St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-15

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finds its home and opportunities in Chi
cage and the Twin Cities. Chicago is
great. But we no longer need regard
her as a rival, nor look with solicitude
upon her self-Styled commercial SUI
premacy, etc. The energies and forces
which have so boldly, sagacionsly build
ed these great cities, these twin giants
of the golden Northwest, have acquired
a momentum which will more rapidly
than in the past build and develop, plan
and execute new measures, all tending
to make us rich, populouS and d
pendent. Here will sit the great city of
the Northwest. Every branch of trade
and commerce developed to the high
est, every form of goods manufactured,
the granary of the world, our lumber
supplying the nation, gigantic railway
systems operated and reaching in every
direction, and our population increaS-
ing s. rapidly, who is bold enough to
try to make figures representing cOm-
merce and population ten years hence?
During the past four years we have
safely passed through the worst season
of financial depression on country has
felt since the panic of '73. Each year
our growth has been more rapid. While
many of our sister cities have fallen be-
hind, we have rapidly pressed forward.
A better general feeling now exists, the
glorious rains have assured us a rich
harvest, emigration is again turning in
our direction, new enterprises and
heavy capital are daily adding to our
greatness.
That we grow rapidly the following
will demonstrate: Without a parallel
in all the known world does the record
of the Twin Cities stand for rapid
development. COntraSted with the other
great cities of the globe the figures are
startling.
Paris as3 a~~4 ags gg255S5;oSOo0 : s se9 goo 9
3 F PSfi59y SO 60 ) : : s s1.SoS e e $1,000 g, 900
= Chicago. 49,. 20 6109,o00 - 100000
TWIN CITIES 10 g $4,000 g 100000
And that our growth is substantial no
one can doubt. There have been less
failures than in other cities. Property
has steadily increased in value. Labor
readily finds employment. Wealth is
rapidly increasing. Railway mileage
has grown amazingly. During the past
ten years from ten to twenty millions of
0OlNoLo navy 0tihuollJ OOC1 OAPOlioNo Ia
building enterprises. Municipal i'm
provements. parks, boulevards and
driveWayS are making rapid strides.
Railways, commerce, and sometimes
chance decides the locations of cities in
unsightIy spots. Chicago was a swamp,
New Orleans the same. Kansas City
and Duluth's rocks, hills, hoIlows and
general disadvantages are well known.
Had Mother Nature foreseen the build
ing of the Twins she could not have
planned more superbly for their site.
The natural advantages are magnif-
cent. Observing travellers have often
pronounced the two cities the most
beautiful in the world. And what won
der? One does not find elsewhere the
same conditions so favorable for city
building. There is just sufficient diver
sity in the ground leyelf for good sanitary
measures, sewerage, ETC., while gently
Sloping bluffs. charming wooded river
banks, beautiful lakes, the grand seen
cry of the majestic Father of Waters,
all combine in making a veritable Gar
den Of Eden.
Throughout this vast and beautiful
tract, full twenty miles east and west,
and from three to ten north and south,
beat the hearts of half a million of the
most progressive of the worlds people,
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the affairs of men vibrate with a rapid
ity that challenges the admiration of all
nations; and so enormous has been the
progress and development, many, even
in our own intelligent land. still look
upon our our cities as simply live
Western boom towns.
The New Growth.
That Minneapolis and st. Paul are
one commercially and in general inter
ests, is of course admitted. With the
growth of later years, and metropolitan
development, the petty ~jealousies of
village days are rapidly giving way to
broader views. Joint committees work
ing to a common end, the joining of the
street electric and cable railway sys-
TENS, and other measures are as they
shonld be, and are productive of much
good. They are rapidly growing to-
gether.
Valuable and beautiful as are all sec
tons, there is none growing so rapidly,
or destined to play as important a part
in the future as
The Midway District.
And this is but natural. tits the cen
ter. 1t is the Heart of the Metropolis.
Most great commercial centers grow
from a common center. Here it is re-
versed, aud the Twin Cities-alwavs
Original-are growing from outward
points to the common center.
In 1856 an interesting work was issued
from the pen of j. Wesley Bond en-
titled minnesota AS 1t Is" Much
space is devoted to the then consider
able town of st. Paul, and the thriving
village of st. Anthony" Minneapolis
is spoken of as a new town on the west
banks of the river, where hundreds
of buildings are already erected.
The author further says, ut is
the county seat of Hennepin
county. which, since the reserve has
been taken off and Lake Minnetonka
re~-discOvered, has increased in popula-
ton very rapidly. This is a new county,
but is destined to be one of the most
wealthy agricultural sections in the
territory" Again: ''Look upon the
map, and you will see that st. Anthony
is only about two miles north of st.
Paul. and eight miles west. A railroad.
therefore, or a plank road, would be of
great service. In fact, a railroad must