St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-24

Der in abundance, plenty of hard wood to
last century and prospect Of its incseaa-
ing faster than it will be consumed. We
have brick clay Of excellent quality; Tie
material for making lime in abundanee;
veins Of potter's clay and mineral paiat
sand for manufacturing glass in profdsion,
and water power enough, We should think,
to turn all the mills on the continent.
We have wealth Of beauty and grand
eur in our richly diversified landscape and
glorious blue sky, which are above all COM
putation in money value; and why should
the fluctuations of the eastern money mar
kets, and the financial embarrassments Of
those who have hasted to be rich, cloud
any brow with Encouragement?
Eastern capitalists have not rushed in
this last spring as they did for some years
previous, to speculate in town lots, to fill
the pockets of few proprietors with cash,
and whole communities with examples Of
extravaganza and idleness. The people
who are coming to cast their lots in with
HIS arc those who come with oxen and plows,
to turn up wealth out of the soil. The
plan now to insure unbounded prosperity
to Minnesota is for each inhabitant to set
himself Or herself about creating wealth;
and for all to stop waiting on the wheel Of
fortune Every one who raises a bushel
Of grain, bed of vegetables, cultivates
border of flowers, plants and tends some
apple seeds, builds a shed or porch, makes
Il bench or table, raises colt, calf, pig,
il chicken, has done that much towards the
general wealth and prosperity.
Look at the boundless pastures which
surround us, the thousands of tons of hay,
and bushels of acorns which 60 to waste.
Set about turning these to some account.
Almost any one can raise some domestic an
imal when the means of feeding them are
abundant; and every such animal is an in
crease in the means Of living. This county
alonc should produce hundreds Of tons of
butter, cheese, eggs, bacon, beef, lard and
tallow for expectation. $780,
- When confidence is restored in the east
and rush Of immigration sets in to Daco-
ia, Northern Minnesota should be able to
supply the newcomers with food at very
low figures, until they can raise it from
these magnificent fields Of agriculture
which lie still further west and north.
One thing, We see boxes al. every turn,
labelled :"Soap," from st. Louis, Cincin-
natl and other places. This is all wrong
Where oak wood is used for fuel and Mess
Pork in cooking, as they are here, every
family should make its own soap, until fac
tories are started in the vicinity, at least.
At our house VIC make even our toilet
soap.
In new country the greatest care and
economy should be used to avoid sending
away money for anything than can be pro-
cured at home Or dispensed with altogeth-
or. All industry and earnest effort should
be doubly respectable in new countries; and
all efforts to elevate an idle aristocracy into
something worthy Of Difference should be
doubly condemned and frowned out of
countenance. It is the working man and
working woman who are worthy of honor,
and none should be left for Alterations
of gcntility, which pride themselves on
any inability to do anything useful and
suitable Ladies who cannot make dress,
cook a meal and do anything about house
to promote the comfort of a family, gen
tlemen who cannot work, efficiently at some
agricultural or mechanical employment,
ought to be very humble and take the low
er seats in the social circles of new coun-
tries.
The Micaubers should all be set to turn
ing up something Or be incontinently turn
under and kept there. .~~ ..-..... ~.
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We had hoped to get done with the St.