. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . T^E CITY OF jVIIJ^J^&APOblS. A GREAT MODERN CITY. Minneapolis stands conspicuous among the great cities of the modern world. She has grown morerapidly than Chicago and more substantially than San Francisco. Her commerce vies with her manu-factures in and importance. The metropolis of the great Northwest, the receiving anddistributing center of an empire capable of infinite development, she presents the picture of acomplex modern municipality possessing all the instrumen


. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . T^E CITY OF jVIIJ^J^&APOblS. A GREAT MODERN CITY. Minneapolis stands conspicuous among the great cities of the modern world. She has grown morerapidly than Chicago and more substantially than San Francisco. Her commerce vies with her manu-factures in and importance. The metropolis of the great Northwest, the receiving anddistributing center of an empire capable of infinite development, she presents the picture of acomplex modern municipality possessing all the instruments of production, all the facilities of distribu-tion, and all the intellectual and moral agencies characteristic of American civilization. She is proudof her matchless record and conscious of her present greatness and her still greater future. She is thewonder of the continent, and the queen among American cities. ADVANTAGES OF SITUATION. Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minn. The city is situated on both sides ofthe Mississippi River, at the Falls of St. Anthony, and is about eight miles


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