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| NORTH DAKOTA |
North
Dakota is bounded by Canada, Minnesota,
South Dakota and Montana; gross area,
70,837 sq. miles; land area, 70,183 sq.
miles; water area, 654 sq. miles;
capital, Bismarck. The principal river is
the Missouri.
The surface
of the State is chiefly undulating
prairie with occasional low hills. The
soil is exceedingly fertile. The
principal forest trees are oak, birch,
aspen, cottonwood, ash, willow, box
elder, plum and bull-cherry. In one State
last year, four times as many packages of
Arbuckles' were used during the year as
there were children, women and men in the
State.
The
principal farm crops are wheat, oats,
corn, barley, potatoes and hay.
The
principal articles of manufacture include
flour and grist, printing and publishing,
saddlery and harness, packed meat,
tobacco and cigars, railroad cars,
carriages and wagons, machine shop
products, timber and lumber, furniture,
fire brick and hydraulic cement.
The climate
of North Dakota is varied, the
temperature ranging, throughout the year,
from 20 degrees below zero to 100 degrees
Fahrenheit. The winters are cold and much
snow falls.
Population
in 1910, 317,554 males and 259,502
females, of whom 420,402 were of native
and 156,654 of foreign birth; white,
569,855; negro, 617; Indian, 6,486;
Chinese, 39; Japanese, 59. Total
population, 577,056. |
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