The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-09-20

farmers. business men ana CT
Attorney Clausen's Opinion of
/. /. Worthington and it's En-
" vironments.
EDITOR ADVANCE: At your request,
and as token of my appreciation of
the spirit of enterprise which promp-
ted you to make the same, I take
pleasure in giving you my impress
sions of Worthington and it's environ
ments, CLEANED upon my journey
hither and subsequent residence here.
When Nicollet, the explorer, and
John Fremont, in the early part of
the century, explored the region now
known as southern and southwestern
Minnesota, then included in the
Louisiana district, and first brought
to light the wonderful fertility: bound
less resources and pastoral beauty of
the country, little was known,
to the people east of
the Alleghanies of the splendid pros
poets held out here by the hands of
Ceres, SO tospeak, to the husbandman
and the pioneer.
The region comprising the south
western portion of Minnesota is I'M
doubtedly the richest and, strange as
it may seem, the highest soil in the
state. There is no fruit of earth,
compatible with the climatic latitude,
which does not flourish luxuriently
here, nor spot of earth where alter
nate sunshine and shadow feck the
surface of prettier uplands and wales.
Clothed in richest verdure and gently
undulating. it. is indeed a land OF
magnificent distances and unbounded
resources. ..
1t was with thoughts and feelings
such as these, cleaned and suggested
|by the ever changing visions through
my car window, that visited the vii
lage of Worthington some four weeks
ago. had left behind ME region
dry as evaporated snuff-a region not
always thus blighted, and fertile
enough in itself, but always subjected
more or less to the caprice of ever
changing wind and weather.
Coming hither at this season and
year from the twin cities-the pride of
the western empire, one looks in vain
for the fields of heavy laden grain
and the great stacks and shocks of
garnered plenty which is want to
Igreat the travellers eyes, until the
the county Of Blue Earth is reached.
There. by a demarkation as percepti-
bic as the dividing line between the
blue waters and the shallow strand,
thirsty nature lifts her dropping head;
and as We pass through the great
county, past her smiling diaries and
splendid stock farms, her fields of
waving fax and wheat, the increasing
freshness grows upon the senses like
the fragrance ola rose in winter-time.
Along the magnificent road-bed of the
c., St. p, NJ. 60. R'y., the panorama
of verdue glides silently by:
Watonwon county comes and goes,
And still the freshening beauty grows;
| Cottonwood and Jackson. too,
But give the green deeper hue. Don't shoot.
MIR. Editor, if there is anyone that
ought to feel happy, contented-in
that peculiar frame of mind which
prompts one to smile inwardly and to
shake oneself from sheer exhuberance
of spirit think the resident in and
about the county of Mobiles ought to
be that one.,
Mobiles county, or the County of
Mobiles. II like the latter form the
best because it suggests the character
of the inhabitants, is perhaps the
most favored i'll point OF general eX-
cellence of any county in the state.
In this statement, mean to include
the soil, society and situation in gen
eral. I am told, sir, that you raise
not only all the products of the
temperate zone. but some OF
the products of the semi
tropic zone also, such as apples, pears,
grapes and sorghum in abunda nee;
whilst, with topography only slight
ly exceeding in altitude your local
liquor license, you stand at the apex,
as it were, of a social and agricul-
tural pyramid overlooking this proud
state.
So much for the environments Of
Worthing ton.