The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-08-29
Dur zInparliieled Growth.

We had occasion the other cay, IN taxing Il lTlend
through the town. ~ lead Iiua out on the bluff back of
Mr.. Robert>on's residences. From this point we looked
down on the scene below Us. Imagine the change that
not eleven months has wrought on the town. There lay
before us at least one hundred houses in view, stretching
from Mr.. MilI.r's house on the east, to the buildings be-
yond .>Ir. Oweu's far 10 the west, half bid amid the trees.
The benutitul plateau. with its encirchng fringe of foliage
seemed. rs a friend remarked, fitted BY nature for the
mar4llalling Of SOME grand army. It was indeed a beau
titul scene. And then its physical development in that
Short period OF time. No town in all Minnesota can in
stance suel. a growth. No town in the Western coun-
Try is growing more rapidly at present. The evidences
Of prosperity are on every side. The sound OF the ham,
mer is heard in every direction. In every direction sge
seen wagons loaded gllA RI
.thAapills to the sise Of some aeEshaildainss-
~sriay seygrowth il beyond p.salels
kH
HEa3R Ielsft % Ssf street, "a could We fag
gasrs66,.ss I kepsgs s., 3 ~ q
4yS8Se MONT d an adjacen. lot where Nr. Ryder, form.
erlv Of Hastings, had commenced to build. % oar re-
turn l,lr. Rvler's honse WAS irap!e,l, raised and partially
covered. Stranger still. along side Of it was another
house framed AMI raised. Several lots to this side OF
the latter, Mr.. Bersluna'7 shop was being covered in.
In passing, Mr. Ryder remarked that the street was be.
ing built up rapidly, and asked Us il We knew OF any
other buildings about to 30 up near there. We replied
no, that what they had done IN q couple OF weeks was
enough for one locality The next day we were inform
ed that Mr.. Traver, Of Hastings, was building next to
Buglu:l.l's shop. Here then were FIVE buildings erect
cd IN one block in about Two weeks. Even st. Paul does
not possess as great a growth as his in proportion to its
size. Every day brings forth some new improvement.
To day it is Mess1s. Cheney x Carrie, in Seventh street,
west of the Hotel. The next day i is the Presbyterian
Churc!, in Block - We have ceased IT, keep count of
them.
And then what i there for the future. An arrange
ment has Just been made to have our newspaper distrih',-
ted on all the up river boats. This will bring our place
wildly before the cyes nj travellers coming up the river.
We will -,au have niY gri>t mill running. Our Rail-
road enterprise sneak~ for itself in our other columns.
In fact every thinG promises the greatest success. The
second spring Of Munger City will be . bright one.
Minnesota cannot have two such seasons as the last one.
last Spring several things conjoinod to throw the Terri
tory on il back. The peace in Kansas, and the political
force brought to bear. turned 4 great part Of the West
ern emigration into that trle-less, unhealthy Territory.
Our late Spring, and the frozen condition Of Lake Pepin
accelerated that col1cnt Of emigration. Then we had
some Indian troubles, and fhe VISIONS of scaiPs and
tomal>awks That were raraded through the eastern papers
deferred! whole clouds ~ The ti,ni1 from coming here.
~ borrower there w-ie over the entire band cries Ut q crisis,
ana especially OF i western cruan, aud the ie+'rini anti
the csutioi,- stood back to avail. the result.
What hm. been the result with all these con]oined
forces working I, its ruin Minnesota has stood the or
,.ea! bn.ciy. It's towns have not ceased to grow its
fields lnH. At r:ased to bloom trade, emigration, agrl-
culture .h.v4 III held their OWN against the storm that
hroAe over ,t,tl, a.d uow ~ it passes away our Terri
tory stand r,.t..urcl in the promise of a 'rehled pros
poyity IN The ;ntu,e. We have been weighed in the
balaut and ret found wanting.