The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-09-26
The Town.

Our course is still onward. Every week brings forth
some new and valuable improvement. On Saturday las,
Mr. James r. Case leased land on the lower addition to
q Mr.. S nth, from New York city, who opens at once a
brick yard there. This has been a dcsideratum for a
long time. The town has invested hundreds of dollars
for The purchase Of bricks in other places which might
just as well have been kept among ourselves. We may
set ii down that every dollar that goes out of the town
is SO much loss to it, by diminishing the amount Of
money in circulation. Every kind of business which
supplies necessary wants in our own midst tends to form
a circle among our own citizens in which money moves
backwards and forwards without leaving the town. We
are now arriving at that position that we need 60 else-
where for little. We have excellent lumber mills, shin
gle mills, lath mills, a planning and sash factory, hard
ware, lime, a patent roofing agency, and now a brick
yard. Thus Of building materials We can find every thing
we want in Nininger. We hope therefore that every
enc needing bricks will as soon as Mr.. Smith gets under
way 90 no where else. BE assured self,interest, if no
other sentiment, dictates this course. A. B. We will
say keeps a store A. i. is building; A. b.. has five
hundred dollars to lay out in building materials. A. B.
takes it to Hastings or elsewhere. That Eve hundred
dollars never finds it way back to Nininger. If on the
contrary A. B. pays it ont here, it is on the next Satur
day night distributed among the employed Of the lum-
Der mills, the lime kiln, the brick yard, &C., and even
tually more or less of it finds its way back to A. b.
own hands again. The same rule applies to all other
pursuits. We hope also that our citizens will try and
encourage our own citizens, those who have embark.
ed their all in our common cause in preference to bene.
fitting indifferent, perhaps inimical strangers. Thus
we have tailors, shoemakcrs, carpenters, plasterers, pain.
ters, blacksmiths, wheeiwrights, dry goods merchants,
groccrs. &C., which we should look to first before going
elsewhere.
We are also pleased to learn that arrangements are
now being made to have erected here in a short time a
drug store, containing drugs, perfumery, paints, oils
glass, &c. Such an establishment is much needed. AS in
the case Of the brick yard hundreds Of dollars have gone
TO other towns that could have been even now floating
among us, to the benefit of every citizen if there had
! been Z drug store.
Even our Grist Mill is progressing rapidly, Mr.. Eaton
went last week for his machinery which will be here in
a few days. His promise to have his mill going by
Christmas will from present appearances be fulfilled
Mr.. Eaton's mill will be Of great advantage to the towr
as il will draw money here from all the adjoining country
We are thus concentrating among ourselves all th'
various elements Of success. Parties are even now il
negotiation for the establishment of a Foundry ant
Machine shop here this fall. It is highly probable tina
in our next issue we shall be able to tell our citizen!
that the negotiations have been ~favorably concluded.
New countries are generally non-producing. None,
flows from them East to all the marts Of supply, ant
none comes back except such as is induced by the higl
rates Of interest paid for it. Take ST. Paul for instance
See the immense quantities of goods of all kinds solo
there, and paid for in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, sne
elsewhere. What do they sell in return? A few bar
rels of crauberrics and a few bales of furs. Hence it j
that the Western Territories feel SO acutcly any pressure
in the money market; they have no claim upon money
have nothing to give in exchange for it, and can obtai'
it only upon the voluntary Investment Of eastern parties
liable to be affected by every panic. This state Of thing
is, however, rapidly remedying itself in Minnesota. Al
ready we are beginning to look for our agricultural sup
plies in our home market. Our rich harvests on
wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, &C., have made us alread.
independent of the East. soon We will begin to export t
, them aud the tables will be turned the East will be de
pendent on US for supplies, as New York city is no,
upon Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
; But this doctrine Of home production must eventual,
extend to other things besides agriculture. 1t mu
f 6aally ipalude manufactures of all kinds. For Ties