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SUMMARY OF CULTIVATED LAND.
SUMMARY OF THE AREA OF LAND UNDER CULTIVATION, AND THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE STATE FOR 1868 AND 1869 .- From the advance sheets of Mr. Pusey's official report to the Legislature for 1870 ; reports from all the counties but two or three ; estimates from them.
1868.
Average per acre.
1869.
Average per acre.
Total tilled area .. . ..
1,358,780
1,690,000
Wheat, area.
851,700
1,000,000
bushels . ..
15,245,430
17.9
18,500,000
1812
Corn, area.
129,931
175,000
bushels
4,807,447
37
6,125,000
35
Oats, area
203,556
274,800
66
bushels
7,582,461
371
11,816,400
43
Potatoes, area
22,000
27,500
66 .
bushels
2,459,600 111
2,475,000
90
Barley, area
15,310
20,400
bushels.
454,700
29.7
625,000
30.6
Rye, area.
2,605
3,250
bushels.
49,160
19
58,600
18
Buckwheat, area ... 66 bushels
22,613
16
28,270
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Hay, area
tons .
368,512
2.12
430,000
2.08
Wool, pounds.
385,500
390,000
Butter, 66
4,209,065
5,600,000
Cheese,
149,511
145,000
Beans, area.
961
1,340
66
bushels
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12,686
13.02
17,500
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Sorghum, area .. 66
gls. syrup
76,400
98.5
80,000
88.8
Maple sugar, pounds 66
239,802
300,000
" gls. syrup
12,930
15,800
Flax, pounds fibre ..
117,150
170,000
bushels seed ..
3,718
5,000
Clover seed
258
350
Tobacco.
11,980
13,500
Miscellaneous, area.
4,316
4,875
value of
$218,884
$254,600
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775
900
1,404
1,750
172,480
205,000
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By comparison of the area and products of 1868, and the average per acre, with those on pages 97-8, 100, and 102, taken from the Governor's Message, the estimates for which were furnished by Mr. Pusey from the best data before him, it will be observed that the actual re-
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turns, as shown in the above figures, vindicate the cor- rectness of Mr. Pusey's estimates of a year ago, and their moderation, with singular emphasis. He estimated the area of wheat, 908,500 acres, 16,125,875 bushels, and 17.75 bushels per acre. It turned out to be 851,700 acres, 15,245,430 bushels, and 17.9 bushels per acre. Corn, 115,170 acres, 4,598,760 bushels, and 39.93 per acre. It turned out 129,931 acres, 4,807,447 bushels, and 37 per acre. Oats, 174,500 acres, 6,103,510 bushels, and 34.97 per acre. It turned out 203,556 acres, 7,582,- 461 bushels, and 374 per acre. Potatoes, 17,500 acres, 1,698,900 bushels, and 97.08 per acre. It turned out 22,000 acres, 2,459,600 bushels, and 111 per acre. This result commends his estimates for 1869, based upon far ampler data and correspondence with every county, to the fullest confidence and credit, as correct and moderate, and rather below than above the actual figures.
THE IMMIGRATION OF 1869.
MINNESOTA LEADS THE WORLD. - " Minnesota has fairly gobbled the brains, muscle, and capital of the world. The steady rush of immigration from Europe. and from the older States of the East, and from the populous portions of the Central and Western States into Minnesota, has assumed such proportions as to remind us of Pat's growing potatoes, which were overheard as they spake one to another-' move along-make room ;' for the tide of incoming life has vaulted over the old barriers and limitations that the most sanguine of early pioneers had established for the bounds of civilization and settlement,"-La Crosse (Wisconsin) Republican.
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The occasion for these glowing remarks, continued at greater length than we have room to quote, was the dis- patch from Mr. Litchfield, of London, to Mr. Becker, President of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, on the 13th of July, 1869, to complete the road to Red River during the year-a distance of 214 miles, only forty of which was then done. Such was the extent of the immigration in that direction that English capitalists had the confi- dence to back it with millions of money. The editor concludes : " Minnesota is on the highway to unprecedented prosperity."
