St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-05

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GSSSRAkIgE 4
The carnival sports and amusements
OF the past ten days drew an immense
number of visitors to st. Paul, but their
presence was not productive of any per-
ceptible increase of business in real
estate.
A great many visitors have looked the
city over, and have been favOrably i'm
pressed with its appearance, its COM
handing locality and its general out
look. In st. Paul, the possible growth
of the city, its business activities and
its superior position, all serve to give
very favorable impression to the stran-
ger, but to realize fully the growth that
is to come to the people in this locality
in the future, something should be
borne in mind in reference to the i'm
menSe territory now tributary to st.
Paul. The Christmas number of the
DAILY GLOBE presented facts going to
show the immense development that is
possible to st. Paul, and upon which
the people of this city have just entered.
Among other articles bearing upon this
general subject were letters from Hon.
Henry M. Rice and j. j. Hill.
Henry M. Rice states among other
things that sit is said one of four ele
ments is necessary for the building of a
city-a great harbor and great water
power. the head of navigation on
great river, or near the junction of two
nayIgable streams. st. Paul and Min
neapolis possess mosto these elements.
The head of navigation at the head of
the Mississippi, with the tributaries ST.
CrOiX and Minnesota rivers, and to
crown all a water power limitleSS in eX-
tent. They stand unrivaled, for no point
between there and the Pacific has been
so fortunate, and consequently no oppO-
sitiOn can be anticipated. All must
contribute to the commerce of the cities
at the head of navigation Oh the great
river and lake." Mr.. Rice also makes
a remarkable statement, which is veri-
fiea by the facts, and which is the piv-
otal point upon which hangs the future
growth and development of the great
commercial and manufacturing metrOp-
oils, namely:
In Minnesota there is not one acre in
every twenty under cultivation; in Da-
kOta, probably not one in thousand,
not one liz ten thousand, and nearly
every acre is capable of giving much to
the worlds wealth in farming, mineral
or lumber products. The mind can with
difficulty realize that this past year Min
neSOta and Dakota raised $4,000, 900
bushels of wheat, and Montana's yield
of precious metals reaches $40, 000, 0OO.!
Every blow struck with the spade, ak or
pick in thiscountry country tributary to
st. Paul enricheS the great centers.
What possibilities the future promises"
These brief extracts contain the views
expressed by Hon. Henry NJ. Rice, a
seen the development of this city froma
hamlet to a metropolis of 5000 people.
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James J. Hill, in the same number of
the GLOBE, spoke briefly of what had
been accomplished on the line of his
own road, the Manitoba, and, among
other things, said that ssfor the year
ending June 30, 1879, the ST.; Paul s.
Pacific railway, covering 480 miles,
brought to market something over
1900, 900 bushels of wheat, and from the
crop of 1887 with about 1890 miles of
railroad, it brought to market about
"a, 000,0 900 bushels of wheat, or nearly
seventeen times the crop of 1878 and
1879. The official figures show that the
amount of wheat shipped from the crop
of 1887 from this one road is greater
than all the wheat received from all the
roads running into Chicago and Mil
waukee combined"
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When one puts the statements of Mr..
Hill side by side with those of Hon
Henry Nj. Rice. and it is shown that
with SO small a percentage of the acre
age tributary to st. Paul, one road
alone, controlled by Mr.. Hill, carried
more grain to market in 1887 than all
the roads carried to Milwaukee and
Chicago, it s;taggers the imagination to
comprehend what the result will be
when the acreage under cultivation in
the Northwest has been quadrupled. TO
this again must be added the grain car
ried by the other sixteen or seventeen
trunk lines centering in st. Paul.
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The fact is that, as marvellous as has
been the development of st. Paul, we
are just entering upon the development
which will eclipse anything shown in
the growth of any one great city on the
American continent.
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The healthy condition of business in
st. Paul is owing to the fact that it has
not Outgr0wn the tributary country that
contributes to make it rich and prosper
Gus. On the contrary, as rapidly as the
city has grown, it has not kept pace
with the vast area of country surround
ing it and which is pouring it's wealth
of mine and field and forest into this
great commercial artery and making it
instinct with business prosperity and
life.
Those capitalists who are far-seeing
and who comprehend the magnitude of
our resources will readily appreciate the
future that lies before this city 1t is
more extensive and more promising
than that of any other city on the CONT
nent or in the world. These facts as
they become known will bear fruit in
the investment in st. Paul realty, and
will undoubtedly result in the concen-
tration here of an abundance of finan-
cial interests to take care of all the ne
cessities of this growing city and it's
surrounding country:
1t is not fair or reasonable to attribute
the wonderful development of the last
two years to the building of ice palaces
or Carnival sports, but there is a some
what singular coincidence connected
with these annual festivities. Prior to
the building of the first ice palace in
1885, the real estate transfers had not
exceeded $4,000, 900. They passed, how
ever, Immediately following the next
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