Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-22
OUT IN THE STATE.
DOWN TIE 81. PAUL e SIOUI CITY
RAILROAD.
Topics by tho Way--BIankato and Blue
Earth County.

Earth County.
Correspondence of the Daily Globe.l
MANxATo, April 10, 1873. - II April
showers bring May flowers this
should be the Howery kingdom by May, for
it has showered numerically for the last
three days and nights. A young thunder
storm ratified things up Monday night, sue
oeeded by another Wednesday afternoon,
filing the intervening time with alternate
showers and sunshine. Vegetation is shoot
ing out Of the earth as if quickened by q
magical power, the buds are unfolding, and
the forests are putting on their summer
robes. Wheat fields look glorious; some
peices are four inches in height and nearly
hide the ground. immigration is pouring
along the line of this great thoroughfare as
if the East had started mighty army of
pioneers to spy out the land and found an
empire in the Northwest. Two passenger
trains daily with from two to
four passenger cars to the
train-and every seat occupied, has been the
writer's observation all this week. Surely
this is the land the children of Israel have
been in search of for these four thousand
years.
TOWNS ALONG THE ROUTE.
Leaving st. Paul by the st. Paul & Sioux
City railroad, we follow up the Minnesota
river to Mankota, a distance of about eighty
SIX miles. On our right the sluggish
river creeps lazily along,
skirted with timber on either
border, with here and there broad meadows
dotted with ponds and lakes, while beyond
the bluffs stretch away the rich agricultural
lands of the Minnesota valley. We pass
Hamilton, a rusty looking country village,
sadly in need of paint and putty. Ten miles
more brings US to Shakopee, more thrifty
and pretentlous looking place. Minneso-
tians have heard of Shakopee,.
! it was we'll advertised during
the session of the last Legislature.
Jordan looked happy out in the woods on
the other side of Jordan, or some other
stream. It was the losing nag in the county
seat fight, Notwithstanding the remarkable
exhibition of pluck to the bitter end Next
comes Belle PLANE, Blakeley, Henderson,
LIE Sueur, Ottawa and st. Peter. LIE Sueur
is painted up, and appears bright,
healthy and prosperous. st. Peter is
just visible away to the right
across the river. It is there the
sin-breeding insane asylum looms up in
stately grandeur. The madness and muta-
bility of the sane is sometimes more devilish
than the diabolism of the raving insane.
MANKATo.
Here we strike what is termed 'the big
woods,' cross the Blue Earth river near itf
junction with the Minnesota, leave both
streams behind us and take to other waters
The big woods, properly speaking
is the great hard wood tina.
Der belt of Minnesota. 1t extends
almost across the State, from twenty to forty
miles in width. 1t has escaped the destruc.
tive fires of the past that have swept oye1
the country like the orthodox description Of
the judgment day, by reason of the large
number of lakes, ponds, creeks and rivers
with which that peculiar region abounds
This grand body of timber is one of the
grand features of Minnesota, and if MOI
, needlessly destroyed it will prove blessing
, for centuries to come.
!, Mankato stands on her dignity and claims
, to be the fourth city of the State. He
population has been estimated as high Al
eight thousand, but even allowing two thou.
sand for sea room, still she may have the
3 happy medium of seven thousand. He
t educational institutions are the pride of he
psople, and they are indeed worthy exam
plea of their public spirit and enterprise
There are three large brick edifce
for public school purposes, cost
g ing from $1,000 to $4,000 each
: where thousand of the rising generation
: are instructed in the lessons of life. The
9 somewhere up in the tens of thousands
}, are being taught how to teach. On the blu1
church, and by her side their magnifcien
school building, grand monument to tn
progressive spirit of that denomina
ton. More than 100000 have bee
:. expended in the erection of those stated
C structures. Such enterprise is highly com
f mendable. The Lutherans also have schoe
. in the place, with an attendance of forty G
fifty, thus swelling the city's aggregate t
over fifteen hundred scholars. Churche
o representing the various religious demon
+, nations of the State look down upon tn
F. city of high hopes, moral standards of th
), people. Of hotels there are a dozen {
more, but one good, large, first-class hot
= would be worth more than all of then
It to the city. Three railroads centre here; til
r st. Paul & Sioux City, Minnesota Centr;
j. and the Northwestern, each with its depo
Il and independent of the others. Some of tt
;, city's more prominent enterprises are tt
Academy of Music, Union hall, Masonic hal
Good .templars' and Odd Fellows halls, Cit
l. hall-not yet completed wooden mill, lii
J. seed oil mill, three Touring mills, includir
le the Red Jacket, besides large one soon
= be built that will contain twelve RI
40 of stone, with facilities to enlarge it if d
T. sired. In addition, there are carriage, WACO
, and pillow factories; also two or three lars
IS lager beer factories, where sorrows are boz
Ia and souls eternally damned. All in al
;. Mankato is happily situated. Her natur
advantages are elements of wealth that a.
y unmistakable; timber on every hand, waite
I'd as pure as crystal, coming down from IL
If bluffs above, and spouting up in artesia
u wells in numerous places wit
:, = in her borders, excellent lin
- and building stone at her doors, fine qua
N ity of brick clay within the city 8 limits, IL
e Minnesota river on one side, and the Bl,
is Earth within hailing distance; rich agr
ia cultural region all around. railroads and te
- esraph lines, churches and schools, war
. houses and grain elevators, two or thr
y. weekly newspaper publications, together Wi
OF all the modern Improvements al
at appliances necessary to the substanti
%. growth of permanent and pre-
90 90 porous inland city. It is true the
- people are just on the border of the locus
smitten district, and during the three yea
On of the plague they felt its effects; but all th
st time they held their own and never hinche
). | The city iS making preparations To bnild