Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
FARM MACHINERY.
St. Paul Harvester Works.

FARM MACHINERY.
St. Paul Harvester Works.
This institution is operated by stock
company, of which E. NJ. Deane is president,
G. II. Bigelow vice president and John E.
Miller secretary and treasurer. The offices
are at the corner of Fourth and Robert
streets and employ nine men, including the
two executive officers, the president and Sec
rotary. The shops are in the eastern suburb
of the city. a short distance southeast from
Lake Phalen. About $50 men are now en-
p!oyed at the shops, the force varying dur
ing the year, according to season and the
supply of skilled workmen, from $50 to 225.
The machinery of the shops is propelled by
125-horse power engine. The principal
buildings of the mandatory are six in num-
bsr and are large and substantial. During
the last year the company rebuilt portion
Of the shops which had been injured by fire
and increased their capacity. They have al
SO put in a complete fire apparatus,
protecting all the buildings. with
duplex steam pumps of capacity
sufficient for combating any fire which
can occur there. Besides the shop buildings,
engine house, barns and sheds of the manu-
factory, the company has also built board
Ing house, eight cottages, a store, and
chapel for the accommodation of its en-
ployes.
The company began its operations in 1S72,
with the Edward Harvester, to which it has
added the cord binding attachment for the
harvester and the Eureka mower. The har-
voster is now we'll known throughout the
country and against very sharp competition
has won and maintains the position of fa.
vorite of farmers throughout the whole Mis-
issippi valley. The cord binder was the first
Ct successful devices for using cord and is
usually desired with the harvester except
where harvesting work is small and
labor ia cheap. The Eureka mower,
particularly described in these columns when
first introduced here has its advantages in
direct, light draft and easy handling, with
perfect work. Notwithstanding the fire
f,r the company ard this years business is
already assured, contracts having been made
with dealers for the sale of all the machines
to be produced this season. These contracts
extend into Michigan and Indiana on the
East, to Texas South and to California West.
About half the machines are sold in Mime
sofa and all could have been sold at home,
but that it is the policy of the company to 80
distribute its sales as not to have lis returns
depend upon the crop results in any limited
area.
In this connection, since the cord binder
is generally coming into use in Minnesota
and Dakota, the question of cheap supply
of cord is one of considerable interest to
grain raisers. The hemp from which
it is made is mostly raised in Mis-
souri,, kentucky and Tennessee. The
crop of last season was little short so that
cord for harvesting this year will probably
cost twenty five to forty cents On acre. Now
in nearly every farming neighborhood can
be found some farmer who understands the
cultivation and handling of fax, and the
winter evenings il farm household afford
abundant opportunity for spinning the flax
into just as good cord as can be bought,
while the flax seed will always have re-
munerative cash price in market.
The monthly pay rolls of the Harvester
Works amount to $4,000 to $4,000, q fact
which sufficiently indicates the value of the
establishment to s.. Paul. To the country
at large it is also of importance as furnish
ing superior class of we'll made farm ma
chinery, whils to the farmers Of the North
west, who are as a rule required to pay tie
fright on eastern machinery to st. Paul, it
saves in the aggregate a large amount in
freight and also in time when orders have
to be sent to the mandatory.
st. Paul I'otC VcrLs.
This, though ono of the recent industrial
enterprises Of St. Paul, has reached p.opcr-