. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . lour manufacturing. Minnesota now has within herborders as many as 500 flouring mills, some of which are the largest in the world. Minneapolis, onaccount of the purchases of wheat to meet the requirements of her enormous mills, as long ago as 1884took rank as the leadmg piimirv wlicit nirikct in the woild hei leceipts of that cereal exceedingthose of Chicago by 2,000 000bushels. The flour production 11of the State in that year reacheS, 000,000 barrels. Besides saw-mils and gris
. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . lour manufacturing. Minnesota now has within herborders as many as 500 flouring mills, some of which are the largest in the world. Minneapolis, onaccount of the purchases of wheat to meet the requirements of her enormous mills, as long ago as 1884took rank as the leadmg piimirv wlicit nirikct in the woild hei leceipts of that cereal exceedingthose of Chicago by 2,000 000bushels. The flour production 11of the State in that year reacheS, 000,000 barrels. Besides saw-mils and gristmills there are in the Statel)laning mills, door and sash factories, wagon, carriage mdsleigh factories, cooper shopsrailroad car manufactories andrepair shops, threshing and otheiagricultural machine shops pajjer mills, printing offices, lithographic establishments, woodand metal engravers, map publishers, book publishers, foumlries and finishing shops, engineand boiler factories, plow antharrow factories, buttei tubfactories, fruit-canning establishments, furniture factories,potteries, brick-yards, three cut-. [ST Baptist C ting and polishing establishments, a terra cotta lumber factory and a factory of terra cotta ornamentsand house trimmings, a hydraulic cement factory, windmill, chair and moulding factories, fanningmill and school furniture factories, several fence factories, factories of iron architectural ornaments andgalvanized iron cornices and window and door trimmings, boot and shoe factories, fire-brick and drain- tile factories, and all the usual minor factories that are found in other States of the Union. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL WEALTH. The development of the mining industry in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, although stillin its infancy, promises results which the wildest range of the imagination can hardly grasp. The rocks inevery part of what is known as the Burnt District, east of Vermillion Lake, and extending across thenorthern parts of Lake and C
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