Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-31
The Prospect Ahead

Never, since the organization of this young Ter
ritcry, has it been at this season of the year, s.
alive with business, and all It's channels of indus
try so vigorous as during the present winter. Thi
city is particularly prosperous.
| Besides \ new market house to be built mex
spring in Lower Town, 250 x 80 feet, to cos
| 10000, block of stores OH jackson street, t.
cost $4,000, and a magnificent Hotel in Uppe
Town, to be erected at an expense of not les
than 100000, we hear of blocks of brick ant
stone in contemplation at all points of the com
pass, and those buildings already planned and To-
Gated, will cost in their construction, more than
halt a million Of dollars! Pretty good. we fancy
for city which has not yet entered its teens.
But the go-aheaditiveness is not all limited to
st. Paul. By no means. On all hands, the Ter
ritory swarms with industry like beehive
Throughout the cold winter, the squatters have
continued to take advantage of their pre- emption
right, and every week since November some hardy.
determined young men have gone out into the
Territory to secure a quarter section OF 6 Real
Estate" What recks it that the snow is two feet
deep {? that the thermometer is 30 degrees below
zero not whit for just as slove breaks thro'
stone walls," so does enterprise, such as grows
in Minnesota, break through snow-banks and
cold weather, and overleap all the baricades of
Frost.
The preference of settlers in the coming spring,
is not yet very accurately defined, but the proba-
bility seems to be, now, that some of the large
waves of the incoming tide of immigration will
find a resting place up Rum river, and along the
fertile valley of the Minnesota. We are not cer-
tain which locality will preponderate, certainly
both are rich in charms,) but of one thing we are
certain; the rush of capital, and an enterprising
population into the Territory during the next
summer, will be overwhelming. MIR. Parker's map
of Minnesota has done much to inform people in
the States, OF few of her beauties and advanta-
ges, and to locate US in the geography of eivili-
zation; letters from Mnnesotians to their friends
have done something; but the inherent merits and
unadorned facilities of the country have done
much more than all else combined, to swell the
increasing stream of population. And it is on
her intrinsic worth we must finally rely. We can
do so with safety.
With climate healthy and agreeable as any in
the universe, with landscape as varied and beau
tiful as Natures hand could form it, with soil
as generous as Avarice could desire, and hetero-
geneous population as worthy, as enterprising and
as vigorous as any people in the world, need we
enquire about the future? With such Present
the Future cannot be doubtful.
But here is q little prophecy, by-the-way, found.
ed on figures. In 1s67-ten years hence-St
Paul, at the present rate Of increase, will contain
at least 100000 souls, while the Territory will sus
cain upon its bosom, population of 100000
What possibility! What certainty Let the
sluggish open their eyes, then, take their hand.
utof their pockets, and be ready to assist in up
raising the fabric of this magnificent empire ir
the Future.>