The Portland daily press., 1869-08-28
Terms $500 per- annuna, in adrance.

the same point. In large, stately, frst-class
stone warehouses and business palaces, st.
raui excels any city of her population within
the circle OF my knowledge. and vet new
docks are constantly in process of erection.
A long wooden bridge for carriages and pc
destrans spans the river abreast of the city
high enough above water to allow the massage
of large steamers beneath it, and fine rail-
road bridge, with swing draw, is nearly COM
pleted, by means of which cars will be en-
abed to pass from Lake Superior to Chicago
without interruption, and freight from the
world below may reach st. Cloud and beyond
the "Big Woods" far off to the Red River OF
the North whose waters find outlet in Hud-
sons Bay-without change Of cars or break
ing bulk.
But even a more marvellous city is that OF
Minneapolis, ten miles above st. Paul. The
Falls of st. Anthony-separatng the city of
the same name from inneapolis-affords a
water power, not perhaps the best in the
world, but of vast extent, and amply sufi-
cient, under liberal policy and well-directed
Yankee energy, to justify faith in the growth
of city of no mean dimensions. Al present
the city contains probably about $4,000 in
habitants, and by wire suspension bridge
connects with st. Anthony, city of perhaps
five thousand.
Though the city has six banks,) two of them
just going into operation,) two daily papers,
Zone about being started,) two wooden facto-
ries, lumber and Touring mills l know not
how many, machine shops, plow factories, a
pail factory and other temples of Mammon,
| and hives of industry, with nearly a dozen
churches to hold them all within proper
check, yet only seventeen years ago, where
the city now stands was a ''military reser-
vation," turned over by government at that
time for settlement at one dollar and t,oenty-
foe cents per acre OF course it was gobbled
up with avidity, and very soon thereafter a
town was laid out and dwellings rapidly in
creased. The first white child born within
what are now the city limits, died two years
since at the age of seventeen years.
Her father built the first home in the city :,
and is now the active and energetic editor OF
the Farmers' Union-the only agricultural
paper in the State.
1t was not till about 1857 that any marked
improvements were made at the "Fals," on
the Minneapolis side of the river. At that
time, owing to the illiberality of parties con-
trolling the water power on the opposite side
OF the river, certain enterprising gent,men
purchased the water power and ljacent land
on the west side, and at once made arrange
| ments for Improvements on liberal scale and
though the terrible revolution of that period,
checked their progress, with returning good
times progress commenced in earnest, and
from that time the grand march OF the city
has been onward.
1t is not three years since the city organiza-
ton took place. The first Mayor, Hon. D.
Morrison, is native of your State. He now
holds the Office, coLsecrat'ng his salary to the
wants of disabled Firemen, and his energy to
the city's development and prosperity, and is
held in deservedy high esteem by his fellow
citizens. Last year the neishboring city of
st. Anthony had for Mayor a former citizen
of your State, Winthrop Young, Esq, former
ly of Calais. Both cities contain great many
numbering and manufacturing interests at the
| "Falls."
| When the papers of st. Paul and Mnneap-
oils cease decryng each others locality, and
work together for interests in many respects
common to both, and in no just sense adverse
to either, they will do the State gool service.
Let st. Paul push her commercial advantages,
and plume herself upon being the ''head of
navigation" though large boats do, under ia
vorabe conditions of water, ascend to the
foot of the "Falls," and let Minneapolis put in
her best icks on her manufacturing advan-
tages, together with her unrivalled location in
point of beauty, her freedom from malaria, and
her delightful surroundings,and both localities
will find their interests promoted, and the
State may justly feel proud of her two fore
| most cities. OBSERVER.