Minnesota
Subtitle: its advantages to settlers, 1869. Being a brief synopsis of its history and progress, climate, soil, agricultural and manufacturing facilities, commercial capacities, and social status; its lakes, rivers and railroads; homestead and exemption laws; embracing a concise treatise on its climatology, in a hygienic and sanitary point of view; its unparalleled salubrity, growth and productiveness, as compared with the older states; and the elements of its future greatness and prosperity.
Published: 1869
Place of publication: St. Paul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Land settlement -- Minnesota.; Minnesota -- Description and travel.
Description: This book was published by the State of Minnesota and was intended to attract settlers. Among the attractions it promotes are the State's agricultural and manufacturing resources and production, climate and its healthful benefits, transportation network, social conditions, natural beauty, and abundance of available land for homesteading. There are descriptions of railroad routes.
Notes: On cover: 3d year. 3d ed., Published by the state.

Statement, p. [2], signed: Girart Hewitt.

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