Carleton, correspondent of the Boston Journal, in August, 1869, wrote from the Ottertail Lake country : " We have met to day a long train of wagons, filled with emigrants, who have come from Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and some from Ohio, to make their homes in this fertile region. Look at the wagons as they pass." (Describes the owner or his barefooted boy driving, the grandmother, white-haired, old and wrinkled, the wife with her infant, and three or four romping children on the feather bed ; a tin kettle suspended behind, in which a tow-headed urchin is swinging, clapping his hands and playing with a yellow dog trotting behind the team; a hoop skirt, chicken coop, pig in a box, and a barefooted boy with a rosy-cheeked sister behind, driving a cow.)
"Not only along this road, but in every section of the State, we may behold just such scenes. A great army of occupants is moving into the State. The advance is all along the line. Towns and villages are springing up as if by magic in every county. Every day adds thousands of acres to those already under cultivation. The wheat fields of this year are wider than they were a year ago, and twelve months hence will be much larger than to- day." This year the population has increased
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nearly 100,000, and the tide never was setting so strong. as to-day.
THE FLOOD TIDE OF IMMIGRATION .- The news in the columns of our State exchanges, and from the highways and byways, is all to the effect that we are having a flood tide of immigration such as has not swept over Minnesota for the last twelve years. Thanks to the efforts of Col. Mattson, our State immigration agent, who has been on a visit of months to his home in Sweden, and to the documents sown broadcast by the wise and liberal provisions of our Legislature, the Scandinavian swarms of the North, the hardy Germans of Central Europe, and the sons of the Green Isle,-all are rushing, filled with eagerness and hope, to the free homesteads and healthy climate of Min- nesota.
A large proportion of the tide that is daily pouring through our State to the beckoning fields beyond, are Americans; far- mers of Wisconsin and Iowa. Wisconsin is fairly moving into Minnesota. The owner of a prairie schooner, who seemed to be an intelligent man, declared yesterday that one-fourth of the whole population of the State of Wisconsin was coming to Minnesota this summer. This statement was, of course, an exaggeration, but it serves to indicate the strength and volume of the current that is setting into our borders. Push on the column! The unclaimed wheat lands of Minnesota, rich as the richest, are still numbered by the millions of acres. No wonder the world is coming to Minnesota, where, under healthier skies, a farm can be had for the taking .- Mankato Union, June 15th.
The St. Peter correspondent of the St. Paul Press, of June 18th, said :
The immigration which has poured into this part of the State this spring, surpasses by far anything we have ever before had. And it is apparently of a much better class than we have ever had before-abounding in horses, cows, oxen, sheep, &c., &c., in abundance.
The St. Peter Tribune, of June, said :
The ferry at St. Peter is crowded from morning till night with goods and chattels of the new comers, and the roads lead-
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ing west and north are lined with vehicles and stock bound for the upper country.
The Faribault stage, on its return trip, passed over 200 " movers'" wagons coming in this direction.
The Minnesota Valley has never before witnessed such a tide of immigration as has been almost constantly pouring into it during the past two months. Of course St. Peter does not witness it all, but that which has passed through here for the untamed prairies of the West is immense. Night after night our commons have become the camping ground for many sturdy pioneers with their families, and our adjacent prairies the pas- turage for droves of cattle, horses, sheep, &c., all bound for the frontier.
The Forest City News said :
Every road leading to the rich and fertile prairies west of the woods is lined with emigrant wagons. Nearly all have fine droves of cattle. It will not be long before every foot of the rich prairies of Meeker, Monongalia, and Kandiyohi counties will be under cultivation.
The Farmington Telegraph, in June, said :
IMMIGRANTS .- Regularly, twice each day, a car load, and often two, of immigrants from the various countries of Europe, pass through this village on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail- road. A few stop here, but the larger portion are bound for the northern part of the State. Full ninety per cent. of these immigrants are Scandinavians, the remainder Germans and Irish.
