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

uuY course is sill onward. Every week brings forth
snr.e low and valuable improvement. On Saturday last
Mr.. James Z. Case leased land on the lower addition to
. Ny. S Nth, from New York city, who opens at once a
brick yard there. This has been q dcsideratum for a
long time. The town has invested hundreds Of dollars
for he purchase Of bricks in other places which might
just as well have been kept among ourselves. We may
set il down that every dollar that goes cut of the town
is so much loss 10 it, by diminishing the amount Of
money in circulation. Every kind Of business which
supplies necessary wants IN orr own midst tends to form
a circle among our own citizens in which money moves
backwards and forwards without leaving the town. We
arc now arriving at that position that we need 90 ese-
where for little. We have excellent lumber mills, shin
gle mills, lath mills, q 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 van. in Niningcr. We hope therefore that every
che needing bricks will AS soon as Mr. Smith gets under
way 90 no where else. BE assured selfinterest, if no
other sentiment, dictates this course. A. b. We will
sag keeps "a store i. i. is building; A. 3. has FIVE
hundred dollars to lay out i'll 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 4. Is. pays it ont here. it is on the next Satur-
Gay night distributed among the employed of the lum-
Der mills, the lime kiln, the brick yard, &C., and even
tually more or less of il finds its way back to A. BIS
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 al in our common cause in preference to bene-
fitting Indifferent, perhaps inimical strangers. Thus
We have tailors, Shoemakcrs, carpenters, plasterers, pain
tcrs, b~lacksmiths, wheelwrights, dry goods merchants,
groecrs. &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 q short time a
drug store, containing drugs, p~erfumery, paints, oils,
glass, &c. Such on establishment is much needed. Az in
the case Of the brick yard hundreds of dollars have gone
10 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, MIR. Eaten
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. Ea,op's mill will be Of great advantage TO the town
IS It viii draw money here from all the adjoining country
We arc :hus concentrating among ourselves all the
various elements Of success. Parties are even now in
negotiation for the establishment Of Foundry and
tIdcAii!c SN1r HElE this idi' ~ ~ i'Suy pTouduA1 ma
in our next Issue we shall be able to tel! cur citizen;
that the negotiations have been favorably concluded.
New countries are generally non-producing. Money
hovs from them East to all the marts of supply, ane
none comes back except such as is induced by the higt
rates Of interest paid for il. Take St. Paul for instance
Sec the immense quantities of goods of all kinds sold
there, and paid for in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, snt
elsewhere. What do they sell in return? a few bar
rels Of craubcrrics and d few bales of fnrs. Hence it i
r that the Western Territories feel SO acutcly any pressure
IN the none; market; they have no claim upon money
have nothing to give in exchange for it, and can obtair
it only upon the voluntary Investment OF eastern parties
). liable to be affected by every panic. This state of thing
is, however, rapidly r%emedying 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 ALREADY
o in Independent of the East. soon we will begin toexport t.
b them and the tables will be turned the East will be de
pendent on us for supplies, rs New York city is nov
upon Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Z But this doctrine Of home production must eventuall,
extend to other things besides agriculture. 1t mu
f saaIiy include manufactures Of all kinds. For thss