Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-09-11
The Towns of Morrison Comfy
BY E. D. rINaLE, ESQ.

[Continued from last week.7
THE TOWN OF GREEN PRAIRIE.
This township lies west of the Mis-
sissippi river, and Is bounded on the
east by this magnificent stream. The
town derived its name from Charles
H. Green, who settled there in 1855.
The prairie is fringed on every side by
timber, and watered by clear running
brooks. There. are also some fine
sheets of water here. Lake Alexan>
der' the largest, abounds in fish of the
hnest. varieties, and at certain seasons
AFFORDS tine shooting to sportsmen in
search OF waterfowl and deer. This
prairie can boast of some we'll improv-
ed farms' producing annually splendid
crops of small grain and Indian corn.
The meadows on Little Elk afford
splendid facilities for stock raising,
and the country contiguous to this
stream is heavily timbered with the
hard woods and some fine bodies of
pine. Some excellent homesteads are
still open to settlement in this town.
The population consists principally of
Americans, who are noted for their
hospitality, intelligence and progress.
This little prairie has only to be seen
to be admired, the tasty white cottages
and large barns attesting the thrift
and enterprise Of the people. Large
accessions to the population of this
town have been made during the past
summer, and the new buildings going
up in every direction indicate that
Green Prairie is securing her share of
immigration. Excellent school aud
church facilities are found here. Some
of the prominent old settlers in this
town are the Neills, the Halls, the
Bateses, the Denneys, the Rasicots and
others, whose hospitality the writer
has partaken Of; and we know whereof
we speak when we say that our inner
self has rejoiced in many good square
meal and social converse with the good
people in Green Prairie, whose gener>
GUS hospitality makes a man feel like
pulling off his boots and making him.
self at home. Nowhere in this county
are the fruits of industry more forci-
bly, exempliied than here among these
independent farmers, who, by the
sweat of their brows, have made this
prairie to blossom as the rose.
THE TOWN OF MOTLEY.
This township was formerly part
Of Green Prairie, but is now indepen>
IDENTIFY organized and is rapidly assum>
ing commercial and agricultural im-
portance. 1t is mostly timbered, and
embraces some excellent land, await>
ing the ak Of the husbandman. The
village Of Motley, the commercial GEN.
ter, on the Long Prairie river, is young
and prosperous, and filled with enter
prising citizens who entertain high
hopes of future greatness. Motley has
rail communication with Duluth, the
seaport of the Northwest, and is anx-
ious to be made county seat, and adj
minister the law to her neighbors.
Several stores, a good hotel, and
first class mill owned and operated by
H. B. Morrison, ESQ.,, are some of
the improvements in this ambitious
village Of one hundred inhabitants.
Motley has been anticipating a rail-
road via. Long Prairie, in Todd coun>
ty, and already has steamboat commu>
nication with Long Prairie, enjoying
rich and lucrative trade from Todd
county and the surrounding country,
aud her future Importance as trad>
ing point is very fattering. Success
to her and her enterprising people.
We wish to see them realize all their
hopes. For advancement and pro-
gress is the keynote to prosperity and
wealth in Morrison county, and the
old pioneer settlers are waking up to
the Importance Of inviting immigra-
ton to come and settle among us, for
immigration makes competition, and
competition makes cheapness and en-
terprise, and enterprise increases the
value of real estate, and makes the
farmers rich and independent.
ITO ha contihaHd