The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-27

September next. IhuS gne Iarmers ol
Sank Valley, and the merchants of st
Cloud and other towns of the valley
have railroad facilities to ST. Paul, thence
river navigation and railroad, to Chicago
and the East
st. Cloud is the frontier depot and out
most for the Montana travel; and in the
month of June last, there left that point
200 teams loaded with supplies, and 405
men, under Capt Fish, for the gold mines
of Montana. About 200 miles north, are
the Lake Vermillion gold mines; and l2C
miles North, and East, the head of Lake
Superior. A winter road is already
opened to Superior; and Congress has
donated lands on the route, for the con-
struction of a railroad from st Cloud to
the waters of Lake Superior; thus, when
built, placing Sauk Valley as near New
York as Chicago and Milwaukee.
st. Cloud owes its rapid growth, very
much to the enterprise of the business
men whe started there soon after its sur
Brokers, Tenwordes ! and Waits-but
most of all to Wilson, the founder. But
more than to all men, to the fertility and
unrivalled beauty of the Sauk Valley,
already dotted with cultivated farms for
so miles from the mouth of Sauk River,
upward, toward its source. This valley
has a rich, alluvial soil; is charmingly
diversified, by timber, lake and prairie;
and yields wheat, oats, corn, rye and po-
tatoes in great abundance. New towns
are starting up on the route to Fort
Abercrombie, along the valley, and home
steads of choice lands welcome the new
conner. In that valley, 1 mention Green
Lake, the lands about New Munich,
Richmond, and Sauk Centre, as especially
attractive. But, if any prefer place
nearer the railroad depot, at st. Cloud,
recommend the lands on Elk River and
ST. Francis, seven or eight miles from
the railroad, and st. Cloud
FURs.
Down this valley to the railroad come,
twice year. trains of Pemlina carts from
the Hudson Bay region, laden with furs,
One thousand bales came to st. Cloud,
the present month, by onetrain. There
are ten robes in each bundle, making ten
Thousand robes in all, worth from $4,000
to Sl2, 600; and, it is estimated, that du-
ring the season the furs shipped, ria st.
Cloud, to St. Louis will amount to $780,.
600. In addition to buffalo robe, there
are wolf skins, otter, mink, and other
varieties, many Of these are very valu-
able. This makes st. Cloud the largest
fur depot in the United States. Before
the railroad, these fur carts went through
to st. Paul. Hereafter, st, Cloud will be
the great depot.
POPULATION.
AS incontestible proof of the superior
claims of Minnesota, as an agricultural
district, it need only to be stated, that its
rapid settlement is without a prece.
dent.
In 1863, it was admitted to the Union
as State, with population OF one hun
dred and fifty thousand, and an area OF
thousand two hundred anq
Atty square miles In 1860 II IIrSJ tbonsanJ
I've I've hundred and thirty FIVE. Itnow has
q population Of upwards of three hun
dred thousand.
WHEAT, AND THE CROPS.
cannot better close this letter than
by quoting items of news of the wheat
trade, and of the crops of Minnesota, in
the last month. The Dakota Union says.
0forty.six thousand five hundred and
bushels of wheat were shipped
from the town of Hastings during the
last week in June. The price on Monday
was 81 10; on Saturday, it fell to 81 SO.
The wheat crop never looked better"
The ST.. Peter Advertiser quotes wheat, at
that point, at ninety cents; and rains
have benefited the crops so much that
the farmers are in ecstacies. The Red
Wing Argus, of Goodloe county, states
that on Tuesday, the last week in June,
the number of bushels of wheat bought
on the street was ten thousand six hun
dred, for which 500, ,175 was paid. In ad-
dition to this, the sales in store were four
thousand bushels, for which s. 1900 was
paid. The average price was $l.93. The
receipts of Wednesday following, were
about the same; the average price being
81 IS. The st. Cloud Democrat speaking
of immigration, says, settlers continue
to pour in at an astonishing rate" Its
issue of the 18th Of June, says, every
day brings prairie schOoners' singly,
doubly, and in shoals. On Tuesday, a
large party from Wisconsin came in with
some fine stock-all were aburdantly
supplied with sheep, cattle, &c. On the
day following thirty wagons filed with
emigrants passed, bound for
Green Lake"
Very respectfully, yours, &c,
VIM. H. WOOD,
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