
spring.
FLOUR DEcLISINc.--By the arrival of the Can
ada at Halifax, the l1h inst, we learn that bread
stutls were declining in Europe. Flour has sold il