Daily globe., 1883-07-23
tst. Paul. Editorial Correspondence Helena
Montana. Independent

tSt. Paul Editorial Correspondence Helena,
Montana, Independent.
We have spent five weeks in the beauti
full cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis. We
speak of them as ''cit1es," although in re-
atty they are, or soon will be-, but one.
| The short distance between them is already
largely filed with Suburban residences.
and at the present rapid rate at which
both cities are increasing in population, it
Will not require another decade to COM
pletely fill the intervening space between
them with buildings, blocks, and streets.
Estimates baAed upon the directory and
the statistics of dwellings erected in the
past twc'and a half years, show that each.
of these two cities now has a population,
| of from $4,000 to $4,000, or joint popu-
lation ONO less than 175,000. The his
tory of development in the west, marvel
GUS as ithas been, can furnish no parallel
to such wonderful increase in population.
BUT THE GROWTH OF BUSINESS,
of manufactures and their wholesale. and
Jobblng trade has more than kept pace
with the increase of population. In 1892,
for instance, the wholesale and icbbing
trade of st. Paul alone, amounted to
$66,OOo,OOO. an increase of 20 per cent.
over 1881, while its manufactured pro-
ducts grew from $16,O0O,O0O in 1881, to
S34,C0O,OOO in 1882, an increase. of so per
cent. 1t Is estimated by her best business
men, that for the year 1888, her wholesale
trade will not be less than 100000, 900,
and her manufactured products from
$30,o00,O00 to $35, 100000.
Thls is a remarkable showing for city
that twelve years ago had no manufac-
lures worth mentioning and whose whole
sale trade only amounted to about So
100000.
The growth of business of all kinds in
Minneapolis has been equally wonderful.
The city is situated By the picturesque
Falls of st. Anthony, the greatest water
power in the United States, being 1851 900
horse power at low water mark. A city
with such advantages could not fail to be-
come
GREAT MANUFAoTURING CENTRE.
Such it has already become In 1860, for
instance, it only manufactured 10000 bar
rels of -four. In 1882 it manufactured
3,124, 900 barrels, worth in round numbers,
S21 100000. Six years ago, in 1876, its
| entire manufactured product outside of
flour and lumber, was only about $4,000
600. In 1882 the miscellaneous manufac-
lures of Minneapolis, outside of -four and
lumber, amounted to $17,OOO,OOO and in
cluding them, reached the grand total Of
| $43,759,49 Her wholesale and iobbing
| trade, which a few years ago amounted to
nothing, and in 1876 only reached $685.
651, last year swelled to the enormous
total, including -four and lumber, of S97,-
100000. While st. Paul has the greater
| hn- Of ,oLE
houses, Minneapolis has equal precedence
in the extent and variety of her manufac-
lures of every description.
1t is not our purpose, however, to draw
any Contrasts between these two prosper
Gus and growing Cities
THEIR ELEMENTS OF PROSPERITY
are largely the same. They stand together
at the gateway of the great northwestern
empire, upon whose glowing hills splen-
did dawn is breaking, and together they
share in the magnificent expansion, devel-
! opment and wealth of this vast region
! which empties its treasures at their feet
Neither of these cities can eclipse or over
| shadow the other. Their exalted destiny
| is the same, and they will be one in their
| future greatness, as they have been one in
| their past rapid rise from insignificant be-
| ginnings.
The wonderful growth of Minneapolis
and st. Paul is but the reflex of the lwon-
derful growth of Minnesota, Manitoba,
Dakota, Southwestern British America,
| Wisconsin, Montana and other portions of
the great Northwest, all of which are di-
rectly tributary to them.
! A glance at the map must satisfy the
| most cur5Ory observer of
| THE COMMANDING POSITION
of these two cities.
| First of all they are at the head waters
of the Mississippi, thus making this river
| and its tributaries, embracing over 10000
miles of naVigable streams, available for
| purposes of commerce, Besides the Mis-
sissfppi, they have also the great northern
chain of lakes, only $50 miles distant, and
! with which they are connected by two com
peting lines of railroad.
| Thus they have not one, but virtually
two water lines of communication with the
east, one by way of the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers and their tributaries, and Nh
other by the great lake system upon the
north.
| In addition to these unrivaled water
fecilities, some seventeen railroads center
in these cities, having an aggregate length
with their branches, of about $4,000 miIes.
They are connected with the east. for
instance, by three competing trunk lines
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul. the
Chicago q Northwestern and the Chicaoo
Rock Island & Pacific. The Wisconsin
Central is also pushing rapidly to st. Paul
and Minneapolis, which will give these
cities an additional eastern connection bv
rail.
With the south they are also connected
by the Minneapolis & st. Louis and the
Chicago: Milwaukee & st. Paul. With the
north by the st. Paul, Minneapolis Man
itoba, with its branches; and with the west
by the great Northern Pacific as well as the
Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha and the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul.
With such numerous channels of COM
munication. it is not surprising that these
cities should rapidly develop into depots
of supply for the great northwest.
But their present railroad facilities are
doubtless small in comparison to what
they are destined to become. The fact
that these cities are the virtual eastern
terminus of the great Northerel Pacific
railway will necessarily make them a local