Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-31
A Gain Of Nearly Tweve Million Dol
lars Over 1882.
OUR MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
The I'd vancement in This Direction
Keeping Pace With Other I'm
pr0VementS.
st. Paul Wholesale Rus mess

| world, is decided beyond preadventure. It
is absolutely secured, and this already
great metropolis is as certain to soon rank
| as ut least the third commercial city of the
| North American continent, as is the con-
tinuation of the prosperity of our unap-
probable republic, or the influx of
foreigners to cur free shores. The
| growth of the city's commercial interests
has not been quick or feverish, but steady
and hsalthful, following regularly and
faithfully the development of the vast ter
! ritory tributary to it, territory which in
extent and richness far exceeds the domain
under the financial control of any other
city on the continent.
The commercial reign OF the city com
msnced when it was the center of a COM
parit1yely small population and area, in
Guiding only the middle and southern por-
ton of the state of Minnesota and the
northern part of Wisconsin. The building
OF railroads into and across the northern
part Of our own state was the first step in
advance and extension, and steadily, year
by year, as the railways built into new
Us
prestige of the city was maintained and
her trade grew Gradually the great Red
River valley with its millions of arabic
acres was opened, and communication
with the British northwest was achieved.
Dakota was penetrated and with the ex
panse of available territory came tbs full
tide of immigration. The demands upon
the ST. Paul merchants increased at rate
Of 40 to so per cent. per annum, and the
demand was met. Montana was added,
and the fourishing towns in that rich ter
ritory found access to the metropolis by
railway. Finally came, in September last,
the completion and opening of the great
trans continental line, the Northern Pa
cifs," placing st. Paul, the east
ern terminus, at once in a
royal position as the commercial
fountain head for this grand northwestern
empire extending from the great lakes to
the great ocean, and opening resources Of
wealth such as no other city in the world
can boast Of. Located at the eastern snd
of sha best and shortest line by which the
grand empires of Asia can reach the hears
of the United States and even the eastern
European markets, st. Paul is accorded
| naturally the position eff distributing
market for the vast importations from our
foreign neighbors as we'll as for the rich
products OF thsgolden northwest. Thus in
comparatively a few years ST. Paul has
grown from the commercial center of
snail territory, to grand central market
| whore the transactions of nations must be
| conducted.
1t oannet be denied that st.
PAU has just commenced her
prosperity. Fifty per cent. increase means
more to-day than it did ten, or even five,
years ago, and yet there is every indica-
ton, and almost q positive assurance, that
such 3 ratio of extension will continue for
many years. We have subssrvant to US a
territory wonderfully productive and re-
markably varied in the characters of it's
productions. In wheat we lead the world
and the other agricultural products of our
northern zone are equal in quality to that
| profitable cereal. The stock ranges of the
further northern fields furnish a wonderful
supply of beef cattle and game in plenty.
In the same district We find the richest
deposits of mineral wealth yet
asdevsloped. Still beyond we
may look for tbs products of
that versatile country which fringes
the ocean from the frozen district of the
north to the sunny orchards of the south.
At our own doors we have the best pine
and hard wood timber, and the finest water
power in the world to reduce it to lumber,
while within days haul We have the rich,
est of iron and silver ores-in northeastern
Minnesota. In the words of an Intelligent
and fscetious observer: "You have got the
top of the cake, all the sugar and all the
plums."
From city of $4,000 inhabitants less
than eighteen months since, St. Paul has
grown to metropolis of over 100000, the
natural result of the opening of new terri
tory, and the legitimate trade has kept
pace with it, without advertising and with
out gush. Young, enterprising and saga
cious men from the east have figured out
the sure prosperity of this favored point,
and have brought here their mental and
money capitals. There hss been no ''bosm''
and no attempt to work one. Business has
assumed q substantial shape, credits are
not so cheap as when we were a frontier
metropolis, and the older houses hive
grown in amount Of sales from few hun
dred thousand dollars to millions. Who
shall prophecy that our prosperity shall
not continue?
Look at the millions of acres of pro-
ductive land yet untitled, and the quality
Of the wheat it produces. Not one-tenth
of our great wheat fields have yet known
the plough. Look at the millions upon
millions of acres of uncut pine, and think
of the increased demand for lumber along
the frontier. Look at the bouadless cattle
ranges, and imagine the droves
of cheice besves and sheep which can
be fattened upen the now wasted succulent
grasses. Look at the undeveloped mineral
wealth, and estimate the tons of rich bull
lion which mast be exchanged for the ne
cessities of life in this metropolis. Now
| We find the farms of the north subjected to
more careful cultivation, as the farmers
have learned that few more dollars e1-