The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-07-04
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken from st. Paul Papers Of
FOfIy Wears Ago.

AiuO1l5 tie lotGSJ improvements
+ to our beautiful city is a watering
and bathing establishment, which
\ is to be constructed upon the Euro
pean plan, and ia a style aad Of
dimensioas which will excel any
thing ever attempted in the west.
DR.. Rosenk and several other physi-
clans, feeling the necessity Of such
an institution here to accommodate
/ the annually increasing throngs of
pleasureseekers and invalids who
seek our invigorating climate for
comfort and health, will soon pro-
coed with the erection of an estab-
lishment which will at once be an
ornament to the city and of the
greatest benefit to both citizens and
visitors.
The location Of the institution will
embrace an area of about five acres,
with springs, streams of running
water, shade trees, arbors, prom
enades, parks and all the accom-
paniments of frst-class watering
place. The building will be con
venient and commodious, and will
contain a conversation hail." bath
ing apartments, separate apart
ments for patients who require
special treatment, laboratory and
all the surroundings of a splendid
and fashionable resort. The cost
will be in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
J. M. Winslow proposes for "a
small consideration to erect and
furnish hotel in upper town SUI
perior to anything of the kind yet
attempted in the northwest, and
which will cost about 100000. To
secure this the solid citizens above
Wabasha street called a meeting at
Hope engine house last evening, and
in a few minutes nearly $4,000 was
subscribed. Seventeen will give
81 900 each, three 81, 500 apiece and
several more promise $4,000 each.
The erection of the hotel is re-
garded as a foregone conclusion.
The St. Paul Peat company has
made considerable progress with it's
works, situated on Trout brook,
about a mile from the city on the
Little Canada road. Machinery for
the necessary preparation of peat as
an article of fuel has been ordered,
and a portion of it on the ground.
A huge boiler for the steam engine
has also been put in place. The fuel
question in Minnesota is in fair
way of being settled for ages to
come.
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The Red River OK brigade, COM
posed of over 1000 carts, loaded
with more than 100000 worth of
furs, are on their way down from
the far north nearly all the carts
will stop this season at Big Lake,
the terminus of the St. Paul &
Pacific road. An advance party
composed of Dr. Brown, an old St. /
Paulite, and DR.. Schultz, editor of
the Fort Garry Nor'wester, reached
here yesterday, having travelled from
the Red River settlement in eight
days. He reports that the Saskatch-
evan gold mines are paying So per
day with rocker, and parties are
starting for them every day. Ex-
ploring parties have also left the
settlement for Rainy Lake, where
discoveries of rich gold-bearing
quartz have been made. Rainy Lake
is only about one days journey from
Vermillion lake.
Sixty bushels of spring wheat is
but an ordinary yield at the Red
River settlement, and on the Nc
Kenzie river the yield of barley
exceeds any other section of country
in the world.
J. P. Furber of Cottage Grove has
a magnificent field of spring wheat
growing, of which sixty acres was
self-grown from last harvest. An
other Cottage Grove farmer has a
fine crop of potatoes growing from
the remains of last years crop
which were left in the ground. The
rich new soil and an abundance of
snow last winter accounts. we sup /,