. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . ||®lff| A^ENU?. RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. THE FERTILE PRAIRIES. The prairie counties properly are Kittson, Marshall, Polk, Norman, Clay, Wilkin, Traverse, Grant,Stevens, Pope, Big Stone, Swift, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, McLeod, Sibley and Nicollet, on thenorth side of the Minnesota River; Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine, Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood, Brown,Pipestone, Murray, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Martin, Freeborn, Faribault,Mower, Dakota, Goodhue, W
. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . ||®lff| A^ENU?. RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. THE FERTILE PRAIRIES. The prairie counties properly are Kittson, Marshall, Polk, Norman, Clay, Wilkin, Traverse, Grant,Stevens, Pope, Big Stone, Swift, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, McLeod, Sibley and Nicollet, on thenorth side of the Minnesota River; Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine, Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood, Brown,Pipestone, Murray, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Martin, Freeborn, Faribault,Mower, Dakota, Goodhue, Wabasha, Olmsted and Dodge, south of that river; and Ramsey and Wash-ington on the east side of the Mississippi. All the others contain woodland enough to entitle them torank rather as timbered than prairie counties, and in all of those named above there are more or lessgroves and fringes of timber; those farthest west and south being more nearly treeless. Owing to theundulating character of the prairies, the natural drainage is admirable. The farmer seldom has to desistfrom tilling his land longer than a few ho
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