The Grange advance., 1874-01-28
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have been pleased to see in your paper,
many articles on the industrial interests of
this city and Of other towns aud cities Of
the State
Our situation is very favorable for en-
gaging in many branches Of business, ali
paying we'll on the investment, and neces-
sarily increasing every year from the con-
ditions in the premises
In recent visits to the cities of St. Paul
Minneapolis and Saltwater, etc., we have
seen many structures in process of cree
ton, and noticed the variety of material
used, as stone, brick, lime and wood. We
find rock from Sauk Rapids, near Duluth
and from Kasota. Lime from Alton and
Rock Island, and the hard woods and black
walnut from down the river. Now, in our
very city limits we have better quality Of
building rock, the action on it of heat be-
ing considered as an element of value. than
the best Quincy granite-the very Kasota
stone itself is in stu, minus the red mineral
coloring, and better than this, q more re-
cent deposit of true Trenton flag, enduring
as granite under ordinary circumstances,
but Immensely more enduring when both
are subjected to high temperature-gran-
ite, as the Boston fire fully demonstrated,
disintegrating, where ordinary brick stood
the test. A demand for building material
= ~ u:
ments of granite, Kasota rock, and the re-
cent explorations at Frontenac. We have
here, close to river and railroad, immense
quantities of this needed article, awaiting
the employment of means to ensure re-
munerating investment. This same mate
rial, burned into lime, makes the best brick
and stone work cement known; those who
have tested it thoroughly, give it the pref
erence to the best Alton or Rock Island
lime. The strata of limest one in two local.
tiles in our city limits, exceed in thickness
any other situation in the northwest, being
given by Prof. Owen as $50 feet. The up
per portion of this deposit, although not
sufficiently thick in strati6ed layers for
very large buildings, answers we'll for or
dinary work in dwellings and window caps
and stills, and for tagging purposes. 1t
makes the best of white stucco lime, and
would, if known and tested, supercede the
Alton article shipped here at an advanced
price. The cheapness Of fuel, owing to the
proximity Of the immense forests in Wiscon
sin, must forever give US the advantage in
manufacturing this article--the demand
must be always great-the old tenements
must soon be replaced by better ones, and
the whole north aud west of us is the mar
ket-even down the Mississippi good
market can be found. But few places in
the State can be found where good lime
stone is attainable. The magesian rock
everything the st. Peter sandstone at St.
Paul and Minneapolis, think, will be ad-
mitted to be an inferior article when made
into lime-as building rock it is beauti
full; but time makes burrows in its beauty
the old capitol steps proves the correct
ness Of this statement. Any one who has
built q small dwelling can form some opin-
ion of the quantity Of lime likely to be used
in this State every year-and every one ie
competent to judge of the amount used now,
and whether the contingencies of the future
will not vastly increase the demand. Al
Shakopee there is an outcropping Of lime.
stone, and quite business is carried on in
the article, but experience has demon.
strated that it is inferior to the lime made
here, the facilities, as wood, transporta.
tion, and accessibility are not as good
But admitting that they were, the demand
exceeds the supply, as shown through tn,
shipments from below. In but few othe,
places in the State can the limestone b,
found, aud the fuel cheap and accessible, t,
justify investment in the business. W,
here occupy the best point on the Missis
sippi river. Our citizens. Mr.. G. A. Carl
son and Andrew Danielson: are now en-
gagged in the business. Last season Mr.
Carlson had two kilns running, with ca
pacity, when in order, of about 100 barrel
each per day-Mr. Danielson operated will
the old fashioned kiln, but is building
large and improved perpetual kiln, having
the opening in the quarry, thus saving an,
hauling OF rock to feed it. The perpendic
ular shaft in which the kiln is built, has
tunnel communication to the fires, and ,
railway delivers the lime to the wa gon
and storehouse. Mr.. Carlson's kilns ar