St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-19
A MARVELLOUS WE'LL.

1
| ened to a sense of her responsibilities
and capabilities. and will soon be
abreast with the spirit of the age. An
artesian we'll III North Dakota "got a
hump on itself" the other day. and com
menced to spout gas, beach sand suit
able for the manufacture of glass, rock
quartz bearing gold and silver, Ignite
coal, and several other of natures min
eral products. This was the result of
its first efforts. What it may be able to
do after it has got down to work the
Imagination can scarcely comprehend.
AS far as it has gone this we'll has
done its duty. But a further RESPONSE
bility rests upon it. Its assortment of
natural products is varied. and may be
large and lasting. but it does not COM
prehend all that sumo people may de-
sire. Besides water it should spout
little whisky; besides gas it should send
forth stream Of oil and few volts of
electricity; in addition to Ignite coal
| and gold quartz it should emit supply
of building stone, with mixed mortar
accompaniment: added to these should
be ready-inade mint and nickel-in-
the-siot machine. choice family soap
and blOod-purifying remedy warranted
to cure THAT tired feeling" which over.
takes us all in the spring. during the
sultry days of summer, the drowsy haze
of autumn and the biting blasts of win
ter. Ali this is needed, and will be ex-
pected of the North Dakota we'll If it is
to fulfill its destiny and win recognition
as fit representative of nineteenth
century activities.
The discovery Of this well, clrcum-
scribed as its products are at present,
is another Illustration of the boundless
resources of the Northwest. and should
go far towards siencing the carpin
criticisms of this section by the effete
East. At any rate, it will givo US
weapon of retaliation. When the cod
fish arlstocracy of Boston, the coal bar
ons of Pennsylvania and the money
rings of Wall street sneer at the wild
and wooily West, we can point with
pride to this typical specimen of West
ern enterprise, a combination, aggrega-
ton and conglomeration of all the nat
ural products that have made the East
rich and refined and powerful and
proud. We can laugh to scorn the oil
wells of Pennsylvania, and the coal and
iron beds of West Virginia and Ohio.
We can 20 them several better, for we
have an abundance of these, besides
aluminium. lead and silver deposits that
will ultimately make US so rich that
their present aff1uence shall seem abject
poverty and pitiable penury. From
single well family may derive all that
is necessary for existence, ranging fro
cooking stove ana tapestry carpets to
a champagne supper and fancy dress
ball-from dime novel to the Encyclo-
pedia Americana.
Wealth at the East has been acquired
! only by the slow and laborious processes
of digging and delving, of barter and
| sale. Here in the West we have but TO
| tickle the soil with plowshare, and it
laughs with harvest. We have but to
bore hole in the ground. and our
homes are embellished with all the COM
| forts, conveniences and luxuries of
| modern civilization, while our treasure
| boxes are overflowed with fine gold and
silver, with few diamonds. rubies an d
! pearls thrown in as make weight.
Nature was in generous mood when she
planned the Northwest and stocked it
with the comforts of life. She scattered
her benefactions broadc asst, tor she
knew that the country was to be peo-
pied by race Of noble and deserving
men and women, who were capable of
enjoying and approaching her gifts.
Here was placed an Aladdin's lamp,
invested with the charm of making to
order whatever the heart desired. Man
has but to express longing for bless.
ing, when it is showered down upon
him as mama was made to descend upon
the children of Israel in the wilderness.
With such evidences of Natures prodi-
gallty, what mortal would desire to live
| elsewhere than in the Wast2