Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-04-25
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Potatoes.

Minneapolis consumes between six
and seven carloads of potatoes a day.
The old crop will be about gone in
sixty days, when new potatoes from
the south will begin to arrive.
In a good crop year Minnesota raises
about 100000 bushels of potatoes
and ships about 100000 bushels.
Last year the total for the state was
about s,700,00O bushels and her exports
have been over 100000.
More than one-half the potato crop
of Minnesota is consumed at home.
The middle and some of the southern
states are our best customers. Every
year Indiana and Illinois buy extern
sively of Minnesota. Southeastern
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory
are also extensive purchasers. On an
average of one year in five the New
England states buy of Minnesota. On
sylvania and Virginia come into this
market. About one year in ten the
Pacific coasts is forced to come to US.
At the Pan American.
The contract for Minnesota's build
ing at the Pan American exposition has
been let. Two shifts of men will be
set at work, and the building will be
completed in twenty-five days. 1t will
be two story building in the colonial
style, with a wide pillared veranda,
and the second floor will be used for
sleeping rooms for the employees. 1t
will have ample space on the first floor
for Minnesota headquarters, and
there will be plenty of wall space for
photographs of the educational insti-
buttons and others illustrating it's in
dustries
Minnesota will have booth in the
agricultural building having 'front.'
age of fifty feet, and will make one of
the most effective exhibits in the build
ing, in addition to the exhibits of flour,
lumber, stock, poultry and dairy in
terests
COue heV1SlOn.
The justices of the supreme court
appointed the following commission to
codify and revise the statutes of the
state;
Hiram F. Stevens, St. Paul, chat.
man.
Daniel Fish, of Minneapolis.
}. L. Knox, of jackson.
All three are able attorneys and wei.
fitted for the work. Mr.. Stevens is a
state senator and in politics republi-
can.
Judge Fish was for five years pro
bate judge in Wright county. He has,
since 1880, practiced law in Mime
apolis. In politics he is d republi-
can.
Mr.. Knox. is a democrat and until
Jan. was a member of the railroad
commission.
State Lands.
One hundred and forty Thousand
acres of state land will be put up for
sale at public auction this spring and
State Auditor Dunn has arranged Il
VI StticS dC tIlc county SCaLS o.
counties where land is to be sold, be.
ginning May rs, at Cambridge, 1santi
county, and closing June 4, at Walker
Cass county.
Much of the land will raise good
crops, but a large share of the cut-ove1
timber land is better adapted for graz
ing.
None Of the land may be sold for
less than the appraised value, which
ranges from S. to $50. Fifteen per
cent of the purchase price has to be
paid at the time of the Sale, with in.
tercst for one year on the unpaid bal
ance.
= Condensed News.
Former Governor John Lind is going
to become a Minneapolitan. After
May he will register from Minncapo-
lis. Some months ago Governor Lind
formed a law partnership with Judge
A. LELAND and now he will remove
from St. Paul to Minneapolis
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