New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-04

of stoDe ont Of the 90 Touring mills OF the city, with 1877
run of stone, which make Minneapolis tue greatest ou
ing city in America.
In ls59-6O the first mills the Cataract" ana
"Union" were built above Cataract-st Adjoining
them are the Arctic" and" Holly" Mills Near Tue
head OF the the city water-works In 1902
A. Pisbury & Co., the firm including John 81 fitIs'
bury the present Governor OF Minnesota, Duilt the
Pillsbury Mill. with eleven run OF stome; on
the canal south of Cataract,st snort aisango
from them in same year Ex-Governor C. e. WasnDuin
OF Wisconsin, and G. g. Hazard built what Is known as
mills with eightysix run OF stone had been Dult up 10
1873 The wheat product OF Minnesota was increasing
in 1871, by the Introduction OF the appliance known as
the middlings purifier. Which has revout,onzeSd ' ~
produce from mddlnRs of hard Spring wheat flour
equang in color aud superior In strength to Hour made
soon commanded the price in the market and these
circumstances combined TO make the milling business
years following 1872 III run Of stone were were
added TO the cluster OF mills on and near
Ex-Governor washburn. recognizing the immense
advantage which the new process the las Tatep0Wgs
milling centre, IN 1873 increased his milling laeHi-
ties fogSd by building the Gg 1n cav daTn and
the west side OF the canal His partners 10 the u
te r o mere btS eSre re- II Chan Co. It was
the largest Touring mill IN America having
OF stone. and next to the largest IN the world anu
for equipments and modern appliances surpassed every
thing,
Like all of the large Touring mills of Minneapolis the
ton limestone, easily quarried along the river cliff IL
was of dual construction there being two complete and
independent mills under roof The building vas
100 by 1873 feet the ground floor win stone walls
feet thick at the base and ~ uches a te top anu was
seven and u half stories high including the cupola
Two Boyden turbine Wheels feet in diameter N the sub
basement supplied the motive power ON the rs nOor
the machinery, and the secOndhoor was the grind
ng-room, with foryone run OF stone eacn our ana one
half feet in diameter. Eight packers IN the third story
could pack from 1000 10 200 barrels daily Inc fourth
and htth stories were occupied by te Do's G h
m
busters On the sixth floor were the boSincchesis ior
aators II The seventh story the machinery which
supplied he motive power 10 an ne here iliS sS
were the bins for storing purified and unpurfled
middlngs and cleaned wheat From twenty to twenty
track at the rear Of the mill. Two MAN elevators
in the mill had capacity for unloading two car
loads OF wheat IN fifteen minutes and empty.
ing the wheat in the bins in the tOpm0st
story. The whole building was heated by steam. ana
there were water pipes with r'5ber nose au5cuedi
each floor, ready tor use In cas-" Of ire MIL ana
fixtures are said to have co8i S5O2Ogo shee to'4 ~
had been grinding from one and hall million 10 tWo
million bushels OF wheat year valued at from Sl0OO
men the wear round including the coopcrs as the mill
had Its own separate cooper shops.
The Washburn Mill stood alone, being from 100 feet on
the east to $50 on the north from the other mills which
abuttel another, there being occasionally cot
mill paper mill planning mill between In 1876
the combined products the Touring mills Of Minneap
oils was l13j 100 barrels OF -four valued at $500
600 The product has increased in the last two years
On an average twenty freight trains 1900 barrels
OF flour ont OF the city daily The yearly shipments
1860 have been: 10000 barrels in 1850, $4,000
barrels 1863 1884 in 1870, $4,000 in 1873
727lJ7 in 1874, si3,7G9 in 1870 l,OO0,67G in 1875.
The Touring mills which suffered from the destruc
ton Of the Washburn Mil the opposite side Of
the canal directly in the of the big MILL and 100
feet above II on west side OF the canal They were
The Humboldt Mil, six of stone. b. S. Bull Newton
& Co. the Hennepin MIL of stone, Carton, Hay
ward < Co.. both built In 1875 Pcttlt RObinsons
Aukeny Co.'s Galaxy Mill, twelve run or stone built
in 1874, and the Zenith MIL Day Rollins Co., six run
OF stone, built IN 1871.
In 1874 and 1875 the mill company built the largest
elevator the city, few feet south Of the Wasburn
MIL and having capacity of 100000 bushels This
elevator was destroyed. There mechanical con-
nccOn betw een the elevator and the Washburn MILL by
which transferred from to the other with
rehaudng. In 1876 there passed through this ee-
yator 5S5,6I4 bushels; through the Union elevator
4s16l bushels through the Minnesota elevator $685.
O55 bushels, making a total of 2.6e6,s6O bushels.
The destruction OF so much property and OF So ont
of the 1877 Of stone in the Touring mills leaving Ill
run Of stone, cupples mainly the Touring interest of
Minneapolis and that only temporarily The industries
OF the city still number 40 sawms, with a yearly
capacity Of 20O0OO00O feet II panDg, door, sash and
blind factories and various other manufacturing INDUS
tries whose products alone in 1876, valued at
- 7T6l33. This includes the wClkuOwn North star
Woolen Mills situated the canal 400 feet above the
big Washburn MILL Beside the manufacturing interests,
the wholesale houses Oi Minneapolis in 1876, did bus
ness agg1cgating $53136Jl IL combines natural adj
yanagos wealth and enterprise, and the disaster
threefOld would soon rise from the ashes