The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-04-11
MINNESOTA MILLS.

For enterprise commend us 70 a good,
big newspaper. There was the New
York Herald which found Livingstone
| by sending out correspondent when
the British Government had failed,and
now tile Same paper fits out an expeili-
ton to find the North pole after all the
slow, old government expeditions had
failed. But what we wanted to say is
this:
The Commissioner of statistics was
able to discover only ISL Touring mills,
with 73l run of stone, in the State,
while the Pionecr-P Press has found 305
mills, operating ,4s9 run of stone. Of
these mills 05 are steam, 274 water pow
er, Is steam and Water and wind
mills. The Pioneer-Press deyotes four
columns to the list arranged by coun-
ties. MOBILES county reports two mills
us follows:
C. T. Sutton. Okebcna MIL, Wcrthingtcn,
Barber Brothers, Adrian. steam, run.
The Press sums up us follows:
That there are $50 flour mills in Min
ncsota operating 1,4S0 rul Of stone,
VIII perhaps convey no adequate idea
OF their manufacturing capacity unless
we adj that one run of stone is usually
capable OF grinding out twenty-five bar
rels of -four in twenty-four hours. If
pushed, therefore, to their fullest ca
pacity through the whole twenty-four
hours, the ,4S9 run of stone in Mime
sofa would
day, rate Of production which would
produce in 800 working days Il, 1G7 500
barrels of flour consuming in the pro-
cess 55,837, 500 bushels of wheat. So
that we have now mills enough, il ope-
rated ut their full theoretical capacity.
to grind about 16, 900, 600 more bushels
OF wheat than the highest EST innate put
upoa our entire wheat crop of last year.
or course, in practice, mills don't run
IN this fashion. Fully half the mills in
Minnesota, being custom mills, run on
W part of the year. The merchant
mills frequently shut down entirely for
weeks.
In 1877 the 1877 run of stone ut Min
ncapolis produced 1,C9S.G75 barrels of
flour, and in 1876, 1885, 100, the latter
figure representing nearly 5000 barrels
! OF flour for e;lcl, stone, and the former
nearly 5000. If all the mills in Mime
sofa ran even ut the latter rate, their L.
$50 run Of stone would grind $685., 400
| barrels Of flour Il year, equal to II co.
| 600 bushels Of wheat, or some O,OuO.-
900 bushels more than our entire sur
| plus last year. AS 4 matter of fact,
probably not Il quarter of this amount
Of flour is produced in the State.
THE INSANE
The St. Paul Globe concludes an ar
ticlc upon the question whether the in
sane Of the State have been legally
committed, as follows:
The question then arose, how shall
we I'LL this mausoleum of the dead to
life? They looked into the Cunstitu-
ton OF the State and they found in sec
ton seven, Article six, these words: g.
probate court Shall have Jurisdiction
over the estates of deceased persons
and persons under guardianship, but
no other jurisdiction, frctpt ds Drcscrib-
ch ID this conStitution." Where has the
probate judge, in this clause, tie power
to commit amy one to the Hos pital for
Insane?
The Legislature. recognizing this de-
feet has attempted, in the laws of 1877,
chapters II and T.. and another eli. to
give to the probate Judge the power, but
wll;,''olslS his prerogativc, by attempt
ing to make the Superintendent of the
Hospital for Insane, the guardian Of all
insane people. This is tic most uncon
sttutional theory of the most infa-
NOUS set of laws hlackcning, with un-
told misery, the statutes OF amy State