Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-09-23

largely predominates and is rapidly alb.
sorbing al others: The people are or
Derby and genteel, in all the towns I've
been in, have not seen as many drum
ken men as I did in Austin in one day.
The saloons will not average more than
half the number IS MINI, and more
orderly. The Yankee population is
genteel and kind we have been re-
ceived as kindly and shown as much
attention as in my place We have lived,
and we soon expect q large circle o
friends who no doubt will seem to us
as good and true as any We have left.
This is the land Of fruit and tgoacers.
We have now all around us the finest
orchards, gardens and homes I ever
saw some are truly magnificent. Mr..
Pierce, gentleman who came. to this
State few years ago, a poor young
man, has made fortune mining and
now as a monthly income of $2O,00O.-
His home is princely, orchards and
trees, flowers and fountains are so inter-
mingled as to be treat to look at
There are single homes here worth half
of Mower county.
a There is no mining near us save the
great Quick Silver Mine--the largest in
the world which is in sight of our house
though fifteen miles distant. Our town
is in valley nearly surrounded by
mountains so that we are in circum-
ference about twenty miles across. The
mountains are thousands Of feet high,
and seem to US about a milo off, when
they are ten. The town looks some
thing like Winona' in June-full Of
trees and shrubs and flowers. Itcovers
about as much ground, but only con-
tains about one.fourth the people,
Here about, four families are the most
that live on block, and some occupy
several blocks. Everybody has his own
orchard, fruit is abundant so that it is
worth nothing but the price paid the
hucksters for picking it up and bring
ing it, to you. Tuns are rotting on the
ground. We have all We want Of every
kind for going after it, and many bas'
kets sent US. I we'll give you tho bill
of fare offruit now a. We have them -
Apples Of all varieties, peaches, plums.
they call them plums but they look like
the fruit Of tho egg plant - big 4.
goose eggs and delicious ; prunes, figs
apricots, pears, grapes, black-berries
rasp-berries strawberries ETC., etc.
We are living on fruit, sweet pota'
toes and coffee mostly. Melons of al
kinds are abundant, SO with all kinds Of
vegetables cabbage, onions
tomatoes, ETC., better and bigger than
ever saw before. We can live a5ou
twice az we'll for one-half the money al
in Austin! .>...' -. -.
| No body seems concerned abou
ssmakinga living" "The living" seems
a sure thing in this spontaneous land
Men are trying to get rich and other
take life easy.
Wheat is perfectly white, we hav'
the incest flour and whitest bread
ever saw, no rain falls on the grain a
all. The harvest is cut just as mel
feel like it. They seem to be harvest
ing all summer, so they keep plowin!
and sowing all winter, everything is nc
crowded into few weeks here. Ma
ture seems to wait on man and Goa,
him to work in this latitude, instead o
putting on the lash and driving him a
in MINI. They use machinery to per
lection. They do all their threshin|
by steam and much of other work.
The Yankee seems to think that brain
are worth more than mucle, and worl
only occasionally. They drive bar
gains &c. The Spanish are too lazy t.
work, the miner too wild and John Chi
naman seems to be destined to take tn
place Of the proud Yankee and laz
Spaniard and the wild mustang as tn
laborers of this land. John
quiet, honest, gentecl, Industrious, dc
Gle and clean. They dress neatly eve
at work ; they look like the walters il
a first class hotel; tho boys plagu
them, and pull their pig tails &c., 8
! that most of them tie them up and pu
them under their hats.
Il
We have good house and ten room
: about an acre ofground, fruit and flow
ers and cistern we'll and fine fountain