The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-06-02
IIInSec<l OIL Mill.


The Mankato Linsccd Oil Works
are located on Fourth street ut the
head of Elm street. The company
which built and own these works,
was organized in 1872, having Il capt.
tai of $l5O,OOO with J. a. Willard,
president. II. ID. Hubbard, treasurer
and superintendent, and j. b. Hub
bell. secretary. J. b. IIubbell has
since retired from the business and in
his place Geo. Nj. Palmer is secretary.
The mill was started with daily ca
pacity of 600 gallons of oil and six
tons of oil cake. The business has
grown steadily from that time to the
present. Owing to the large increase
of its business the company has found
it necessary to make many additions
to its manufacturing and storage ca
pacity. The capacity of its mill now
is twelve tons of oil cake and 200
gallons of oil Il day.
Its storage capacity is 10000 bush
els of seed and 100000 gallons of oil.
When run to its full capacity the
mill uses 600 bushels of seed daily or
100000 annually. TO handle this
amount of oil 1900 barrels are re-
quircd. TO hold the cake $4,000
| burlap bags are used, and the COM
pany has about 10000 grain bags to
handle its seed.
Much of the oil is sold direct to re-
| tail merchants i'm sections adjacent to
MankatO. \ large and growing trade
is coming from Dakota.
Most of the oil cake is shipped
directly to England. Stock riisers in
this country have not yet learned its
value rs Il food. In England and
Scotland it necessarily commands a
very high price, yet all that is sent
there is readily sold.
| The home demand, however, for
ground oil cake is constantly increaS-
ing. which shows that farmers are be-
ginning To appreciate it, and the time
| is not far distant when every pound
manufactured by this mill will he
used in Southern Minnesota and adj
Joining sections. This ought to he the
| ease. AS Il feed for milch cows it has
no equal. 1t is also Il fine food for
calves. and for hogs, cattle and horses
il is excellent.
Eminent chemists estimate one
| pound of oil cake To he equal to 2.S
pounds of corn meal or . pounds of
bran. Oil meal is well suited to mix
with other feed.
The company obtains much of its
flax seed from klue Earth and adjoin-
ing counties. but most of il has been
obtained along the line of the st. p.
| IL :. G. Ry. In the last two years
large crops of flax have been raised on
the G. Il n. W. Ry. line west from
Mankato. The company buys nothing
but the seed. Thousands of tons of
flax straw are burned every year in
Southern Minnesota. Here is an eX-
cellent opportunity for some enter
| priSing firm to put into successful
operation tow mill.
ManlxatO ManufactrIri Co.
One of the largest and most impor.
tant manufacturing industries of
Mankato is the above company,
which was established in July, 1873,
as q stock company comprising seven
ty.Six stockholders, with capital of
$40. 900 divided into 600 shares of $50
each. 1t was incorporated for the
purpose of manufacturing agricul-
tural implements, etc. 1t is managed
| by d board of five directors elected
annually. The first directors were ii.
X. Lee, Geo. Weaver, o. D. Pitcher,
| J. A. James and Henry Wolfram. Its
first president was George Weaver
and first secretary, J. Q. a. Marsh.
In the fall of 1873 the present build.
ing was erected at a cost, including
the grounds, of $500. The dimen.
sions of the machine shop are 32xlOO
feet, two stories high and of brick; il
has foundry attached 40x60 feet.
one story, and IN engine and iron
room 22x24 feet each. The company
employ from fifteen to twenty men,
and turn out steam engines, sorghum
mills and do all kinds of mill work
and mill repairs. 1t is fitted up will
the most approved patterns of ma
clinery. and its work stands upon
the same equality with that of any
similar manufactory in the West. II
has a field of sufficient dimension.
from which to attract trade and t.
! ultimately employ 100 mechanics,ant
5 which it will no doubt do within ;
| few years. During all the hare
/ times when many other industrie.
were forced to the wall, this manu-
4 factory did not miss Il day, thu:
/ showing the substantial basis upon
which it rests. Its present Superin
: tendent, Mr.. ii. X. Lee. and Secretary
l. Mr.. II. Roberts, are gentlemen VIII,
/ have acquired knowledge of thei
- business sufficient to meet any emer
:, gency, and their practice has Away
!, been 10 perform all their contracts
d promptly and according to the yer,
spirit and letter of their agreement
u In consequence thereof, while man,
v others do more work than they, non,
d possess greater confidence or NOR,
Ia extended reputation for doing goo,
] work than the MankatO Foundry.