Daily globe., 1883-07-23
NO.. 204.


| les-so realize princely incomes from as
I small profits as their great eastern rivals.
any visitor to the great Wholesale houses
of these two cities will be impressed with
the faet that the proprietors, clerks and
employees, even down to tbs roustabouts,
are always busy. The alleys IN the rear of
theIrsestablishments are generally blocked
with goods, which pour out in a constant
stream for shipment to all points in the
northwest, including Canada
what we have said of the Wholesale trade
particularly applies to the
MANUFACTURERS.
OF both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
We have said that labor is as cheap here
as anywhere in the east, and we'll it NAV
De. as there is no place where the laborer
can live more cheaply. These cities are
In the heart of the great granary of the
i northwest, where bread is. made not only
Tor home, but also for foreign consump-
tton, while they are also in close proximity
TO both the beef and the pork raising
regions of the continent. Thanks, too, to
building associations and the liberal policy
OF lot owners, nearly all the laboring
classes here occupy little homes of their
own and pay no rents. Every member of
the laborer's family, too, can here find en-
pioyment The small boy or girl can
here earn from So soto 81 per week when
not at school, in the various cigar
manufactures of the city, and the
young maiden who has completed her
education adds to. the family income by
| obtaining regular employment in the q.
| various manufacturing establishments at
! tached to the large dry goods and furnish
| ing houses, where sewing machines and
other implements Of manufacture are run
by steam. Nearly all such establishments
employ from fifty to 100 girls. Clerkships,
too, for girls as we'll as boys, are found in
the various retail as well as wholesale ss-
Establishments, and the result is that every
member of the laboring mans household
is or can be employed. The family in
come consequently, even with small
wages, is sufficiently large to procure the
comforts Of life. In addition to cheap
labor, unrivaled water power etc., ETC.,
the manufacturers of Minneapolis and st,
| Paul have
| THEIR RAW MATERIAL,
their coal, iron, copper, timber, ETC., almost
at their very doors. They obtain the best
! quality of anthracite by the lakes, while
| their bituminous coal comes from Iowa
and other points on the Mississippi, at an
expense of from $3.50 to 81 a con. Their
iron and copper ores are also largely OBJ
tained from the famous Lake Superior,
mines, as well as from western Wisconsin,
which are both in close proximity, while
| their supplies of pine lumber, hardwood,
etc., are hoated down to them from the
| great pineries and timber regions on the
headWaters of the Mississippi. There is no
city in the Union which has such inexhaust-
ible supplies of standing timber within
easy reach as 1T. Paul and Minneapolis,
By the census of 1880, the standing mer-
chantable pine IN the forests directly trib-
utary to these cities, is estimated at 81, ,OOO.-
100000 of feet.
! We are safe, therefore, in saying that
the Minneapolis and st. Paul manufac-.
turers of furniture, sash, doors andIblinds,
| agricultural implements, trunks, carriages
and wagons, and buggies, paper, cigars,
hose, as we'll as the various iron works,
! foundries, mill machinery, and other diver
| sitied branches of industry can compete
with the world in their prices.
It is a we'll known fact that leading
Chicago houses, both jobbing and manu-
| featuring, have found it necessary to es-
tablish branches at Minneapolis and ST
Paul in order to retain the trade of the
great northwest,
CONCLUDING WORDS.
| Did our space permit we could furnish
many additional facts of interest concern
ing these twin cities at the head of the
father of waters, and at the foot of the
great unsaltsd seas of the north. In fu-
ture references to the different houses,
which appear in our advertising columns,
and which are conceded by all to repre-
sent the leading industries of both st.
Paul and Minneapolis, we shall refer to
much which is now necessarily omitted.
Six weeks ago we came here a stranger,
but we were taken by the hand with a,frank
| and generous cordiality which we can
never forget, and which is found only
among the big hearted people of the west.
The business men of st. Paul and Mime
apolis are of that mould who build cities
and found empires. Far-seeing, active,
| tireless, enterprising, liberal, of sterling
honesty, quick to conceive and prompt to
execute, such men can defy competition,
and year by year they will bind to thep-.
selves the heart of the great northwest t6T
closer ties, and with hooks of steel.
Within the memory of many now living
the site of the present cities was a wilder
ness. Palatial residences and public
buildings-massive and splendid as Alad-
din's palace-have risen as if by magic
from the rolling hills and broad prairies,
where but few years ago the mighty Mis-;
s1ssippi flowed in solitude. In the place
of the primeval forest and the red mans
wigwam thousands of cleaning spires,
minarets, and shining domes, now flash
back the glories of the down. Ger
tainly to the average Montanian
view of these cities at this season of the
year, would be likely to prove as fatal
as the peri's glimpse of paradise, which
ever afterwards untitled her for the enjoy
ments of earth. Think, o ye Inhabitants
of cloud capped but rugged mountains, of
cities embowered in foliage, bright with
blossom, and sweet with the fragrance of
the spring time-of cities girt about with
sunny lakes, that laugh beneath the light
of golden skies and fill the summer air
with music of murmuring watersI
But although the picture Is one upon
which memory will love to Iinger, we trust
that we shall do SO without envy of our
fortunate neighbors at the other end of the
line. Since the railroad has made US one,
we would rather exult in this wealth of love
lIness as portion of our future inherit