The Grange advance., 1874-02-14

enteen mills, WITH 81 runs of stone:
MoSt OF tnem~a3e operated only bv
day. The aQQpnt-of wheat floured Nv
them is about 1,S25,O0O bushels an
nually. This shows that the millino
capacity of the cShnty can be doublei
without drawing On any other county
for the supply Of wheat. CThose who
w1Sh to inyestigate this subject care
1ully should hgurg' on $500 home con-
suners.)
There We're shipped by river so,oos
6arrels of tlour, and 10y railroad p, 200
barrels.
The totalof wheat shipped (exclud-
ing f1our) was l,55e.S53 bushels; 1,153.-
80 bushels BY ri*rr and 404.9OO bush
els by railroad.
During the last simmer four large
warehouses were built by different
Huns: bringing the storage capacity of
the Guy up to 72S.0OO bushels. But at
tne beginning of winter even this
large increase was found to be insutfi-
cent, and all the warehouses were
niie9. me weather has been very
nllu ana favorable to outdoor opera
tlons. ana dealers 1T once began the
erectlon or more warehouses. Since
the latter part of December eleven
more warehouses; have been erected,
several hrms having built two or three
each, besides the completion OF the
mill with room for 10000 bushels. max
ing the storage capacity over 100000
bushels. r; 4 +. r. Ives have built
one; 1handler y Sterrett two, Brown
4 Mc!ntlre three, Davis & Marshall
one. N. Herschler one, T. b. Sheldon &
90. tWo' George Wilkinson mainly for
storing MS own crop one. :: :: s.
In the spring and summer of 1873
there were sold by dealers in this city
40 reapers, at a cost of 100000. Con-
Slderlng the convenience to hard tim
Der, readlness~of supplies of all kinds.
ana WIN the market at it's very doors.
1t IS belleVed by our citizens that the
West does not otfe a better situation
tor a reaper factory. The difference
70 the welfare Of this county
Det"een retaining among it's
own population this 100000 and send
ing 1t to foreign factories-thus bid
ding 1t an eternal good-bye-is 50 we'll
appreciated tAatsubstantial aid would
De extended to experienced men who
should undertake the building of an
approved reaper in Red Wing.
The wealth Of the soil of Goodhue
county and the immense extent of it's
Wheat>tieldS may be Judged from the
TACT that in 1872 teoelUe of the twenty
tour towns in the county harvested
more than 100000 bushels of wheat
each. Future reports will show that
there were more of the same sort of
towns in 1873. * + =
From the st. Paul Press. jan 24th.
Col. Hewitt -apd~:william Dawson, from
the committee recently appointed at a meet
ing Of citizens called to devise means for
the construction of elevators and grain
warehouses :cat this point, returned from
Red Wing on Thursday evening after hs
ing made thorough examination q the
systems in operation at that placA
RED WING AS A-kART.
1t may prove surprising to}soAe ID learn
that the daily receipts oE>grain 1t this
brisk city reaches between twenty and
thirty thousand bushels, and the citizens
claim with ample justification that there is
not another place in tn: United States Of
equal population which can show such a
trade. by comparing the report of wheat
receipts from all quarters CT the globe, the
further information is gained that it can
also safely defy the world in the extent of
its grain transactions-there being on1v
two points in the wheat growing sections Of
Russia which furnish approximating state
ments of purchases.
From the St. Paul Pioneer.
The Wheat Warehouse COMMITTEES is not
idle. by any means. Two Of their number.
Messrs. Dawson and Hewitt, visited Red
Wing, and returned yesterday, full of wheat
statistics.
From twenty to thirty thousand bushels
Of wheat arrive by sleds daily They have
now in store owe: six hundred thousand
bushels, and they are putting up new ware
houses every week. They have had to add
another and another, until second street
is nearly built up with wheat houses. Thev
were paying 81. .05. but nearly all preferred
to store and hold for $1.25; and when that
is reached they will hold for $3.50 and 50
on, the same old. old'story.
A MODEL FLOIRING MILL,