Walker. who came to Minnesota in 1862 as a surveyor for the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad. bought great tracts of pine in Cass County and became a leader in the lumber industry. For many years the North Star State was a leading producer of lumber. In Minneapolis the genius of a Prench immigrant. Edmund La Croix. enabled the flour mills to overcome an obstacle which temporarily threatened the prosperity of the prairie farmers. As the spring wheat of Minnesota came into competition with the winter wheat grown elsewhere. the flour made from the spring wheat was found to be darker and inclined to be speckled.
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