The mirror., 1923-04-12

border the largest white pine forest in
North America.
In this district is the great Mesabe and
Vermillion iron range the greatest iron
mining district in the world, where sixty
per cent of all iron used in the United
States is mined, and shipped from the
port of Duluth-in point of tonnage thes
greatest port in the world-carried in
massive freighters over Lake Superior
whose fresh waters wash the fertile banks
of the Minnesota shores for one hundred
fifty miles-the greatest and deepest lake
in the world.
Within its borders in one of its placid
lakes is Itasca, the source of the "Father
of Waters"-the Mississippi river, on
which piled the steamers that furnished
transportation to and from the "new
West and made commercial relations
possible with the eastern and foreign
markets. The state has the unique dis
tinction of being the only state in the
Union which is traversed by four great
trunk-line railways-the Great North
ern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Mil
waukee and St. Paul and the 500 line, all
centering in the twin cities the metropolis
of the Northwest and Duluth the great
distributing point.
In the eastern tier Of counties there are
vast deposits of valuable limestone, gra-
vel filter and molding sand. In Good
hue county there is an extensive deposit
of pottery clay and at Red Wing is To-
Gated the second largest clay tile factory
and pottery in the Union from which
sewer and building tile and stoneware
are shipped to every section of the U. S.
and Canada.
The manufacturing industries of the
state number nearly six thousand and
their combined production total the half
billion dollar mark which is proof of the
fact that the Gopher State" can produce
the finished product as well as the raw
material.
Preliminary work has begun in the twin
cities on one of the worlds largest auto
mobile, truck and tractor factories which
lead will undoubtedly be followed by
others in the same line of endeavor and
those of hardware and machinery of all
lines at the logical source of raw material
and central point of distribution, Mime
sofa, when the Pittsburg plus myth will
have become lost art. If the proposed
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence deep wa
ter-way becomes realization Minnesota
will not only be the hub of agriculture,
but the spokes in the wheel of commerce
of the United States and then the posi-
bilities of expansion for the twin cities
and Duluth will know no limit
Minnesota makes claim to the best state
fair, which is not only of state Importance,
but is becoming more and more of ma
tional interest. This is made possible
chiefly by its vast resources, fertile and
productive soil, and progressive spirit of
its citizens both agricultural and CONNER
cial. 1t has one of the leading state uni
versities and agricultural schools, and has
the largest state school fund of any state
in the Union. 1t has one of the best
equipped, most efficiently managed and
disciplined state prisons in America, as
we'll as compliment of all other essen
tial state institutions consistent with good
government. At Rest Island on Lake
Pepin, near Lake City; is located the lar
gest silver fox farm in America-if not
in the world-recently incorporated and
capitalized at a half million dollars. A
comparatively new enterprise and one
that has proved profitable business ven
tUre.
Numbered among its citizens are world
famous figures, the Mayo brothers at
Rochester, the most eminent surgeons in
the world, and many nationally famous
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