St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26

Is not now new country, but it is still
but scantily settled in proportion to its
evident power of supporting population.
Ihere IS not county in this region
which could not make room for
several thousand more farmers than
1t how has and show them opportuni-
ties to obtain cheap lands and a
share in the advantages of we'll organ
lied rural life. Every one of these
counties has one or more railways,
and can show good roads and an excel
lent school system. Wheat is the main
crop, and, while il varies, as everywhere
else, from year to year, in its yield per
acre there has never been year when
1t has failed to show a surplus profit to
the farmer. Stock raising is everywhere
a successful and growing industry, for
which the climate is peculiarly favOra-
bic. The almost entire absence of what
is called in the East inclement weather.
when cold rains alternate with wet
snow fails and chilling winds, renders
the winter comparatively easy OH stock
. of all descriptions. The best grade of
imported blOOded cattle show decided
Improvement in the cold, dry,invigora
ing climate of Minnesota.
Apart from the vast prairie region
which constitutes the western portion
OF the state, is an extensive forest dis
trlct that has only just begun to attract
attention. In fact the entire northern
half Of Minnesota, with the exception of
the Red river valley, is forest country,
covered for the most part with pine
timber, but having many belts of hard
wood growth. In this region lie the
sources of both the Mississippi and the
Red River of the North in myriads OF
lakes joined by small creeks. Here are
the great pinerieS which have played an
important part in the building up of
Minneapolis as lumber-manufacturihg
city, and here also are the VermilliOn
iron deposits which supply the furnaces
of Ohio and Pennsylvania with much of
of the hundreds of lakes, and
along the banks of the streams.
are stretches of good farming land
covered with light growth of
timber and easily cleared. Railway en-
terprlSe and the opening of Indian res
ervatiOnS are now combining TO remove
the wall of inaccesSibility which has
shut in this immense district and made
it practically an unknown land. 1t is
hard work 10 go into the woods with an
AK to clear a farm and make home,
but thousands of settlers have already
succeeded in this task, and they often
years of toll than do those who go upon
the open praIries. They can always
earn wages In cutting railway ties and
cord wood, or work in the numbering
camps, and they thus manage to pay
their way until they can accumulate
stock and get few fields in condition
for farming. The next ten years is 60
ing TO see great developmentin North
ern Minnesota. The resources of that
region have scarcely been touched as
yet; new mining and numbering opera
tons are pushing roads and settlement
into the forests and new railways are
drawing population after them.
During the past ten years Minnesota
has gained more in population and tax
able property than California i'll spite
of all the advertising the latter state
has had of its special attractions to
tourists and of certain glamour of
romance that has always hung about it..
The reason for this is that Minnesota
has the solid advantages which the Pa
citic coast state lacks. In the first place
1t has climate more favorable to en-
ergy and health, and much better
adapted to produce the best types of
/ humanity. In the second place it has
far greater natural resources in fertile
lands, forests, mines and quarrieS. In
great chain of inland seas which give
for its products cheap and speedy trans
pOrtatiOn to the Atlantic Sea-bOard. In
the fourth place it holds in its grasp
the source of the Mississippi and the
head of navigation Oh that great river,
giving it an open water highway TO New
Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. No
state in the Union has the assurance of
more brilliant future than our own
state of Minnesota.
The Northern Pacific
The general offices of the Northern
Pacific are in the large fOur-stOry build
ing at the foot of Fourth street, owned
by the company. Here are the head
quarters OF the operating. construction
and accounting departments. The gen.
eral manager Is w. ). Mellen, formerly
of the Wisconsin Central road, who
took the place of Thomas F. Cakes,
when the latter removed some two
years ago to New York city to assume
the duties of the presidency. Ranking
next to Mr.. Mellen IN Importance of
position are the general superintendent,
NJ. G. Kimberly, and the general traffic
manager, j. NJ. HannafOrd, under whose
authority are the general freight agent,
5. l.. Moore. and the general passenger
agent, Charles S. Fee. The construction
department is in charge of the chief
engineer, j. w. Kendrick. The
general auditor is j. A. Barker, who goes
back and forth between New York and
St. Paul, and whose principal assistant
is NJ. p. Martin. The legal department.
at the head of which is James Nc
Naught, is represented in st. Paul by
John G. Bullitt Jr. The land depart
ment is established in separate head
quarters IN the handsome new building
of the Germania Life insurance COM
pany at the corner of Fourth and Min
neSOta streets. Here are the offices of
the land commissioner, Col. Charles B.
LambOrn. of the general land agent,
George w. Board, and of the general
emigration agent, P. B. Groat, and from
these offices all the operations connect
ed with selling lands and directing set
Element to the Northern Pacific belt of
country are carried on.
REEORE THE FEAST