New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-10-06
MINNESOTA.
Editorial Correspondence Of the N. Y. Tribune.
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Editorial Correspondence OF the N Y. Tribune -. .r
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 30, 1865.
The few days have spent in this new State
have been SO employed that l have seen too little
of it, and must leave after seeing very little more
But have met and conversed with intelligent
residents OF and travellers through nearly every
section, and have gathered facts that ought to
suffice for the basis Of tolerably accurate and safe
conclusions. And those conclusions shall at least
be candidly set forth e'r .,- ~ o.
Minnesota had some 1000 White inhabitants
when she was organized as a territory in March,
l849 In 1850, she had 6017; by. the
census ofls6o, she had about l7O,0o0-s rapid but
not unprecedented growth. For meaptme had
occurred tho so.ealled "panic' of 1857, which
brought down their air-castles about the heads Of
her myriads of high.Aying Spectators. who were
one day dreaming of their millions, and the next
anxiousy inguiring how they should secure daily
bread Everybody that pretended to be anybody
was "ruined ITO their own Christening and the uli-
mate good of the embryo State. Up TO this time
tho manufacture Of city lots from wild lands Just
bought at 81 IS per acre and their sale to verdant
supleions at $50 to g. 900 per lot, had been the
leading branch Of business-or rather, the main
stem-the chief branches being the supply OF
champagne and kindred comforts to the operators
and the construction for their occupancy of palaces
on the credit of their prospective gains to this
hour the territory had imported most of the bread
stufs required by its people, now, large proper
ton of them suddenly left in pursuit OF fortune or
Of food, while the residue went to work; and this
f., l,a,, . ha ~
suddenly became the most industrious and thrifty
community on earth. Very soon, its surplus
product of Wheat WIS estimated BY the million
bushels-some Five and Half Millions of bushels
being returned by TIE census Of 1860 as the yield
of ls59-ony the second year after that most
wholesome and necessary "panic' OF 1857. Since
then, the bloody Indian raid and massacre of 1852,
whereby some 500 immigrants, mainly women and
children, were killed. and the whole Western from
tier devastated and driven in, has done much TO
retard settlement, while the War, making con-
slant drain on the resources and the iie-blood OF
the young State has very nearly neutraized her
growth so that it is not expected that her census
now in progress viii show an aggregate of more
than 225,O0O to 100000 people. But, while her
population has almost stood still, her production
has steadily increased so that in spite of severe
and general drouth, extending through 1853 and
1864, she exported from Five to Seven Millions OF
bushels of Wheat and Oats Of the products of either
season. This year. there has been suiiiciency OF
rain and the yield of small grain is entirely beyond
precedent. The very lowest estimate have heard
of the average yield of Wheat is a bushels pei
acre. while q is usually claimed, and many will not
be satisfied with less than 30. am assured that
oyerrun the owners anticipatons. one farmer
who sowed Ave hundred acres has thrcshcd out and
ghed OFF 10 900 bushels, or 80 bushels per acre
from the entire area sowed Considering that very
little is Fall-sown or Winter Wheat-the light
SHOWS aud hard frosts killing out
that variety, especially if sowu on the broad, wind
swept praircs-this seems to me immense, espe
cially as much of it is necessarily sowed too late
on ground not more than half plowcd. The gen.
eral rule take To be this: Harvest and stock your
grain; then start the plow and keep 1t running TIL
hard frost stops it, which it usually does between
the 10th aud Goth of November. Now turn 70
threshing and marketing, which, with getting wood
for fuel, is tho Winters work; and when tho fros,
goes, about the middle Of April, turn to sowngand
narrowing in on the ground plowed in the Fall;
though many resume blowing and keep at it for
two or three weeks of Spring. After it is too late
to SOW Wheat, it will still do to plow for and SOW
Oats, which is the chief reason for sowing them SO
extensively. In on excursion made on Tuesday
over the Minnesota Central Railroad, on the occa-
sion of its opening to Mortified 40 miles south OF
this saw the Oats still lying ungathered in many
fields, though noted none wherein they had not
been cut, as had boon led to expect. But, the
season having been wet snd'itsS' ''.-'' 'cod'the
entire harvest was late th' ca VoEh'