. A complete geography. ock ; but being so far south, it also trades extensively in Southern products, especially cot-ton and tobacco. Thiscity is also a noted muleand horse market, and agreat manufacturingcentre. It manufacturesimmense quantities oftobacco, beer, flour, boots,shoes, clothing, and hard-ware. Formerly Chicago andSt. Louis were almostthe only noted marketsfor grain and live stock in the West; but in later years severalother cities have become prominent in that section. Two of theseare the twin cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul (Fig. 138).The latter, the capital of Minnesota, is a
. A complete geography. ock ; but being so far south, it also trades extensively in Southern products, especially cot-ton and tobacco. Thiscity is also a noted muleand horse market, and agreat manufacturingcentre. It manufacturesimmense quantities oftobacco, beer, flour, boots,shoes, clothing, and hard-ware. Formerly Chicago andSt. Louis were almostthe only noted marketsfor grain and live stock in the West; but in later years severalother cities have become prominent in that section. Two of theseare the twin cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul (Fig. 138).The latter, the capital of Minnesota, is a trade centre. From it theproducts of the West are sent eastward and southward, while farm-ing implements, furniture, clothing, and other articles are distributedamong the smaller towns of the vast farming region round about. Minneapolis, only ten miles distant, is located at the Falls ofSt. Anthony, which furnish splendid water power. It is also in themidst of the wheat region ; and this, together with its water power,. Fig. Pillsbury-Washburu flour-mills at Minneapolis. CBNTBAL STATES 143 lias caused Minneapolis to become the leading flour-producing centrein America. In the city are many grain elevators and flour-mills(Fig. 140). One of these flour-mills, belonging to the Pillsbury-Washburn Com-pany, is the largest in the world. Steam shovels scoop the grain fromthe trains very rapidly, emptying a car of 750 bushels in eighteen tonineteen minutes. All straw, useless seeds, sticks, etc., must first beseparated from the grain, and then it passes through many differentmachines before the pure flour is produced. During this process it mustbe raised to the top of the building twelve different times, being carried upby rapidly moving belts having many small buckets, or pockets, attached. Just inside the husk of a wheat grain is the kernel, the most valuablepart of the wheat. First, the husk is removed by machinery, and this is
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