St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-21
PTPESTONE.


PIPEsToNE, Jan. 19.-I have the pleasure
of reading your vigorous paper, and as ] see
you do not hear often from the ''cty Of the
coteau." have presumed you would not OBJ
ject to doing so.
While Pipestone is city that is to be, it a;
yet is only right smart town with strons
hopes that the day is not far distant when i
can look back on the time when it was {
town. As enterprise makes cities, Pipestont
prides itself that in the near future it will gel
there.
Just now it is taking steps in that direc
ton, for Instance, it has pronounced itself
in favor of waterworks, and has elected &
mayor and council with that in view, so that
it may be reasonably expected that next
summer we shall have waterworks
and be enjoying the blessings of such an
economical improvement. One of the
essential things for a city we have, and that
is good hotel, the Calumet, erected by the
Close Bros, and now rented by Mr.. Upman,
brother Of the successful proprietor of the
Briggs house, in Chicago. The Calumet lays
claim to, and justly, being up to the stand
ard of city hotels. 1t is very conveniently
located to the depots Of the Omaha, Burling-
ton d Milwaukee railways, and being run BY
a good Democrat be is not under the sway
of the loose Republicanisms of the later day
life of the party, as may be insta q ced In b Is
having inaugurated new, or rather an old
idea, and that is Of giving his guests the
choice at dinner of tea, coffee or
beer, Mitchell's best, of course, and
it is a little surprising that beer should
be the majority choice of both ladies and
gentlemen. Now the movement has started
one might ask why not? Beer we can make
ourselves, grow the shops and barley and
brew the beer" Tea and coffee are mported,
grown by slave labor and coolie labor, sys-
tens of labor not tolerated In the country,
while beer We can make ourselves and use
our own products In doing so; there il that
much can be said of 1t If nothing more. Beer
Is healthier and invigorating drink if taken
with the food. Instance the vigorous char
acter Of the beer drinking countries where II
is used as table beverage-England and
Germany. II what you eat is important why
not what you drink? Some of the ablest
professors against frauds we're beer drinkers
instance Luther and many others. And
now that we have to put
down the evils and shams
of Republicsnisms that well nigh brought the
country into despotism, why not 90 back
to the old standby Of the fathers, and drink
in with it the courage to say no to wrong and
yes 10 right, be 1t ever so unpopular.
The coteau country has not been afflicted
with the storms that have swept through the
''lowlands, " the storms that seem to reach
from the Gulf Of Mexico northeastward
These storms, whether from the north or
from the south, have not with their snow and
rain reached over the west side Of the coteau.
In fact they have not seemed to reach over
1000 feet in altitude. While your vicinity
has felt so degrees below zero, our record is
not below IS degrees, and then when coolest
1t has been calm and dry so that the cold
was not felt.
The Plpestone building stone Is receiving
considerable attention. II has been polished
and It is then that It shows TO so great an
advantage. The higher the polish the deeper
the color-a bright cherry red. It has the APP
pearance OF being warm, not cold like mar
ble, at the same time it looks soft although
harder than granite. As a building stone
II should claim the attention Of architects
aud those who desire TO have buildings that
combine beauty aud durability. The age Of
this stone-geolOgic age-has no doubt been
misstated. 1t has the appearance OF being a
IN etamorphosed chalk. In the ca lumet
stone (from which the Indians made pipes)
which underlies the Pipestone (red building
stone) about seventy-hve feet there
is q fauna, whose distinctive form
can not be identified from being
changed, although the outward form
is there. Blocks containing twenty
stores have been erected here Of the pipe
stone and they impress all with their beauty.
The Star has an Office built Of pipestoue Of
which the GLOBE might be proud. The pipe
stone on becoming known that II Is not the
socalled granite or casper" but stone
superior 10 either, not too hard 10 work and
that can be quarried in abundance and with
great facility, must receive the attent ton that
is due a stone that is both fire, frost and
water proof. The Bartholdi statue should
have been, or be constructed Of this stone,
as II westhers harder and polishes in time, as
can be seen wherever 1t is exposed on the
coteau.
MFR. GLOBE, come cut here when the little
snow We have Is gone, and see the finest
prairie the eye ever looked upon.
G. w r