St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-24

ought to be a good hotel town. In the old
DAYS when Geo. Slade had The house it was :
good place 70 stay at but since then II has
had many vicissitudes and has not always
been an Eden. Recently r. r. Harlow. Of
Fairmont, whose name is held in reverencs
by the travelling public for the choice fare
chased the Wells house aud the
demon Of unrest seized him and would not
down until every square inch of its interior
had been treated to liberal dose of soap
suds, whitewash or paint Besides thoroughly
renovating the old premises, Mr.. Harlow has
begun an enlargement which viii be yery
soon completed, consisting Of two wings
each two stories high, one Of them 32x4O and
the other 1sx3s. The dining room is to be
upon the first floor OF the new front 32x4O
and the enlargement, when-the basement is
put in which will be done next season, will
double the capacity Of the house. The
through train going west viii breakfast here
aud in the future people who are obliged to
stop here will rot do penznce BY so doing.
Mr.. Harlow still operates the eating
house at Paramount but will reside
here. The sewer mentioned will connect
with the one originally built BY Col. Clark
W. Thompson the man who made q place OF
note by his personal enterprise and bound
less hberAlity. The repair shops Of the Chi.
cago, Milwaukee & S. Paul road located
here have been permanently established and
employ about two hundred men. They were
moved here from HOkah and viii no doub,
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about Wells is fast becoming what God and
Nature evidently intended q TO be a stock
country. Water and grass are pure and
abundant and when we apply the term pure
70 grass although seemingly Irrelevant Il really
means great deal. The native grasses of
this section are better adapted 10 the produe-
ton Of fine quality of butter when used a.
food for dairy COWS than any In Minnesota.
Then, in regard 10 water. 1t Is both pure
and abundant Besides plenty Of surface
water, artesian wells, both In the village and
surrounding country, can be found any
where. Quite number OF fine stock farms
have been established in this vicinity. nota-
bly, those of Col. Clark w. THOMPSON. who
owns a large creamery a half mile from the
village, and who breeds largely for creamery
use, and that Of NJ. J. Myers, who is the only
Minnesota. On the Thompson farm are
some eight hundred head Of stock. largely
grade HOlsteins, aud recently Mr.. Thomuson
has purchased some very fine Devons. Mr..
Myers has also enlarged and improved his
herd by the purchase of another large herd
from nOthern Iowa 1t is now unouestion-
ably the finest in the northwest, and as blood
is sure TO tell il viii help the grade of stock
| in this locality immediately and a ia also
hoped, the pocket Of the enterprlsing breeder.
Wells Is very appropriately named. AT a
! depth OF 100 10 los feet fine flowing wells can
be obtained anywhere. Upon the farm of
ex-senator NJ. 5. Wilkinson, a bali mile
north OF town, at 100 feet water was struck
which rises In a two inch pipe twenty-thrce
feet above the surface and has a constant
fow. The water is pure and pleasant TO the
taste and is wonderfully healthy. Not sim
gle case Of diphtheria has ever occurred al
Wells. II is slightly impegnated with sui
/ phur and iron, but not largely so.
The surface soil is some six feet
thick, and after boring through this with a
common three inch auger blue clay Is struck
which generally runs down one hundred feet
which is easily bored through. A common
two inch gas pipe is then driven in clear d.
the rock, which is drilled on the inside of the
| pipe. This strata OF rock varies from three
inches 10 five feet in thickness, and directly
beneath this the water Is found. The wells
were discovered by Col. Thompson; when
president Of the Southern Minnesota road he
was drilling for water supply for the shops
and a most inestimable blessing II has been
10 the place. Wells, on the whole, seem
clean and thrifty and looks as If it could take
care Of itself.