Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-02-13
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THE LAND OF GOLDEN GRAIN.
Something About the State OF Minnesota
Its Religious, Educational
and Social Advan.
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Ills and Manitoba railway we quote
he following. The paper referred to
5 filled with hard, solid facts which I
f we'll circulated will result in bring
ng in many new settlers for Mime
sofa and the Red River Valley.
"To the man who contemplates
new home and rearing
family, there is no consideration OF
more Importance than location
where, added to fertile soil and health
full climate, he and his may have the
benefit of the comforts and privileges
of civilization and society. Thous-
ands of men remain on the exhausted
sterile lands of the East, believing II
they come to the great West they
must leave all comfort behind them
that they must relinquish all educa-
tional and religious advantages, and
all refined, social enjoyments. AL
though allured by the certainty Of
speedy prosperity, and anxious to bet
ter their fortunes, they hesitate to
sever their old connections, fearing
hardships snd deprivations for their
wives and children. If such men
would investigate the matter thor
oughly and honestly, they would find
throughout Minnesota as refined and
Intelligent communities, as substan-
tisl religious societies, and as complete
and well-conducted a school system,
as exist in any of the older states.
This state has been settled and devel-
oped by the best and most substantial
classes from the Eastern and the Mid
die states, and the visitor is surprised
to find how advanced and home-like
is the appearance and social atmos-
phere, even of the newest towns. He
who would seek the hardships and
lawlessness of frontier life must go far
West of the confines of Minnesota
for this state is, in all that pertains to
civilization, the peer of any in the
Union. AS has been wisely said, iii
is the duty of those to whom has been
entrusted the care and development o.
young men and women, to allow them
the widest opportunities and the great
est scope for the investment of theil
talents Why should they be bount
down to the tiresome struggle for eXis
tence on lands which were never to bt
compared to the rich lands of Mime
sofa in fertility and which with thu
most devoted industry, can only b.
made to yield the barest living, while
here the broad, cheap acres produce
with trifling labor, not only sufficien
for all the comforts of life, but substan
tial fast-increasing wealth. Their,
they are forced to constant eXertion
wearing out both mind and body
while here life is pleasure, phyisca
and mental, constantly crowned will
rich rewards.
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.
Minnetota is the most important az
throughout being of exceptional excel
lence, easily worked, and sure of pro
ducing remunerative crops, the splen
did climate combining with the soil t.
perfect the productions. Especial,
is this the case with that portion nortl
of latitude 40 degrees, embracin
the charming combination of wood
water and prairie, which compris
the famous Park Region, and the leve
prolific plains Of the Red River valley
Minnesota cannot be called prairi
state, as fully one-third of the surfac
is covered with good growth of tim
Der, the great Park Region which oe
cupies the central part of tbe%state
bearing valuab' d of har
woods region, whic
~TentIey.,Jiran ii the northern an
alr@N.-.@asol sneastern parts will suppl
lumber for centuries to come. TIL
many small streams which meande
the prairies are bordered with sof
wooded, fast-growing varieties, whic
add value to the lands on which the
grow.
There are in the state over 7,O(
lakes, varying in size from the lit
pond of perhaps an hundred acres,
the great Red Lake, which covers a
area of 100000 acres. The lakes a
contain the best and purest of waite
are filled with many of the finest v.
rieties of fish, and the beautiful con
binations of forests and prairies rende
their shores extremely attractive. I'll
most of these lakes are located on til
high table lands in the central par
or Park Region of the state which
in reality the height of land of tt
continent, and from them flow stream
of various sizes in all directions.
is here that the mighty Mississippi
takes it's rise, and here that the sma
streams, which unite to form the lony
narrow and crooked Red River, tax
their start. Probably no region in tt
world is SO literally supplied wit
water power, the existence of ov'
100000 horse power being known, an
all are easily and inexpensively avail
able.
IN EDUCATIONAL MATTERS
Minnesota occupies high position
There is an endowment of not LEI
than 10000 acres of land for publ
schools, 17S,0s6 for the university an
agricultural college. These lands wi
yield fund of at least 10000, 900, til
interest of which is forever devoted [
support of education. A large sui
has already accrued from this sourc
and nearly 5000 high, district an
graded schools, together with thrt
fiourishing normal schools, are now
operation. There are, besides, over q
private, parochial and denomination
schools and col1auos Cohoo1c n,