The Ely miner., 1915-10-15

Has 632 legal newspapers.
Is nineteenth in population.
Minnesota has 2S5 -four mills.
Minnesota has five paper mills.
Is eleventh in size in the Union.
Has average temperature Of Alb.
Minnesota has 70 cheese factories.
Has an area Of 83,365 square miles.
There are Sc counties in the state.
Has 1,159 banks, state and national.
The 1914 yield was 5,245.O00 bushels.
Minnesota has 1,125.000 milch cows.
Minnesota has over 5000 factories.
Minnesota's geese will number 105.-
161.
Has 1852 miles Of navigable wa
ters.
Has free travelling library sys-
tenn.
Minnesota stands fifth as q barley
state.
Owns richest iron deposits in the
world.
Has population Of 3.o75.7os. (1s1o
census.)
Is one Of the healthiest states In
the Union.
Leads the world in manufacture OF
linseed oil.
Minnesota Is one of the leading
oats states.
Has an average of 25 people to the
square mile.
In natural resources is richest state
in the Union.
Has an inexhaustible supply of
building stone.
For 1914 the wheat yield was 49,.
975,0 900 bushels.
Has 157 public, association and
school libraries.
Minnesota ranks among the first In
wheat production.
Ten thousand fresh water lakes
teeming with fish.
Minnesota is the state where clover
grows like a weed.
Millions of ducks swarm the 10000
lakes in Minnesota.
Has second largest educational
fund in the nation.
Minnesota has the largest iron
mines in the world.
Has 100000 acres Of unsold state
and homestead land.
There are GA building and loan as
sociations in the stste.
Is one Of the foremost states in
production of foo1stuffs.
One of the finest state capitol build
ings in the United States.
Is 405 miles from north to south and
| 354 miles from east to west.
Minnesota has, at Duluth, the larg
est inland port in the world.
Prairie chickens are plentiful in the
| prairie sections of Minnesota.
Has $3.50 miles Of railway, not In
| cluding trackage of terminals.
Minnesota's five year average was
only 3.3 bushels below first place.
Permanent state school funds which
will ultimately reach $200.000.000.
The average number of turkeys
raised In Minnesota yearly Is 147, 1885
The poultry and egg production OF
| Minnesota amounts to $34 900, 600 an
nually.
Minnesota has 22,540 acres Ia state
parks and an equal amount In state
forests
Minnesota has an unexcelled state
university and five state normal
schools.
| Minnesota IL the only state which
has q creamery Of its own fer expert
| mentation.
| Has on an average 14s clear sun
shiny DAYS, 11e partly cloudy and 101
cloudy days.
| Alfalfa natures and IL . proftable
crop even in the most northern parts
Of the state.
Minnesota leads all other states II
average yield OF hay per acre. (1.s!
tons In 1879
| In 1910 Minnesota had 1885, "a;
chickens not counting those kept In
cities and villages.
Has taken highest average score
on butter 10 times out of IL in con
tests open to the world.
The 1918 potato crop was IA pei
cent above the average and gave q
yield OF 3o.780,00o bushels.
| All such small fruits as strawberries
| raspberries. currants, gooseberries, etc
yield abundantly on Minnesota soil.
Butter to the amount of 123,117.s1:
pounds is made every year by Mime
sofa creameries.
These cheese factories make 5.694.
| SIS pounds Of cheese each year.