Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-03-08
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1856.


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CoMIN1 VEST.
Indications in all quarteIs warrant the be-
lief that the coming season is to be one Of un.
ezsmpled prosperity for Minnesota. Prepa-
rstions are making among our builders, lum-
bermen, commission-merchant and steamboat.
men on a scale commensurate with the antici-
pated increase of business. Confidence in the
destiny Of our city as commercial emporium
for a region of country unsurpassed in extent
and varied resources, is gaining ground among
our business men TO a degree that warrants
larger ventures to reet growing demands.
Hitherto all calculations as 10 our progress
have been falsifed in that they have fallen
short Of the reality. No man who valued his
reputation would have ventnred five years ago,
to predict what is now matter Of daily exem-
plifcaticn. Sagacious men are taking the
hint and even your slow men-a class, occu-
pied with their ,negations and devoted princi.
pally, to suggesting dificulties,-begin to COM
prehend that promptitude Of action, no less
than wise precaution enters, in this new order
Of things, into the conditions of success.
The fact is those old business maxims taught
us, with admonitory solemnity, in the slow,
competitive, six per cent. communities Of the
seaboard are to be at least modified, if not dis
placed in the new conditions of Western life.
Here it is not so much owing to false steps
that men fail as their taking no steps at ALL
The philosophy of the West is comprised in
the homely, emphatic exhortation '.pitch in"
Laggards have properly no place nor part in
the ideas and the grand activities which, in
our day. are starting new communities inro'ts-
ing and, outrunning. in glorious results, all the
wonders Of Eastern story.
While it is thus beginning to be felt at home
the fame Of our beautiful Minnesota as the
land Of promise, is reaching far and wide. Her
magnificent landscapes, her lakes and water
falls, her swelling prairies. dotted with leafy
groves, kindle the imaginations of the lovers
of nature: sportsmen are excited by reports Of
our deer-hunting and grouse-shooting, while
the disciples Of old Izaak Walton revel in Wis.
ions Of grassy banks and limpid lakes and pre-
cious, devotional hours given to the gentle art!
Farmers, who have fought their hard way on
the thin soils and amid the rocks and stumps of
the East, listen with eager attention TO the &C.
counts Of our smooth, unfenced acres Of black
fertility inviting the plow without previous dis
bursemen,s for clearage or guano Our ca
pacity to produce the cereals to an extent equal,
if not superior, TO that Of any other State or
Territorys no longer seriously doubted. But a.
bove ALL the the fame Of our climate, its superb
or healthfulness,i Its freedom from raw, searching
winds. its exhilaraton and uniformity, excite
longngs among the ague-shaken and rheumat-
ic. and attract from all classes those who prize
unmpaired energies and the luxures Of work
and thought.
There is thus Little risk in predicting large
accessions to the food of emigration setting to-
wards US, from all classes Of men. We are in
constant receipt of letters from opposite sect.
TORS of the country advising us not only Of in
dividual preparations making but Of measures
concerning by companies and whole ncighbor-
hoods for migratory purposes. We confess to
little feeling Of complacency at the almost
literal fulflm"nt Of our predictions as to the
character and extent Of last years emigration
In an article on this subject year ago we as
cribed TO the monetary troubles and other caus-
es then existing a condition of things which,
without running Eastern artizans and tradesmen
would discourage and cmbarass them and in
cite them to the untried West. The emigration
Of the coming season will differ essentially in
character from that Of the past. There will
be fewer of,he necessitous and more capitalists.
Men will not be forced to a change so much as
choose new ventures from the indictments Of
business and the gathering confidence in the
returning and renewing prosperity Of the coun-
try.
Never before in our natural existence, has
there been so much reality attending the ap-
pearances Of prosperity everywhere manifest.
To a greater extent than ever before our farm
ers are blest at once with full granaries and
high prices. Industrial interests are being re-
vived financial circles are recovering from
the reactionary feeling touching Railroads and
everywhere latent energies are itching for new
undertakings.
In our own city the low water and conse-
quent scarcity of building materials had the eff
feet to check the Juror for speculation and pro-
mote, if slower, more healthy growth
Neither houses nor materials with which to
construct them could be obtained last year and
the crowds which landed at our levees melted
into the country TO create new wants and re-
turn US new sources Of trade. The causes
which then retarded our growth, from present
appearances will not exist the present season
and we may confidently expert greater ex.
tent Of building and more real progress than
we have yet known. The population Of Min
nesota is now fully $4,000, more than double
| our numbers one year ago and it is scarcely
too much to expect that the number will be
again doubled within the next year.
1t is stated on the authority Of Hon. HI. M.
Rice that the number Of prescriptions proven up
and returned to the General Land Office from
Minnesota, exceeds that Of the other States
and Territories combined. This is signif.
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