506 



MINNESOTA. 



The following are the totals of the above, 

 together with the number of blacks, mulattoes, 

 Indians, and half-breeds, not there included : 



Number of white families 111,207 



Number of males 814,742 



Number of females 280,005 



Total population 597,278 



Males over twenty-one years 150,908 



Persons between five and twenty -one 224,353 



Number of negroes 506 



Number of mulattoes 809 



Number of Indians 819 



Number of half-breeds 1,252 



Of the total population, 376,000 were of 

 native, and 217,429 of foreign birth ; the nativ- 

 ity of the remainder was reported to be un- 

 known. The States and foreign countries in 

 which they were born were as follows : 



Among the foreign-born people the Scandi- 

 navians take the lead, the Norwegians, Swedes, 

 and Danes, numbering 88,325. Germany fol- 

 lows with 59,602, and Ireland comes next with 

 22,838. The Dominion of Canada sent over 

 19,331 of her people. The nativity of the Ger- 

 man-speaking people has not been satisfactorily 

 settled by the assessors. The instructions of 

 the Secretary of State required the German 

 population to be registered under the different 

 countries ; but these instructions were disre- 

 garded in many counties, and since the unifica- 

 tion of the German Empire there was a general 

 disposition to ignore the old lines, and nearly 

 all were anxious to put themselves down as 

 hailing from " Germany." It is obvious, there- 

 fore, that the number of persons set down as 

 having been born in Prussia, Hanover, Bavaria, 

 Baden, and Wurtemberg, does not by any means 

 cover all the immigrants from these divisions 

 of the Fatherland. 



In regard to agricultural productions the 

 last has been one of the most prosperous years 

 in the history of the State. The following 

 statement exhibits the progress of the State in 

 population and agriculture since 1860 : 



The area of the State in acres is 51,701,760, 

 of which 14,106,269 have not been surveyed 

 by the United States. In the 37,595,491 acres 

 surveyed are 60,000 farms, of which, as above 

 stated, 2,816,413 acres are under tillage. 



The reports of the Survey or- General show 

 that 177,316,829 feet of lumber were scaled in 

 the first or Stillwater district; 149,350,820 in 

 the second or Minneapolis district ; and 955,761 

 in the third or Duluth district. 



The three State Fish Commissioners have 

 made a report, showing that Minnesota has no 

 less than 1,601,840 acres of inland lake surface, 

 exclusive of rivers and parts of Lakes Supe- 

 rior and Pepin ; which is nearly three and a 

 third acres of water to every hundred acres of 

 land. In France 493,750 acres of lakes and 

 ponds yield an annual rental of $2,000,000. 

 The commissioners are of opinion that if Min- 

 nesota should cultivate its lakes as France has 

 done, the annual income would be not less 

 than $6,488,465. " It is capable of demonstra- 

 tion," they say, "that ten acres of water well 

 cultivated with fish will produce a greater an- 



