The weekly Minnesotian., 1857-06-27
Progress Of McLeoa County,.
GLENCOE, June IL, 1857.

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Since my last, have been over pretty
much all of Mcleod county, and am really
surprised to see how it has settled up this
spring. There is not vacant. claim within
space Of six or eight miles from Glencoe.
But while our land is being taken with SO
much activi y, we shall fail to connt up
heavy population, because tue majority Of
the settlers are single men, though all hope
to get married IN due course of time. Four
miles north Of this, is Koniska, new TORN
that has lately sprungup, on the south branch
of Grow River, where the Messrs. Bonds
& Co., are building large Saw and Grist
MILL Out Of a population of ffty-three,
there is only one female in the place; the
rest, except the womanis husband are bach
lors. Would not this point make a good
opening for lot of unmarried ladies'? Be-
lieve me they would 60 of like hot cakes,
and to come down to the fact, 1 do not
think that ''lovely woman" could find bet
ter husbands, than those men would make
around Koniska. Bachelors can get along
very well in the winter, but it is up hill
work to cook in midsummer We must by
hook or crook import marriageable girls into
the county. Unless we do so, the country
all around, or that Of it, west of the Big
Woods, will be sorry portion of the west.
Almost every farm you see, is occupied by
fhot sbould bova
are willing to get them, but can't spend
to 60 East to hunt up such articles.
We expect the first number of our paper
will be issued about the first of JULY. The
Messrs. Baxters, the proprietors, are gen.
tlemen Of education,.and experienced. They
are natives of the good old Green Mountain
State, and swallow the good Republican
principles, which came so near electing John
Charles Fremont for President. This coun-
ty is now able to support good paper and
Ills expected that Messrs Baxter will be
vtnpatronized.
In passing through the fourishing village
of Hutchinson on Wednesday last, saw Asa
B. of the Hutchison Family, leading off some
>ix men planting c,rn. Asa had already
planted forty-fve acres, but the seed proved
to be bad, and he has to replant it. The
way Asa used the hoe plainly shows that he
knows how to farm. He looks very much
like New Hampshire farmer, with his
hickory shirt and tow pants. John of the
same family has also good crop in; but
not so much as Asa. The three boys Jud-
son, John and Asa, have expended nine
thousand dollars in Hutchinson which is their
future home, and by the class of people they
are bringing in, any one would suppose that
Hutchson is rather Yankee settlement. The
good citizens of Hutchison only voted for
Mr.. Sheldon as Delegate at large from this
Council District. They did not know that
Col. Aldrich was on the track, until after the
election. 1t appears to me that the Central
Committee should have taken more pains to
have scattered printed tickets through the
interior. If there is not more interest ta-
ken hereafter, we may expect to be in the
minority.
Crops are coming on finely in this section
of the territory. Abel Wilson has large
field of winter wheat three miles west of
Glencoe that cannot be beat in any part of
the Union. There are more of the same
sort around here. Glencoe is full of stran-
gers and adventurers. The Methodists are
preparing to erect large meeting house,
and the County Commissioners are moving
about now Court House. 1t is an admit
ted fact that Mcleod is the great agIicultu-
raj county of Minnesota. X.