. Minnesota .. . Minnesota ranks thirteenth inland area and nineteenth in population. Its totalarea is nearly 54,000,000 acres, or more than 84,000square miles. Of this over 3,500,000 acres is waterarea, 10,000 lakes lying within the States bordersThese lakes varj in size from small ponds to largerbodies of water many square miles in extent, suchas Red, Mille Lacs, and Leech lakes. The total population of Minnesota is now over2,300,000. Of the total land area only a little morethan one-half is devoted to farming at the presenttime, and the value of this farm property is about$2,500,000,000, no
. Minnesota .. . Minnesota ranks thirteenth inland area and nineteenth in population. Its totalarea is nearly 54,000,000 acres, or more than 84,000square miles. Of this over 3,500,000 acres is waterarea, 10,000 lakes lying within the States bordersThese lakes varj in size from small ponds to largerbodies of water many square miles in extent, suchas Red, Mille Lacs, and Leech lakes. The total population of Minnesota is now over2,300,000. Of the total land area only a little morethan one-half is devoted to farming at the presenttime, and the value of this farm property is about$2,500,000,000, not counting the great cities ofSt. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth. Fifty per centof the inhabitants of Minnesota live on farms; ofthese nearly 80 per cent own their own farm other words, the farmers of this State are homeowners and community builders. There are nearly miles of railroad in theState leading directly into the great markets ofSt. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth, the gateways and M INNESOTA. The annual com crop of the State is about one hundred milliorAushels clearing houses for the Northwest. The railroads have all been built with a view tothe future agricultural development of the State, andthe home seeker can locate within easy hauling dis-tance of a shipping point and on, or close to, wellconstructed highways. Good roads speW dollars tothe farmer when he is marketing his farm products,and the network of good highways constructedunder state and county supervision furnishes evi-dence of Minnesotas realization that the publicroad is, and will be for generations to come, the basiccommunicating medium of social and business life. The rural free delivery and rural telephone linesnaturally follow the construction of these highways,and we find that in proportion to the rural popu-lation there are now as many rural delivery routesin Minnesota as in Iowa. Duluth and Superior, at the head of the Lakes,offer direct water connection with the Atlantic sea-board and
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