St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-26

of Western cities during the past dec
ade, and wherever genuine full-grOwn
boom struck, doleful collapse has been
the inevitable result. The unfortunate
experience Of Wichita, Winnipeg, Los
Angeles and Kansas City are fresh in
the minds of all, and serve as warning
of the dangers of forced growth.
In our own fair city the period of de-
preston felt throughout the country
for the past three OF four years has been
safely weathered, and the clouds are
breaking. st. Paul Is not and never
has been a boom town The tremen-
dous growth of the city during the past
ten years is but in keeping with the
rapid populating and developing
of the golden Northwest. The
grown faster Possibly the over con-
sentative methods of some of its citizens
may offer partial explanation. With
less favorable conditions and smaller
tributary country Omaha has forged
ahead with rapid strides, having over
100000 population. Its so-called census
of $4,000 is very generally diScredIted.
Its a rich, prosperous and growing city.
Enterprising Duluth, without halt our
opportunities, has grown to $4,000 with
great rap;dity. Seattle, Atlanta, Chat
tanooga have each shown rapid growth,
and while in some instances these cities
have foundation upon which to build,
a close study of the situation reveals the
fact that the world nowhere presents
the superb surroundings, the favorable
conditions, the grand foundation for
city building that exist i'll the case of st.
Paul, the most substantial, progressive
and beautiful city in the West.
Though the tale has been oft-times
told, few there are but read with re-
newed interest each chapter of this
great city'S history-what has been, is,
and is to be. st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Kansas City have been written of and
talked about more than any cities in
America. 1t is generally conceded that
st. Paul is the most substantial, and
built upon the safest foundation of the
three; that she possesses elements of
strength within herself, and enjoys
wealth and prosperity while other local
tiles suffer from depression. The Pu-
get Sound furry is subsiding, booms
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lions, but st. Paul goes on and on, each
year more grand in her architecture,
beautitied and rapidly becoming great
industrial center, as well as the whole
sale, railway, banking and general COM
mercial center of the Northwestern en-
pire.
The Garden of Eden
seems around and about us. Surely the
Divine Creator must have smiled with
especial favor upon this beautiful and
productive region forming our tributary
country, the Golden Northwest"
which by the laws of commerce pays
tribute to our city. The matchleSs
climate. with IFS glorious summers and
bracing winters, tends to build up a
hardy race. alert and vigorous. The
fertile soil gives proof of the Scriptural
adage: Sow and We shall reap and
yields up to the thrifty husbandman an
abundant harvest of all that grows in
the ground. All the world knows of
our unsurpassed cereal products and
now diversified farming-so fast grow
1ng-iS giving US a greater variety Of
products from the rich agricultural sec
tions. Fruits, corn, barley, flax, hemp,
etc, now figure prominently, and,
greatest of all, stock. Ten years ago
packing houses were unknown in our
midst, they would have had little to do
with. But. during the past few years,
SO great has been the increase in
cattle, sheep and hog raising that
the great packing house industries now
established draw from the surrounding
country an unfailing and ever increas-
ing supply. Hundreds of thousands of
animals are received annually. The in
vestment in this branch of industry has
reached vast proportions, and the yearly
business goes we'll up into the millions.
Natures StOrehouse,
with its choicest gifts, is at our very
doors on every hand. To the east and
north of us the noble forests contain
lumber enough, both pine and hard
wood, to supply the nation for ages. On
Lake Superior's shores, both north and
south, exists an ineXhauStible wealth of
the finest grades of iron ores, and prec-
louS metals as well.
In Southern Dakota the great Black
Hills mining district; in North Dakota
the vast Ignite coal regions: in Mon
tana, the richest mines OF gold and sill
yer in the world; riches and wealth il
every direction. and st. Paul, proud and
prosperous, sits like Rome, buildeC
upon her seven (Or mOre) hills, smiling
at the feast.
And now all roads leads to-St. Paul
It's railway system, embracing some
10000 miles, goes everywhere, ends no
where. The water route gives us rate;
Dn freights of most advantageous nat
IRE. There seems nothing lacking, moth
Ing wanting in the grand panorama
nothing to SWerve OF check the tide o.
ever-increaSing growth and prosperity
Of that giant young municipality, whose
name is hailed the world over as the
very emblem of force and energy, which
the GLOBE is SO proud to represent, an(
whose title page reads-St. Paul. CoulC
Dur forefathers who first settled thi
land of milk and honey return to earth
what wonders would meet their gaze
Here Oh the banks of the grandest o.
rivers, where they were wont to lool
upon wooded hills, has been built in
quarter Of century one of the worlds
great cities, and the beginning has bu
just been made.
The mighty forces which have in s.
short time bullded so wisely and s.
well are still at work. Generally speak
In, the future outlook is better than 20
years. The first addition to our manu-
featuring interests is of itself an ele
ment of strength sufficient to enhance
property valuations % per cent. While
it has been dull elsewhere $50, 0G0, 00
have been expended in st. Paul in thre
years III building and Improvement
and in new Industries. The most com
plete electric and cable street railwa,
system in the world has been completed
at cost of some millions Of dollars, in
Guiding interurban lines. All along tn
line it has been a steady, healthy ad
vance.
The New Era.
It is indeed true. The new era is a
hand. Who does not feel it? The yer,
air is charged with it. The merry rea
estate man, the merchant, banker, capl
talist, manufacturer, everybody in al
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