St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-10-14


are hardy Germans, with sturdy wives and
children, cultivating the soil and working at
mechanical employ nlents. 3 @
The snbsoil IS sand and although the soil is
from one to three feet deep, rich black loan
supporting rank vegetation, the drainage is
so perfect and the air 90 pure, that breathing
is a perpetual pleasure. As yet, our physi-
clans have discovered no diseases peculiar to
the climate, no Indigenous complaint except
the s'Minnesota Appetite which requires one
fourth more treatment than modest Pennsyl-
vania Of Ohio attack Of . corresponding dis.
case. ltf Is III
Any body who wants to drink whiskey in
peace had better not come here, for the treaty
by which the land was acquired from the Sioux,
forbids its Introduction; and the Legislature
has passed law enforcing that provision; but
people OF moderate means and Industrious hab
its who have children to educate, will find few
places where the opportunity for correct moral
training, healthy development Of muscle, and
the means Of pecuniary Independence are bet-
ter combined. 2l '9'.s@@ =, T"
There are immense tracts Of pine lying above,
from which the mills at st. Paul, St. Anthony
and the Minnesota Valley are supplied. These
employ large and eyer-increasing force Of
men, horses and oxen, who are to be supplied
with provisions clothing and feed. The soil is
waiting for an opportunity to produce unlimit-
ed quantities of food, without troubling the far
mer crushing clods; while the Mississippi from
St. Paul to Little Falls can afford to turn mill
at almost any point and has water power
enough to do the manufacturing for CONT
nent. .@s3 'a
Our natural meadows produce grass from
four to six feet high, and the beef killed off our
prairies is quite equal to any stall fed we have
ever eaten. Our yenison is ine at ten cents
per pound, rabbits, prairie hens, partridges,
ducks, &C., plenty. Thousands Of bushels OF
acorns for the hogs that are not here to eat
them. Fuel for the labor Of cutting and haul
ing OFF the ground; and there is no likelihood
Of The supply running out soon, as the ''Big
Woods extend from this place some twenty
miles or more, down this side Of the river, and
from eight to twelve miles back Our prairies
are all dotted with strips of wood land, coax
Openings which just look like old orchards.
dense thickets Of plum trees bearing delicious
fruit, grape vines, doing likewise, thousands OF
acres of hazel bushes and straw berry vines, en-
gagged in the same business; while some hun
dred acres are in the cranberry trade and turn
out an article, which for quantity and quality
cannot be excelled. The biackberries, red rasp-
berries and hops tack up their shingles in the
woods; and seldom disappoint the most san
guine expectations Of their customers. There
is still land ten or fifteen miles back " lich set
tiers can get, at government price, by building
a cabin and living on it until it comes into
market. Actual settlers car buy lots here at
from one to FIVE hundred dollars and specula-
tors can have the same lots at from FIVE to ff-
teen hundred. Isl la G5tsss5 s= z* &, s5
In some Of the river towns back, places that
will be pleasant villages, lots can be had gratis
by those who will build and live on them
This, in places where q house can be built for
fifty dollars, that would be palace compared
to the dens rented in large cities for and
dollars per month, while the lot, with only the
aid Of grubbing. hoe and a few days labor,
would bring vegetables to feedfa family, and
every township has 600 acres appropriated to
the support Of schools.
#S Seventy thousand acres are appropriated to
a State university. A fine building has already
been erected for the use Of that institution 1t
is situated at st. Anthony, built of stone on an
emlnence commanding a view Of the falls, and
no State in the Union has a better foundation
for a good system Of popular education. No
other prairie State is so we'll timbered Is Min
nesota and no State more abundantly supplied
with clear water. In the country surrounding
St. Cloud andsas far North and West as we have
any reliable account, settlers find no difficulty
in locating land, on q running stream or trans-
parent lake with plenty of timber az hand for
building, fencing and fuel, and as the land on
the West side Of the Upper MISSISSIPPI is only
open to presumption, there is little opportunity
for spectators, and settlers have assurance Of
neighbors and that rapid increase in the value
OF their lands and in social advantages which
arise from the system Of land in limited GUAM