The Fairmont (Martin County) Atlas, in June, said :
IMMIGRATION .- The heaviest immigration that we have ever witnessed, is pouring into Martin County this season. Already more families have settled among us than for the past two years. The men coming are of the right stamp, industrious and intelli- gent Americans, though of small means. A man who has in- telligence and is industrious, has a very good substitute for .dollars in this free country. All such are warmly welcomed by our people.
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CONCLUDING SUMMARY. From Commissioner Pusey's Report.
Population of State, January 1st, 1870, 470,000
Value of real estate, as assessed. $66,000,000
True value in currency.
$120,000,000
Personal property assessed . $28,000,000
True value in currency . $65,000,000
Number of acres owned and assessed 11,000,000
soil proprietors. 73,121
Value of land and improvements. town lots and improvements
$81,500,000
Total tilled area (acres).
1,690,000
Value of live stock.
$15,561,887
Value of annual agricultural productions $25,000,000
Number of county residents (country)
370,000
66 town
100,000
Value of annual manufactures
$11,000,000
Number of railroad companies.
13
Miles projected .
2,000
Miles constructed.
750
Number of vessels in river navigation.
193
lake 66
30
Tonnage of river
60,000
lake.
20,000
From Governor's Message of January 7th, and reports of Auditor McIlrath and Commissioner Pusey.
Exports of wheat, 1869 (bush.) 14,000,000
Wheat still unmoved (bush.) .. over 10,000,000
Exports of State products through Pembina $160,000
Foreign goods exported through Pembina $455,000
Amount of school fund. $2,371,199.03
Increase in one year. $238,304.45 Amount of logs scaled, 1869 (feet) 305,146,984
Increase in a year 54,897,066
Persons between 5 and 21 years, Sept. 30th, 1869 ...
144,414
Increase in one year.
15,311
Improved farms, 1864
23,787
66 1869 45,740
$38,500,000
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CONCLUDING SUMMARY.
50,805
Land owners, 1864
1869 73,121
Improved lots, 1864
14,900
1869 23,842
25,084
Lot owners, 1864.
1869
70,000
Land held by individuals besides homestead claims (acres) ..
11,000,000
Average amount to each owner (acres)
150.43
Per cent. under cultivation 16.39
Average to each owner cultivated 36.94
861,602
Of this amount, by homestead entry (acres) .
356,876
RAILROADS. - The Governor's Message of Jan. 7th says : " I rejoice to be able to inform you that the North- ern Pacific Railroad Company have effected an arrange- ment with the ablest financial parties in the country, for the construction of the road. A telegram received on the 4th inst., informs me that work will probably com- mence in February."
The Governor reports the miles of railroads in opera- tion 780, 224 of which were constructed during 1869- being 37 more miles than is claimed on page 279 of this book, which vindicates the moderation of its statements. The difference is explained by the fact that at the writing of the former statement the rails were laid, on some of the roads, but ballasting not finished, so that the cars were running ; and this was not counted as finished road ; also by the fact that 12 miles of the Minnesota Central Railroad, from Austin to the State line, were omitted by mistake.
The fact that several thousand men are still at work on our roads in January, will explain the fact that a few weeks time may upset any table of figures on railroad progress that can be given.
37,580
Number of dwelling houses
Lands entered in 1869 (acres).
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BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS.
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS OF 1869 .- An effort was made to procure the building statistics of 1869, but only a few fragmentary returns have come in. They show, notwith- standing the low price of produce and consequent " hard times," progress, growth, and activity. The following are the only returns that have come in in time for this issue :
St. Paul, 509 buildings, costing $1,395,727; increase over 1869, 148 buildings and $390,677.
Minneapolis, $700,000 (estimated by Secretary of Board of Trade ;) increase over 1868, $96,325.
Rochester, 112 houses, $250,000.
St. Anthony, $202,000 ; increase over 1868, $59,750.
Duluth, 180 buildings ; two hotels costing $62,000; town almost entirely built up the past year.
Albert Lea, over 60 houses since September ; popula- tion increased to 1000.
Northfield, $124,787.
Lake City, $109,000.
Wabasha, $102,725.
Owatonna, $85,000.
