Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-17
GULF OF MEXICO TO LAKE
SUPERIOR.
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Saltwater
and Duluth.
Pineries, Underwriting and
Manufacturing in Minnesota.
Future Commercial relations be-
tween the Missouri Valley
and Upper Mississippi
Region.
Correspondents OF TIE BEE

My cursory review Of the 9th
has already conveyed to the reader
Of the BEE a general outline of the
origin and objects of the recent ex-
cursion from the southwest to st.
Paul, Minneapolis, and other MIN
nesota lumber districts.
The importance of this new U
will be better appreciated by the
public when they become more IA
milliar with the manufacturing ia
cilities and resources of the country
through which it passes.
THE SCENERY
along the greater portion Of the route
is well worth the cost of such a
Journey, and when it receives its
Just merits these roads will not
merely be travelled by the CONNER
cial public but tourists and pleasure
seekers, admirers of the beauties OF
nature i'm all its forms, will flock
thither from all s%ectiOnsOf the coun-
try. For one hundred miles along
the road south of st. Paul there Is
one continuous line of bold and dl-
versified scenery. Every few miles
one can observe small lakes with
clear sparkling water, so transparent
that every pebble upon its e can
be counted. The banks are shaded
here and there by rocky cliffs and
oyerhanging limbs loaded down by
thick clusters of foliage which, with
the various shades and hues pro-
duced by the different kinds OF
trees and shrubbery, give every
thing an indescribable picturesque
and romantic appearance. These
waters abound in the finest kind oe
Dish; already small castellated BALD
ings are erected and arranged here
and there for the convenience of the
pleasure-seeker and the invalid.
One Of the most romantic country
places upon the route Is the little
town of
MANKATO.
1t is situated upon the banks of
the Minnesota river, a stream full OF
rapids and rocky banks, and
possesses excellent manufacturing
facilities. The place Is the very en-
bOdiment of picturesque beauty.
Trees of all descriptions, from the
broad stately oak to the tall and
towering pine, can be seen in its
beautiful gardens. Its hills, grounds
and terraces, tend to intensity the
pleasing effect Of its romantic ap-
pearance.
The State normal school located
here, is a fine building.
This town was the first place WISH
ted by the ravages of the Indians
during that brief but terrible period
of the horrible massacres of 1862.
The Indians laboring under the de-
fusion that all the men had gone
south to engage In the war, came
upon towns everywhere like an
avalanche, with a view of extermi-
mating the whites from Minnesota.
Seven hundred men, however,
were soon in armed pursuit. and
hundreds of savages were killed.
Over 1900 were taken prisoners, at
one sweep, and kept for a long time
at this town, in a close pen. Three
hundred were convicted upon short
trial to be hung; but through the
clemency of President Lincoln, all
but forty escaped such punishment.
As the train proceeded north
ward from this point, the scenery
becomes more and more bold, and
timber more common. At about
seven In the evening, We arrived at
ST. PAUL.
This city is situated upon high
rocky cliffs, on the north bank of
the Mississippi. 1t has numerous
bridges over the river to facilitate
the manufacturing interests center
ed along its banks; the water is COW
cred with dense masses of logs, ready
to be cut at the mills. The streets
Of the city are hard and rocky; in
the older portion of the town, which
now comprises its business centre,
the streets are quite narrow, and
look, i'm that respect, somewhat SIM
liar to the narrow thOrOughfares of
st. Louis. The buildings mostly,
are constructed of very fine ash col
ored stone, quarried right ut the
grounds; here and there are fine
brick structures, made of white
clay, resembling closely thatof Mil
waukee manufacture; street rail-
roads lead to most every part of the
city. There r many very fine
hotels, among the most prominent
are the Metropolitan, the Merchants
and Park Place. They are all kept
in first-class style and each have
their peculiar advantages. One no
ticeable feature which strikes the
eye at once is the cleanli-
ness Of the streets, and the numer-
Gus fountains and aquariums Obser-
vable in all private as well as pub
lie grounds. One can scarcely real
ize how much these fountains add
to the beauty Of public squares and
gardens. In this, as in many other
respects, however, the city is indeb-
ted for its fine drives, stone struc-
lures and watering facilities to the |
hand of nature. No water |
works are needed here. Nature
has provided q lake some distance
the city, which supplies the
citizens with pure, clear water al
filtered. 1t is elevated i'm the
house pipes by gravity alone, the
being much higher than the
city. The people here need make
application to the municipal au- |
thorities, as i'm Omaha, for Permits
to remove material, but the stone
quarried out to make a cellar or |
is put into foundation
Among the institutions worthy of
notice in this city are the
NEWSPAPERS.
There are four dailies-the Press
and Pioneer issued mornings, and
Dispatch and Journal published eve
THE press
3 q neat ten-column daily,
md is . most excellent jour-
lal !; its building and machinery is
he most complete in the entire
West. The building IL l3Ox45 feet, |
our stories high, and all solid stone;
t has every possible convenience
necessary for Q complete Office; even
! lithographing room Is being fur