Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
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From the 81. Pad Advertiser.
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4, MINI NESOT II
Minnesota, 1t the date Of her Terri.
| tofiat Org 4 anization, III lS4g, had within
llhsfapfesetit bossntfaries d popniationsiJ, =,
less than A0OO.lsi Nots III less with 4
census roll Of I5O 900 inhabitanss, hay!
ing doubled her population six times ii
eight years, she claims her confraternal
fstar 10 brooch upon her ample shoulders,
Ethe i0ga uirilis fof State s6vereigntv
II With the single exception Of Caiifor-
MIA, the history lof. ~ otheEy IsHritary
has exhibited such career Of prosperi-
lty as. is indicated by this pnexampled
growth ofl popufafioH. The ratio oi
growth has beeha6 Eve times that ofi Wis
[consinss4Aen tinles that Of 1ndisnalorI TO-
lwa-rrtwelve ti,nss that of Ilimeis, md
twenty four times that Of Michigan, dur
ing the corresponding period Of her TER
ritorial history and fpr the cotempora-
ry period. that is to say from 1919 to
1857 I, her growth has been from ten to
thirty times Hat Of any Of these States.
Her increase In wealth has been even
more rapid. The amount of assessed
property for. the year sla49 was $4l4,-
936. In 1858 It IS over serenity millions
of dollars, at the official valuation ii.
increase of 1859 tinnes'in eight years ~
This ,amazingi development rests upon
permanent and intrinsic conditions. which
place Minnesota in the front rank Of the
Northwestern States. Foremost among
these Conditions il $ !" n s's1 8 ssss r &.
Her Communicating Gsograph.,Jl Position. ].
The State Of Minnesota, as it's limits
are defined BY the Enabling ACT, lies be-
tween the parallels ors43 degrees 30
min, and 40 degrees north--witht Iowa.,
on its, southern, and Wisconsin on IFS
eastern boundary. IF both Which States;
it shares the leading characteristics. II.
comprises an area Of 50 600 square
miles, being thus larges than all Neac
England. Its elevated surface, 500 feet
in height above the sea, level, form the. thlg
summit of the great interior plain of]
North america made up Of the conter-
minous basins Of the Mississippi, ST.
Lawrehce, Winnepeg aad Mackenzie,
and is the controlling apex of.he hydro-
graphical system Of the, continent, the
common centre whence lis affluents di-
verge, like spokes of vast wheel, 10 its
outer RIM on the Atlantic coast. sst' s.
i The waters which have their sourcssfl
in herhospm are capable of carrying the
CONNER rec of the, world, almest without
10 her borders, and cleav-
inc the continent northward, eastward
and southward, then give her three ma
iestic outlets upon the|ocean in three sdis-|
tinct zones. She holds On the Missis-l
sippi and Lake Superior, the western
teriinini st the great inland chains Of nav
igation which divide the internal COM
nerce of the continent. The magnif-
cent highway formed " the ST, Law
renee and the great Lakes, ends its SUBJ
lime mission on our northeastern bOr-
der, midway sbetweensthe two OCEANS,
and $500 miles from its Acknowledgement
on the Atlantic coast. and the Mississip-
pi with an tunbroken eurrent of 220Q
miles from its moath to. the Gulf Of Mex:
leo, carries the fruits Of the tropics to
the Fails oi' st. Anthony. ss 's'sf : =
Only less important IS the Red River
ofsthe Northywith a lnaviga bleilenkfh fof9
500 miles connecting in the Rritish Pos
sessions BY an interlockagee Of lakes,
with another system Of rivers, of which
the sSaskatchewan, with d 'continuous
navigable! csrse OF i4OO miles, pene-l
trateswestwafd 10 the foSti Of the Rocky
and the Janes, eastward to
an ocean karbof on Hudson, = Bay. sts
Thus on three sides Minnesota COM
minds the avenues to the great undevel-
oped Northwest, a country till recently |
almost as unknown asthe interior Of At
rica, But which recent researches have
proved to be, as respects climate aandre- y
goureess the most valuable sof the JlDap5
districts on the continent -
'fhis immense region extends from our
western Boundary to Tire base of the
Rocky MdAhtains., atid aorthward till i'll
reaches the limit .of tho wheat district |
nearly up 10 the Goth parallel among
The forks Of the Mackenzie river, and en-
braaeS i, cultivabIefsar ares of SOC, eco
squars miles, with thu climatic and aR-I
ricultural characteristics of. the grain
producing III " " R,ions of the Baltic Or 81 Up
per CaHads and capable according %
Lord selAirk of supporting asPopolationd
of 80 ,OO0; O00.sp ss,,ssf4s,sl ss.sss d lfs
The value of the geographical pQsitioliI
of Minnesota viii not be appreciated
without sofAe conpreh ensiol, 81 the tkar-
acter ofthe immense 'irfbutafy region of
which II commands tho approarhes. los \
aawork Of high authority Biedgett's = Gil
mriat0l NJ published under ,hS pAtr6nal
age Of The general goysiBt1en,, this neg
lected district is,Sfhn apsrtinsntly ds-
scribedI. s,.sis u. !! ,sa sus ii w.