The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1860-01-06
THE MINNESOTA YEAR BOOK
State Reg ster for 1860,
WILL BE READY FOR SUBSCRIBERS ON
OR ABOUT J>NUARY lsr. 1860.

1t will be book of about 100 pages duodecimo, in
small type equivalent to 800 pages of ordinary book
print and will exhibit in small space the sysematzed
results of a
THOROUGH STATISTICAL CANVASS OF THE
STATE
In every department-muncipal social, industrial and
physical-forming an immense mass OF positive infor
nation of the first importance to every intelligent cu
zen but nowhere accessible in tangible form.
It's intended to be THOROUGH BOOK OF REF
ERENCE, the Manual and Vade Mccain of every Mime
sotan, upon local subjects ana, as an EMIGRATION
DoCUN ENT will the conclusive facts of naur
al productveness industrial capacity of commercn
and social with the irresistible logic
of fgures-an a form more effective, and Immensely
cheaper than all the random appeals and vague state
ments of the newspaper advocate or the cachpenny
hronicle of the tourists " impressions"
The Book if sustained by the public Is intended to be
continued annuaI pu6lcaon and as such, will in
future years form invaluable historical record in
which the current accounts of the year, IN every de
partment of internal affairs, will be- annually posted
and the precise of facts at period can be COM
pared with the of another and the laws of prog
ress be thus deduced in every line of movement.
IN thus attempting to furnish the archives with his
tory the with the data of intelligent legsla
on the politician with the staple of his argument the
editor with a text book. the emigran with guide, and
he citizen of every class with manual of which the
necessity constantly felt in the ordinary local discus
sions and daily business of life, the compiler may be
pardoned if he hopes that all these classes will unite
sustaining his enterprise by subscriptions sufficiently
liberal, st least, to save him from pecuniary loss
WHAT THE BOOK WILL CONTAIN.
PHYSICAL STATISTICS.
l. 1t will contain full statistics, carefully compiled
official oYDlOrati0na of
sical Geography Of MinnesOta-with lengths aud
depths and widths and velOcities of pavigable
streams-the elevations of surface cOntour-areas
water surface of land surface--of arabic surface
of tmbered lands-Of pine lands-of swamp lands
and OF numeral ranges-prObably illustrated by AZ
map. Also tables OF longitude and latitude of differ
ent ponts--Of geographical measurements and dis
tances, &C., and routes of travel.
2 1t will contain complete statistics of the public sur
veys, with the surveys of 1859 described-with
full exhibit of the public land sales from the Gov
ernmeut Land Districts-shOwing all lands sold and
remaing open to pre-emption, &C., up to January l.
1860
g. 1t will contain thorough analysis of the meteorolo
gcal tables of Fort Smelling, for popular application
to the agriculture of Minnesota, showing duratons Of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF heat rain, snow, winds, &C.,
compared with other localities, for a long series Of
years. prepared by a scientific gentleman expressly
for the work, and the meteorological tables of Fort
Kidgely for 1859.
4. 1t will contain a tabular exhibit of the geology OF
MinnesOta-and, if ready in time, cOlOrod geOlog