The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-07-06
THE FRONTIER.

e. Cooper of Pine Island writes q
very interesting and we'll considered
letter to the Pioneer-Press- Tribune, de-
scriptive OF the upper Minnesota vally and
Swift and Stevens counties. We regret
that our limited space prevents usfrom
publishing NOR e than few extracts from
it. After giving detailed description
of Beaver Falls, Montevideo, Granite
Falls, and other flourishing points on
the Minnesota river, he says:
The village of Appleton is located on the
Pomme de Terrre river, something like eight
or nine miles above where this river enters the
Minnesota, and has an excellent water power:
The River is skirted with frequent groves OF
timber, which lend an unspeakable charm to
those lovely prairie landscapes. The bottoms
ON the river are broad and fertile, and back OF
them are broad and fertile reaches Of lovely
swelling prairie.
Grove bottoms and table lands spread out
before the vision with all the loveliness that
the mind of man is susceptible to imagine. If
these valleys and prairie landscapes are so
| beautiful now without the aid OF the husband
man, what may they be when the radiant
wheat fields are tinged with gold and the wav-
ing fields reaches beyond the horizon! Here too
are the most beautiful and charming lakes to
be found anywhere. None uf your slough
holes or mud ponds, but bright sparkling VA.
ter with gravel shores; how the nnny .rloe
mystery. But here they are in innumerable
numbers. Pickerel, rook bass, and an endless
variety are here found; so too Of the fowls. The
| wild goose and duck are seen in abundance.
/ As | write in my covered wagon, near the
| sparkling waters Of one Of these beautiful lakes
can see numberless of these feathered fowls.
There now is q goose and her protector (gander)
with young brood ofeight or ten just going
down for swim. And there are forty or fifty
ducks rising and sinking with the heavlng OF
the waves as thoughtless of the approach OF
danger rs the aborigines OF a century ago even
of thu approach Of the white man on these
lands on " which they roamed for centuries.
Houses, barns and sheds are being erected
all over those beautiful prairies as il by magic.
Look in what direction you may and new
buildings meet the vision. If you make a
count after breakfast Of the number in view
you will want to repeat the count before night
in ORDER to know OF the number of "new com-
ers." And the same remark applies TO break
ing. In nearly every direction the plow j:
seen in motion. From where | write car
count about sixty horses at work turning over
| the soil that has laid uneisturbed since, 1t ]!
supp< ID. the world has had an existence.
Immigration to the frontier Is like ou
fnanc al panics, periodical. Judging iron
J observ ations one IS forced 10 conclnde that w
are in the midst of obe OF those emigration
| periods. where men sell lands high to purchas'
, cheap. Unlike the Wall street speculator
there is neither gambling or risk in this, bu
, substantial and permanent gain.
am aware that for long years the souther,
portion Of this state has been considered tn
j, only part to settle and improve. This IS pre-
judice that l, in common with Others hare en-
tsrtained: but /: is . great error. The day i
no. far distant when this opinion must b. re
, versed.
!, have spent few daTs in Stevens county
in the vicinity of Douglas. nine miles west iron
Morris, the county seat OF the county. At tn;
point Hon. /. Donnelly purchased last winse
Of the railroad company three thousand acres Q
land. the pestifsrous little aemagoSue Ia
fifteen horses. with gang OF men, inciulin
blacksmith. etc, bFes king up his land. Whe
: The -MoxoPoLs7r editor gets this land i'm
! proved. he may 81, on his dignity and let tn
, Pionesr-Press nd Tribune laugh 1t him ii
!, likes He will then b. independent OF th
hoIsinx politicians in Dakota eoantY and LA
! bid defiance to au rings OF any party. Ml
. Dours.lr is engaged ina laudable snterpris.
e tia: of opening up the wild=-nes AMI seek
!, Ing 10 reform the ccsrupuons II the state 81
!. ration.
: NJ. Enrel Of Phiiadssphia, brother in ia,
: of Mr. Donnelly, has also purchased iars
: tract Of land neazj Douglas hs, too, Is hel
with twelve hogses and gang OF men, breas
The country here. a at Appleton, is inste
: here and there with beautiful lakes. The "a
!. i srich. aud the entira country dslightfu
settlement and Improvements are psogressiI
Z rapidly, and before ths next United States cez
i Gus Is taken, Ill this upper country viii sho
: nrn-r-ss and deyelopmanks such as kas .,
: hsxn vitnened since the psEiodicAI enig11tir
81 .066 sud 1851. A wh0 wAuh home
chean lhn1s II this s0x1D mnst Be- ssup =
J dptnHn ~ sCoaehn1e MlA -