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

n wudl0 DETECT eastward to the Mississippi
River at Nininger City. Why ? Because ly t~hirty-hve
miles Of Railroad travel accomplished ia "a few minutes
more than one our, il could save itself Il whole days
boating, or more than seventy miles along a shallow and
uncertain river, and a tedious transhipment at st. Paul.
Any person glancing at the map will see that the rivers
Mississippi and Minnesota form together a peninsula
boating at present is around its whole length cur Rail
road on the contrary passes at the base of it, cutting off
thus one half Or more OF the distance. besides substitu-
TING the iron horse for the slow steamboat.
Will this road pay? It's present section as we have
shown is through a fertile farming country, its first terrk-
nus Tap. the richest current of trade in Minnesota
What is beyond !! Take the map. 10 the soutb-west
lies the winding length of the Minnesota River with all
its numerous and rising towns. Can we doubt what the
future will call forth from such a region 4? Up beyond
the great bend, away into an almost u%ntrodden country
it continues the same outlet to present or future agricul-
tural wealth. Then again directly west Of Louisville, a
magnificent country, (the Counties Of Carver, Mcleod
AMI those adjacent stretches out, already much develop
ed. ani containing a most energetic and intelligent popu-
ia,ion. A hrancl, road is already in contemplation
to Glencoe, and our Charter will to this end be amended
at the next session Of the Legislature. This region once
opened up. once offered an outlet for its productions, and
it will food it's wealth. outward to the Mississippi. And
thea, looking to The farther future, if the Nininger and
81. Peter Railroad Company are, as We think they will
be, able to construct the FIRST RAILROAD In MIME.
sofa what is to prevent their keeping the same advanced
position, and sweeping westward on the great line OF the
world advance. 88A4
With all this who can doubt that the Stock of the
Company will be a safe and paying investment? Who
can doubt that it will yield 4 handsome return on its
PRINCIPAL in semi-aunuai dividends ? Who will doubt
that it will be "a current and tangible evidence of go much
money ss ym ,ao,g than, i, / 4 ssissl q spablic to sub.
II scribe for stock in the 1n1gcsrs6fsx Rssr Raaroad
Company, We are otfsj&1y fks,ps hts il tie Tusn Of
I Louisville which ~ilf 3 TT sertsiaeriss, ope. 81
Il. utD5s tvt Of heis is4rk, ard de 10 before they
have half paid for il. OF this fact there ssas 49, -
doubt. Lots have already, before stfsero was any pres
poet of a Railroad, been sold Vi the Town Of Louisville
tor Two Hundred Dollars each We are offering equally
good lots for ten dollars eoch What We ask in return
IS, that The purchaser .hah pay has pro rata par Nea,d.
building u road that u;U imneos.saLiy add to the ralue
Of his o,cA property. VIVA could be fairer He is
putting money in no man pocket but his own. lie is
building his own Railroad in which he is as deeply 10.
terested as any other man. and in whose actions be will,
~ q shareholder, have a vpice.
Let us reduce this matter to details, first to demon
stratc iLs + asibIity, aud secondly to shfw its results as
to The individual p~urchas4. @&M
The Road from Nininger t" Lnisvill4 will cost it has
been estimated at the ratd Of $40, 900 per mile, making
a total Of SOC, 900. OF this il. i*sag1 Tell known fact,
that if one hall, Or even tne third be kissed in cash, the
remainder can be negotiated, BY exchanging the Stock
with contractors, By discounti1g the bonds of the Co
secured on the portion already builr ~ IN various other
ways w propose to raise very p~esrytse whole amount
in cash. We will offer for sale about - thousand lots in
Louisville at Ten Dollars ger lot, s0t&40ar average
subscription Of one share to the lot, iu3An, six thousand
shares, making at One Hundred dloltft per share Six
Hundred Thousand Dollars; not one 4lf, not one third,
but sir seueniAs Of the whole amo1nt &&quired to build
the road and this a., .lcash, as a 3 teded, in month
y in-talments Of thirty thousand adtaoal]4 + each Nov, is
it doubted that those t"fs can be sold n 1t must be re.
m~embcred BY rbe incredul"us who Will hang back to
their own future loss, that one year ag", large number of
lots were. offered for sale by the Proprltors Of Niningcr,
a town containing now With its aiditioss over seven thou
sand lo,s at Six Dollars each subject to y equally oneroas
CONDITION Not one lincsof advertising kbfnlded them,
not one newspaper pulled them, not e. psblic meeting
was held, aud vet H. tr.ntv. secea daSagttnm the sale Of
the first lot every lot vdsxyd xss An = What has
been the result Ninipger. City, Z contains a