Excerpt from Executive Documents of the State of Minnesota, for the Year 1874, Vol. 1 The year just ended has been one of general prosperity to our people. The financial embarrassments which have sus pended the industries of other States have afi'ected our own but little. The laborers have had employment. Failures have been infrequent, and our merchants are in excellent credit. The farmers have, as a general rule, secured abund ant crops. They are out of debt, and now hold unsold the surplus of last year. For such blessings as these, it becomes us 10 return thanks to the Author of all blessings, not only by the utterance of formal phrase, but with a devout sense of our dependence on His mercies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.