St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-09-09

tneIN.Nefe three hundred and thirty-twO votes
pollsd il the precinct. Not the votes Of Indir
.anssor Half Breeds, for there are none here
sAMatortty Of the Inhabitants Of the county
afsghardy Germans, with sturdy wives ana
Children CHI oulti,ating the soil and working 4
mechanical employments. "a; - ~ .s 1 90 s
aS The subsoil is sand and although the soil il
from one to three feet deep, o rich black loan
supporting rank vegetation, the drainage is
20 perfect and the cir so pure, that breathing
is perpetual pleasure. AS yet, our gphysi-
clans have discovered no diseases peculiar to
the climate, no INDIGENOUS complaint except
fourth more treatment than a modest PennsyE
%vania or Ohio attack of a. corresponding dis
case. i.Sar,h ANS" r',<f.s..'g". -~- 49,. ,~--
Any body who wants to drink whiskey in
peace had better not come here, for the treaty
by which the land was acquired from the Sioux,
forbids its Introduction; and the Legislature
has passed law enforcing that provision; but
people Of moderate means and Industrious hab-
its who have children to educate, will find few
places where the opportunity for correct moral
training, healthy development Of muscle, and
the means of pecuniary independence are bet
ter combined. ~ - 80" <....,..f -.
There are immense tracts Of pine lying above,
from which the mills at St. Paul, St. Anth ony
and the Minnesota Valley are supplied. These
employ a large and ever-increasing force of
men, horses and oxen, who are to be supplied
with provisions clothing and feed The soil is
waiting for an opportunity to produce unlimit-
I'd quantities of food, without troubling the far
mer crushing clods; while the Mississippi from
st Paul to Little Falls can afford to turn mill
1t almost any point and h. 5 water power
Eenoughto do the manufacturing for Conti-
nent.s @ ss ~ IL & "a &x -
Our natural meadows produce grass from
-four to SIX feet high, and tie beef killed off our
prairies is quite equal to; any stall fed we have
syec eaten. Our sepison is fine at ten cents
per pound, rabbits. prairies hens, cartridges,
ducks, &C., plenty Thousands of bushels OF
acorns for the hogs that are not here to eat
them. Fuel for the labor of cutting and haul
ing off the ground; and thereis no likelihood
Of the supply running out soon, as the s'Big
niles more, down this side of the river, an 4
rom eight to twelve miles back. Our prairics
are all dotted with strips Of wood land, GOAL
Openings which just look like old orchards.
Tense thickets of plum trees bearing delicious
; ruit, grape vines, doing likewise, thousands OF
acres of hazel bushes and strawberry vines, en-
gagged in the same business while some hun
bred acres are in the cranberry trade and turn
out an article, which for quantity and quality
cannot he excelled. Theblackberries. redrasp-
berries and hops tack up their. shingles in the
woods !; and seldom disappoint the most san.
5uine expectations Of their. customers. There
g still land ten or fifteen miles back which set
tiers can get, at government price, by building
cabin and living on it uatil it comes into
market. Actual settlers car buy lots here 1T
from one to Eve hundred dollars, and epecula-
.ors can have the same lots at from FIVE to if
zen hundred. ..-s.-. ~. -
In some Of the river towns back, places that
will be pleasant villages, lots can be had gratis
by those who will build and live on them.-
This, in places where house can be built for
fifty dollars, that would be palace compared
to the deps rented in large cities for 4 and 8
dollars per month, while the lot, with only the
aid Of > grubbing hoe and . few days labor,
would bring vegetables TO-, feeda family, and
every township has 600 acres appropriated to
the support of schools. e -5g ~
Seventy thousand acres are appropriated to
= State university. A dne building has already.
been erected for the use Of that institution. It
is situated 1t St. Anthony, built Of stone. on an
eminence commanding q view Of the falls, and
no State in the Union has better foundation
for good system Of popular education. No
nesota and no State more abundantly supplied
St. Cloud and as far North and West as We have
any reliable account, settlers find no difficulty
in locating land on drumming stream OF; trans
parent lake with plenty Of timber at hand for
building, fencing and fuel, and as the land on
the West side Of the Upper Mississippi is only
open to pre- emption, there is little opportunity
for spectators, and settlers have assurance Of
neighbors and that rapid increase inythe value
of their lands and in social advantages which
arise from the system of land in limited guam
titles to actual settlers. ,r..,- c,,.... ,.fn {
- The country around st. Cloud, vest Of, the
Mississippi was purchased Of the Indians in .,
treaty made with then. by Hon alexander
Ramsey and Luke Lea ii 1862 ,aad ratified by
the senat. the same year. 3 Abe Sioux had
owned the land from 1927 but had not occupied
it, and it was used as hunting ground by the
Winnebagoes whose ,ard~resched within, four.
niles north az st, Cloud. Their county was
#nded 10 The United States 81 q ttea1 81 htEian:
s3is Commissioner Manvneny and eoncludsdl
~ sshMgton in Feb. 1855 and ratified hythe
.%crae March Sd OF the same year 9lh May.
foil Wing they removed to ,heit reservation on
the flue Earth river and only since that time
has stsarns county claimed kindred with civil
.sasfcnl The first house within the corporated
limits Of st. Cloud was built by James Hitch
cps, forGcne, al Lowry. james Kitchens being I
the first white. man who slept in q house here
is entitled 70 the distinction of being the s'old-
est inhabitant. - The siteof Lower ST, Child
was tnke19upfas claim, by Martin wv ot''yy,lsi I,
Norwegian, who sold his, eight Il George r
Boot who survey Cd ana plated II in thg
Of a55. About. theSsame time d ohm f. WiiIsdh
surveyed and plated whatsiS nov called middle
town, which adoins and IFS higher up the riIa
err while General Lowry survey cd and plaxca
upper town. called Ioyry,s Addition, the Win =
u following 1T s&as Nj Wilson who gavg
time TOW the name Of St. Cloud by this name