The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-02-14
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken from ST. Paul Papers of
Forty Years Ago.

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high price of wood have had the
effect of inducing owners Of that
article to bring it forward. But
such quality of wood was never
offered to Christian people before.
Old fence rails and posts, rotten
stumps, green limbs so gnarly and
crooked that a few of them 90 a
great way and in some cases por-
tons of old brush fence, which had
done good service and been replaced
years ago by boards or rails. And
these sweet-scented patterns of hon
esty would have the brazen-faced
impudence to ask So and SO per
cord for such worthless trash. Hur-
ry up those peat machines!
The proposed Northern Pacific
railway received a fresh impetus at
the meeting of capitalists held in
Boston last week. The policy Of the
company was announced to be the
immediate construction Of about 700
miles of road to connect the waters
of Lake Superior with the Missouri
and Yellowstone rivers, proceeding
thence to the navigable waters of
the Columbia. 1t is proposed to
complete this work within three
years.
Multiply railroads as we may.
stretch them from the east to the
west, and yet in a few years time
they are crowded with business
which their simple construction has
developed. The Mississippi river is
our chief dependence; its capacity is
unlimited; it requires neither switch
/ es nor double tracks; it requires
only limited outlay to make it
perfect for all time. Remove the
rocks from the channel, close up
the sloughs, thus concentrating the
waters, and the powerful tug, with
its four barges laden with 10000
bushels of wheat or other produce,
can float uninterruptedly from the
Falls of St. Anthony to New Orleans
and return laden with sugar, cotton,
etc., from the south. = s. During
the summer of 1864 the labor of
twenty men, one day, in merely
driving few stakes and filing in
with brush, raised the water ia the
channel ten inches between st. Paul
and Pine bend, and secured naviga-
ton for boats which otherwise could
not have gone above Prescott.
The last report from Maj. New
sons expedition to the new Ell Do
RADIO at Vermillion lake was brought
down by Mr.. Thomas Richie, of
Superior. They were about forty
miles north Of Duluth, and engaged
in cutting out a road to Vermillion,
forty miles beyond. The snow is
two feet deep. All the men are in
good spirits and health, and are con-
fident of success, although their
progress is necessarily very slow.
Lake Superior is still free from ice.
Four Chippewa chiefs of the Bots
Fort band are quartered at the
Smelling house They will await
here the arrival of the rest of their
band, which will be in few days,
and will then proceed to Washing
ton for the purpose of making
treaty, ceding the Vermillion lake
gold district. This will allay the
feeling of uneasiness regarding the
safety of the expeditions now ap-
preaching the gold fields.
DR.. A. A. Ames has been offered
the chair of anatomy or surgery in
Lawrence university, Wisconsin
Minneapolitans generally hope he
will not accept it. That town cannot
afford to lose him.
Minneapolis and St. Anthony are
to be united. That much has been
settled by the two committees in
terested. St. Anthony is the pur-
chase of Nicollet island as a park
for the use of the two places. This
being agreed to St. Anthony relin-