St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-20
MINNESOTA.
Spring Valley.

As I had the pleasure of passing a day or
two on business pure and simple in this
beautiful and picturesque city of Spring
Valley, Fillmore county, have just put
into shape and form the following items
which may be of interest and information to
the numerous readers of the GLOBE. which
find is the paper read by all parties in this
locality. Mr.. Sullivan, the agent for your
paper here. find is gentleman of much
influence and information on local subjects.
Spring Valley, as the verbal compound suf-
hciently suggests, has many natural advan-
tageS and promises in the near future to
become a place of importance if not busy
center of much commercial and agricultural
enterprise. After pleasant call on some
dozen of its leading members and one or
two of the excellent city officials l was
pleased to learn that within few years it
has more than doubled its population, and
is just now doing splendid trade in every
department. There are in this place over
thirty stores, any of which would be quite
an ornament in a city of greater name and
pretensions than Spring Valley. The
stranger realizes at once all this as he rides
along its crowded streets, especially the
principal one, rejoicing in the fashionable
name of Broadway. There can be no ques-
ton or doubt that the contemplated line of
railway from the south, if it can be carried
through to strike right into this place, would
make it one of the most desirable places in
Southern Minnesota. 1t is to be hoped that
this natural aspiration of the citizens of
Spring Valley will be soon and successfully
realized. l was given to understand that
they have already offered guarantee for
substantial cooperation on their part.
The present depot is spacious and
well located for the contemplated junction,
the water supply being abundant and just
in the right locality for any enterprise or
emergency. Quite an interest is being
manifested of late in the number of build
mgs at present going up, notable among
them the splendid school-houSe situated on
the hill overlooking the city. The churches
of the different denominations are well and
ably represented. Since the rink season
closed an attractive substitute is found in
the basement of one of these, where the
young people. Jew or GENTLE, are cordially
invited to Characteristic entertainments, as
can be seen from the liberal program posted
up in attractive form in the postoftice
This just reminds me of what Dean Swift
once said about making the road to heaven
practicable by mutual harmony and kind
benevolence. Fishing parties to the ada
cent rivers are of daily occurrence and they
meet with decided success, some of them
returning home with fishes of formidable
size and calibre worthy of the piscatorial
species sent by Minnesota to the New Or
leans exhibition. The crops around here
are looking very promising and as the sea-
son advances the hopes of the farmers are
big with expectation of an abundant yield
of the good things of the earth after a few
months. The recent series of storms has
not done much injury to the young crops
in this locality, but considerable damage to
property is reported. l thank you kindly
for your space and courtesy in publishing
these remarks on one of the finest localities
In Southern Minnesota. l. NJ.