The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-10-04
Minnesota Letter.

the many promises l made when leav-
ing Forest county, about a month ago, |
was to give you my ideas of this
Mecca towards which so many eyes
are turned at the present time. ] would !
have done 80 before were it not for the |
fact of being so overwhelmed by the
greatness of the place into which 1
have been placed. was, as L sup.
posed, prepared for seeing things done
on large scale and everything under
the most improved methods known.
But the reality is so much greater than
my fancy had made IL that l was like
a stranger in the big woods-at loss
to know which way to turn. But
things are gradually clearing up and
perhaps l can venture a few lines,
though it will probably be discon-
nected.
From the mountains Of the ALE.
gheny valley to the fruitful Western
Reserve was a change, but not one so
very noticeable. Unfortunately l
passed through this portion of Ohio
during the uight and all the opinion 1
have Of this far famed section was
gathered by travelling at forty mile
per hour rate and under the light of
full moon. Enough was visible to sat
isfy one that it has its reputation
Justly and that the praises are rightly
sounded. Mansfield is reached and
the fast passing objects lose themselves
in one and we know no more until the
porter arouses us and says we are
within site of Chicago. The breeze,
fresh from Lake Michigan, tells the
same story and in a few minutes the
train comes to a stand in the magnif-
cent Union depot of this city. After
breakfast we have two hours for sight
seeing and we devote it to trip along
the docks, past the vast lumber yards,
and on the streets where the jobbing
houses, from eight to ten stories high,
are located. Eleven o'clock Sunday
morning We take the train, on the
Chicago and St. Paul road, for the
latter city. Eighteen car loads of hu.
manitv are carried along with scarcely
a stop until two p. M, when dinner
and Milwaukee are announced. Leav-
ing the city celebrated for Ph. B. our
direction is across the State and
amounts to nothing out of the usual
routine until eleven that night wher
La Crosse is reached and all the new
travellers crowd the platforms to view
the Mighty Mississippi by moonlight
Early Monday morning st. Paul
white, clean and pretty, perched upor
a bluff, is before us and "change cars
the order. Two hours before the trair
for Manitoba leaves and the choice il
given of staying where we are or going
on to Minneapolis, the city of mighty
Touring mills. We choose the latter
aud in fifteen minutes have crossed the
intervening ten miles, passed the won
derful falls of Miunehaha, or "laugh
ing water" and find ourselves in ont
of the most bustling places of th'
North. West. "This train for Crooks
ton and Winnepeg" comes in a shor
time and now we are on our way
through the prairie, heretofore know
to us only through the medium o
biographies, and their pictures. AL
the day and nothing but what is called
"rolling" prairie meets our gaze. Ii
the aggregate this is level, but tn,
billowy appearance of the land give
it the name. Southern Minnesota i
one vast system of small lakes and tn,
sight of flock after flock of wild duck
and geese made us ache for shot gun 70
few minutes. The waters are said TO b,
full of fish and if so, what a paradis,
for spoissmen. To have big, broad
canvas-backs stare at as not ten fee
from the car window was sort of ag
grevatiug to person who had beel
used to seeing one poor h-ldiver tn
target of all the shot in a neighbor
hood. About dark Fergus Falls ap
pears and then we receive taste o
3 level prairie, as far as the eye Cal
. reach unbroken and unvarying. On
hundred miles farther north do W
. push and over the Red Lake river W
90 and our destination is reached.
How can ! describe Crookston
First we have the river, about as wild
!. as Tionesta creek, but very deep an
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