Minnehaha Falls, rendered famous in Longfellow's poems of Hiawatha, is located on Minnehaha creek, midway between Fort Snelling and St. Anthony Falls. It is deservedly a favored resort.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN MINNEAPOLIS COSTING $100,000 AND UPWARD.
| Court house (not completed) | $2,000,000 |
| Post office | 500,000 |
| Exposition Hall | 350,000 |
| Science Hall | 125,000 |
| Library building | 190,000 |
| Soldiers' Home, near Minnehaha Falls | 100,000 |
| State University | 150,000 |
| Chamber of Commerce | 285,000 |
| Temple Court | 250,000 |
| Masonic Temple | 200,000 |
| City Market House | 225,000 |
| Athenæum | 250,000 |
| Hennepin Avenue Theatre | 140,000 |
| Washburn Orphan Asylum | 125,000 |
| House of Good Shepherd | 200,000 |
| Loan and Trust Company | 125,000 |
| Guaranty Life and Trust | 300,000 |
| Lumber Exchange | 150,000 |
| Builders' Exchange | 100,000 |
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| Knights of Labor Exchange | 100,000 |
| S. C. Hall Lumber Company | 100,000 |
| Bank of Commerce | 200,000 |
| Union elevator | 375,000 |
| Minneapolis & Pacific elevator | 118,000 |
| St. Anthony elevator | 154,000 |
| Boston block | 100,000 |
| Nicollet House block | 100,000 |
| Albert Johnson block | 100,000 |
| Globe block | 200,000 |
| Wright block | 140,000 |
| Mutual block | 100,000 |
| Glen block | 200,000 |
| Langdon block | 120,000 |
| Central block, terrace | 150,000 |
| Syndicate block | 600,000 |
| West Hotel | 1,020,000 |
| Gates' tenements | 125,000 |
| Lowry's residence | 100,000 |
| Eastman & Cook's saw mill | 100,000 |
| Soo & St Marie shops | 145,000 |
| North Minneapolis pumping station | 214,000 |
| Tubular car works | 250,000 |
| Buel tenement block | 100,000 |
| Pillsbury A flour mill | 1,100,000 |
| Washburn A flour mill | 750,000 |
| Washburn B flour mill | 500,000 |
| Morrison flour mill | 100,000 |
| Christian & Co.'s flour mill | 100,000 |
| High School building | 100,000 |
| Church of the Dominican Fathers | 100,000 |
| Aggregate value of school property | 1,250,000 |
| Aggregate value of church property | 1,000,000 |
| Aggregate value of parks and boulevards | 1,000,000 |
POST OFFICE STATISTICS FOR 1886.
| General business | $409,225 |
| Money orders | 1,215,951 |
| Income | 225,178 |
| Expense | 79,436 |
HISTORY OF THE POST OFFICE AT MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
Postmasters.
| Established Jan. 7, 1854 | Hezekiah Fletcher. |
| Dec. 22, 1854 | Carlos Wilcoz. |
| April 7, 1856 | Alfred E. Ames. |
| April 22, 1857 | Samuel Hidden. |
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| Aug. 30, 1858 | William P. Ankeny. |
| April 4, 1861 | David Morgan. |
| July 12, 1865 | Daniel Bassett. |
| Nov. 17, 1866 | William W. McNair. |
| March 11, 1867 | Cyrus Aldrich. |
| April 15, 1871 | Geo. H. Keith. |
| June 21, 1882 | Orlo M. Laraway. |
| June 22, 1886 | John J. Ankeny. |
The bonded debt of the city is $3,319,000. The city can not create a debt nor issue bonds to a greater amount than five per cent of the assessed valuation of city property, and the charter prohibits a floating debt.
| The tax assessments for 1886 | $99,591,762 |
| Barrels of flour manufactured | 6,163,000 |
| Value of other manufactures | $62,500,000 |
| Feet of lumber manufactured | 267,197,000 |
| Elevator capacity (bushels) | 11,820,000 |
| Bushels of wheat received | 34,904,260 |