St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-13

ID q perpetual pleasure. AS vet, our physi-
clans have discovered no diseases peculiar to
the climate, no indigenous complaint except
the "Nfinnesota Appetite which requires one
fourth more treatment than modest Pennsyl-
vania or Ohio attack Of corresponding dis
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Then, We have no dram-shops; but plenty
Of beer for Hauns, "A Catholic chapel, Baptist
and Episcopal church, regular Cumberland
Presbyterian, Baptist and occasional Episcopal
service. A beautiful school house, part of the
time two schools, and q first class Temperance
Hotel. fs ,s5.F.sa...r1 ID 81 T'....
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,
5forbids 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
4 the means of pecuniary independence are bet
ter combined. -.
There reimmense tracts Of pine lying above,
from which the mills at St.. Paul, St. Anthony
and the Minnesota Valley are supplied. These
employ 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-
ed quantities of food, without troubling the far
mer crushing clods; while the Mississippi from
St. Paul to Little Falls can afford to turn mill
at almost any point and has water power
enough to do the manufacturing for CONT
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Our natural meadows produce grass from
four to six feet high, and the beef killed off our
prairies is quite equal to any stall fed we have
ever eaten. Our venison is fine at ten cents
per pound, rabbits, prairie 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 there is no likelihood
of the supply running out soon, as the ''Big
Woods" extend from, this place some twenty
from eight to twelve miles back. Our prairies
are all dotted with strips of wood land, soak
Openings which just look like old orchards,
dense thickets of plum trees bearing delicious
fruit, grape vines, doing likewise, thousands OF
acres Of hazel bushes and strawberry vines, en-
gagged in the same business; while some hun
dred acres are in the cranberry trade and turn
out an article, which for quantity and quality
cannot be cxcelled. The blackberries, edrasp-
berries and hops tack up their shingles in the
woods; and seldom disappoint the most san
guine expectations Of their customers: There
is still land ten or fifteen miles back which set
tiers can get, at government price, by building
q cabin and living on it until it comes into
market. Actual settlers can buy lots here at
from one to FIVE hundred dollars, and specula-
tors can have the same lots at from five to ff-
teen hundred. /. > ~ -
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 dens rented in large cities for and s
dollars per month, while the lot, with only the
aid of a grubbing hoe and few days labor,
would bring vegetables to feed family, and
every township has 600 acres appropriated to
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