St. Cloud, $76,525.
Le Sueur, 33 houses, $36,905.
Kasson, 26 houses, $18,500.
Faribault, $153,076.
No returns so far from the flourishing cities of Winona, Mankato, Red Wing, Hastings, and others.
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THE PRESS OF THE STATE. THE PRESS OF THE STATE.
Arranged alphabetically as to the names of the towns where published.
· Democratic papers designated by a *
Paper. Publishers or Editors. Day of Issue.
Thursday
Anoka Union, G. S. Pease
Anoka Press, John M. Thompson Tuesday
Austin Transcript, Geo. H. Otis Thursday
Austin Democrat,* Wood & Lacey Thursday
Austin Register, C. H. Davidson Thursday
Albert Lea Standard, D. G. Parker Thursday
Alexandria Post, W. E. Hicks
Saturday
Blue Earth City Post, Williams & Stevens Saturday Blue Earth City South-West, Carr Huntington Saturday Brownsville Western Progress, French & Thomas. Saturday
Caledonia (Houston Co.) Journal, Wall Bros. Tuesday
Chaska Herald,* F. E. Dutoit Friday
Chatfield Democrat,* J. H. McKenney & Son Saturday
Duluth Minnesotian, Duluth Printing Co., Thomas
Saturday Foster, ed.
Faribault Republican, A. W. McKinstrey Wednesday
Glencoe Register, James C. Edson . Thursday
Garden City Herald, A. J. Manley Friday
Hastings Gazette, Todd & Stebbins Saturday Hastings Union,*Smith & Todd, Seagrave Smith ed. Wednesday
Jackson Republic, Geo. C. Chamberlin ed. . .
Kasson Republican, U. B. Shaver Friday
Lanesboro Herald, J. L. Christie Tuesday Litchfield News, F. Belfoy . Wednesday Lake City Leader, McMaster & Spaulding Friday Le Sueur Courier, Prendergast & Vollmer Wednesday
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THE PRESS OF THE STATE.
Monticello Statesman, Geo. Gray Saturday Mantorville Express, S. L. Pierce Friday Mankato Review,* E. C. Payne Friday
Mankato Record, Orville Brown Saturday Mankato Union, Griswold & Cleveland Friday Minneapolis Tribune, Tribune Printing Co. daily
Minneapolis, Minnesota Pupil, Hatch Bros., in- struction and amusement of children and youth .. semi-m'thly Minneapolis Farmers' Union, W. A. Nimocks, J. H. Stevens ed. monthly Minneapolis Nordisk Folkeblad, Sneedorf Christen- son ed. Tuesday Minneapolis Independent
Northfield Standard, Austin Willey ed
Northfield Enterprise, L. H. Kelly. Friday New Ulm Post, L. Naegle.
Owatonna Journal, Spellman, Hickman, & Crandell Thursday
Preston Republican, W. A. Hotchkiss. Friday
Red Wing Companion, Harrison Lowater monthly Red Wing Good Templar, Harrison Lowater monthly Red Wing Republican, Jennison & Perkins . Thursday Red Wing Argus,* C. L. Davis pub., C. F. George ed. Thursday Rochester Post, Leonard & Booth, J. A. Leonard ed. Saturday Rochester Union,* Union Printing Company Saturday Red Wood Falls Mail, V. C. Seward. Friday
St. Anthony Falls Democrat,* Ovid Pinney, Rev. Herman Bisbee ed. Friday Stillwater Republican, W. S. Whittemore Tuesday Sauk Centre Herald, J. H. & S. Simonton Thursday Sauk Rapids Sentinel, Benedict & Gilpin. Friday Sherburne Co. News* (Elk River,) A. J. Clark Saturday St. Cloud Journal. W. B. Mitchell ed. and pub . Thursday St. Cloud Times,* L. A. Evans, J. J. Green ed. Saturday
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THE PRESS OF THE STATE.
St. Charles Herald, Herald Printing Co., C. H. Slocum ed. Friday
St. Peter Tribune,* J. K. Moore Wednesday
St. Peter Advertiser, T. T. Perry ed
Shakopee Argus,* Henry Hinds ed. and pub.
