Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23
PEN PICTURES
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.
and Old Associations Biographical,
Anecdota1 and HumoristicaI Facts.
Figares, and FOrtunes-Property, Pro-
eress andsPre-Eminenoe.

Anecdotal and HumOristicaI Facts,
Figures, and Fortunes-Property, Pro-
sress and.Pre-Eminenoe.
ARTICLE I.
ST. PAUL-ITs ORIGIN AND ITS EARLY HISTORY.
By T. N. NKwsoN.
In rapid growth and in material pro-
gress, st. Paul may be olassed among the
most remarkable cities OF the northwest.
In 1849-or thirty-four years ago-when
the bill giving Minnesota an existence was
first introduced into Congress, and by
which bill st. Paul became the capital
of the territory, even then men
we'll posted in geography. were utterly ig-
norant Of its whereabouts. It was define
ated on no map; known in no history;
only recognized as somewhere near the
Falls of st. Anthony, away off IN an in
deinable country, known only to the saw
ages. In tbs march of little over quar-
ter of century it new takes rank among
the leading cities of the Union, and in
solid growth and in prosperity, astonishes
even the most sanguine.
6lbgOIyS AOWCVOI Oc&n
never adequately compensate the early
settlers of st. Paul for their earnest efforts
and struggles to establish at the head of
navigation On the Mississippi river, the
foundation for city which, in tho brief
period of the next twenty coming years,
will rival in commercial greatness and in
population any other metropolis in the
west, not excepting either Chicago or st.
Louis. Its past history and its growth;
its present prospective outlook; the grand
empire beyond it, vet to be Developed;
the opening up of the trade of Japan and
China; the artery of commerce which
oleaves it's way to the Pacific coast in the
completion of the Northern Pacific rail-
road the great wheat fields tributary to it;
| its gridiron of railroad tracks; its grand
wholesale trade, reaching into nearly
one hundred millions per
year; its increasing manufactur-
ing interests; its large banking capital, all
attest the causes silently operating to
produce results which will astonish the
longest head and the most sagacious brain.
Coupled with this is q strong probability
of Ihe union of the two cities, not far in
the distance. and with these combined ele-
ments power will spring into existence
| here that will challenge the admiration of
! the world; for, at or about this point in
| the dim future, midway of the two oceans,
geographically in the center of this great
| continent, may yet sit in solemn grandeur,
the capital of the American nation. Con-
gress will some day clean up the Missis-
sippi river from this point to the gulf.
| Millions of bushels of wheat brought here
by hundreds of railroad trains, will be
transported on its broad bosom to ocean
steamers; raw cotton, from the plantations
of the south will, in turn, find Its way into
our mills, and fabrics manufactured there
from will 70 forth to supply the wants of
the future empire, which will spring
up between this city and the Pacific
ocean. Iron ore from our mines will enter
our blast furnaces and supply the great de-
mands of hundreds of yet unborn cities,
while our mineral resources will bring in
to existence reducing, smelling and REIN
ing factories that will employ thousands
of men.
FATHER LOUIS HENNEPIN,
The earnest missionary, was no doubt the
first white man to visit the site where now
stands st. Paul. He assembled the Missis-
sippi river in 1680---or 203 years ago-bu
before reaching the ground now occupied
by the city, WAS taken prisoner by the
Sioux Indians, and in April of that year,
reached little bay short distance below
the city, which must have been, from his
| description, the mouth of Phalen creek.
JONATHAN CARVER.
In 1766.--117 years ago, and Sc years af-
ter the first visit of Hennepin--Capt. JON
al nf Hisfinntior nd
who Rad served as an officer in the French
and Indian wars, conceived the idea of ex-
ploring this then little known and undevel-
oped region. La the fail of 1776 he reached
this locality and describes So great cave
about thirty miles below the falls of St.
Anthony" in the following accurate man
nsr: "The entrance into it is about ten
feet wide; the heighth of it five feet; the
arch within is near fifteen feet hi4h and
about thirty feet broad The bottom of it
consists of fac, clear sand. About twenty
feet from the entrance of it begine a lake,
The distance is not thirty miles, as stated
by Carver, but about ten.
oABvER's GAVE.
In this cave Carver held grand council
with tae Indians, and he claims they gave
him deed OF large tract of laad, en-
bracing the present site of
81. PAUL,
and many acres above the falls, on the east
side of the river, in the aggregate 100
miles square. It was also in this cave
where the Indians held their great gather
ings, com posed of various tribes, who con-
gregated here to talk over "ths affairs of
stete' and enjoy their huge pow-wows.
Those we're happy days for the Abb
originese, but now they are rarely seen
upon our streets, or rarely heard of, except
on the extreme frontier.
INCIDENTS OF oARvEB's oAvE-LYMAN DAYTON.
The cave alluded to is at the foot of what
is now known as Dayton's bluff, about one
half mile below our present levee, within
the city limits, and on the
east bank of the Mississippi
river. The bluff derives Its
name from Mr.. Lyman Dayton, who for
merry owned all the property on the pia-
teau above and much Of that in the swamp
below, now occupied by the various rail-
road companies. He was an energetic,
stirring, liberal, kind-hearted man, and
had be lived, he would have besn IN
mensely rich. He was portly IL person,
quick in speech and action, rugged in