Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-15
OUT IN THE STATE.


what Is being Done in Rock County-The
Tide OF Immigration Still Continues
railroads Present and Prospective
Buliding Improvements and Other In
tereSts in Luverne
Correspondence of the Globe.l
LuvERNE, Rock County, Mimi, May Is,
1o'e.-Ih's Is bright, thrifty young town,
located on the Worthington and Sioux Falls
railroad. about half way between the two
points, It is the county seat of Rock county,
and it claims a population of seven hundred
people. No county in the State eniovs
better agricultural area, and there is perhaps
more of it susceptible of cultivation than
can be found in any other fourteen town
ships in the southern tier of counties The
country is rolling, free from ponds and lakes,
and the depth and fertility of the soil is un-
questioned. The Rock river. stream of
considerable volume, cuts it in two north and
south, and there are dozen beautiful
tributaries that water as many townships.
Farther west is Beaver creek, branch of
the Big Sioux, and across three townships
of the western border winds the latter river,
pure as a mountain stream. The banks of
all these water courses are abrupt, and their
borders are void of the usual slough lands
common to prairie country. A few scatter
ing trees, and occasionally patch of timber
of sufficient dimensions to come under the
head of grove abound near the waters, but
1T IS prairie region in the strict sense of
| the term. and the virgin soil, all over the
county, IS ready to respond, as fast as quick
ened by the hand of industry.
PerhaDS no other mart of he State oyor
| witnessed such scramble after lands
as has been going on in this
county for the six weeks last past. The
writer has counted one hundred Immigrant
wagons IN day stringing across the coun-
| try in various directions, and it is not un-
common to see fifteen or twenty in single
train. Occasionally the old fashioned
| prairie schooner may be seen moving lazily
| along behind three four yoke of meek.
patient plodding bovines, but large major
ty of these movers have good teams of horses
and come amply prepared to encounter the
stern realities of pioneer life. They are
not the weakened class that wear a contin-
ual expectation of woe like girdle. they ara
a hardy, sunbrowned, resolute people, full
of hope and large expectations.
These people propose ere long to have
another railroad, to extend from Luyerne
down the Rock river valley into Sioux
| county. Iowa, a distance of thirty miles.
The survey will be made Immediately after
this road is completed to Sioux Falls, and
the cars are to be running by October, 1879.
1t will open up rich agricultural valley and
pave the way for future development and
unbounded enterprise. The railroad is to
be completed to Sioux Falls the coming
July, and after that the rush and tide of i'm
migration will tend more in other directions.
the country strike for Sioux Falls, as if that
was the goal of their ambition. Sioux Falls
is good place for reasonable population,
but all who are seeking homes in the West
cannot live there, and they may as well
understand it first as last. 1t is the arabic
country that needs the people-the fertile
acres that are spread ont all over this grand
region, rich the bed of subsidized sea.
Our people are gregarious-they are too
much inclined to flock into the towns and
cities, where they can see and hear more,
and drag out miserable existences in a sort
of semi-genteel manner Settle up the
country, and the towns and cities will grow
where they belong, and no faster than tho
growth of their surroundings will justify.
Building is going on here quite briskly and
5 the town is enjoying a wholesome degree of
, prosperity. The hotels of course are reap
} ing their harvest, and the lumber, coal,
and wood yards are tiourishing enterprises.
Then comes the agricultural machinery bust
ness, and real estate dealers. all making
money. Several brick buildings are going
| up, the brick being shipped from Mankato.
Kniss q Brown, bankers, are putting up q
large two-story brick building, that when
completed will be the best III the place. 1t
will contain their banking room in one
apartment below, and besides on the lower
floor there will be a large store of general
y merchandise. Over the store on the second
e floor the Masons will have their hall. and
e above the bank, Offices will be finished off.
v This banking firm is one of the solid
t and reliable business enterprises of this part
e of the State. Mr.. Kniss came in here eight
d years ago, at time when this part of the
e e country was little known or thought Of 1t
= was then a vast stretch of naked prairie
e with no sign of civilization for long miles
: but he comprehended at glance the marvel
h Gus capabilities of the soil, and saw in the
h near future the grand development that
9 awaited coming events; so he pinned hi!
=. u faith here, and is more than realizing hi
~ expectations. The leading hotel at the
,e present time is the Mccarthy house
Mccarthy & Kelly proprietors. For
new town it is a very good hotel, and it i
d taxed to its utmost capacity day and night
a The table is well furnished, the rooms and
70 beds are tidy, and the proprietors are atten
49, tive, genial, and obliging.
\ The Methodists and Baptists each hay
ID good church buildings, the former built 0
ne Mankato brick, and the latter of Mime
e. apolis lumber. The place supports iarg
n. elevator, three or four lumber yards, two
C. livery stables, school house, four or fy
e hotels of various qualities and capacities
and the usual complement of other new tow
enterprises. There are about thirty-fy
- business houses of all kinds. They want
al Touring mill, as the next most importar
ns enterprise. They claim to have the wate
on power, and it is little singular that som
~. wide-awake mill man has not jumped in hel
~ and built mill before now.
A number of thorough-going men fro
=. Eau Claire, Wisconsin, have purchased fo'
oA sections of very choice land within eig
~, miles of Luverne, which they will turn in
leu a company farm. portion of it will
broken this season, and the remainder of Il
entile twenty-five hundred and sixty acr
hit, next wear The members of the comma,
mas are all prominent lumbermen, and they W
vas s.,- ~ -. .oo,s =, 4he VOL. =,
in simmer put them on the large far
ID Truax, member of the firm, /
~ been here several days purchasing la
VIZ and shaping things for future operatio,
es The members of the company are G. E. p
~ u ter, president of the Northwestern Luml
mi company; VIM. Rust, partner of the E
rty. Claire Lumber company, and j. S. Ow
another heavy lumberman. They are
wealthy and enterprising men and will ma
their mark wherever they do business.
ION. such men that are settling up the vac,
,ore places, and they are the men that will t,