St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

and the other by the board of aldermen
or the lower house.
Then for the improvement of the
water power between the two cities,
now practically going to waste. l must
say that differ a little from my peers
in regard to that development, for. with
the belief that we have reached the
time when the OK cart, stage coach and
old water wheel have given way to the
steam carriage, electric and aerial mo-
tive power, thing that the best usage
that portion of the river lying between
the two cities could be put to would be
for navgable purposes; dredge the
river from the foot of st. Anthony
falls to Lake Pepin; fill in your wing
dams and make one solid levee front
from South st. Paul to the falls. thus
making a sort of natural canal, and, by
concentrating the waters into one
channel. wide enough for two good
sized steamers with barges to pass each
other, there could be always stage of
water maintained to permit of naviga-
ton from ST. Anthony falls to the Gulf
of Mexico. Thereby giving US an open
water route through the center of the
North American continent to carry our
agricultural and manufactured products
to the South. East and West, and, by
the numerous railroads centering here,
10 the North. Read what our neIghbors
think of the union.
Il Pair of Queens.
Fremont (Neb.) Tribune.
The visitor to St. Paul and Minneapolis for
the first time finds his dream of what those
great commercial ana manufacturing twins
are to be more than realized. These two
cities, with combined population of 100
souls control the trade and commerce of an
area so vast that few can comprehend it.
Covering the state Of Minnesota, reaching
clear up into Manitoba, then westward
through the two Dakotas aud Montana 10
the Pacific coast the channels of trade for
these two great queens are far-reaching and
running full Though rivalry has done
much for both in the past. the time has un-
doubleday come when by Joining hands ST.
Paul and Minneapolis can accomplish better
results by working hand in hand and pulling
together, and there is reason to believe this
NAV be the result Of the present agitation for
union.
Next invite industries and mani
features Of magnitude to come among
US. Offer them sizes that nature had
intended for them. The flats at the
foot of the falls, our upper fats and the
West side crescent flats to the stock
yards, and, with the necessary coal and
iron at our door, why not have estab-
lished rolling mills, steel works, lOcomo-
tive WORKS ana iron ana WOOD manu-
factories of all kinds that would employ
tens of thousands of men that would 90
to build up and enrich our metropolis?
As for the name no comment on that
is necessary-the pretty, unique and
love meaning cognomen Twin City"
has already been decided upon by the
public sentiment. Then we could i'm
prove our lapid transit between the
twins by building one or two more in
terurban lines. and making one or more
of them elevated electric roads. Next
we could bond the twin city for park
and boulevard fund for $1,000, 900 four
per cent bonds, running fifty years, pay
able in two installments Of sou, 900 each
in twenty-five and fifty years, thus OBJ
hging the coming generation to bear
part of the expense of identifying and
building up our city and giving US with
our present parks park system equal
to any in the world.
Why DeIay2
So why put off till tomorrow that
which can be done to-day. or. in other
words. wait twenty-five years to do
what can be done In five. Submit the
question of union to the voters of both
cities at our next spring elections, and
if the majority are in favor of it then