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Title: The states and territories of the great West : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota (sic), Kansas, and Nebraska
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Ferris, Jacob
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Publisher: New York Auburn : Miller, Orton, and Mulligan Buffalo : E.F. Beadle
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ths in each year. All moneys received as acommutation instead of military duty, and moneys derivedfrom fines imposed by the courts, are devoted to the same11* 250 THE GREAT WEST. purpose, or for the establishment of school libraries. Theschool fund amounts to nearly three hundred thousanddollars. A State University, amply endowed, has beenlocated at Iowa City. The Stale Library contains aboutthree thousand volumes. There are one hundred and forty-eight churches in thestate, accommodating about thirty-eight thousand per-sons. Of the religious denominations, the Methodist isthe most numerous; next the Presbyterian; then the Ro-man Catholic, the Baptist, and the Congregationalists. Iowa, in every respect, is an important member of theUnion. In its extent of surface, climate, productions,commercial position, institutions, and the enterprisingspirit of the inhabitants, it promises soon to compete withthe older states in everything which will tend to promotothe prosperity of a great people.
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EXPLORATIONS OF THE UPPEE MISSISSIPPI. 253 CHAPTER XVI. MINESOTA TERRITORY. Explorations of the Upper Mississippi — Location of the Territory — The New England of the West— Territorial boundary — Laws —Counties — Population — Nature of the population — Crops —Gen-eral surface of the territory — Geology — Above Crow Wing River —Chalk formation — James River — Buffalo pasture-ground — BigSioux River — Red pipe-stone quarry—St. Peters River — Bottomlands — Blue Earth River — St. Peters Valley — The paradise offarmers — Lake Pepin — Terror of the lumbermen of the north —Timber — Wild rice — Soil and its products — The Red River ofthe North — Springs and lakes — Minesota the artesian fountainof the continent — Underground hydraulic power — Boilingsprings — Magnificent forest — Destiny of Minesota — Indian sum-mers — Manner of perfecting a squatters title — St. Paul — Tableof distances from Galena to St. Paul — Rate

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