Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-02-21
Minnesota.

Minnesota.
We cannot find upon our map section
flour Western country that offers stronger
inducements for the young and enterprizing
settler than the State of Minnesota. Sit
uated in latitude sufficiently warm to
produce and ripen the summer fruits and
grains, its winters, though somewhat long,
are the most pleasant and delightful that
can be experienced. The New England
settles who breaks up his old home to re-
move to the far West, often reasons that
Kansas and Nebraska, being further to-
wards the South, must be of more de-
lightful and endurable climate, and is only
corrected in his mistake by few months
sojourn on the bleak plains and woodless
prairies of these outskirts of our public
domain, that we venture to say suffer more
by the strong searching winds of winter
and spring than any part of the country.
In fact, we have often heard from the set
tiers that in these sections it required a
long period of acclimation to be enabled
to endure the severe climate, while on the
contrary we cannot remember TO have met
the persons who speaks of the climate Of
Minnesota in other than the most enthu-
siastic term. As resort for invalids,
particularly the consumptive, the clear dry
days, with the pure air and wholesome wa
Ter of this State, have made it famous
resort for the searcher after health, and but
few Eastern communities can be found
that have not been represented by their
sick within its borders.
To the alarm that is often raised about
the intense cold of this section. can speak
from personal observation to the contrary; ;
for from our own experience during several
winters there we would give preference to
IFS climate above any we have ever lived
under.
But it is more in respect to the rare op-
portunities of obtaining land, and laying
the foundation for substantial and pro-
ductive farm, that we would call the atten-
ton of our readers TO this new State
By the financial disasters of the past few
years, the price of real estate in Minnesota,
as well as in the West generally, has been
greatly reduced, SO that it is possible, with
a small sum, to acquire for ones self a
quarter section in some desirable portion
of the State, and with slight Improvements
to see it making returns in beautiful crops
of the choicest grains that can be found in
the markets. We suppose that had she
possessed the requisite railroad facilities
(which are fast being projected and built,)
Minnesota would have sent hundreds of
thousands bushels of wheat to our Eastern
States during the last year, and as it is,
the Mississippi has hoated down immense
cargoes of her grain to the cities and
towns upon the river. For beauty, too, the
land of the '.Dacotahs" cannot be surpass-
ed in our wide land; interspersed with
beautiful miniature lakes, and possessing
the pleasantest variety of bluff, grove, and
the rolling prairie, with timber scattered
profusely over soil, and living springs of
water springing up as if by magic in her
cities and over her rich lands, she invites
to her border the emigrant and the man
of wealth and leisure, as the surest spot
whereon to found pleasant and desirable
home.
We have said this much-in desultory
mauner-of Minnesota, in view of the ap-
preaching spring, when emigration will be
settling its tide towards the West, and
when many who are now living among us
will be selecting for themselves new homes
and places of residences, for certain are
we that no point is more worthy Of notice
or serious attention. New Englanders
particularly will feel at home among her
people, for of her public and prominent
men many are from the extreme Eastern
States, while every township has its
families from these sections.
The Hon. Henry NJ. Rice, one of her
United States Senators, and long known
and associated with her interests, and
with the interest of the northwest, as a
leading man and politician, was native
of Vermont. In the department of law
politics, education and the pulpit, she pos
sesses as fine talents as many of the older
and more populous sections of the country,
and we shall look soon to see her stand
ing in the front rank of the States of the
Union