Shakopee Spy
Thursday
St. Paul, N. W. Chronicle* (Catholic,) J. C. Deve- reaux. Friday St. Paul Wanderer,* German Catholic Printing Co. Saturday St. Paul Volksblatt, Leue & Erdman Thursday St. Paul, Minnesota Staatz-Zeitung, T. Sander. ... Thursday St. Paul, Minnesota Tidning, C. Fr. Peterson, ed .. Friday St. Paul, Minnesota Monthly (agricultural,) Robert- son & Bentley, D. A. Robertson ed monthly
St. Paul Daily Press, Press Printing Co Thursday
St. Paul Daily Pioneer,* Pioneer Printing Co Thursday St. Paul Daily Dispatch, Ramalay & Hall Thursday
St. Paul, Teacher monthly
Taylor's Falls Reporter, Chas W. Folsom Saturday
Waseca News, Child & Graham. Wednesday
Wabasha Herald, Frank Daggett ed. and pub. Thursday
Wells Atlas, C. A. Lounsberry
Winona Herald,* Wm. Jay Whipple
Friday
Winona Republican, D. Sinclair & Co. daily
Winnebago City Free Homestead, E. A, Hotchkiss. Wednesday
The papers have nearly all 28 columns, and the terms are $2 per year. The Weekly Dispatch of St. Paul is $1 per year; also the Litchfield News, the Blue Earth City South-West, Glencoe Register, and Chaska Herald; Wells Atlas, $1.50; St. Paul Chronicle, Volksblatt, Zeitung, and Wanderer, $2.50; and Du- luth Minnesotian, $3. Robertson's Monthly is $1.50, and the Minnesota Farmer's Union 75 cents.
Nearly all offer inducements to clubs, and some give other publications to subscribers. Advertisements to be in time should reach them two or three days before the day of issue.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.
Arnold's Clothes Washer ... 59 Page.
Austin, S. J ..
17
Austin & Rosencranz
16
Bailey, S. L.
13
Babcock's Fire Extinguisher 55
Beach. L., & Co ..
13
Beaumont, Jos. I.
24
Beecher, Dr. S. A ..
47
Beck, Roberts & Co.
47
Blodget, J. F.
48
Boyle, Chas. M.
65
Bower, Thomas
17
Brackenridge, W. L
14
Brownell & Co.
22
Bryant, Dr ..
63
Bryant & Stratton.
10
Buck, Daniel
14
Bures, N
61
Cathcart & Co.
3
Central House.
11
Chase, A. J., & Co.
59
Cheritree & Farwells
24
Churchill, O. A.
15
Clarke, Thomas.
14
Comstock, Castle & Co
60
Cullen, James.
45
Curtice & Halsted.
65
Dawson & Co.
7
De Montreville, Dr.
60
Dodge, Ossian E.
54 & 64
Dodge, Thos. H.
15
Everest, Aaron S.
14
Engineering and
Mining
Journal
30
Faber & Natchsheim
17
Farrar, Oscar.
18-19
Farrell, W. B.
12
Fielding, Seth
59
Page.
First National Bank
21
Fitzpatrick, Thos.
59
Foos, Andrew
13
Ford, L. M.
46
Galenic Institute. . ins. b'k cov.
Gates, Hiram D
20
Garrison, O. E.
46
Godfrey, W. J.
12
Golcher, Wm.
3
Golden Rule.
32
Grant & Brosseau
23
Hall, S. P. & J. C.
62
Hankins & Son
43
Health Institute. .. ins. fr't cov.
Hewitt, Girart.
22
Horn, H. J. .
14
Horn, Robert.
40
Hussey, J. G.
14
Illinois Staats-Zeitung
28
Jones, Dr. John
59
Kahlert, C ..
59
Kennedy, M. F.
64
Kiester, Jacob A.
15
Koempel, H. J ..
56
Kinney, T., & Bro.
64
Knight, A. F.
63
Kranz, N. F. W.
