Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-03
Growth Of St. Paul and B.vs.,a

The growth OF st. Paul in populstion ana
In those elements Of wealth and prosperity
which constitute a fourishing city, has been
truly marvellous during the present season.
greater number Of buildings have been
erected this year than In any two years pre-.
ceding.
The increase in population has been very
grest Our city at the present time, we firmly
Deneve,. contains q population of 1900 souls
In is4s 1t did not contain 500 inhabitants
During the present summer Eastern capital,
amounting to hundreds Of thousands Of dol
l4rs, hss been proftabIy and judiciously ex-
pended Lsrge and elegant are houses stores.
and dwellings have been erected by hundreds
haoIf OF all kinds has been in demand
throughout the season Mechanics and dav
iaoorers have commanded what would seem
10 the same class Of population In the Esst
enormous wages
presume there ia no city In this couptrv-
mignt say IN the world, perhaps-that has
increased more in the same space of tina in
everything pertaining to substantial growth
and prosperity than has St Paul the present
season.
The emigration to the Territory has beam
steady and increasing the whole season /: 90
great, indeed, has been the increase that our
people are beginning now seriously to enter
tnn the idea of applying for adnaissiOn into
me Ont0n as State, our population mum.
bering now, it is thought, nearly ttro hundred
thousand souls.
word or two in regard to investments and
loans, as all business men particularly desire
10 be posted on these subjects
Will briefly snumerate one or two modes
II winch, TO my opinion, money can be in.
In the first place, then, city propertyTin
other words, property in or around ST. Paul
regard as the safest and most judicious in
Vestment that can be made. 1t may not prove
SO Immediately and enormously profitable per-
maps as some new points, or even as wild land,
(Including under that head all land subject 10
entry, and BOT under cultivation but in these
cases there is more or less risk, while invest
ments in property here L regard as sound and
safe to the fullest extent / have known of
instances this season of property in towns out
side and the land adjoining advancing in a
few months, since April last, in fact, al the
rate Of fourteen or fifteen hundred Der cent,
ana some great deal more; property in
"Bayheld, for instance-a city on Lake Su-
perior, Wisconsin, started in April last, said
70 possess the finest hsrbor on the whole lake,
having also grant of land for railroad pur-
poses, made them by Congress as part of the
Wisconsin grant, with Bayfield, as the termi-
nus Of the road, and likely 10 be a very large
city Land has sold as high as $1,000 and
$4,000 per acre and property just outside ad-
joining the city limits at over four hundred an
acre This is a striking instance of the rapid
rise of property sometimes in the West, and
in this instance the investment regard as q
safe one, because, in all human probability
Bayfield, is sure to make a very consider able
point. The enterprise Is headed by men Of
position and influence, Of untiring energy, and
abundant means and must prove successful
At the head Of the list stands our present
| delegate in Congress, Hon. Henry M. Rice, a
western pioneer, man Of great shrewdness
| and foresight, in building cities particularly,
and one whose judgment, since have known
anything of him, has never yet failed in q soli-
| tary instance; he has done more to build up
st. Paul than any other man in the Territory
He has been instrumental also in starting Su-
perior, "a city situated at the head Of Lake
Superior,) likely to become in time q very
considerable point
The company are making improvements
there Of various kinds building piers, hotels,
&c and have erected a steam saw mill, now
In operation, costing from Sl0 900 TO SIS. 900
The town is progressing finely, and with the
fund reserved by the company for improve
ments must decidedly rank with Superior, st.
Paul, and other young and vigorous cities of
this rapidly growing region Of country. A
wagon-road from Bayfield, to ST. Paul has
been completed and In use for two or three
months, over which post-route has already
been established In view Of the early deveI-
| opment OF this point, many prominent parties
! have made desirable locations in the immedi-
ate neighborhood, among whom may be men
toned Hon. Mr.. Aiken, late representative
| from South Carolina, Hon. jesse ID. Bright,
Hon John c. Breckinridge, Hon Hiram Wal
bridge, and others Minnesota Pioneer and
Democrat