Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-12-03

We commend to the attention of our read
ers, the following very sensible srticle on the
"Far-off West, from the Boston Traveller oi
the 18th inst. ,;;', oIT - -, =,
1t gives US pleasure to notice the New Eng.
land press are encouraging emigration from
| that section Of the country to Minnesota, the
true Western home of New Englanders. Our
climate is Ear more congenial to the constitu-
ton of natives of the Eastern States than
| that of any other Western State. The annu-
al average temperature is about that Of the
Eastern States, and from our inland and ele-
vated situation, we have dry clear atmos-
phere, most of the time, exempted from the
darnpness, fogs, and changes which are 50
promotive of pulmonary complaints m the
sea board States, and at the same time we are
not afflicted with those bilious complaints
that prevail in other states in the West.
What is said of our soil and crops, is very
true They cannot be exceled in any part OF
the country, and if any Eastern farmer con-
templates seeking Western home, where he
can find health, good land, and annual crops
! In abundance the most certain, let him by all
| means, come to Minnesota. 19H "
In no part of the Great West, strange as
| it may seem, as experience and long series
| of observations prove, has the farmer less to
fear from droughts and frosts, than in our
goodly State.
Our crops yield abundantly, and command,
as the article below justly remarks. an ad-
vanced price over crops raised in any other
lection Of the West. ..''. ~@
We agree with the traveller in the asser-
ton, that ''all that is now wanting to develop
| and enrich that (this) State, are railroad IA
cilities; l." but not by any means the compile
ton of the meandering system of railroads
| which have already been such an attiiction
and curse to our hardy, industrious and en-
terprising people,-but first and foremost
railroad that shall unite the headwaters of the
Mississippi with the head of Lake Superior,
by means of which our products will be placed
as near to New York city via the Lakes, as
now are those of the State of Illinois.
Every hundred bushels of grain in the
State of Minnesota would be worth ten dollars
| more to-day than it now is, had we railroad
to Superior, giving US speedy and cheap COM
munication with the mining regions Of Lake
Superior and the great grain marts at the
East. We may cover our State with net
work of railroads elsewhere, but the State will
never rise to its true Importance nor the glory
of its position, until we are, as we easily may
be, independent of every other western State
III the means and mode of transporting our
products to a market.
The business of our people is, and for
long period of time will be, grain growing,
wool growing, and cattle growing. The ulti-
mate markets for our products are not so
much ST. Louis, Chicago or Milwaukee, as
Boston, New York and Philadelphia, and we
may build dozen railroads to the Rocky
Mountains, but they would not all do US
1.-THE of the good that one road will connecting
the Mississippi with the Great Lakes.
We do not wish by any means to be con-
sidered as advocating the building of any rail-
roads within our limits, until it can be done
without burdening our oppressed people. We
| merely wish now, as since the result of the
late election proves that common sense and
| sound probity seem at last to have taken pos
session of a majority of our people, to point
out what seems to us the most desirable in
the first place for the future prosperity of our
State in the way of railroad facilities But
to the article ... ..,....
The fAR-oFF WEsT.-A gentleman of our
Immediate nelghOOrhood, directly from Mime
sofa, says the amount of wheat which is daily
and almost hourly accumulating on the Up
per Mississippi for the the steamboats, to take
down the river before the navigation closes, Is
immensely large. 1t is of the very best quail
ty TOO, and actually bears a higher price than
any OTHER coming into market from any sec
ton of the w est. -..
b. The resources of Minnesota, as grain
growing country, cannot be questioned All
that is now wanting to develop and enrich the
State, are railroad facilities. ST. Paul, the
capital, already a city of extraordinary CON-
neI cha. euterprze, considering the scarcity of
money, the disSraceful legislation, and de-
inorallZed public sentiment of too many in re-
yard TO their Indebtedness to the East, must be
constantly growing in business, increasing in
population, and maintain in all coming time,
an eminent position among the cities of the
| West.
Wool growing is to be one of the future
productive resources of the Minnesota farm
| erS. The climate is admirable for sheep, and
the staple, with the slightest attention to. the
subject, would improve as everything else
improves, by culture. 1t is not impossible,
-in fact it is quite possible, that the fine
broadcloths of America, may yet be manufac-
tured above the Falls of St Anthony.
4 With such water power as meets the eye
almost every where in the State, it would be
phenomenon indeed if they were never used
by the industrious, ingenious, energetic people
who are infusing a spirit of enterprise into
every inch and corner of that beautiful new
State.
| AS blood is necessary to vitality, so is
sound currency to facility in business. There
is but very little money there, and that is not
the worst of it. With their thousands of bags
of hard sound wheat, the farmers can hardly
get enough to pay Their taxes, and the interest
on their debts, contracted perhaps in the DUR
chase Of their farms, because the price is too
low. Forty cents bushel is very little to
give for seventy pounds of wheat, of the best
quality in the woodland simply for the
want of railroad conveyances to get crops to
commanding markets spectators are actually
buying at that price in many places in the in
terror
If, instead of wearing away life on the hard
poor soil of many section of New England.
the young, able-bodied farmers and farmers
sons would go to Minnesota, they would soon
have something to show as the result of well
directed industry, entirely beyond what they
could ever realize in this tickle climate, where
land costs too much to be profitable for farm
ing purposes.
1t would be very agreeable to dwell at large
on the rising importance of st. Paul, the great
natural commercial centre of the North. 1t
canAot be kept down, even by hard times
Splendid structures are constantly appearing.
The number Of churches, public ediices, splen-
did private residences, lighted with gas.-to-