Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-19


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WINONA.
One Of the Beautiful Cities IN the state.
Correspondence of the st. Paul GLOBE.
WMoNA, Feb. 11.-Winona, queen city of
Minnesota, and the oldest town in the State,
bears the name of famous Sioux chief, the
Interpretation of which is s'First born
daughter It is not only one of the most
picturesque cities of our State but is also
one of the most important in point of manu-
features, commerce and trade. and ranks
third in population, having something over
10000 inhabitants. It's form is that of
crescent; its site level prairie, and its levee
available for the largest up river boats at all
stages of water. When one contrasts the
few scattered shanties of twenty odd years
ago, when the nearest trading post was
La Crosse, and when only one occasional
steamer touched at their levee, and when
Elder Ely s hat constituted their only post
office, with the Winona of to-day, with its
wealth and population, one must be allowed
to enthuse little over our unsurpassed
growth and prosperity as State, and the
wonderful accumulation Of business and cap
i al within the limits of this
the fairest of Minnesota's fair cities
Winona, early in her career, manifested a
desire to connect herself with the interior,
and early in 1865 had line of railroad
reaching back some sixty-six miles into the
ertile prairies of the State. She at once
became great grain depot and lumber yard.
These two departments of trade have never
been allowed to anguish and have to-day
reached almost colossal proportions. The
two great firms of Yeomans Bros. & Hodg-
ms and Laird, Norton q Co., with their
great mills, drying houses, sash, door and
blind factories, and their acres of solid lum-
Der, form a business of gigantic proportions,
and have raised this point to one of first i'm
portance as lumber market. Nor have
other branches of manufacture been neg
lected. Among the most important are the
great steam barrel factory, carriage factories,
and Touring mills. At no time in it's his
tory has Winona been unable to furnish cap
ital for home improvement or for any legiti-
mate business operation in the interior, or
for the development of the agricultural in
terests of this part of the State.
At present Winona is entered by three
great lines of railroad. The Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul, which crosses the Missis-
sippi at La Crosse, the Chicago & North
western, which crosses here by splendid
iron bridge, and the Green Bay road, which
at present has its western terminus here.
The G. q N. railroad stretches out entirely
across the State and into Dakota, aiming at
an ultimate intersection with the North
Pacific road somewhere away out towards the
mountains. There is also at present under
consideration by some of her leading capital
lists, projected line of narrow guage road to
Chatfeld, which, if successful, will not only
unite that thriving town, but a fine agricul-
tural country along its line to herself.
But by far the most important and no.
ticeable feature cf Winona, is her splendid
school buildings and unrivalled educational
facilities. The first Normal school was loca-
ted here, and upon beautiful grounds donated
by the city, the State has erected ma2nif-
icent structure at a cost of $4,000,
with some $4,000 more of fixtures.
This school has been brought up to a high
standard, and is sending out yearly scores Of
competent teachers who are making them
selves felt in the schools of the State.
There are also three very fine city school
buildings, one of which is occupied as a
high school and ranks high in the point of
scholarship the schools of that class.
Winona supports daily and two weekly
newspapers. The daily Republican and the
weekly Herald and Adler the last German
paper). Among her professional men are a
member who have achieved high rank and
State celebrity. The bar especially is rep
resented by men of high order of talent
and from among them have come very many
of our present and past State officers as well
as national legislators. On the whole Vino
ma is Of vast importance in the annals of oul
State, and shows steady, healthy growth
from year to year that speaks volumes fol
its natural advantages and the enterprise Of
its citizens. B.