St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-11-25
NO. II.

disc, farming utensils, ETC., and travel to
and fro from the Territory of Dakota and
the Red River and Hudson Bay Comma
nys settlements, will pass over this route
via Crow Wing, to the Red River, which
IS navigable from thence to Lake Winnie
peg. :@~
A glance at the map will exhibit the
eligible location Of the lands granted to
| the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Com
pany, being adjacent to line through St.
anthony and Crow Wing By Otter Tail
lake and the Valley Of the Red River to
penbina. ~
:. Probably 40 more favorable surface for
Railroad construction exists in the world
than from st. Paul to Pembina and from
thence to the Pacific.
The region surrounding Otter Tail lake
IN all directions is pronounced by Captain
Pope, OF the United States Army, to be
the garden Of the Northwest; while the
basin OF the Red River of the North, with
surface admirably adapted to railroad
line, will constitute wheat district fully
equal to that Of the Baltic. -.
! ever most Of this line the company will
definitely control the selection of sites for
towns and the sales of lots and lands ul-
rjudiclous management, cannot be less
than sum equal to SIS per acre for the
whole, or S57 900 per mile. This will
present tue road to the stockholders COM
plctety equipped and paid for, with sur
plus fund for future repairs, equal to 27,-
ooo per mile; while the development Of
the British northwestern region will be Of
lncalculable benefit to its future interests
The country south and northwest of
Crow Wing is receiving daily acquisitions
t. It's settlements. Several large steam
and water mills have been, erected and
steamers are about being placed upon the
! Red River.
! The rare beauty and fertility Of this re-
glon far on to the valley Of the Saskatche-
Z wan, to which our road directly points and
! indeed to the Pacific, are not only strongly
attracting the attention Of settlers of the
United States, but also of Great Britain
and her Canadian Government.
Among those who have given the sub
jcct any attention, it is we'll known that
this section embraces some Of the finest
! agricultural lands i'll the country, sufi-
;, GENTLY wooded and watered, and that the
/ climate is delightful, and free from the
miasmas Of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and
Kansas.
Above Grow Wing to pokegalna Falls,
E $50 miles, the Mississippi is navisable for
F steamers drawing three feet OF water; and
one, "The North Star is already plying
, between these points.
| The traffic upon fifty miles Of our road
will be, ior. the first two years:
E l. The importation and distribution OF
manufactures stores, &c., &c, into the
interior.
E 2. Indian annuity goods, provisions,
&C., furnished by the Government to the
Indians Of Dacotah Territory amounting
to the annual value Of half d million OF
dollars
i 3. Supplies (otller than United States
a property for Fort Ripley and Fort Aber-
: crombie.
! +. Supplies Of goods, agricultural im-
f plements, &c, for Selkirk and Hudson
q Day companies POSSESSIONS.
a o. Return products from these different
:, points; the trade Of these places last year
with St. Paul alone amounting to over q,
e million Of dollars. Forty reapiny ma
y chimes were taken to Ie,nbina during last
season.
Forty miles oI the road are already gra-
q ded, and the WORK is being vigorously pro
secuted The iron viii be laid and the
> road put in operation from St. Paul to St.
l. Cloud, eighty miles, next spring and
- summer.
= Over 10000 tens Of freight were trans
q ported between St. Paul aud St. Anthony
= last year, and the travel was estimated at
four hundred people daily.
Much profit will undoubtedly arise from
: the appreciation Of the valueof fairgrounds
:: to be donated and purchased about the
= ;, stations on the road. These stations will
u form the nuctet OF towns and cities, and
= while many Of them will be formed upon
, the conlpany's land. others will be donated
= OF purchased at com paritively low prices.
With proper management, it is not to
much to say, that at least one million OF
n dollars may be realized from this alone up
. o. the construction OF fifty miles only
The amount.investe,: in this way may be
o more than returned in short period OF
It time by sales Of lots to those desiring 10
n establish business near the depots. Nine
) years ago St. Paul hal population ofless
II than 4uo; now it is over $1,000. What
= the increase NAV hei,uripp the next nine