Daily Republican., 1882-01-21
OUR WESTERN LETTER..
tn r CONDITION or AFFAIRS IN
THE WEST.
~. Paul. Minn.. vyiDk with vii
minSsOn In the Increase Of
Building Operations
What Former CIT.
lxon HaS 10 Say.


SpoclaI Correspondence Of the REPUBLICAN.
ST.. PAUL, MINI, Jan. II, 1882.
The site of st. Paul was wise selec
ton for the foundation of city. IL ia
situated on the lett bank of the Mis-
sissippi river, where choice of three
different elevations could be mad to
build upon; the middle one naturally
was chosen and in excavating for the
foundations OF dwellings in many
places more than enough stratitied rock
is taken out than is required for cellar
walls.
So much grading has beon done that
it can hard y he called hilly citys yet
1t stands on a commanding eminence
and the riparian scenery is one of great
attract veness. Just above through the
azure tinted atmosphere is seen Fort
Smelling. On the opposite bank stands
east ST Paul, while below at the grace
ful bend Of the river, on high plateau
over looking the city, stands some
beautiful city residences. Its growth
AS well az its beauty have attracted at
tention, and yet one Of your citizens
remarked to me that for twenty years
he had put Wilmington in the race
against it, and thus far had come out
best. We cannot ignore the fact that
during that time Minneapolis has
sprung up, with commanding influence
and capital on her very border as a
manufacturing centre, and has really
carried away her laurels In point OF
population, but St. Paul plants herself
on her Importance as the capital city,
points with pride TO the number of her
large wholesale houses and calls Mill
neapolis retail town.
The building permits for 1881 are as
follows: St. Paul 1000 dwellings and
four or five business blocks, aggregating
81, 500, 600; Minneapolis 100 dwellings
and numerous business houses costing
$500, ,OOO flour manufactured 5000, 900
bbls., worth SlS,00O,OoO.
This city enjoys reputation as a
health resort, but we cannot see IN this
high latitude and vigorous air how pull
mOnary cases can be benefited, but for
malarial affections it is a sure remedy.
Dwellers iu the famed Wabash valley
or elsewhere who have been accus-
toned to chills that make their teeth
clatter, or followed for years by those
miserably mean third day creeps, that
houeycomb u mans bones for channels
for aches to pass through-coming and
dwelling here one year will rid his sys-
| TEN of the disease without resorting to
medicine. This has been a large factor
in the rapid settlement and develop
ment of the North Invest, by emigrants
out of those sickly valleys in the Old
timbered States of Ohio, Indiana and
southern Illinois, willing to endure the
rieors of hard winter for the chance
of getting the malarial poison frozen
out of their systems, and III the mean
time &ccumulating competency TO
enjoy comfortable and resttul Old age.
J Through this city is the direct anG on
" rail route to the Valley OF the Red
River of the north and Manitoba, the
cities of Fargo, Bismarck and Winni'
peg. . ;. ouo,
ceases and while the domain is so large
and the condition OF Anarchy in Eu'
rope is such as must impose upon life
the heavy burdens of sweeping con-
scription, enormous taxation and low
rate of wages, they will seek our free
soil and place themselves under the
ngis of our great Republic.
The times are ausplcious, oar country
as never before is one. Growth and
development is the order OF tho day
Confidence everywhere obtains that nc
strife or division for an indefinite length
of tine will occur again, and there is
no outside force that we fear.
Let not that young man who has JUS,
arrived at his majority and is ABOUT en-
tering upon the arena Of an indepen
dent life, say, that these are not as goct
az the days of former years
There never was such demand 1ol
man, mind and muscle as at the pres
ent time.
Before the war, the territories of The
N. w. were open for emigrants, now the
whole belt, south and west to the Glll
and borders of Mexico, and eas
through the cotton states and Florida
Nearly every well organized effort Il
succeeding, and will continue to 40 81
while emigrants come in and brini
money, settle up the waste places ant
create a demand for every article o
manufacture, beyond their ability u
supply.
| The winter harvest is now going OF
which consists of numbering as they
call it, which means going into th'
woods for two months and living in
rustic improvised hut or huts, wher'
companies of men herd together for thu
comfort or discomfort of the night, ant
bend themselves to labor during th'
day, missing bnt little time on accoun
of inclemeut weather.
1t is something wonderful how thes'
people adapt themselves to this rigo
and climate. Since have been herr
the temperature has ranged from t.
12 degrees below zero, and they cal
this a very moderate winter. Men ar
seen running around with seal ski
CAPS and long fur over coats and thtl
breath looks like a jet of steam iron
their mouths, streaming over thel
shoulders as they pass through th'
sharp crisp air. ,.
They have a theory that you becom
used to it and don't mind it. Well,
Norwegian might, but l could neve
get as tough as leather while l coul'
remember the mild climate of Della
ware. Some Delawareans are here bu
they dislike the winter season Wnicl
is the more disagreeable on account O
the prevailing high winds. The climat
is dry one and so is the snow as Or,
AZ powder in the shining sun.
Mr.. w. M. Burk and Henry 7. Simp
son of your city reside here and ar
engaged in railroading. They ar
held in high esteem.
Mr.. E. q. Sewall has accepted pc
sition in the Chicago, Milwaukee X 81
Paul Railway, at Milwaukee.
. RAMBLEH.