Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-01-29


could maintain and perpetuate it by redis-
covering and making known to the world
the long lost art Of planting beans the right
end up.
Navigation on the Red River Of the
North.
We give below the business report of a
committee made at a meeting Of the citizens
|of St. Paul: OH the 22nd inst, upon the above
subject. We arc obliged to pass over the
able and lengthy report Of James w: Tay-
Ior, which gives minute ana vivid account
of the probability Of steamboat navigation,
on the Red River, Lake Winnipeg, both forks
of the Saskatchc Ean, and the Athabaska and
Peace rivers, navigab!c tributaries Of the
great Mckenzie of the Arctic sea-" all of
which traverse rich and most fruitful coun-
tries, the sources Of the latter being but three
hundred yards from those Of Frazer river
Here are 100000 square miles Of the finest
portion Of the continent. all susceptible, at
slight expense, Of being connected with the
Mississippi, the Pacific, the Arctic. and Hud-
sons Bay, by uninterrupted steamboat navi-
CATION. What grand results arc yet to be
accomplished in the settlement and develop
ment Of the American continent: What a
field for Young America to spread itself
upon.
The business report sets forth two propo-
s't'ons which have been made for putting a
steamer on the Red river. The first by
Captain Sorthrup, who proposes. in fact, to
build one upon that stream, for bonus Of
two thousand dollars. The other that OF
Captain Maxwell, who for bonus Of three
thousand dollars, agrees to run steamer up
the Minnesota into Big Stone Lake, thence
across the isthmus (barely half mile, to
Lac Traverse :nd from thence down
the Sioux Wood into the Red River. The
former plan is preferred, probably because
the most sure, at the same tins there :
such charm in and withal such great
practical result to bc obtained by the accom-
r:,.:..c... y: :- he latter, that VIC hope it
will also be attempted, next spring:
1t is we'll known that the MINI ,sota, gu
ring the high water Of May and June is fire.
quently navigable to its source, the Big
Stone lake? and that by system of slack
water improvements from the mouth of Red
Wood up. would be, throughout the whole
season. Now Lac Traverse is barely six
feet higher than the Big Stone Lake, and we
were assured il the year 1855, by Hon. 10.
sepl 4. Brown, that during the Spring Of
that year (the water having been unusually
h'sh) thu two lakes hid fairly united in
one. This at all events shows the feasibili-
ty Of connecting them by short canal, and
passage once accomplished, would induce
either the State, or private enterprise to
it.
BUSINESS REPORT.
Since the meeting Of the Chamber Of Com.
mercs, on Wednesday morning, the Commit
tee then appointed in regard to Steam Navi-
CATION on the Red River Of the North, have
received the following proposals for placing
a boat on Red River the coming summer:
Captain Maxwell, of the steamer Wave.
proposes to take that vessel across the 18th
mus between Lakes Big Stone and Traverse,
and to descend the channel of the Sioux
Wood rivers to the Red River of the North,
rs soon as possible after the opening Of navi-
: 'tion in the spring, for the sum of So, 900 in
money and materials. If h. fails to deliver
the boat as proposed, he is willing to forfeit
the same. which he values at more than
$4,000 to the parties furnishing the money.
Mr.. Arson Northrop proposes to deliver
the steamer "Anson Northrop," now lying
in the waters ofCrow Wing river, near the
mouth Of Gull river, at some convenient
point on the Red River for the sum of s.. 900.
For this purpose he proposes to transport
the machinery of his vessel and to build = |
hull on the Red River. II the above nav.
rncnt is made to him he will give security to
he approved by John Il. Irvine in sum not
exceeding 5000, to have the boat ready for
navigation BY The 18th of April, and to navi-
gate the river during the summer of 1859. or
in default thereof to refund the $1,000. Hell
further stip'lates that the name OF the boat
shall be the "North Starr Red River Of the
North" or any designation acceptable to the
Chamber Of Commerce, that the b,at shall
be one hundred feet keel and twenty feet
bean,, and q, about ono hundred tons custom
suitable in all respects for
transporting freight and passengers and to
bear inspection IS safe and sea worthy. It is
to b, further understood and agreed that the
above payment is to be bonus to said No.
throp for his efforts and expenditures in|
the Steamboat IN season for The first
navigation Of the Red River.
The Committee believe that never before
in the history Of st. Paul, have propositions
been entertained Of greater practical import !
ance than the present: That while as citi-