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,UU„ -„o ^tAxlo,.•01 uUJ i*J miil^l*iNcf*#r/bafor« in the history of North-''DeiioMinnwoU has there been so ex-ittfasi?e an immigration, as this year.— 'Trains of prairio schooners driven b3 sturdy yoemeo or their wives, filled with healthy, robust children, that pat to shame the boasted civilisation of oar oities, are oonstiDtly passing through our streets; mostly bound ior the region of Otter Tail Lake, or still farther on toward the frontior. When we remember what an uninhabited waste the Tegion to the north and west of us was ten years sgo, sod how vory distant then seemed the possibility of its attaining even its present growth and development, we may form some ides of its condition ten years hence, with the inealenlable impetus of rail roads whioh is now just beginning to be felt. Experience mast have taught us all* that rich agricultural sections of country advtnee with an occellerative speed toward prosperity and wealth as they arc settled and developed. Who then can tell what flourishing cities, what almoht boundless areas of waving grain, what material prosperity in every department, will mark the next decade in the bii-tory of Northern Minnesota ? Another noticeable feature in the emigration of which we have spoken, it is character The wagons come loaded with bouse-hold goods and farming implements, and followed by herds of cattle and other stock, that in point of quality would do credit to any country.The first settlers of every country are generally from the poorer class of frontiersmen, a very useful, but for the most part, a nomadic raoe, who rarely acquire much property, and to whom the proBaio pursuit of agriculture is always secondary to the wilder and freer life of the hunter. This class ever recedes as the one whose advent we here ehroniclo, advances to take its place. Henceforth the rifle and fish net must give place to the plow and the reaper.The bulk of the emigration this season is settling in the counties comprising the Seventh Judicial District.— These are nearly all naturally tributary to St. Cloud, and will pour their rapidly increasing wealth into our lap, if we are only able and willing to assist and maintain the position assigned us by nature.Nothiog is more fatal to our interests than a lack of confidence in ourselves. Let us insist that we will be what we wish to be, and act as though our future were assured, as indeed we verily believe it is. We were never destined fora country village simply. Our position geographieally and otherwise, warrants us in believing that at ao distant day we shall be the third eity, in wealth and population, within the State of Minnesota. We used to ridioulo the extravagance of Geo. F* Brott, and other estly settlers in their predictions for the future of this locality, and yet their generation will not havo passed away before the imaginiogs of these old enthusiasts will be ten fold more than realised before our eyes,80 true it is, that the veritable prophet is ever without honor in his own oountry and time.
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The Saint Cloud Journal
Saint Cloud, Minnesota, US
Thu, Jun 01, 1871
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