UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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the State Government local boards of charities 

 and corrections, assisted by the State Board of 

 Charities and Corrections, acting as an advisory 

 board, were charged with the management of the 

 State institutions. By a legislative enactment, 

 these local boards and the State board have been 

 abolished, and in their stead a State Board of 

 Control, of 3 members, named by the Governor, 

 assumed the management of the affairs of these 

 institutions, Aug. 1, 1901. 



There are 3,639 inmates in the various State 

 insane hospitals, distributed as follow: Anoka, 

 115; Hastings, 125; Fergus Falls, 1,325; Roches- 

 ter, 1,104; St. Peter, 970. The populations of 

 other State institutions are : School for Deaf, 232 ; 

 School for Blind, 70; School for Feeble-Minded, 

 669; State Public School, 274; State Training- 

 School, 380; State Reformatory, 139; State Prison, 

 527. 



Lands. The State has been a beneficiary dur- 

 ing the past year of the enormous demand for 

 lands due to a rush of settlers from Iowa, Illinois, 

 Indiana, and other States, and 100,000 acres of 

 school lands were sold for more than $1,000,000, 

 the average price per acre being about $4.50 

 larger than was ever before received by the State. 

 By these sales the permanent school fund has 

 been increased proportionately. The demand for 

 the State's mineral lands has also been very act- 

 ive, and almost every tract known to be within 

 the mineral belt, as defined by the State geologist 

 and subsequent exploration, has been leased. Sev- 

 eral of the lessees nave developed deposits of iron 

 ore which promise to be very valuable and are 

 roughly estimated to be worth to the State, in 

 royalties, not less than $3,000,000. 



The timber on State lands, while steadily de- 

 creasing in amount, has greatly increased in 

 value, and the 50,000,000 feet netted the State 

 an average price of $5 a thousand feet. The 

 permanent school fund, which is derived from the 

 sales of State lands and timber and mineral 

 leases, amounted on July 31, 1901, to $13,917,- 

 420.25, of which $7,599,218.32 was invested in the 

 bonds of other States and Minnesota school dis- 

 trict bonds, $5,936,760.37 was in outstanding land 

 contracts, and $381,441.56 in cash. The perma- 

 nent university fund amounted to $1,500,000, and 

 the internal improvement fund to $2,800,000. 



Products. In the past year 50 additional 

 creameries have been established and 14 that have 

 lain dormant have been resurrected, making a 

 total of 646. These were supplied with milk from 

 430,965 cows, producing 1,254,639,088 pounds of 

 milk in the year. The butter manufactured 

 therefrom was 57,210,312 pounds. Of this there 

 was shipped out of the State 46,808,415 pounds. 

 The amount paid to patrons w r as $9,047,888. Min- 

 nesota butter received the highest awards at all 

 of the butter and produce expositions held in the 

 United States. 



The record of analyses made by the State Dairy 

 and Food Inspector for Feb. 1, 1901, to Jan. 1, 

 1902, was 3,396, which was 8J per cent, more than 

 the total for the preceding two years. Of this 

 number, 2,184 were found to be legal and 1,112 il- 

 legal. Many of the illegal analyses came as vol- 

 untary samples from jobbers and manufacturers 

 both within and without the State. 



A statement of the shipments of iron ore from 

 the Mesaba and Vermill ranges in the year just 

 closed shows a total sent over the Minnesota 

 railroads of 10,786,923 tons, against 9,424,861 tons 

 last year. This is 44 per cent, of the total product 

 of the Lake Superior basin. 



Minnesota is the greatest wheat-producer of the 

 United States. In 1901 the yield amounted to 



about 80,000,000 I,P |,H . T| lf . State produced 

 very liberally of corn, <,.,., ;ti) ,l potato*!*, but on 

 account of a shorter m th potsito and corn 

 crops in the central [.art oi the country, in th 

 Ohio valley, a large pjiri. <>! the States product 

 of these crops went to iili Uu.t hort;igo, thereby 

 raising the local prices far ii; ;i Ivance of former 

 years. The flax-crop was al.-o ,t vcr\ nood yield 

 and commanded good prices. 



Education. There are iti the Stall! lii!) high 

 schools, and each receives special St,it.e ;iid oi 

 $1,000. The total enrolment in the.se schools for 

 the year ending July 31, 1901, was 15,^78; the 

 number of graduates was 1,673. There are 107 

 graded schools of not less than 4 departments, 

 employing 623 teachers. In addition to theso, 

 there are 82 graded schools of not more than 3 

 departments, employing 274 teachers. 



In the University of Minnesota there are 3,550 

 students, including 1,008 women. With one ex- 

 ception, it has the largest enrolment of any State 

 university in the United States. The students 

 are distributed as follow: College of science, lit- 

 erature, and the arts, 1,127 ; engineering, mines, 

 and chemistry, 439; law, 490; medical colleges, 

 386; agricultural department, 605; dentistry, 

 104; pharmacy, 73; graduate department, 170; 

 summer school, net 185; duplicates, 29. 



The annual resources for current expenses are 

 $360,000; invested funds, $1,250,000. 



Labor. The present Commissioner of Labor is 

 directing his efforts toward lessening the em- 

 ployment of child labor, but at the same time 

 keeping alive to the primary thought of not 

 working a hardship to the welfare of the child 

 or his immediate family by the suppression of 

 its labor. This department is making a general 

 investigation of wage-earners and their conditions, 

 and has sent out a circular containing 40 general 



?uestions to be answered by these wage-earners, 

 t has also taken up an investigation of the do- 

 mestic wage-earners from the standpoint of em- 

 ployer and employee. Sunday work in addition 

 to the regular week's work, as far as the present 

 inspection has reached, includes 5,374 persons, or 

 6.29 per cent, of the weekly wage-earners, the 

 largest number of Sunday workers being em- 

 ployed in electric-light, heat, and power plants, 

 and the smallest number in flouring-mills. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature con- 

 vened Jan. 8, 1901, and adjourned April 12, being 

 in session seventy-nine working days. Two 

 United States Senators were elected Moses E. 

 Clapp to fill the unexpired term of the late Cush- 

 man K. Davis, and Knute Nelson to succeed him- 

 self. The bills that became law included the fol- 

 lowing : 



Providing for a commission to revise and codify 

 the tax laws of the State. 



Providing for a commission to revise and codify 

 the statutes. 



A primary election law, by which party nomi- 

 nees will be chosen directly by the people for all 

 elective offices including congressmen, except 

 State officers. 



Raising the gross-earning tax on railroad prop- 

 erties to 4 per cent., to be approved by the people 

 at the next general election. 



An inheritance tax. 



Raising the gross-earnings tax on express com- 

 panies from 3 to 6 per cent. 



Applying the Torrens system of land-title reg- 

 istration to the 3 largest counties. 



MISSISSIPPI, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union Dec. 10, 1817; area, 46,810 square 

 miles. The population, according_to each dece 

 nial census since admission, was 75,448 in 18-0; 



