Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-10-04

The weekly pay roll amounts to over 1000, or
about 100000 per annum. Among the labor
saving machines, doing mans work, we noticed
the borers, the morticers, the tenanters, the
this firm are the patentees-the iron cutters,
punchers and planners, &C., &c. And what, it
may be asked, is all this machinery engaged in
producing, Let US see First-Steam boilers
and engines-those complicated things of mans
device, which, during the last quarter of CEN
fury have produced such marked revolution in
locomotion and the mechanic arts. Then steam
saw mills to cut away our. forests, with their
patent circular saws. These mills are built al
most. entirely at this establishment, and being
compact, they are readily transported to the
place where they are designed to operate. They
have already become great favorites with the
lumbermen, and their manufacture forms an inn
portant branch of the Eagle Works. Freight
cars enter largely into the productions of this
firm, We saw them in all stages of their pro-
gress, from the timber in the rough to the cars
ready for the track. The frames are all made BY
machinery, and are consequently perfect in all
their parts. The timber and iron used are of
solidity and strength, and the cars turned out
will compare favorably with any in the country
for their capacity to stand hard usage. For
strength and durability they have few equals, and,
perhaps, no superiors. From eight to ten thou
sand pounds Of cart wheels daily, and over twelve
thousand tons annually, are used. The reputa-
tion of these cars Is such that they are coming
into extensive use all over the West. tsa.
These four articles-boilers, engines, saw mills
and freight cars embrace q principal portion OF
heavy work done here. During the past four
months some twenty engines made here have been
sold, and 80 great has been the demand for boil
ers, that they have frequently to purchase to
| I'LL orders.
| An idea of what is required to keep all this
muscle and machinery supplied with materials to
work up, may be inferred, from the following
leading articles which enter into the consumption
! OF tnese toiiers =
Coal, tons per annum, l,00C
Hardwood lumber, feet per annum, 2,loO,Oo(
Pig iron. tons, m q 2,l0(
Bar iron, pounds, 1900 ,00C
Boiler iron, &c l,lOO,OW
In addition, there is an innumerable variety Of
lesser articles which 90 to make up the compile.
ment Of daily food consumed by this 'devourine
monster. Besides the articles produced at thi.
establishment already enumerated, we may men.
ton Gates patent screw cutter, portable -four
and corn mills, rolls, engine and hand lathes
Of the articles manufactured will not be far from
100000 for 1856. This shows what can b.
accomplished by we'll directed enterprise and per.
| seyering industry. A business Of $4,000 10 in
creased to one of $l,000,O00 in eight years.
| The importance of an establishment OF this
kind to the growth and prosperity Of our CITY
| will be readily perceived. Here are employees
40 men-a small town Of itself. We may
readily estimate the number who derive their sup.
port from this source at one thousand. Their
| wages are expended here-thsir home 10 here
and their labor thus enters into and forms par
Of the general wealth Of our city. Surely, Chi.
| cago has reason to b proud Of her manufacto
ries, even now, and they should BE- fosteted and
encouraged By every possible means.