Image 1 of Minnesota, its advantages to settlers, 1869. Being a brief synopsis of its history and progress, climate, soil, agricultural and manufacturing facilities, commercial capacities, and social status; its lakes, rivers and railroads; homestead and exemption laws; embracing a concise treatise on its climatology, in a hygienic and sanitary point of view; its unparalleled salubrity, growth and productiveness, as compared with the older states; and the elements of its future greatness and prosperity.