Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-25

nen did her this foul wrong.
MAsToS MARBLE.
New York, January II, 1873.
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
ilon0 the Line Of the st. Paul & Siomz City
RailrOnd-Ho,c the Country il Develop
inJ-Lands for the Landiet s-A,. Insit-
ing Field for Those seeking Ne.c Homes
In the Vest.
Correspondence of the Globe.
MADE11A, Watonwan Co., April 2lst, 1873.
In the Office of the Mankato Weekly Re-
'teo hangs picture representing the thirty
light Sioux, as they were being launched
over the river to their happy hunting
grounds. They were swung off in circle,
all at once, from machine that
resembled frame we often
see In the back lot supporting
the good housewives clothes-line. The
hanging took place in Mankato on the 26th
OF December, 1862, after the terrible massa-
ere of that year. OF course the event is fresh
in the minds of the early settlers of the
State; but there may be those within her
borders at the present time who only remeln.
Der it as dream of the past.
Leaving Mankato, the county seat of Blue
Earth county, the next hating place of the
writer was at
LAKE CRYSTAL,
quite a thrifty little town Just
on the western border of that county.
Like all the new towns in this part of the
State, Lake Crystal is blessed with its grand
agricultural surroundings. Soil, climate,
timber and water are all par ercelkence. The
wide awake people of this embryo city are
bounding with high hopes and have taken q
new lease of life. They feel that the plague
has departed, that they have weathered thu
storm, and now face a brighter
day. The farmers all over
this part of the State are exerting
themselves to their utmost in view of the
fattering prospect. They are tilling much
larger area than ever before, and never was
season more favorable. The soil IS in the
best possible condition for wheat and the
grasses, while other vegetation appears pro-
portionately healthy and prosperous.
Conspicuous in all these railroad towns
stand the great grain elevators, each one
looking down upon its diminutive neighbors
like a giraffe upon litter of kittens. No town
is town without its elevator. First the rail
road, then the elevator, and the town fol.
lows as day follows night. The town o,
Lake Crystal is pretty place, and the lake
is pretty after which it was named. It is
not large place, but there is no lack Of
room for it to grow, and it has magnifcen,
backing in the fertile acres that encircle it
The place cast at the last election nearly ont
hundred votes, and the population is in
creasing from more sources than one. Quite
building improvement is going on. anc
the place even now numbers eight or ten
stores of every size and character, two inns
two NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Methouis
the Episcopalians are building, and othe
enterprises common to new western town.
Eleven additional miles on our iourne,
brings US to
the county seat of Watonwan county. Her
we find less timber, consequently NOR
prairie. and a soil of marvellous fertili
~ stretching away beyond tn
reach of human vision, tn
undulatcd prairie with its score of lake
shimmering in the sunlight called to min,
an emerald sea dotted with crystal islands
All the large lakes have more or less timbe
skirting their borders, and along the stream
burr oak, white oak, elm and other deciduou
groves abound. A half mile south of Made
liza flows the Watonwan river, stream tina
meanders through this rich prairie countr
like a thread of silver. It is fed by cluste
of lakes in this and the adjoining county O
Cottonwood. Less than mile from tn
town Touring mill, containing two run o
stone. is humming away day and night
turning out fifty barrels of flour ever
twentyfour hours. The lands of Watonwal
county are not excelled in the State for agri
cultural purposes. The entire county is
vast undulated prairie, fecked by half
hundred lakes and streams, with belts O
timber adjoining their margins. The soil i
dark friable alluvium, deep and remarkabl
fertile. For the perfection of that great staple
wheat. nature could not make it better. III
other cereals common to this latitude d.
equally well, and the hardy vegetables flour
ish with vigor unexcelled.
Madelia has population of four or fiv
hundred. with the usual complement of bus
mess houses large, good school building
we'll patronized by a multitude of youn
Americans, in training for the battle of life
Of churches, the Methodists, Presbyterianf
Catholics and Lutherans, each have thei
snug little building; and services are he'll
every four weeks in some of the churches
or halls by the Episcopalian
and Baptists. There are two hotel
of which the "Flanders," T. L. Vought, pre-
prietor, is doing most of the transient bust
ness. It is very convenient and tidy hote
well conducted and literally patronized.
newspaper, the Madelia Times, is one of til
enterprises of the place. It is seven col
| umn folio sheet, owned and edited by B. {
Sanborn. 1t is said by those who are SUP
posed to know, that the venture has paid it
proprietor snug little revenue already
| and still the good work continue
| with brighter prospects than eve,
The St. Paul and Sioux City railroa
company has in this county from $4,000 t
$4,000 acres of choice land not yet solo
| which they offer at very liberal rates, s.; t
S6 per acre, on long time, with low interest,"
or from 20 to 40 per cent. discount for cash
Such opportunities are very scarce, when W
take INTO consideration the advantages c
location, with a great thoroughfare cuttin
it in two in the centre, land well watered
and timber not far distant, a soil al
| climate of great excellence, and town
with churches and schools, and neighbol
that want 10 be neighborly. Men of pract
cal experience assert that one good crop 9
wheat pays for their land in single sea
son. Three years of grasshopper scourg
left this region in the background, but til
greater portion of the first settlers pinne
their faith here, and pulled through the dar
days on a diet of chickens, eggs and gras
roots. The grasshoppers took everythin
green but the grass roots, the chickens too
the grasshoppers, and the peopl
had to fall back on VIVA
was left chicken and grass-roots. Neithe
the people nor the country now look as
they had suffered during all those tryin
three years. But time at last sets all thing
even: the DAYS of the i1eYonrino locnsts az