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 492 UNITED STATES : — MISSISSIPPI

The mining of iron ores, mostly red hematite, in the Mesabi and Veiinilion ranges lias reached great importance. Certain quarry ])rodu('ts also are of value; the output of granite, sandstone, and limestone being great; clay ]iroducts, 1,702,525 dollars. Including iron ore, but not pig-iron, the total mineral output in 1911 was estimated at the value of 53,460,561 dollars.

Other industries are connected with the traffic in cattle, sheep, and swine, while important manufacturing industries are the making of boots and shoes, clothing, furniture, metal goods, and machinery. According to the census of manufactures of 1910 there were in the State 5,561 manufacturing establish- ments with a total capital of 275,416,000 dollars, employing 84,767 wage- earners, who were paid in the year 15,452,000 dollars; the cost of raw material used was 281,622,000 dollars, and the output was valued at 409,420,000 dollars.

Minneapolis is an important centre of the grain trade. In 1909 the receipts comprised wheat, 81,111,410 bushels; corn, 5,082,850 bushels; oats, 14,059,230 bushels; barley, 20,235,500 bushels; while the shi])ments comju-ised wheat, 21,698,500 bushels; corn, 3,124,500 bushels; oats, 15,323,920 bushels; barley, 18,000,120 bushels. Duluth is an important port on Lake Superior.

In 1910, Minnesota had 8,668 miles of railway, besides 500 miles of elec- tric railway track. From St. Paul 10 railways, with a total length of 60,000 miles radiate. The Great Northern Railway Company of St. Paul has a line of steamers which sail betAveen Puget Sound and China, Japan, and the Philippines, the railway of the company carrying vast loads of merchandise from St. Paul to the port of shipment at very low freights.

Books of Reference.

Legislative Manual of Minnesota, and the variou.s Executive and Administrative Rciiort of the state. St. Paul.

Folwill(SV. W.), Minnesota, Tn 'American Commonwealth' Series. Boston, 1007.

Johnson (C), Highways and Byways of the Mississippi Valley. New York ami London, 1900.

Weill's History of Minnesota.

MaeVey (F. L.), The Government of Minnesota. New York and London, 1905.

MISSISSIPPI.

Government.— The Legislature consists of a Senate and a House ot Representatives, both elected for four years.

Qualified as electors are all male United States citizens who have resided in the State and in the election district for one year (clergymen for six months) next before the election, have paid the legal taxes, and have been registered. The applicant for registration nmst be able to road the State Constitution or show that he understands it when it is read to him (a requirement intended to secure white domination).

The State is represented in Congress by two Senators and eight Represen- tatives.