Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-17
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4 feet, with a capacity of ten mile
per hour, is located here for excur
sion parties. Mr.. VIM. Ivory has s
beautiful garden, museum, etc.
upon the adjoining premises.
We will now proceed to enume'
rate the many extensive manufac'
turtles at this place, with such re.
ferences as our space will permit.
THE NORTH STAR WOODEN MILLS,
located in a four-story stone struc.
ture, turns out some of the finest
blankets and other goods, in the
country. The mills are the pro-
perty Of Messrs. Gibson and Tyler;
they employ 100 hands, two-thirds
of whom are females. This enter
prising firm manufacture upwards
of 6OO, 900 pounds of goods annually.
We next visited
GOVERNOR wAsHBURNE'S
grist mill, the largest one in
America. The building is of solid
stone, 100x13s feet, and 80 feet
high. This mill alone would fur
nish material enough to fill several
columns, if properly described i'm all
its details. 1t turns out l 900 barrels
of -four per day, and is run by water,
from a forty foot bead. 1t Is provi-
ded with forty run of stones, and
gives employment to 4Omillers, and
100 coopers.
Among other extensive grist
mills here, r Pillsburg & Co.'S En-
pire Mills, which turn out 500 bar
rels per day; and Eastman & Glib
sons, 600 barrels daily. There are
altogether Is grist mills i'm this city,
which have a combined capacity of
over 1000 barrels per day. The total
amount turned out in One year, ex-
ceeds 600, 900 barrels, or about three
and one-half million pounds.
But the
LUMBER INTERESTS,
of all others, are the great wonders
Of Minneapolis. This city alone man.
upwards of 100, 600, 900 feet
of lumber, 40, OO0, 900 shingles, and
lO,0O0,0 900 laths each year. Yet the
unlimited power which the inn
falls of st. Anthony furnish
is sufficient to run the combined
works of England. 1t would he
to endeavor a description of
any n of these extensive mills,
much less all of them. 1 will briefly
allude to a few visited personally.
PACIFIC MILLS.
These are owned by Messrs. Dean
4 Co. The machinery is run by
power. The furnaces are sup
Piled by a self-feeder, which collects
The waste say dust and carries il
through tubes over the top TO the
ong battery of nine boilers. This
mill is provided with ON elegant cir
,ular smoke stack, $50 feet high, IA
'eet in diameter at the base, and Z
eet at ITS top. 1t was put up with
'ut the 3 of a stick Of frame work
IN the outside. The works turn out
/ 900 feet each hour. The sawdust
rom this mill averages daily %, 900 I
eet of lumber, most Of this, how
yer, is used up to feed the engine
urnaces. The upright Is provided
With forty saws, which cut up 1000
eet of lumber at q time. The en-
zines at this mill have a capacity Of
40 horse power, and yet not the
lightest noise is heard as 1t moves
he immense mass of machinery.
The firm of w. l.. Eldrc,l have
N immense
SHINGLE FACToTY. "a
This employees fifty boys and girls
lone who are constantly busy pack
ng shingles-one boy can usually
.verage from twenty to twenty-five
thousand per day-this firm turn
ut an average of $50, 900 every day
f ten hours. Among the novel
introduced at the falls for
water power is the intro
uction of wire rope as shafting,
by means of pulleys, trans .
RS the power over distances from
ne-half to a full mile from the
PURGE; these pulleys are located
'Om 500 to 1000 feet apart, they
ave been i'm use i'm Europe for
many years, but only recently in
reduced at Minneapolis, The fol-
is a list of the leading lum-
er dealers In Minneapolis and sur
1unding towns:
MINNEAPOLIS.
VIM. P. Ankeny & Bro; VIM. d.
L. Butler & Co.; w. S.
udd; Morrison Bros; j. Dean &
o.; VIM. H. Eldred; Leonard Day
Sons; Farnham & LOvejoy; VIM.
Jones; Croker Bros. & Lamer-
Tx; Petit, Robinson & Co.; F. p.
lark; Gaines, Cook & Co.; East
IAN, Bovey & Co.; Bedford, Boyer
Baker.
SALTWATER.
evils Z. Torrinus, of st, Croix
Lumber Company; Isaac Staples,
Lumber and Single Works.
The above review will suffice to
onvey a general Idea to our people
nd those of the southwest of the
ABILITIES and latent resources of
Minnesota.
The following Is a list of the rep
lumber merchants who
ccompanied us on this occasion to
lvestigate the. lumber question:
Ir. George w. Hoagland, ST., of st.
G.. w. Hoagland, jr., of
maha ; Messrs. George P. Ohm
cad, of the firm of Hall, Leach
Co., L. Deardoff and James An
,rson, Of Kansas City; Mr.. Grow
,r, of Lawrence; John Foster, of Il
m of Angel d Foster, Of Leaven-