The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-05-05

From the report Of the Chief Engineer Of the Min
aesota and Pacific Railroad Company, we extract the
following statements showing the localities With which
St. Paul is during the spring and summer months iden-
sical in point Of temperature, for an average Of IA years,
and consequently, all other things being equal, in Ag.
s~icultaral capacity:
Sra1so.-(Mean temperature, $3.50 degrees)-st.
Paul; Boston; Springfield and Worcester, Mass; Kin
n. T.; Detroit, Ann Arbor and Battle Greek, Mich;
Chicago, ILL.,; Beloit and Portage City, Wis.
SuMMER.-(Mean temperature 1000 degrees)-St.
Paul; Lowell, Mass; Trenton and Middletown, N. j.;
Flatbush and Newburgh, N. Y; Philadelphia, Warren,
and Middletown, Pa. Hudson and OberGn, Ohio:
Chicago, ILL.,; Beloit and Portage City, Wis; Pembina,
Minnesota, lat. 40. -
Can any doubt remain on the mind Of the citizen who
contemplated emigration from Massachusetts, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois or Wisconsin,
that be vii! find here all the essentials for a rich agri-
cultural country, when he learns that the splendid
summer climate Of Minnesota is identical with his own.
Nature itself seems to have adopted the coming and
going Of the thermometrical changes TO the wants Of
man and to have made the most Of geographical position.
The winters dry and silent the sudden change from
the temperature Of February Q7:e) to the almost
doubled rate of March, OLA and then again this more
than doubled by the degree Of heat in the all essential
months Of July and August, (73.4 and 7o.l) and,
added to this, the regular increase in the quantity Of
humidity as the year progresses.
44bort Minnesosa-A Card for tie Eas.-I was
startled a few days ago, on learning what ~purported to
bel fact, that the people Of the East were being 30
thoroughly deceived in reference to NJ nnesota, as really
to believe we possessed an Arctic climate, q Saharean
s~terilitJ and. thus exposed to the chilling blasts which
ind their way across the ~linitless, sterile plains, We
have no: = bit Of wood to burn! Can such preposter-
ors stories find credence any where !? Can it be possible
that the voice of 150, 900 people, who have chosen this
delightful region fer their future abode, can carry with
it no weight? Is there no force in the declaration Of
80 many people, that that s they have found the suns-
r7un bonum Of their wishes, in ~tenantiag this beautecus
spot Of Gods carth!'
Minnesota has not the climate Of Louisiana, or Flor.
ida, OF Indiana, or Kansas, nor yet Of Michigan, or
Iowa, and in go far az the people are personally concerned
they may render thanks to God FOR it. The climatic
influences which generate the yellow fever in the South.
ern States, or the ever recurring sguee and feye7s Of
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and Michigan, are not found
here. The atmosphere is at all tunes peculiarly dry
and bracing; free from missma, AID therefore pure. It
has been found by actual observation that We have not
80 much wind here as in the States just south Of US, and
hsre follows q striking explanation of the following fact.
In those States where there are usually high winds and
moi t atmosphere, 8 degree Of cold, indicated by the
zero Of Fahrenheit, is almost uncomfortable. The
atmosphere moistens the clothes and the akin, and the
cold wind has thereby a hundred fold greater effect. That
2 nan may endure for q whole day together, degrees of
cold indicated by zoe, SOC, 400 Fab, in our siberian
climate, and still exhibit the glow Of warmth upon his
cheek, is proof positive that our climate is not 40 truly
anendurablea as ATTITUDES further south Of us.
The winters Of 1865 and 1867 were severe in all
parts Of the United States-not pre.eminently 60 in
Minnesota. Nor have the older States anything to
boast Of in regard to the backwardness Of the spring
aud summer of 1857.
The present winter is remarkably mild, and while our
brethren of the States below US are complaining Of con-
siuuous rains, roads Of (fathomless) mud, and chilling
winds, We can boast of but two or three days rain al
together, solid roads-sometimes ~slei4hing, sometimes
wsgoning-and not uncomnonly high winds, and what
is still better, nearly all the time pleasant. have kept
q The-mometrical record, and BY that l am able to say
that, first, the mercury has indicated a degree of cold
~ degrees above zero oftener than below it; second,
chat for at least nine.tenths Of the time it ranges above
zero; third, that our coolest day did not exceed "a de-
gfees below zero, that, only for an hour in the morning.
On that morning l was compelled to perform q journey
of4a miles on foot, and at the end Of my journey felt
warmer than when I started. She above deductions
are made from observations taken at sunrise.
No climate on the broad face Of earth can be more.
healthful. But we do not, We cannot assert that people
will not get sick and die here Tsausgressions Of the
laws Of health by efeminacy and intempersnce, or other.
wise, do not find exemptions from punishment in any
part Of Gods domains; but We wish to be distinctly
understood as meaning, that in this climate especially,
obedience to those laws will confer the boon Of being
generally veil.
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