INTRODUCTORY.
AGRICULTURAL LIFE.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL VIEW OF THE QUESTION OF IMMIGRATION TO THE LAND.
A STATEMENT IN REGARD TO THE RELATIONS WE HOLD TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS. WHAT THEY MAY EXPECT.
MINNESOTA.
GENERAL STATE STATISTICS.
CROP STATISTICS.
FARM STATISTICS.
GENERAL REMARKS.
CATHOLIC COLONIES IN MINNESOTA.
SWIFT COUNTY COLONY.
GRACEVILLE COLONY.
ST. ADRIAN COLONY.
AVOCA COLONY.
THE BEST TIME TO COME.
A CHAPTER FOR ALL TO READ.
HOW TO SECURE GOVERNMENT LAND.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Transcriber's Notes.
REVISED EDITION.
PUBLISHED BY THE
CATHOLIC COLONIZATION BUREAU OF MINNESOTA.
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE RIGHT REV. JOHN IRELAND,
COADJUTOR BISHOP OF ST. PAUL.
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, JANUARY, 1879.
THE PIONEER PRESS CO.
The increase in the number of our Catholic Colonies in Minnesota,and the changes which population and other causes havebrought about, make it necessary to publish a revised edition ofthe Immigration Pamphlet, issued by the Catholic ColonizationBureau of Minnesota, in 1877.
We are pleased to notice the increased interest which is manifestedall over the country, by Catholics, in the matter of Catholicimmigration from the cities to the land.
The sympathy, aid, and words of cheer, we are continually receivingfrom friends totally unconnected with our local work, assureus of this pleasing fact; which we attribute, in a great measure,to the honest, intelligent advocacy, and generous support our Catholicnewspapers have given to the question.
For ourselves, we are glad to gratefully acknowledge the liberalsupport the Catholic editors have given to our work: the confidencewhich they placed, from the very beginning, in the purity ofour motives and the soundness of our business arrangements, is anindorsement of which we are justly proud.
They have recognized that our aim is to do good to the many;and in all cases where our advice has been taken, our instructionsfollowed, our warnings heeded, we do not fear that we have injuredone.
The approbation of our co-religionists, conveyed to us from allparts of the country, the success which God has been pleased togive to our humble labors, are cheering guarantees that we are onthe right road; and