The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-03-26

n0ua'1o"s !oi thcir respective cubgrega
tions
There are 62 stores in St. Cloud. viz
- dry goods. annual sales about $685.. .Oot
y groceries and provisions 4S5,o
. hardware, 100000
! boots and shoes, &c., 35.ON
or,gs and medicines, :. 10000!
8 jewelry stores, 40 0(N
. lu'ni'oTe' 15.OW
! . n.at 'lnl butcher shops, 5000;
. millinery g"uds, 25oN
! ba, ness shops.
= agricultural and farm inn Elements. Is -oOo
n''r anu 1eed' 75.cnC
. Ao'''1' Sl,4OO, CO..
/ There arc IS beer saloons, 3 billiard
| saloons, i restaurants, 13 hotels and
lodging houses, l bowling alley, 2 ex.
press offices, 5 lumber yards, . steam
saw mills, 9 sash, door and blinl fac
torres, 3 wagon shops, 5 painters shops
~ carpenter and joiners shops, 2 brick
yards, 2 lime yards, plow factory. Il
blacksmith shops and bakeries.
WAGES OF LABoRERs.
The wages Of labvrers vary consider
ably in different years and seasons
During tie building season good car
penters and m~sons arc lard to be founc
unemployed at wages from g to S. pc,
day-the average is about e2.75 pc,
day. Brick and stone masons 81
Farm laborers get from SIS to s35 pc,
month, and during harvest the demanc
is SO great that frequently from 50 tt
50 per day is paid.
BUILDING MATERIALS
Stone OF good quality, but hard tt
work, is found in inexhaustable ouan
titles. There are also very extensive
beds OF clay, making excellent brick
Two kinds, one'a white or cream-color
ed, the other red, and sells from Sc tc
sl2 per NJ. The latter price being 70,
choice lots Of cream col red brick, man.
utact"red by H. J. Fowler, from az
extensive bed Of clay little south Of
the city
Lumber Of the best quality is MANI
factured by the steam saw mills in St.
Cloud, from logs cut in the extensive
pincries up the Mississippi and its
branches, and sells from Sl2 to $40 pc,
NJ. -.
Lime of good quality is manufac-
tured from large mari bed joining the
| city, and is sold at from one to one and
three-quarter dollars per barrel.
Stone is qusrricd from tn, extensive
beds ot granite IN aud near the town,
aud sells at from IS to $40 per cord in
the strcc.s.
PRICES OF PROPERTY.
,The price 0; i,ts in town is from
$50 to $3.50 each, bat in the main
business streets ranges from $50 to $50
per trout f:ov:.
Land near town sells for from $50 to
500 per acre, and that from three to
i 6vc miles oct is held at from $40 to
s23 per acre.
noAsp1SG, FRUIT. GAME. &C.
The price Of boarding varies, being
usually about 81 per week two dollars
per dav in first class hotels.
Wild rluns, grapes, strawberries,
blackbcrries, raspbcrries and b!ueberries
are brought to market in great quanti-
ties. a few of the farmers hare CON-
nepced cul,ivating garden fruits, and
have succeeded veil.
Venison in season is brought to
n1rket by the ''cord," when mos,
plenty 1t sells at from three to five
cents per pound, but usually sells at
the same price as pork and beef. Prai-
'ia chickens, pat,iiyes (rufled srouse)
quails, geese, dacks, snipe, fish, &c,
are pleuty in their season.
BRIDGES.
St. Cloud has how completed or in
coure of construction two bridges. both
of which will be an ornament to the
town aud lasting monuments to the
energy and public spiritedness of the
citizens. The bridge over the Missis-
sippi it is Intended shall compare
faro:ab with the best bridges in the
United States, and is one of the largest
str uctures of the kind in the Western
country. The total length from bank
to bank is 66O feet, ip two spans, Of
the Howe truss principle. Supported
by three frst-class masonry piers of
stone, and will cost about $4,000.
This orid dge is built b. company, most
Of the stockholders being citizens of
St Cloud. The other is free bridge,
butt by the town ov Sauk river, about
three miles from the Mississippi, on the
main travelled tholoushfare from 81.
Cloud to Fort Wadsworth, Fort Aber-
crombie and the Northwestern route
to Puget Sound. This bridge, will
also be on the Howe truss plan, Of two
spans OF l3O feet; contract price s6. 900.
TRANSPORTATION.
St. Cloud is one of the most i'm.
portant points for starting overland
expeditions to the western and north
western forts. 1t is from here that
Government trains for the forts on
the northwestern frontier start. The
British Hudson Bay Company has
for several years made this point q
station for over three hundred tons Of
goods annually shipped to Pembina, a
fair share of the transportation of which
has been performed BY our citizens.
RAILROADS.
The St. Paul and Pacific branch
road has had Cars running to a Point
opposite the city for more than one
year, making TWO trips each way in
summer and one in winter. The
amount of business done in j.: nuary,
1863, was as follows: 1852 passen-
gers; 1,9l9,s3O lbs merchandise :;
47e,970 bu wheat 347 bbls -four !;
p bbIs lime; 26 bbIs salt; Is bbls
headioys; 500 bundles slaves; 1873 064
II lumber; 240 IN. lath !; SO m shingles;
1850 cords wood las ties; 143 piles.
y! this amount perhaps two-thirds may
be credited to st. Cloud, and this
amount cannot be considered an a. er.
age of what will be done in a more pro.
perious season. One Of the routes sur
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