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

YAtf@ W7UtH dcitrrt eastward 20 fhc MISSISSIPPI
River at Niuin.rr Hity. Why ? i>ecau*u ~ thirty five
miles Of l;ailroui orsvel accomplished in Il few minutes
mare thar. one b mr., il cauit save itself y whole days
tm.1 rs. or nlore than, seventy lui!es along a shallow and
ancerta,n river. AID Il tedious tfanshilment 1T It. Paul.
Any person slancing 1T the map Will see that tie rivers
Mississippi and Minnesota form togcthcr = peninsula ;
t.at, pg ut present j, sround it, whole length cur Hail.
r;nl on the contrary passes d, The base Of 1t, cutting off
the. oic half or ,lnrc Of ihc ,isiaucc. besides substitute
til. the IRON horse for The slow steamboat.
Will this read pay? Its present section AS we have
shown is through a fertile tsr;'ing corhtry, its first tef,k-
mis- alp. the richest current NJ trade IN Minnesota
What is bevumi !: Take the map. 10 the southwest
lies III. Winding .eng,h II the minnesota River With all
its numerous and rising towns. Can we doubt what the
future will call forth from such a region ! Up beyond
the .yuat lend, away into an almost untrotiien country
it continues the SAME outlet 10 present Or future agricul-
t,ral wealth. Thea again directly west OF Louisville, q
magnificent country, {the Counties Of Carver, Mcleod
ana those adjacent } stretci.t. out. already much develop
ad. au.i containing a most energetic and intelligent popu-
ioti,1. \ iramcl, real i already in contemplation
10 Glencoe. and our Charter viii! to this end be amended
at the next session If the Legislature. This region once
opened ~. once offered an outlet for IFS productions, and
It will Gtnd its w'aith outward to the Mississippi. And
thea. lacking to he farther futnre, If the Nininger and
81. Peter l;airoas! t'emts1ny are. Is We think they will
be, at,e 10 construct the FIRST RAILROAD IN MIME
-orA what is to prevent ;heir keeping the same advanced
position. and sweeping westward On the great line OF the
world's advance.
Witt, all this who can doubt tina. tie Stock Of the
Company will be Il safe and paying Investment? Who
can doubt that it will yield a handsome return on its
principal in semi-aunual dividends Who will doubt
that it will be a current and tangible evidence OF SO much
interchangeable as bank notes.
But more than all this, in asking the public to sub
scribe for stock in the Niningcr and ST. Peter Railroad
(.,mnany. ye are Offering them lots 10 the Town OF
Louisville which will By their certain@,ise, upon The
building Of the road, mel hem double, rsbte, yaaar @Pi.
RI. s1a1. ,.sf Of hetr S@sA. and that too before they
have half paid fer il. Of this fact there can be nc
doubt. Lots have already, before there was any pros
rect of a Railroad. been sold in the Town of Louisville
for Two Hundred Dollars each. We are offering equally
good lots for Ten ioHars each! What We ask in return
is, hat Me pu,yhaser .huN pay has pro rata part Uesorda
ju;i'ing ~ rpad That wW i"sDieasa'otiy al" to the rafue
Of his oc~ properly. What could be fairer? He is
putting money in no man pocket but his own. lie ],
building his own Railroad il whicis he is as deeply H.
tcrested as any other man, and in whose actions he will,
~ u shareholder, have . vnico.
Let Us reduce thi- nrrtter to details, first TO demon
stratc lis / ~asibility, au,; Feco,eiiy 70 sfypw It's results rs
TO the individual purcaas'r.
/ The Road from Nininger t" il Misvi'l4 will cost it has
been estimated at the rate Of $50 ,D0U per mile, making
4 total Of 100000 OF this, it is4a well known fact,
that Il one hail, or even one third be raised in cash, the
reminder eau he nego'iatcd, by exchanging the Stock
with contractors. b. 1iscounting the bonds of the Go
secured on the portion already built, ami in various other
ways We propose to laise very near ythe whole amount
in cash. We will ofe, for sale about six thousand lots in
Louisville at Ten D,'ars per lot. sgbfct to ar average
subscription of one share to the lot, nall, six thousand
shares, making at One Hundred Dollts per share Six
Hundred Thousand Dollars not one hkf, not one third,
but sir Strenihs Of tht whole amount kquired to build
the road and this ta i. cash, as it II Needed, in month.
!: in-talments Of 'hirtv thousand dolts each. Now is
Il luuh,ci thai those t,a can be sold + 1t mast be re.
n~lrmbcrtl by4he incredul"us who vh hang back to
their own future loss, that one year ago' large number of
lots were offered for sac by the P~r'prFtms Of Niningcr,
IA town containing now with its additions over seven thou
sand lots NJ Six Dollar. each subject t., N equally onerna,s
condition Nor one line Of alvertisint hcralded them,
not ",e newspaper pulled them. not one public meeting
wa held. aud vet IL treatv. sreea doys rom the sale "t
the first lot every lot offered Was lispsAll OF. What has
been the result: Niniuger. City in oes yesr contains a