St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-06-02
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: 'uactlon Ut land travel between these two great
Arteries Of trade; 1t is at tho present head of
rscam navigation on the Mississippi. Boats
raa regularly. during the Spring and early
place. - = ID w y
The map si7es its position correctly with
refs.eace to ali the most important points in
the Territory, but the peculiar beauty Of its
location, ana fertility oi t.e surrounding coun-
Try Cannot be transcribed VII hin fifteen
mile Of St. Cloud, on opposite sides Of the
river. and at different po1n,s OF the compass
are eight lakes varying in siz: from l mile to
miles in circumference, AL, save one, beau
ii:ul, exceedingly, three OF them At least, deep
Enough to float y man-ot-war. Wooded banks.
clean pcbbly shores plentiful!y mixed with
corAeiisn aal waters abuaaantly supplied
With fisA. .-
Wh,a 1;:. Stevens mad, his survey Of
northern railroad route to the Pacific in '53,
h: canned 'on the western side of the Mis-
s;ssippi below S.aA Rspids.' The place was
nam .ess-:hc present site 0: St. Cloud; but il
IS ::eve !,:s route leaves tac river. Ii, the sum
;,ar & 8 claim cabin was built en- the spot
wa:re ", now wrtc q good saw mil, the
frame o: y large :lotc! and eight ct er dwell
in3i were put Up that sUnE.er. This last fall
tl1sro ere three hundred and ,hirty-two votes
pulled in the precinct. Not the woes of Indi
ans or Hal Breeds, e.: there are none Are
4 majority oi III: Inhabitants Of the country
ore hardy Germans with sturdy wives aud
children cu.!vaiing The so:9 and working at
mechanical employments.
Tho subsc;l is sandy md although the soil is
from 70 ta,ee Zee. deep, 4 rich black loan
supporting > nix vegetation, the drainage is
90 perfect and the AIR 80 PURE that breathing
IS perpetual pleasure AZ yet, our physl-
clans have uiscoTcce; no diseases peculiar to
the climate, no inieg Nous complaint except
the '.Siinnesota appetite" which requires one
fourth more treatment than 4 modest rennsyl-
yaail or Ohio attack Ct q corresponding dis
case.
Any bod: who wants 10 drink wskey IL
Pe.c had better not come hore. for the treaty
by wiljc the land WAS acquired froln the Sioux
forbids it's Intro faction; and the Legislature
hos parsed Il LAW 2l.toyjing that provision; but
people Of mo Icr1tc eans Aid Industrious hab-
its WHO have c?,;i!.iccs to clIcate, will find few
places where !;: opportunity tor correct moral
t-aan;ag, .~c:lily Ic"e-C! meat o. muscle, and
the means 6. pccu-;a!y in epente3ce are bet
ter co,ubil"d.
Tacre ar i41a1cls: .scts of pine lying above,
irony which he ,hlt'i AZ 81. ianl, st. Anthony,
and the MINES TIA Valley arc supplied. These
employ large al ever .::lcr2a- ing force of
men, horses sat oxen, s;::t ;sre 10 be supplied
with provisions, clothing an! feed. The soil is
waiting foc an opportunity to produce unlimi-
ted quantities OF iucc!, wi;llout troubling the
farmer c:ushiil, clods; while tie Mississippi
from St. Pa'sl to Little Falls can affor,! TO turn
u NIL a! almost an; port and has water pow
er enough to IL the ;>anuiact uring fox a Goa.
tinent.
Our n -::ral n,e*do-s produce GRASS from
four to Elk feet agh, aud Ia. hoei killed off our
prairies j. quite eqi.a. 20 any stall fed we ave
ever eaten. Oar senison IS flu. at ten cents
ducks, Sc, plenty. Thousands Of bushels of
aeoras for t!.e hogs that arc not here to eat
t..;a. tuc! for the labor of cutting and haul
:ns Of tbs ground; and there is no likelihood
oi the supply running out soon. as the ''Hig
Woods e.tcnl from Ibis place som: twenty
niles or mtre, lowa this side Of the river and
from eight to twelve MILES back. On: praircs
are q dottcs! vi. il strips of.~ood land, COAX
Openings w!lic. ;.is. look like Old orchards
dense th.: kets Of p:.'ca trees bearing delicious
fruit, gran: v,ac*, .oin1 likewise thousands Of
acres Of L zol hlsi cs an,l strawberry vines, en-.
gagged in IKE ss:z,e bus;ne ss; while some hun
dred acrcs are i'll tile cranberry trade and turn
out an article, which for quantity ana quality
'connot be cxcclle<t. The blackberries red rasp-
berries and hops tack up their shingles in the
woods and seldom dssappoint the most san
guine expectations Of their customers. There
!s still land ten or fifteen miles back which set
tiers can get, III govern nent price, by building
cabin and living o.: it until it comes into
market. Actual settlers can buy lots here at
from one to Ave hurried dollars, an:l specula-
torS can have the same lots at from FIVE to if.
teen hundred.
IN some OF the river towns back, places that
will b. pleasant Vi ! lges, lots can be had gratis
by thos: WHO vii! ba;ld and live on them
This, il places whore house c.a BE- built for
fifty d3;ars that would be palace compared
10 the :ians rented in large cities for and S
dollars per month, ;:i:,s the lot, with only the
aid Of t. grubb;ng hoe and a few days labor,
would bring vegetables to feed family, and
every township has 800 acres appropriated to
the support Of schools.
Seventy thousand sores are appropriated to
= State I'm varsity. \ tinc building has already
been erccfe for!he use Of that institution. It.
is situate st. Anthony, built Of stone on an
eminen,s GO commanding view Of the fails, and
no State il, the Ci:oa has , better foundation
Tor 4 g)oi system Of popular eancat;on.: No
other prairie .Sato is SO we'll tinbcred as Min
ncsotA and no State more abunaantly supplied
with c: az water. Ia the country SURROUNDING
St. Cloud and as far North md West as we have
any reliable account settlers fiud no difficulty
in locating land running stream or trans
parent lake with plenty Of timber at hand for
building, fencing and fuel. and as the land OH
the West side Of the Upper Mississippi is only
open to presumption there is little opportunity
for spectators, ana settlers have assurance Of
neighbors and that rapid increase in the value
of their lands and in social advantages which
= arise from the ,ys en- Of lant! in limited guam
titles to actual settlers. r.
=. The country around s Cloud. west of tho
Mississippi was purchased Of the Indians in a,
treaty made with them by the Hon. Alexander
p Ramsey ans, Luke Lea i'll 1852 and ratified by
i the senate the same year: The Sioux had
owned the land from 1927 but had not occupied
Z it., and it was used as a hunting ground by the
tWipnebagoes whose land reached within four
mi les north Of St. Cloud, Their country was
ceded5 to the United States by q treaty began
with Commissioner Manypepy and concluded
st Washington in Feb. 1865 and ratified by the