St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-06
As Others See Us.

st. Paul Cor. Br1ck PO1nrOy S Democrat.
1 find St. Paul. the capital of Minnesota, to
be just now the liveliest and most rapidly
growing city on the line of my recent travels.
1t is difficult for an Eastern man to fully COM
preheud the causes which develop a village of
yesterday into an important trade center and
metropolis to-day; and L confess that while
am aware that vast new empire Of natural
wealth has been made tributary to st. Paul
within few years. it is still a marvel that q
town can develop from 10000 inhabitants and
apparently no well-defned prospects in 1880,
to city of 11l,0O0 people in 1885,
with railway, financial and CONNER
cial business surpassed by only the largest
trade centers like New York and Chicago. l
am surprised beyond measure to find here
business and public edifices that would be
notable even if situated in New York. 1 may
even question if our great metropolis has a
hotel structure equal in all respects to the
Hotel Ryan. 1t is truly a magnificent pile,
and has cost upwards of
ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
This great hotel, however, is no finer of its
class than are the several new bank buildings
of theirs. No city on the continent has a
better average of bank buildings, or better
average of capital back of them. Speaking
of banks causes me to remember that I dis
covered the national banking capital of this
new Northwestern metropolis to exceed that
of the entire national banking capital of
Wisconsin or California about twenty
other states and territories; and that it
largely exceeded the entire national banking
capital of all the balance of Minnesota outside
of st. Paul. 1t seems t % carry the finan-
cial burden of the entire Northwest upon its
shoulders. This is the natural result, of
course, of the concentration here of the
wholesale and jobbing trade, and of the rail
way business of this portion of the country.
1t is self-evident now that St. Paul has
SURPASSED CINCINNATI AND ST LOFTS
as railway center, and is destined to soon
rank in Importance as next to New York and
Chicago in this regard. Already 2Q3 passenger
trains arrive and depart daily from the depot,
and half dozen new railways are building
up as fast as possible. Two new lines of i'm
portance, the Illinois Central and Wisconsin
Central have come in this year, and the Chi
cago, Burlington s. Quincy is making big
effort to reach st. Paul yet this season.
Here are1 located the general Headquarters,
in splendid new buildings constructed spe-
cially for the purpose, the Northern Pacific,
St. Paul, Minneapolis Manitoba, Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and the St.
Paul g. Duluth-and they are but the pioneers
of every trunk line of Importance that must
seek the trade and traffic of the Northwest
through St. Paul. The railways have secured
to st. Paul almost monopoly of the jobbing
trade of the Northwest, and manufacturing
is following as a natural sequence. The town,
in fact,is developing with phenomenal quick
ness into one of the great
FINANCIAL RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL
centers of the continent. The country
directly tributary to st. Paul consists of the
vast prairies of Wisconsin and Minnesota the
incompatible agricultural district of Mime
sofa and Dakota, the cattle ranges of Mon
tana, the mineral and timber products of
Idaho, Washington and Oregon-comprising
about one-quarter of the area of the United
States. St. Paul is now becoming the dis
tributing point of the traffic between China
and Japan and the East, and is already one of
tho most important primary tea markets in
the country. I am particularly impressed
with the belief that ST. Paul offers greater in
ducements at this time to enterprising young
men and capitalists than any other city in the
United States. No other city is growing so
rapidly, and certainly no other city possesses
anything like its future prospects. 1t has a
better and bigger country to draw upon than
that which has made Chicago, and the day
Is not far distant when it will crowd the
famous Garden City in the race commercial
larrals