Minnesota -- Description and travel; Northwest, Canadian; Northwestern States; Red River of the North
A glance at the map, and an intelligent comprehension of the course of
trade, and way to the markets of the Eastern cities and to Europe, for
the products of this section of the Northwest, will at once satisfy
any one who examines the question that the lands of this Company,
by reason of the low freights at which their products reach market,
have a value--independent of that which arises from their superior
quality--which can hardly be over-estimated.
Twenty cents saved in sending a bushel of wheat to market adds four
dollars to the yearly product of an acre of wheat land, and what
is true of this will apply to all other articles of farm produce
transported to market, and demonstrates that the value of lands depends
largely on the price at which their products can be carried to market.
=THE LANDS OF THIS COMPANY ARE
NOW OFFERED TO=
~Immigrants and Settlers~
=at the most favorable rates, as to time and terms of payment=.
=W. L. BANNING,
President and Land Commissioner, Saint Paul, Minnesota.=
"CARLETON'S" WORKS.
[Illustration: OUR NAGPORE COACH.]
OUR NEW WAY ROUND THE WORLD;
OR,
=WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO SEE=.
By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN. Containing several full-page Maps, showing
steamship lines and routes of travel, and profusely illustrated with
more than 100 engravings, reproduced from photographs and original
sketches. Crown octavo. Morocco Cloth, $3.00; Half Calf, $5.50; Library
Edition, $3.50.
"In Mr. Charles C. Coffin we have a traveller after the latest
and best transatlantic pattern. He has thrown himself thoroughly
into the spirit of his age and race; yet, while loyal to the
backbone, and indorsing to the full his country's claims to
present grandeur and future pre-eminence, he has a corner in his
soul for the merits of other lands, and is open to the lessons
of Old-World wisdom. Rapid as was his flight, and superficial as
was his purview of the multitudinous objects that daily crowded
his path, his powers of observation are, we are bound to say,
keen and vigorous, and his judgments upon men and things both
shrewd and impartial. Be it the aspects of nature, the historical
monuments, the national traits, or the social idiosyncrasies that
come before him, we find him invariably alive to what is most
beautiful or august or original or piquant, as the case may be.
He is at all times happy in hitting off the salient features, or
picking out the weak spots, in local life and manners.... The
history of British rule in India, and the tokens of material and
social advancement everywhere beside his path, are themes after
the American's own heart. We have never seen a more graphic or
telling sketch of Anglo-Indian life and characteristics within
anything like the compass of Mr. Coffin's flying experiences....
Mr. Coffin's studies of life in China are eminently piquant and
original.
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