Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-29
MINNESOTA ADVANTAGES.


lst. Paul Letter to Maysville, KY, Eagle.]
Thos. NJ; Green, Esq.-Dear Sir: On a
farm let to tenant I raised some hemp
seed last year and will raise some more this
year. The object of this is to say that
hemp grows sPlendldly here, and that all our
ropes and cordage are imported-there not
being rope walk in the State The extent
OF the demand which is to be shipped may
be estimated when say that our population
is H5,OOO and increasing at the rate of
$4,000 per year by immigrat ion and $4,000
by births, and that nufactory of har-
vesters here alone will require $15, 600 worth
of cord this year to supply it's self binders.
Here now is an opening for some of your
neighbors and friends who are not overly
strong in health to come to this city, start a
rope walk in connec ton with the harvester
works or otherwise, and regain health,
as have done, by breathing our life-givine
atmosphere. l have not doubt but some
Kentuckian with small capital can bring
out a few hands and make a fortune in this
branch of manufacture. A bonus of the
necessary grounds can be had to any estab-
ishment which will employ, say thirty
hands. The two cities of St. Paul and Min
neapolis are divided by an area of only four
miles and are growing together, and in time
will become one city combining commercial
and manufacturing resources far greater than
those which have built up Chicago and St.
Louis. Numbering nearly 100000 popula-
ton now, the day is not distant when half a
million souls will live within the fourteen
mile limits which bound their extreme bor
ders.
There have been over 600 miles of new
railroads built in the last two years-more
than in any other State in the Union, max
ing $500 in operation connecting St. Paul
with Winnipeg, in British America, and
draining the wealth of an empire to St. Paul
and Minneapolis, the terminus of the Nor
thern Pacific railroad and the head of navi-
CATION of the Mississippi river. There, then,
is the market for the rope and cordage-a
city of 100000 population with $500 miles
of railroads draining the wealth of an empire
into her lap.
I have digressed from the hemp seed
question somewhat: want to know how
Kentucky farmers thresh it. Ny tenant is
afraid to tackle ten or twenty acres with a
hail, and want to know what ID the most
approved modern method. I want to send
some seed next year to Kentucky and Mis-
souri,, with the idea of testing the effect of
this change Of seed upon the yield in those
States: The large, plump, vigorous seed of
this high northern latitude will certainly i'm
prove the Kentucky and Missouri hemp.
Minnesota can grow hemp as we'll as Rus
STA, and want to introduce the idea of hemp
growing and hemp manufacturing. No State
0ov1
water power. She has literally and without
exaggeration fully 10000 lakes-manv of
them with an outlet affordine water power.
The Falls of st. Anthony, st. Croix, Sank
Rapids, st. Louis river, Granite Falls. Fergus
Falls, Cannon River Falls, and MANY others.
challenge the world for parallel. The State
raised nearly 100000 900 bushels of wheat in
1877, with little over 100000 acres under
caltlvatlon-not one acre in twenty five of
her tillable area, The last year she raised
100000 bushels of oats and $4,000, 900
corn. Stock growing is profitable on ao-
count of the inexhaustible forage from natu-
raj meadows, requiring only the cost of cut
ting, and the healthiness of the stock. Sheep
are comparatively exempt from the diseases
of Southern latitudes, and the climate seems
to stimulate the growth of extra wool. =
have been here twenty-three years now,
and although am charged with being q
Kentuckian who has never been naturalized
nor lost the traditions of our fathers, am
an enthusiastic admirer of my native State,
and consider her one of the richest in soil.
the most pleasant as we'll as beautiful in eli
mate, the most active in enterprise, and des
! tined to be among the most wealthy and pop
ulous in the Union The death rate in Min
nesota is l to 1876; Kansas, to a. Texas. /
to 81; Nebraska, to rs; Missouri, l to 81:
Mississippi, to 81; United States, 1 to "a:
England, to 46. Average deaths to the
200 the world over, %; average in st. Paul,
1867, (offciaD II.
Lands can be bought for $1.5O to So per
acre, on time, from seven to twenty wears,
at per cent; 100 acres free by five years
residence, and 100 more by planting ten
acres in timber, in four years NOT liable for
past debts until paid for. One-eighteenth
of all the land is school land, and the school
fund already amounts to millions of dollars
from the sale of these lands.
| have so seldom troubled Kentucky pa
pers with anything about Minnesota trust
you will find room for the above in your
paper, for the benefit of Re ntuckians as we'll
as MlnnesOtians. Very truly your friend