You will find Minneapolis a city in which commerce and beauty have fanned a happy combination. It is big as a manufacturer and distributor, yet )t has not developed in material welfare at the expense of its natural gifts. It is a city of culture as well as one of industry. It is a city of character, a city with a future. It is a city of progressive ideas—a good place to visit and a good place to establish a business and a home.
Sixty years ago the site of Minneapolis was an Indian reservation. Today it is a city of more than 325,000 inhabitants. In less than the average span of human life it has forged ahead of cities which have been centuries in building. It possesses all the advantages of older communities without the defacing scars of age. With its fraternal twin. St. Paul, whose limits merge into those of Minneapolis on the south. It forms a community with a population exceeding half a million.
