St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-10
CORRIDOR CHAT.

Lieut.. Gov. Rice. Senator Kellar,
Senator Edwards and John Frank, who
ran for lieutenant governor with Ames
in 1856, stood in the attitude of the three
graces in the Merchants yesterday
evening. Senator Kellar refused to be
interviewed and spoke in cOndemnatOry
terms of reporters in general, and st.
Paul reporters in particular. However,
the cause of his visit here soon leaked
out. The president of the North st.
Paul Land company brought him down
from st. Cloud to look at the factory at
Duluth tracks. The senator is offered
this two-story brick factory, 100 by $50
feet, fitted with machinery and engines,
the ground it stands on and $4,000 in
cash to come to st. Paul and manufact-
ure his patent tanning mills. Senator
Kellar goes out this morning to look the
ground over. He has a fine model of
the mill, which is going to the Paris ex-
position on exhibition at the Mer-
chants. The jovial senator is naturally
proud of this mill, having made it with
his own hands.
Lieut.. Gov. Rice placed his arm around
John Franks neck, saying: I'VE ran
against each other for the same Office
two years and half ago, but are always
good friends. Mr. Frank has just re-
turned from the Black Hills; he can tell
you more than | can.'
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John Frank said: Eyes, / have been
in the Black Hills for some weeks, and
was never so taken with place in my
life. No man can go wrong in an in
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principal industry; tire are twelve or
fifteen stamping mills there, with
capacity of from 80 to 120 stamps each.
They are mostly owned by men who
own the gold mines, and man has little
chance of developing claim unless he
gets Ill with the stamping works men, as
they will be certain to buy him out
sooner OF later. The tin mines are very
rich, and will be developed at once, the
only thing needed being railroad.
1t will be great thing for
this country when a railroad
penetrates the Black Hills, as there is
tin enough to supply the whole country.
The railroad now stops at WhitewoOd,
about twenty-five miles from DeadwoOd.
1t Is branch of the Fremont, Elkhorn
& Missouri Valley. and you take stage
to Deadwood when:you leave the train.
But tin and gold are by no means the
only industries. Coal slate, mica and soap
mines are there, and these substances
come in large quantities and of fine.
quality and in perfectly natural cOndi-
ton, while the marble is perfect
liar thing that struck me was the
remarkably fine condition of the roads.
Inquiry developed the fact that the
roads are all owned by private individ-
uals, who exact toll from every vehicle
entering Deadwood. This is a fine sys-
tenn for new country, as it causes the
construction of the finest roads and en-
ables them to be kept up at small cost
to all who use them. Yes, when they.
get a railroad into the Black Hills IL
will cause great boom there. Any
man putting a thousand dollars into
coal, gold, tin. soap, marble, slate or
mica can make $1,000 out of it in two
years. 1t does not matter which he in
vests in. as they are all perfectly safe.
The gold stamping mills are just
coming money, but think
there is most money in tin IN the long
run. 1t is funny what ideas the edu-
Gated people living at DeadwOod have
of the outside world; you see, they
have no railroads, and when told them
WAS HUH MlIlICSOtd OIlC vi 6llC luOoV-
intelligent thought Minnesota was
down East. Here in st. Paul we think
it is pretty far West, but nothing east
of Dakota is in the West at Deadwood.
When the Sioux reservation is opened
and railroad penetrates the Hills, you
will see development there that will
make it one of tina most prosperous dis
tricts in the United States"
Hon. B. NJ Low and S. O. Morse,
postmaster of Currie, Murray county,
are staying at the Clifton for a few
days Hon. j. A. Reyes, of Winona,
joined them yesterday. and they have
had lots of fun talking over the legisla-
ture. Since the adjournmento of that au-
gust body, Mr.. Low has developed a
tendency in the direction of the land of
flee at Marshall. 1t seems that his
hopes are based upon pretty solid fOun-
dation. He is backed by Senators Wash
burn and Davis. Congressman Hall and
Gov. Merriam, besides numerous
smaller lights in the g. O. p. 1t begins
to look as if he stood a pretty good show
for getting there.