The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-30
A Thriving Country.

Editors OF Wheeling Register
GENTLEMEN: -Thanking you for your
kind attentions, submit for publication
in your widely circulated journal the
following additional items pertaining to
Minnesota, for the consideration OF imi-
grants westward bound.
In a recent letter, I availed myself of
your permission to call attention TO a
highly favored region Of the State of
Minnesota, known as Sank Valley.
fnd q graphic and true description of
that really beautiful Valley in late
number OF the st. Cloud Democrat written
By the editor, who had just returned
from trip to Sank Centre, sixty miles up
the valley. FROM this extended notice,
written Oh the 5th instant, clip the
following:
1.-TWO miles more, and we Cross the
Sauk river Oh bridge that will not sus
tain any weighty panegyriU. The ap,
peaTauCe of the Country Is .spl, ndjd--
State. The course. of the road lies
through a prairie perhaps mile wide.
To The right is heavy timber-"nd this
popularity extends all the way 10 Sank
Centre-wlile to the lett is lighter TIM
ber aud prairie, the latter juttine in here
aud there. like narrow isthmusCS con.
Meeting these little seas Of fures;. ~hlio
again the prairie and woods lie ~ alter
narc SECTIONS far as the eye c. reach,
eorl fairly divided Till the tieu-in. ouch
!be line where ''ear Ia aud SKY ii. meet. :"
10 be light a;d j~it lie small l.G.s. their
Shores halt per ..na half ccncca!cd by
WOODS. While as We ride dloUg, u breeze
CuQIcttrs ~ith tle face ot thr waters,
tea, iGg it .uIo rippies that
kiss, with whispering sonnd aud stow,
The beech Of pebbles bright as Snow -
I be Ioa 1sile Is prodigally gariIpdrd
win flowers rose. lilies, phlU& cUlulr.
hlI ant uccasil lOwsrs mipgln = their
rlot cp!oro with tao dark green # the
haz /, AID 'he native grass tha7 gIows
luxGrlant around them. To att,.ll pt any
description o. lie country from i,fe to
thc eud of our journey is to fr,,pkly
acknowledge The wal utss Of wn.ds 10
couvey the impressions OF tho eye.
LANDS INFERRED
During the mouth of May last here
Gas taken at the Llud Office as lFiurr.
bago, q ,523 acres IF land b. ac7iial sci.
tiers. At the Saint Cloud l. nd Off,r
in the month Vi June last, thsre was L..
Gated IS, SAL acres-apout Que half under
lbe Homestead Law, the balance hvlspd
warrants and cash.
The Press, published at st. Paul, the
head of steamboat navigation Oh the
Mississippi. estimates that one thousand
families have moved iute the Sauk Val.
ley county this year. Surprising each
family TO consist Of four persons, which
is fair, If not low average of emf.
grants, the whole number who have Sci
tied there, this season, would make a 20.
tai of four thousand.
But besides the attraction of Saint
Cloud, now a handsome city, East Saint
Cloud, on the East Bank of the river.
being the terminus of the first division
of the st. Paul and Pacific Railway, will
now be point of attraction, aud become
soon place of business. East Saint
Cloud has fine situation upon au eleva.
ted plane, and we may confidently pre-
dict, Will, before long, rival the tow q On
the other side, as there will be railway
works, depot buildings. and other ware
house accommodate on tor traus shipment.
The country back from East Saint Cloud,
Ten miles, to Elk river, is fertile aud eli.
sioly situated. AS matter of mere
ouiauon, rare opportunities must |
eIeseaiIiy oter for profitable investment |
aSi.o osi9t Cloud, Ia lots and IN lands |