The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-02-24

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very easily find a location to suit them in Minnesota
whether men Of large or small means. OF course oil
will post themselves up regarding our Homestead and
Presumption Laws The mechanic, the laboref, or til,
storekceper should be careful to locate aheye thers Is q
certainty Of buildings Lei,g e~rectel, and where property
has not commenced to fall in price, because wherever
property has attained too high a figure and the bulk o.
the holders are paying high rates of interest on mort
gage notes, the r%etrograde movement has commenced
and as rats leave a ship where there is a leak, so people
leave a place where prices are falling, and one follows
another till the original property holders retire from thu
field, and in a few years smother set Of men take hold
ward career, it has not been entirely cxtinguishedf BY
some rival town. am VI
The p~rospector from the East can easily end out BY
inquiring of intelligent mechanics, wherever he lands on
the Upper Mississippi which towns are thriving and
which are not so. The best criterions are tho quantity
of work contracted for, to be done tho ensuing season
the energy Of the citizens, and the upward or downward
tendency Of the price Of property common sense will
of course teach most men that by investing where pro
perty has evidently reached a high figure they may hs'
u great deal, whereas, where it il cheap in proportion 4
the prosperity Of the place, the probability Of an advance
is great, and little can be lost. o.
Additional M~lnnesotlan Antiquities.
We clip the following from the Saltwater Messenger
of last week: 49, as S
I'm our last paper we noted the discovery Of the tusk
of a Mastodon, or Mammoth, found BY the workmen
engaged in excavating on Myrtle street. Since then
some Of our citizens were informed by the workmen that
some two weeks ago they exhuned another, similar in
md nonorauo and that II had hoon 6 dmrnnad az
into the ievee, at the foot Of Chestnut street. A few
days since, DR.. Rhodes and some other gentlemen Of the
city, made some examinations, and after removing Z
small quantity of earth from the levee found y number
of the pieces-tbe largest being some two feet in length.
TAe pieces thus found are in a better state Of peeserva.
indicates that it Is The left-s.de tusk-the opposite Of
the first one found. T6is Indicates pretty certainly that
the entire carcas was deposited in the sanle locality, and
that other remains may yet be foandA
1t is = great misfortune that these Aeally interesting
aud curious specimens were not secured without ipins9
-as they might have been-as they would hass Ion
invaluable to our State Historical Society. The speci-
men in our possession has been examined by hundreds
Of person., aud application for it has been made By the
H historical Society, with which We shall deposit It for
preservation Edf asM 3asat *s 8zud
We hope that some steps will be- taken to obtain the
entire skeleton, which, no doubt. can be found in the
same locality as the parts already discovered. Too much
attention cannot be paid to these matters. Not only is
science interested, but the ordinary curiosity Of human
nature is enlisted to learn something Of the past history
of this great country.
I'VE learn from one of our citizens who takes consid-
cradle interest in such matters, that in the collection Of
the State Historical Society at St. Paul, there il q piecs
Of highly carved antique pottery, fund twelve feet un-
der the surface at Saltwater, and exhibitings considers.
BILE degree Of advance in the arts Of ornament. Our
Saltwater friends have, it would seem, treasures Of the
antique under their feet, which they should ~resurrect.
The complete skeleton of the Mastodon found there, il
put together and wired, would furnish an object Of the
most curious and instructive interest. iasf22 pa
We annnnd the 10 loyk,n.t Irstiatacs IN sefaeeuce IN the