Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-23
BROWNS VALLEY
THE GEM OF NORTHWESTERN MIN.
NESOCA rs SEEN By Il GLOBE
CORRESPONDENTS.
A Paradise for the Sportsman and Tourist
The Village, Its Inhabitants and Its In
dustries-Tlle Political Predictions of
the People.


is about the most delightful loca-
tion for town which the beautiful state OF
Minnesota, with its varied and incompara-
BILE landscapes can pro luce. The twin lakes
OF Big Stone and Traverse, with COM
bined length of over eighty miles, and
which form the boundary line between ou.
state of Minnesota and the territory OF
Dakota for that length of distance, ap-
proach each other here, and if the suppo-
sition of the geologists and the statement
of the early settlers can be taken for
| anything, at one time the two lakes were
one and the intervening valley covered
with water. The present altitude of
Traverse is about seven feet above that of
Big Stone, and by canal of only one
mile in length the two lakes could again
be connected by the Minnesota river which
passes the village of Browns Valley on the
west and mingles it's waters with those of
Big Stone, loses its identity to acquire it
again thirty miles further south at the foot
of the lake. About midway between these
two beautiful sheets of water
THE VILLAGE OF browns VALLEY
Is located. have said its location was
delightful. now reiterate that assertion
and beg those who doubt my word to visit
it ard judge for themselves. 1t is located
exactly upon the divide where to the north
the waters of Traverse through its outlet
the Bois de Sioux, mingle with the Red
River of the North while at the south at the
hoo Of IcrSf tho Inv n
that at last leads you to the gulf of Mexico.
In every direction the view is enchanting.
To the north lovely lake. To the south
one still more charming. To the east the
view stretches away for miles over the rich
and productive Minnesota prairies more
rolling and hilly on the eastern verge of
the valley than further back. On the south
west ten or twelve miles away rise the
famous Coteaus, dark, somber, and
grand, while to the northwest the
level prairie meeting the horizon
at distance which is almost incredible,
bounds the vision. The clear humid at
mosphere, always free from fogs or mists
permits much wider range of vision than
one accustomed to this western scenery
would imagine, and as you stand and drink
in the beauty of this almost imitless ex-
panse surrounding you, the mind is at
once filled with more correct idea of the
immensity of space than it ever before
conceived.
Located in the midst of such an inviting
landscape, with its besutiful lakes so
close at hand, whose waters are abundant
ly stocked with the choicest fish and float
ing upon whose bosom are countless myri-
ads of waterfowl: with sail and rowing
boats without number and the grand palace
steamer plying the length of Big Stone
lake and connecting with all trains upon
the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba, and
the Hastings and Dakota division of the
Chicago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul, and
Browns valley is certainly r.
A DESIRABLE RESORT
for the sportsman and tourist.
Another interesting feature, too, is the
Sisseton Sioux reservation, about ten miles
away. Here, under their chief, Gabriel
Renville, who during the terrible massacre
of 1862 stood by the whites and saved
many lives, are some 1900 of the nations
wards. Here the poetic souls If the wor-
shippers of poor Lo can revel in the sight
of the genuine greasy heathens and re-
ceive permanent cure for that morbid
sentimentality which creates hero out of
brute.
BRowN's VALLEY
received its name from Joseph 4. Brown,
who made his home here in the early his
tory of the state, and who earned the name
of the "father of Democracy of Mime
sofa. AS pioneer his eye was captivated
with the extreme loveliness of the location,
and he set up his family gods here long
before advancing civilization made it pos
sible to found town. It is one of those
points which it would be next to impossible
for railroad to miss, and therefore the
first settlers sat down serenely to await its
coming. Early in January, 1881, the st.
PAUL. Minneapolis & Manitoba reached
there by branch from Morris,
on the main line, and from that time the
village has grown fairly. There has been
no enormous boom but quiet nice little
town has sprung up which bears a thrifty,
healthy loook. Its present status is as
follows:
Hardware stores. 2
Flour and feed stores. 2
Drug stores.
Jewelry stores.
saloons.
Meat markets. ....-....... 3