Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
Subjects:
Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
hese cities have a largetrade in the agricultural products of the state. 1 See footnote on page 141. Minnesota. The flour made yearly in Minneapoliscould not be purchased by all the gold mined in ourcountry during the same length of time. No other cityin the Union produces one half so much flour. Morethan one fourth of Minnesota is covered with forests ofwhite pine. The Mississippi river above Minneapolis isfed by many streams from the forest area, and this cityhas therefore become the leading lumber market in theNorthwest. St. Paul is a great railroad center, and is at the headof steamboat navigation on the Mississippi. The princi-pal industry of the state capital consists in gathering theproducts of the surrounding region, and in shipping sup-plies to the farming and the lumbering districts. Duluth is an eastern terminus of the NorthernPacific railroad, and is at the southwestern end oflake Superior. This city is the outlet of the wheatdistrict in the Red river prairies. Winona is a
Text Appearing After Image:
Steamer Routes on the Great Lakes. lumber market on the Mis-sissippi river._ ; North Dakota. Thisstate lies north of the cornbelt, but its wheat districtin the Red river valley hasno superior. A large part of this state affords excellentgrazing land for cattle and sheep. Fargo and Bismarck,the capital, are the most important trade centers. South Dakota. The prairies in the northeast part ofthis state form a portion of the famous wheat regionwhich extends also into North Dakota. The southeastpart of South Dakota is in the corn belt. Sioux Falls and Pierre are points of supply. Pierre isthe state capital. The Black hills, with their valuable gold mines, liemostly within the western part of South Dakota. Nebraska. The best farming land of Nebraska, asof the two Dakotas, is in the eastern half of the state.Corn is the most valuable product. The other half ofthe state forms part of the Western plains where cattle-raising is the chief occupation. Omaha is a large railroad center and a shipp

Note About Images