The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-08-11


We mentioned a few days since, that NJ
Cover. the editor of the Grant County (Wis
Herald was on q viait to Minnesota. lie ha
returned home, andin bis paper of the sOt
Mt. gives the following as his general view
of st. Paul aud Minnesota
Last week and part Of week before, W
were atsent on visit to iinnesota. Th
highest point We reached on the Mississippi wa
ST. Anthony thence over the wire suspension
bridge to Minneapolis and down by LAX
Calhoun to Fort Snelling,-crossing to st
Paul. where We spent most of our time will
acQuainlances and with them seeing round il
that city of astonishing youth and comelibees
We here acknowledge the kindness of sevcra
generous trends who PASSED with us from shoI
to shop-from mill 10 m;ll-frOm shanty to pal
ace and from market to hall OF state, seeing
the sights-the mighty steam driven mechan.
les. naked and tireitssly toi!ing upon the mos,
delicate as we'll as roug ughest products of inge.
nuity--the busy calculator at his stall aud
desk--the provision monopolizer-the house
builder-the dealer in substantials and amuse-
ments and the traEcer in produce of that zone
Of eternal freezing hoping it may sometime
he in our power to astonish them with greater
sights in old Grant.
ST. PAuL-How PRoPEILED-St. Paul is a
beautifully located aud well built city of some
5000 Inhabitants. though the people are SO in
telligent. persevcring and skillful that they
are equal to about 25. 900 of any other people
we ever saw, and the same may be said Of the
people throughout the Territory; their power
Is a quadruple over like number Of any 9TH
ers They study TO turn to valuable account
every machinery and Invention fpresent and
past ages. and thus i:eriOrm four times as much
labor as a like number Of people usually do.
Most every man we talked with at St. Paul
makes mechanics and machinery his study and
though not all inventor. he perfectly uader.
stands all about every invention that can pos
sibiy be turned to any account in Minnesota
IL may bc concluded they will become great
nation for manufacturing and machine econ
Omy.
IHoUGHrs ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF MINNESOTA.
Every person possessing any curiosity to know
about that vast region. composing a little world
and separated from the big world tor want OF
Inks, enought to SO up aud see it. Nature made
a mistake III not causing the Mississippi to
dow north into Lake Superior from the mouth
of Chippewa river; all that hemisphere of
country northwest OF the St. Croix junction as
justly belongs 10 Lake Superior trade as
does all below to Chicago. The people OF
all that region ought to give up iurcvcr
the idea Ut commercial communication
with News York, for they are too distant and
the bars of nature too nigh. The Lake Supe-
rOr region is great commerc al basin we'll
illed with precious fruits Of earth, not yet
ripe. but very sUOn to be, and the only people
capable OF walking up and taking possession
Of DaSlu and fruits III comm, REAL sense are
the MnnesOtians. To this object they ont 10
turn their attention by at once setting them
selves about building railroad from ST. Paul
10 Superior. The distance is only about $50
II.,S nn.t. lao,
u new world, perfect as any other. and with al
inc essentials vi sclt-snpport. will be seen rid
ing into power ard greatness. A large slice
vi Hortn-westeru WISCONSIN will tail in with
Minnesota TO gtfgvour tiie ffsfSts aof Superi<.r
BECAUSE Of the relative location tt is only
1ecessary tO see that upper country and study
The map thereof in order to arrive at .he SAM
conclusion We TO. for there is MATTE ,latcai
clearhcs about it. 1t is trne, the Superior
county is not yet populous and improved but
Il is plain that population by the million will
dow into that region within a few months.
Superior will never be a grain country. which
Minnesota is, aud the lOrmer will soon be
trcmrnd0ns provision market which the latter
ought to supply. The Superior mines are the
richest Oh earth. next to California and even
now pay better than any other.
ANTICIPATED CRIsIS--WHAT MINNESOTA rs ANB
IS NOT.-Ne have many new notions, some
ihcm strange ones perhaps. about this new
Mtnnesota Country. Our time and space vii.
not allow u, 10 present more now than few
general remarks. Money Is exceedingly plenty
tLcre aud Lone can believe the extent Vt infa
tOL aid speculation except those tho bav.
Oeen IN the West since 1887. when the great
fictitious. lot aud land sp. c,,lation fever kin
lied, iired aud bursted. scattering ruin. bank
rupicy. bitter Reaction and poverty far ana
VIDE. They are Fastening to the same cr'si-
IN Minnesota but none know it, except old
Western men. The longer this fatal event l.
postponed. the more wide. ruinOus and des-
tructIve will it be. There is no way to aver,
or even palliate the approaching crisis. Moth
ting OF this event is visible to the eye. and
therefore people fresh from the east who go il
blind yet SEEING. are in total eclipse as to the
uture. We have not yet talked with an old
western man vi 81 who don't see as We do. nor
with fresh eastern man who sees as we do.
Minnesota is delightful countfy and we
could live there to our hearts content. Th
land, timber, water and climate are good
neait.fnl. magnificent. but We think not supe-
rior to WISCONSIN. We Can hardly concelv
that the water.pOwers are excellpd by an,
other region in the universe. and ~ for b. alih
It is all CANNON to say that Minnesota il MOI
about as perfect az earth affords. We yield t.
Minnesota in respect to beauty Of scenery. hat
The lay of our region is finer for farm. We
getabl's 8 fruits and grains r:pen earlier thar
with ns. though planted later their soil. being
-andy, is warmer, and herein the main differ
ence.