Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-23

ing as what they please. Have been mere
nearly twenty-four years; one of the first
settlers on thus prairie. It is an excellent
corn growing region, and the pork crop is
getting to be q big item Of ITSELF
Passing on along the main road, we notice
Brewster brothers, Mr.. VIM. West and
young Mr.. Chadwick, besides a handsome
string of farms still to our left along the
bluff below the Bloomington ferry.
THE BREWSTER BROTHERS
are 18 miles from St. Paul, cultivate 200
acres, market about $1,s0O worth per an
mum. all at Minneapolis, but believe in the
bridge
reported 40 acres titled, and sends his $500
worth of crop to Minneapolis.
ROBERT CHADWICK,
raises 685 bushels wheat, 800 bushels Of
oats, and 1000 bushels of corn, all hauled
into Minneapolis Said young Chadwick:
"a bridge at Smelling with an open highway
leading out through here would greatly
shorten the trip to St. Paul and would catch
the most of as as patrons of your CITY,
This gentleman, as did several others, men
toned the existence of stretch of some four
miles of heavy clay road on their route to
Minneapolis, which was terrible nuisance
when the ground was little wet. In clos
ing, Mr.. c. added: "We.here, are 10 miles
from St. Paul, (about 10 from Minneapolis,
but a bridge al Smelling would control nine
tenths of the trade Of this whole country from
the Fort to Bloomington"
The close approach of darkness, as we'll as
of threatening storms at this time, caused
sc o1~oo an, ,,<+n l,oolr 1riuo liroo%Jy
for the intended camp for that night
AT sHAKoPEE.
After crossing the ferry at Bloomington,
we struck bank of darkness that was a
little blacker and thicker than anything We
ever before encountered; hence we did not
reach our said destination until OF 9 CLOCK,
nor did we find street leading to hotel
until we had been corralled three or seven
times in the back yards of suburban
residents. In justice to the good
people of Shakopee, however, we
should state that they have already provided
for and will soon complete arrangements
for lighting their city by system Of large
rejecting oil lamps.
Although late in the evening, The GLOBE
representative, as we'll as his companion,
former resident of Scott county, was greeted
NY uuluUcfS VI Olu t1Ill0 lI1tuuS duO
acquaintance, and our stop there for the
night and part of the following day was
made as pleasant as possible.
| We had the pleasure of meeting that
prince of Scott's noblemen, Capt. Sencer-
box, Judge T.. M. Brown, County Attorney
| Peck, together with goodly number of the
| most prominent farmers of the county,
among the latter of whom were the several
members of the board of county commits
sioners, and who, as body, showed
their appreciation of the proposed
bridge by placing upon their records
and furnishing us copy thereof, tbs resell
utions which were published in The GLOBE
of yesterday morning.
MEssRs. HAMILTON s. co NDEE,
two of the wealthiest and most extensive
farmers and stock growers of the county, and
residing in that portion interested in better
means of communication with ST. Paul, sug-
gested with great frankness that
the proposed bridge at Smelling
would affect trade even to that
point, (Shakopee itself) but that
! it would draw to St. Paul almost the entire
trade of the eastern half or third of their
county, much of which trade-while natu-
rally belonging to St. Paul and which for
merly went there as the only mart in the
State-has for the past four or five years
been crossing the Bloomington ferry and
going to Minneapolis, because of the Smelling
obstacles in the highway.
There are two or three thousand people in
said tributary districts of Scott county, EN-.
bracing the towns of Glendale, Credit River,
New Market, the eastern portions of Spring
Lake and Eagle Greek. Judge Brown in
terrupts the scribe just here to correct the
spelling of the latter town name, exhibiting
one of the summons of the venerable and
tEgl crick.s He was in our Legislature
with the early pioneer scholars.)
1t was on the programme of
OUR RETURN TRIP
to take in the details of the populous western
! half of Bloomington township, as we'll as o.
Eden Prairie, and that of Richfeld. A
the top of the hill on the east side bluff and
| splendid table lands near the Bloomington
: ferry we found
MIR. VIM. CHADWICK,
settler and active farmer at that point TO
the past % years, and who cheerfully per
, mitted us to hail him from his field work 20
: following the wheat seeder) to add a valuabl
$ chapter to our already extended notes.
4 s'Ah," said Mr.. Chadwick, "that bridg
' onght to have been built 20 years ago. St
: Paul has lost much valuable trade that ha
. drifted into Minneapolis from sheer neglect
9 have about 225 acres under cultivation, an
: suppose market from $500 to $500
: worth of crop per annum. Have always ha
o preference for st. Paul as market, bot
is for sales and purchases: and will return
v my old love if the route and bridge are open
). ed. Extending down along this plateau b.
q yond me and running up to til
'. same line of river bluffs al
.e the well cultivated and ferti
if farms Of j. D. Cunningham, Frank Harri
1t John Brown, Thos. Wesley, Widow Goo,
% ridge, Allen Goodridge, Messrs. Miller
Elmer, Abram Palmer, j. D. Schofeld, j.
Batchelder, Rainey Bailiff, Walter McClou
L, VIM. Hopkins, Edward Pond and wido
Of Pond nearly every one of whom are Il
lg former patrons and friends of St. Paul, al
n. for the renewal Of whose allegiance in tn
n direction it is only necessary TO carry out t
a bridge project as proposed by your citizens
Turning our course from this point to t
north and west, drive of two OF thr
- miles, all the time passing one continue
w string of productive farms on either side
Is, the road, we enter fairly into that portion
ut the fifty named garden of
EDEN PRAIRIE,
one of the most famed of all the rich agric,
ad tural districts of the State, where we fou
I'll, the following princely farmers: \
Gle Silver Ellington, John Knott,
20 2. Thompson, Jas. Clark, Andrew Gle1
er- Thos. Glenn, Joseph and John Bal
lie Robert Bunker, Moses Ray, VIM. r
Thos. Boaley, John Blake, Chas. Il
I'm James Kelley John Kelley and Henry ell