Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-02-13
DRIED FRUIT.
LIVE STOCK.
EDITED BY c. H. PARKER.
REAL ESTATE DEALERS.

EDITED BY C. Il. PARKER.
REAL ESTATE DEALERS.
Among the ill-defned and slip-shod theories of
political economy, which ignorance and prejudice,
those virulent old spiders, have woven in the I'M
swept corners of public opinion, nothing is more
common or popular than that species caricature of
Hobbism which represents certain professions and
useless, non-productive, fattening on the weak
ncsses and follies of society. Lawyers have suf-
fered with accomplishing patience from this prcju-
dice. Brokers have had their share of contume-
ly, and Real Estate Dealers, a class of men who
owe their existence to the practical convenience
or even absolute necessity Of their Intervention
in the novel 'exigencies of western life, have not
escaped reproach. Messrs. Quirk, Cannon
Snap, Mr.. Shylock and MIR. Scadder, in dramatic
exaggeration, or the travesties of fiction, have
passed current in the popular prejudice, as the
HAPPY, the Vampire and the Shark, have become
the established types of their several vocations.
We don't pretend to tell how many ages it took
the people to comprehend the benifcent influence
of those venerable institutions, Law and Usury,
it required all the seductive plausibility of the
one class, and all the impossbility of doing with
out the other, to establish their place in the So
cial structure. Now treaties are devoted to a
demonstration Of their practical utility, they are
toasted at public dinners, stump speeches COM
memorate their services and ideal monuments of
impossible heights, of every known material from
brass and granite to human hearts, are confidently
promised them. ~n
n@ hH I Rr Estate s DsReg
tellgence of the community for his misapprchen-
sion by its ignorance, for the untring energy with
which more than all the other classes together, he
has sought to promote the general welfare. More
than any other his interest lies directly in the
course Of the public prosperity; and it is by his
ageccy more than all the others, that the spirit Of
westward emigration is famed in the villages of
the east, and population levied from every state
in the Union, to be distributed over the unoccu-
pied regions of our Territory. To advertise our
resources, to make known the fertility of our soil,
the purity and abundance of our waters, the Ital-
ian clearness of our sky, the beauty of our land
scapes, the salubrity of our climate-to provide
prompt and accurate information in reference to
particular localities, to provide homes for the
igrant, to save to him the expense and delay of
exploring vast territory, all this and good
deal more constitutes the arduous vocation of the
Real Estate Dealer. What is to other men q
spasmodic enthusiasm, is to him q profession
and life.
and beauty of those unknown regions that streach
beyond the precincts of the villages along the
Mississippi, ready to unlock their hidden knowl-
edge at word, and give every body gratis the
benefit of information it has taken them so much
trouble to collect-ready at word to unfold the
panorama of lovely landscapes, streams, lakes and
woods, unvisited by all but them; ready at o
word, to give you charming excursion to any
particular quarter, section or corner you may
set your heart on,--such men are the sappers and
miners of civilization-the missionaries of the
great gospel of western advan cement. The men
who retard population are not legitimate land
dealers. Absentee spectators, buying up large
tracts of land and leaving them to slumber on
untouched, unimproved and locked up against
the buyer; these are the land sharks, who hang
like mill-stones round the neck Of the Territory.
Such men as McKenty, now, do not do that-no
respectable land dealer acts upon these narrow
and suicidal principles. Their system is to sell,
to let nobody who wants a home or a farm, 60
away without it. oa-
To sell, and buy and sell again, to make up in
velocity what is wanting in weight in the frequen-
cy and multiplicity Of sales, what they may lose
in reduced profits in each particular case.
We will venture the assertion that land can be
bought to-day from 10 to 25 per cent. cheaper
from Mr.. McKenty, or Starky & Pettys, than from
anybody else not engaged in the trade. They
will not only sell cheaper, but embracing in their
list of lands agents orpropretors, almost every
conceivable variety of landscape-they will be
able to suit you better. They know where the
best localities are, and will show you where they
are.
The lawyer is, by profession, keen, it is the
brokers' interest to be sharp, for broad breasted
liberalty touching the very verge of disinterest-
edness commend us to the Real Estate Dealer.
CO Abstract of lands in Ramsey County sold
at Saltwater, Minnesota Territory, during the
week ending Feb. Sd, 1855.
N. IL of s. W. 14-the S. E. IA, the s. w.
IA of N. E. IA of Sec. 10, Town. 80, Range @.
NV. IA Of N. W. IA, Sec. IL, Town. 80,
Range q.
Sc. IA of S. VIA and N. W. IA Of S. E.
IA, Sec. 2. Town. 81. Range, p.
Lot 4, n. w. IA Of N. W. IA and s. 1-2of
n. W. IA, Sec. 3, Town. g, Range q.
N. w. IA, Sec. 2, Town 81, Range q.
There were no premptieas during the week
herein given.