The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-05-19
Casrsns Mistakes As,sss Csvss"t la
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The Winona Republican makes the follow.
ing remarks:
A. winons, the river Ia two or three inches
higher now than II WAS during what In known
40 the "highwatsr Of a. when everybody
who had dislike IN Winona, predicted that II
would DO washed away with the food. These
high water experiences, however. have only
attested the truth u what every person who In
acquainted with tho nature Of ths ground has
said concerning H. There IL ~ little danger
from inundation aud consequent injury to pro
perty, nj Winona, ~ In any other town on the
Upper Missssippi. Even the present food, the
greatest which has occurred In this vicinity
since the first white man set foot In Minnesota,
instead u doing Us any injury. has furnished
ample proof that we ere beyond the reach Of
serious Injury from high water The only gen
eral Inconvenience arising from the present
stage Of water 10 the liability 10 partial inunds'
ton that some Of our poorly constructed roads
aud bridges adjoining the city are ubiscted TO-.
This IL an evil which can be obvisted without
the least difficulty. A portion Of the levee, and
s0ms Of the low lands bordering on the river,
both nj the upper and lower ends OF the town,
have been covered with water, but without
doing any damage, unless II WAS 10 set ahost
some wood pile. or other exposed loose pro
perry. Winons 10 - sound - oak, the ISLANDERS
u enemies and the dull wit Of Dsighb0ring
newspspsr men 10 the contrary nothwi'hstand
ing.
Can Winona stand six feet more water
Mr.. Editor' 1t 10 . question OF some i'm.
portaDce 10 your town, Sir, for the reason
that ut this point the water Ia not 30 high
by six feet ~ II was in 1850 and 1881, and
our sympathy Tor the little town OF Brook.
lyme on the river bottom opposite here. and
our "reminiscences Of 1850 and 1851, makes
IA iear that We have no. by any means seen
high water mark for this year yet. II was
IL we recollect right, in the frat week Of
July 1850. and the latter end Of juno 1851
which witnessed the extremes heights Of the
foundations Of those years.
Talking about foundations. We were told
some time ago Of paragraph 10 some Chi
cago paper. which, however, W. did not sce
representing that ~. Paul was under water
and that ever 40 many hsDdred buildings
were under water. Now, H. Paul happens
to stand at m average height Of sixty and
seventy feet above the highest water.
The only possible way the water can &c,
up to it IL to put whisky in u.
~. Paul, however, has ~ edge Of river
bottom liable TO overflow at ia upper and
lower extremities. On these fats some
poor Irish people bad built groups Of tenn
porary shanties, rent free, which the rising
floods have lifted some 70 acres below the
Lower Lcye, and au indefinite eItsnt oi
bottom above the Upper Lv@-sre thus
covered with water--but tbese tracts do
no, enter into the improved limits u the
city, having neither streets nor business i'm
proyements, nor anything elss liable to in
jury by the water, eroep, the shantes aiore-
sald
The winaa Rep,Ii,an will therefore
obliRe the Chicago P,es and 1r,Luns by
correcting the Misrepresentation shared by
both and thus stated by the former AT
81, Paul. the levee, ADD all the lower por.
ti0ns Of The city have bee0 under water for
two weeks. and considerable damage has
boen dom 10 property A mistake about
he b'yce
There il li,,le village 10 Dakota county
opposite g. PAN. often cailed by mistake
e W,a, SAINT Paul real name Brook