St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-12

want of enthusiasm, but it is some
times valuable in a Western party to
have a conservative man along.
OF all Western towns | have visited,
Minneapolis gives the impression of
most rapid growth and development,
the immediate future. There is no
city in the country that | aware of,
which has such immense agricultural
resource tributary to it. 1t was graft
flying to find here so many st. Johns
bury people who have chosen this city
for home. Earliest of these in point
of time is Mr.. Putnam d. Mcmillan,
who has now been here some ten years
and has built up large business i'll
real estate and insurance. He is one
of the vice presidents of the Board of
Trade, and a gentleman justly re-
spected and hOnored by all his large
acquaintance. Mr.. Henry E. Fletcher
is largely engaged in milling, lumber
ing and cattle raising, but nOtwith-
standing the great amount of business,
it is so systematized, and his forces
are so well organized, that care seems
to rest lightly upon him. Col. Albert
w. Hastings is now well settled in his
new and pleasant home, and is cOnten
ted and happy. He is in business with
his brother in-law, Mr.. Mcmillan, and
can hardly fail to do well. Edward
ID. Brown, Esq, has just thrown out
his shingle as lawyer. This he sup
plements with real estate business !;
and although entering the city stran
ger, pluck will surely win success.
Mr.. Geo. ID. Stevens, late of the st. j.
& l.. G. offices, has left st. Paul and
goes into the employ of the c., NJ. q
st. p. r. R., the favorite line to Chica
go. Mr.. John Brown is here now, but
not yet located. With such a com
pany of st. JOhnsbury people is it
strange your three travellers found Il
cordial welcome, and found it hard to
get away?
BRIEF MENTION.
There is perfect flood of emigra-
ton through Minneapolis to the Red
river cOuntry-Dakota and Manitoba.
All the regular trains are crowded,
and specials are run almost every day.
This is the new EldoradO but it
seems to me that good many are
starting for it without first counting
the cost. The sight of the tired IA
theirs and weary mothers and sick and
sleepy children who crowd the stations
and cars and emigration wagons all
through this western country is enough
to extract pity from all, save the soul
less agents who have land to sell.-At
St. Paul we met Chas. A. Willard, Esq,
now of the firm of Willis & Willard,
the best cities of the West. If not
growing so fast as its neighbor eleven
miles away, it has the advantage OF
more age and the improvements that
age brings. St. Paul is fine town,
and is grOwing.-The first famil-
lar object that greeted the party i'll
Minnesota was the smiling counte-
nance of Luke Buzzell, ut the railway
depot. He is making this city his
nreSent home
What do think of the West? That
is question which cannot be answer
ed in IA single sentence. A large part
of the West is Il goOdly land, and il
not flowing with milk and honey, it
still abounds i'll natural resources, and
with its teeming population of young
and vigorous blood, will in time be the
garden of the world. Another large
part is an ordinary country fer
tile soil perhaps, butpoorly watered and
sparsely wooded-liable to winds, and
cyclones, and grasshoppers, and chintz-
bugs, and drouths, and other dire evils
A still larger territory is now and prob
ably always will be a desert-withOut
water, or trees, or grass, or any thing
that can support either man or beast
When IA man starts West he SHOULD
know which of these three districts Il,
wishes to settle i'll. c. NJ. 5.