The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1867-11-28
MINNESOTA As VIEWED FROM
ABROAD.

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of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for a
copy Of "7He Ners Of the Week." of
Oct: 9Th. 1t is newspaper published
in Paris, and devoted, to considerable
EXTENT to American affairs. The fol-:
loving article concerning our own State
will 10 read with no little qualification,
As being faithful recognition Of the
resources Of Minnesota:
II anorg our sisterhood Of States there
Is one which. more than any other, is mis-
stood at al, it is certainly Minnesota
Poets may have Intensified poetry in the
simplest descriptions Of its scenery, travel
srs may have exhausted their admiration
upon its climate, and scientific explorers
may have demonstrated its fertility ana its
unsurpassed facilities for business, and vet
in the minds Of the people there is an un.
easy aversion TO our sister of the far north |
west.
Producing as she does, the finest wheat
in America and the best otatoes out of |
Ireland, she is classed, agriculturally, with |
Russian America and the North Pole.
Statistics proving her climate to be match
less in its heslthful and restorative proper.
ties. she is still spoken Of most drearily by
many IS 1.-THE State which has ten months
winner and two months cold weather."
Hot bloods At the South think Of the
''isad Of navigation as being .'bald'l
much like the awful front Of Mont Blanc,
seemingly unaware Of the fact that domes-
tic cattle - we'll as herds o: wild game
roam shsltsrless through its dry braclng
winters, only to revel, when spring time
comes. in the haleyon days that make an
EdsA Of it, valleys. it, hills, aud thousand
thia faces and cha,tering teeth in the ague
shaken Districts seem 10 imagine there is
soDethi0g in . name, and SILVER again at
The mere sound of ''Niunesota, i" Surprising
nayhap, that the name signifies swamp
wafer instead Of "skywatsr'' q it doef.
But il seems strange that business men
with a eye to profit and good investment
should, in 70 many cases, share these erro-
Asous i0pressions aud overlook Minnesota
- field for he most boundless enterprise
True, there have - yet been no discover
iss Of coal, and il the generation Of steam
depended upon coal and II manufactures
dspsadsd upos steam, then Indeed it would
b barren field for speculation and in
dustTy but Of fuels and motive power it
nay b said:
l.. That Minnesota has vast and numer-
sus fslds Of peat, and it may not be out Of
Place % stats that the most perfect ma
ehiDs thas far introduced for preparing
THE fuel, was invented by gentleman from
1iaaesots.
2. 1llinitable forests Of pine wood are
free % a1y who may wish to cut them. and
nay b 1eatsd down the river without cost.
- ssy dssirsd point. This wood when used
STssl s.d burned with tsmarac and other
native trees produce the most intense heat
iAskiDsbls.
9. The falls Of 81. Anthony, ten miles
shove 81. Paul, present, according 10 tho
1gurss Of engineers, the most gigantic water
povsr In The world.
The undevsloped state Of this tremendous |
motor n owing in some degree to the fact
thst II 10 the property Of = company in
New-Iofk, who seem unwilling to part with |
+ - any price, and who charge The most |
unreasonable rents for its use.
One item, that Of the saw mills, will illus. |
trAte how sHd to what extent things are
now carried on. These mills, under the |
busy hands Of lunbermen from tho Eastern
Ssslss, turn out eix hundred thousand feet !
Of savn ismber IN day, and at that aver
80 throughout the saving season. For each !
thousand feet they pay two dollars to the
company owning the power; and this, in a. |
dities 70 the large wages paid to the chop
prs snd milloen 10 supposed to make the !
business less profitable than il should Re,
although the lumber when RATED down to |
st. Louis and other Southern cities, COM
nsnd almost any Price. A thousand spindles
and scores OF Icons are busy, night and |
Day, in the manufacture Of native wool
4 Touring mill, situated upon Spirit Is
land, nsaufaetued -four last year ct the ratio
Of one barrel or fourteen stone the minute,
and wss greatly Increasing its facilities.
These and ten times the number would hard |
~ RUNE the water, and it may with all |
reason and confidence be predicted that |
when this wster power passes into the hands |
Of liberal and progressive men, when tho |
Mississippi is made nsvigable from St. Paul, |
and railroad communication is formed with
Lake Superior, the Falls Of St. Anthony
will be seat Of manufacture and industrial
wealth such ~ the world has never yet
bsheld.