Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-17
OUT IN THE STATE.
Tho Btg Woods Co,4,try--A Prospsro.ls
Tossn and Beautiful Acknowledgements
Farms and Attractive Res0rts.

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Farms and Attracttre Resorts.
Correspondence of the Globe.
EVANSVILLE, Waseca county, June 10th,
1s7s-This is bright thrifty town of about
one thousand population. It is located on
the Winona d st. Peter railroad, with the
big woods on three sides of it, and prairie
opening out on the south. For agricultural
and stock purposes it is region par er-
celle1ce. Timber, water, soil, and climate,
are all here in beautiful combination, and
the inhabitants are making the best of those
grand advantages. Good farms and fine
stock dot the surrounding country, and in
the very midst of the dense forest well titled
fields and comfortable homes flourish like
blooming gardens in the wilderness. These
timber lands are of remarkable fertility and
the soil seems to possess elements of en-
durance far greater than the ordinary prairie
country. To one who has been travelling for a
long distance over treeless region these
timber belts remind him of the land of
promise. They are the GASES in the desert.
Good hard maple wood here is worth 5000
to $3.50 per cord. At Luverne, the south
west county of the State it is worth $500
to $3.50.
The crops have been written up so often and
harped about SO necessarily that the theme
has become stale. It is about one and the
same thing all over the State, and if you
please the entire northwest, vegetation every.
| where covers the earth with marvellous
! growth. Corn has been little weak but it
is now coming on with encouraging pros
poets.
The tide of travel has not yet abated and
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merits of the unsettled places of Minnesota
and Dakota.
GAINESVILLE is promising young town,
possessing quite manufacturing interest
and handsome trade in the various mer-
camille branches. There are three Touring
mills in the place aggregating seventeen run
of stone, eight, five, and four, respectively.
The two larger ones have elevators in CON
nection, and besides there is a large elevator
belonging to Sanborn & Shepard The
Episcopalians, Baptists and Catholics, have
each good church buildings, and the Metho-
dists are preparing to build. A town hall is
to be put up this season, 4OxsO, and men
are already excavating for the foundation.
There are two school buildings and good
schools are in operation throughout the year.
The other enterprises may be summed up
as follows: three hotels, a warehouse
two drug stores, two lumber yards,
three hardware stores, two millinery
establishments, two boot and shoe stores
three harness shops, three grocery houses
four dry goods houses, a furniture store, bank
ing house, restaurants four, meat markets
two, doctors three, two blacksmith shops
with wagon making and repairing in connec-
ton, and one blacksmithing enterprise by
Itself; two cooper shops, two livery stables
a weekly newspaper-the GAINESVILLE Argus-
photograph gallery, saw mill, broom handle
and clothes-pin mandatory, slaves anc
bent work establishment, tub manufactory
a good barber shop and tailor shop.
Near the town on the north Lake Elysie1
stretches away seven miles in length and il
places two miles in width. It is a beautiful
body of water skirted with timber, and il
the center of it rests an island like an en-
erald set in crystal. It's margin is bold, and
pendant branches of many graceful elm
T bend above the water. A small steamer ply.
on the lake and row and sail boats
are at hand for the accommodation
of pleasure parties, and fishermen who fire.
quent the place for that celebrating sport
In grand old grove of stately elms ane
naples, on point that extends into the lax
, like promontory, pic mic and camp
meeting ground is being prepared. The
spot is one of picturesque loneliness, and tn
heart that wouldn't soften in such plac
! must be hard enough to rattle against the
walls of it's incasement.
Adjoining town on the east Chandler &
Craig have III acres of choice land, the mos
of it in cultivation. AS the town is growing
they expect to lay out forty acres of it in tn
l spring in town lots, and thus form Chandle
& Craigs addition. 1t is in very desirabl
location, and will become valuable residenc
property. On the south side of town, com
ing up to the railroad, Mr.. A. Carpenter
an Ohioan, but an early settler here, has
beautiful farm with pleasant residence there
on. ABORTION of his original place has alread
) been absorbed by the town and the work O
expansion goes steadily on. East of tn
Chandler and Craig property, Tim Sullivan
has one hundred and sixty acres, of whic]
over three forties are in cultivation. It is
, very beautiful piece of land, we'll improve,
g and is considered one of the choice farm
of this part of the State. G. L. HALL.