St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-11-25

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middle Of May, We had much raw wet
weather, with occasional warm and pleas
ant days. Seeding was completed about
the 9th Of June. June, July and August
l averaged some two degrees warmer than
at Harrisburg, during the day; but our
nights hts are always cool ond comfortable.
September and October were remarkably
pleasant, and November thus far, has been
COO, comfortable and bracing. Our first
frost occurred on the 28th of August, sew
eral days after Pennsylvania and most of
the Eastern States had received similar
visitation. So far as we are advised, it
injured nothing here, except The late buck
wheat and the seed O. the sugar cane
The thermometer indicates that our win
ters are several degrees colder than yours,
but owing to the absence Of rain and
moisture, we do not suffer SO much as our
eastern friends & "s
Health. 81.
Owing to the pure bracing atmosphere,
and superior quality of our drinking wa
ter, this is one of the healtniest districts
in the Union. Consumption, chills and
fever, have never been known to originate
i'll the country. The only sickness that
we have heard OF, as originating here, du-
ring the past srMmer among a population
of one thousand, was some two or three
cases Of typhoid fever, and four or FIVE Of
dysentary. sy@. sin
Investments.
Nearly the entire population purchased
real estate beyond their mGsns, previous
to the late crisis; and arc consequently
compelled either to sacrifice a portion OF
then property, or to borrow money at a
high rate Of interest. You can therefore
purchase lands from two to ten dollars per
acre that must, in our opinion, double in
value in from twelve to twenty months;
and town lots upon equally favorable
terms; or money can be loaned upon un-
doubted Mortgage security at two per
cent. per month. Three to four per cent.
per month, is the customary rate for short
loans upon endorsed negotiable paper,
i. Game, Wood, Lumber.
Game and fish abound in our ne;ehbor-
hood. Prairie chickens, pheasants, pig
cons, raccoons, foxes, deer and bear, are
found in their season in quantities that
crafty the hunter, and supply our tables.
Elk and buffalo are still killed about one
hundred miles west Of this place. There
is a suficiency of vood ard rail timber il
our county for many years to come, and
our Old western settlers inform, us that so
soon as the country generally becomes &C.
capied, and the prairie fires cease the
psairies yill be covered with spontaneous
growth CT timber. We hare an inez-
haussible supply Of superior pine, COM
mencing some fifty miles above US; f:c,n
whence logs are Hoated to and past us, By
the million. .sS ~.
ST. Cloud and Vicinity.
St. Cloud is located seyenty-fye miles
above St. Paul, upon the west bank Of the
Mississippi 1t lays upper beautiful
level Prairie about sixty feet above high
water mark, and has a fine steamboat
landing at either end Of the town. The
Northern Pacific Railroad is graded from,
ST. Paul to within some twenty miles Of
us. It is to cross the river at this point
by a bridge, and is being pushed with
great vigor by the contractor, Mr.. Cham
berlain; and we have every assurance
that within twelve months we shall beable
to travel from here to Harrisburg by cans.
Behind us lays Maine Prairie and Sank
Valley, both Of which are rapidly filing
up with citizens Of New England and Ger
many We speak advisealy when we say
that for one hundred miles (and probably
for hundreds farther) the fertility and
productiveness Of the soil, is uneqnaiiea
this side Of California. ~.
IL Modes OF Communication.
We have now line Of small STEAMBOATS,
from St. Anthony to this point, AMI dai-
ly line Of mail coaches from St. Paul via q
superior government road.
.f:...s.. Railroads. ..
AS nearly as we can ascertain, there is
now some four or five hundred miles of
railroad under contract, which is being
built by a donation Of government lands,
and the State loan. AS much more Will
be put under contract next spring, and
within very few years we hope to be as
we'll provided with railroads as most Of the
older States. By a lengthy and interest
ing article in another portion Of this paper
from the pen Of Edmund Rice, Esp, you
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