St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-06-30

the climate, no indegAnisus complaint except
the ''Minnesota Appetite which requires one
fourth more treatment than . modest pennsyl-
vanis or Ohio attack Of corresponding dis
ease.
Any body who wants to drink whiskey in
peace had better not come here, for tie treaty
by which the land was acquiredfrsn the Sieux
forbids its introduction; and Tie Lagis1sturs
has passed q law enforcing that provision; but
people of moderate means and industrious lab-
its who have children to educate, will find fey
training, healthy development Of muscle, and
the means of pecuniary independence are bet.
ter combined.
There areimmense tracts Of pine lying above,
from which the mills at St. Paul, St. Anthony,
and the Minnesota Valley are supplied. Thssa
employ large and cver-increaring force e1
men, horses snd oxen, who ere to be supplied
with provisions, clothing and feed. The soil IL
waiting for an opportunity to produce unlini-
ted quantities Of food, without troubling tbs
farmer crushing clods; while the Mississippi
from St. Paul to Little Falls can afford to turn
. mill 1t almost any point and has water pow.
q enough to do the manufacturing for Con
Inent.
Our natural meadows produce grass from
tsur to six feet high, and the beefkilled off on,
lrsiriss il quite equal to any stall fed We ave
ever eaten Our venison ia fine ct ton oenta
per pound, rabbits, prairie hens, partridees,
ducks, &C., plenty. Thousands of bushels Of
aeorns Tor the hogs that are not here to cat
them. Fuel for the labor Of cutting and hsul
ing off the ground; and there il no likelihood
: o. the supply running out soon. % tho <'Big
"oeds extend from this place some twenty
niles OK more, down this side of the river and
ron eight to twelve miles back. Our prairios
ers MI dotts.i with strips of wood land, coax
~ sniIgs which just look like old orchards,
'aense thickets of plum trees bearing delicious
fruit, grape vines, doing likewise, thousands Of
acres Of hazel bushes and strawberry vines, EN- :
gagel in the same business; while some hum
dred acres are in the cranberry trade and turn
out an article, which for quantity and quality
eennot be excelled. The blackberries red rasp-
berries and hops tack up their shipgles in the
guine expectations Of their customers. There
10 still land ten or fifteen miles back which set
tiers can get, at government price, by building
. cabin and living on it until it comes into
market. Actual settlers can buy lots here ct
from one to Eve hundred dollars, and specula-
tors can have the same lots At from Ave to if
teen hundred. 49,
In some Of the river towns back, places that
will be pleasant villages lots can DO had gratis
by those who will build and live on them
This, in places where house can be built for
Atty dollars, that would be palace compared
to the dens rented in large cities for and s
dollars per month, while the lot, with only the
aid Of . grubbing hoe and few days labor,
would bring vegetables to feed . family, and
every township has 600 acres appropriated TO
the support Of schools. ~ :. 49,
Seventy thousand acres are appropriated to
n af0tA HnSO Ca hr,s1 -l~
been erected for the use Of that institution. It
10 situated . St. Anthony, built Of stone on an
eminencs commanding view of the falls, and
no etate in the Union has better foundation
for good system of popular education. No
other prairie State is so we'll timbered as Min
neeots and no State more abundantly supplied
with clear water. In the country surrounding
St. Cloud and as far North and West Is We have
any reliable account, settlers find no difficulty
in locating land on q running stream or trans
parent lake with plenty Of timber at 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
titles to actual settlers. a=zz .#.zss
The country around ST.. Cloud, west 81 the
Mississippi was purchased Of the Indians III Is
treaty made with them by the Hon. Alexander
Ramsey aud Luke Lea in 1852 and ratified by
the senate the same year. The Sioux had
owned the land from 1927 but had not occupied
y, and it was used as . hunting ground by the
Winnebagocs whose land reached within four,
niles north Of st. Cloud. Their country was
oeded to the United States by . treaty began
nth !, connissioner M.nypeny and concluded