48
Krieger & Keller
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Lake Sup. & Miss. R. R. Co. 34
Larpenteur, A. L.
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Lathrop & Kinney
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Lewis, Joseph.
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Manufacturer and Builder .. 29
Marcotte, Chas ..
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Martin's Art Gallery . .
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Martins, Knight & Co ...
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INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mattison's Shirt Factory ... 42 Page.
Matheis, John. 66 Merrill, Randall & Co .. 25
Merrill, G. W. & A. P .... 8 19
McClung, J. W 62
McKelvey, Dr.
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McDougall, Geo. A. 15
Miller, B. F.
15
Minnesota Monthly .
32
Minnesota Farmers' Union. 48
Minneapolis Tribune. 50
Moore, Alfred.
16
Morgan & Metcalf. 23
Mullen, Daniel. 46
Munch, Bros. & Co.
38
New York Observer 27 N. W. Union Packet Co. 44
Paine, Parker. 21
Palmes, Geo .. 11
Peabody, Geo. P. 11
Picket, Daniel.
46
Pomeroy's Democrat
26
Pomeroy & Co.
12
Practical Farmer
31
Prendergast & Co.
60
Radcliffe, A. M. 63
Rose, Robert H.
47
Rosencranz, Wm.
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St. Clair, A ..
61
St. Cloud Journal.
48
St. Paul & Sioux City R. R.
Co
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Page. St. Paul Female Seminary .. 39
St. Paul & Pacific R. R. Co. 36
St. Paul Press
51
St. Paul Pioneer. 52 St. Paul Dispatch. 53 St. Paul Chamber of Com- merce 54
Sauk Rapids Sentinel
60
Schroeder's Museum. 5 Sederberg, Alfred 63
Sewell, J. S.
65
Smith, A. C ..
47
Snelling House
17
Spencer & McMahon
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Southern Minnesota R. R. Co .. 33
Staples, J. .
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Staples & Berky
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Summit Avenue House. 57 Swan & Bangs 47
Sweet, C. Emmett 15
Timme Bros.
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Tostevin, J. F
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Wait, L. B ..
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Webb, Isaac W.
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Wedelstadt, Dr
60
Weinman, Jos.
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Wharton, R. L.
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Whitney & Zimmerman
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Wilson & Worley
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Willey, Dr. Sam ..
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Winona Republican.
49
Winona & St. Peter R. R. Co. 35
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We have the largest Assortment of Stereoscopic Views in the West.
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We have the finest as well as the largest Book Store in the Northwest.
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RATES FOR POMEROY'S DEMOCRAT.
$2 50
SINGLE COPIES, per year,
TEN COPIES, one year to one post-office (we writing the names of subscribers on each paper), and one copy for the year to the one who sends us the club, - $20 00 TWENTY COPIES, one year, to one post-office (we writing the nau:es of subscribers on
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two books, " SENSE," and "NONSENSE," to the getter-up of the club, $40 00 - THIRTY COPIES, one year, to one post-office (we writing the names of subscribers on each paper), with two extra copies for the year, and a copy of each of POMEROY'S books, "SENSE," "NONSENSE," and "SATURDAY NIGHT," a new book now in press, to the getter-up of the club, $60 00
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The price of the above watch and of the knitting-machine is $30 each, and the articles are worth the money.
FOR ONE HUNDRED COPIES, one year, to one post-office (we writing the name of - $200 00-
subscribers on each paper), -
To the getter-up of each one hundred subscriber club, we will present an extra copy of THE DEMOCRAT, one year, and their choice of one of the following articles :
A lady's fourteen carat fine, full-j: weled, gold, "Benedicts' watch," standard price, $60;
Or, one of "Benedicts' time watches," hunting-case, made from coin silver, standard price, $60-the best silver watch ever sold in the United States ;
Or, one of Willcox & Gibbs' sewing machines, with hemmer and feller; price, $60.
Benedict's watches are known all over the country as among the best time watches ever manufactured. They are a standard article, warranted as represented, and worth to the wearer all they are valued at.
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