The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-20
|CE MEN T /!
That's What MankatO Will Produce
as soon as Works can be
Constructed,
sos, 900 to be Immediately In.
vested by Eastern Capitalists.
A Real, Live and Living Boom for
Our City.

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mass of our citizens that it unroofcd their
calculations for season Of business inert
ncss, AMI hurled them Into II pool of unseen
ana unexpected activity that caused them tn
open their eyes To the fact that Mankato Is
| not, has not and will not bc found asleep.
| although she may have been caught mapping
NJ times In the past.
One week ago to-day, Mr.. Jas. =. Parsons.
President of the Continental Life Insurance
Company, of Hartford, Conn, and Mr.. l..
Cummings, of Buffalo, N. V, arrived in Nam
kato, for the purpose of making our city II
brief visit andIooking into the merits of our
| cement producing stone. After making
some few inquiries, taking certain parties
into their confidence. and carefully testing
the quality of stone, they decided To purchase
the property in West Mankato, belonging Ia
MIR. stephen Lamm. Daniel Buck and Mr..
Armstrong, containing in all about ~ acres
The land IL that upon and joining which Cess
Ter X Coss brewery recently burned, rum
ming south To the Blue Earth river and east
to the Omaha railroad. The papers were
passed yesterday, and, we understand I'm
average of about $50 per acre was paid for
the property
Last evening we had an interview with
Messrs. Parsons Il Cummings as To just what
they proposed Ia do and CLEANED from them
some very interesting facts. Within two
weeks Mr.. Cummings, who has made the
manufacture al cement a.study for over II
quarter Of century, and who is interested
in the Cement Works near Buffalo, n. Y,
will return To this place for the purpose of
experimenting the construction of the works
h..r.. ~
work to complete the necessary structures,
kilns, etc.. within sixty days The main
building will be 5Ox25o feet, constructed in n
permanent ana substantial manner, and of
stone by the time this is done, all the ma
chincry and tools used about the miulufac-
tory will he on the ground ready for placing
in position ana no time will he lost in getting
the Mankato cement into the market.
The capacity of the works will be about
200 barrels per day, but for the first year the
prOprictors do not expect to turn out over
about $40. This limited amount will give
employment to sixty or seventy laborers
Then there are barrels to he made, and if no
one here can be induced to start this indus
try, IL will bc run in connection with the
cement works, although il is desired on the
part of Messrs. Parsons l. Cummings that
some pntcrprising Mankato gentleman should
take the contract of furnishing them. This
branch, which is an Indispensable concomit-
ant of the cement works. will give employ
ment to ut least fifty men from the start.
Nor is this all that the new enterprise will
do for itself and the city. Mr.. Cummings in
forms us that us soon us possible, and within
Il year his establishment will put i'm machin-
cry for making tile. and assures us that he
will he able to turn out the best sewer pipe
and well curbing that is made in this coun-
try. There is at present but one such con-
Germ west of Chicago and that at Milwaukee.
In this branch many more laborers can find
employment, and at compensating wages.
AS we said before. Mr.. Cummings is an ex-
pert at the cement business and knows
whereof he speaks when he says that Manka-
to has the finest quality of cement stone that
has yet been discovered in America. lie has
visited every such works In this country. has
tested their cement, has made II close exam
nation of the stone here and says he is not
deceived in his calculations. Thus is certain
~ II distinction that Mankato may feel proud
To claim and one that places her in an envi-
able position before the world.
Mr.. Parsons believes, with Mr.. Cummings
that the Mankato works will produce the
finest article made i'm this country. He i'll
formed MS that il is the wish oi the company
To have some Mankato citizen put up ten or
Il dozen small tenement houses, but in the
event no one desired Ia do So his folks wi l.
The men who have charge of this matter
are broal-gangcd, liberal minded fellows, and
propose to push their business from the
shoulder. They did not come here with amy
narrow ideas. They asked no bonuses; passed
no hat, and wanted no contributions. They
came here like men that they are, paid the
price asked for what they bought, and WILL so
fara lies within thcirpowcr, purchase every
dollars worth of material used i'm the con-
struction of their works that it is possible,
right here ut home. They believe in help.
ing to build up Il town in which they are i'll
tcrcsted, and Mankuto will receive such in
spiration from them in IL business way, as she
has long needed to make her what nature
intended-a city second to none in the State.
While they ask nothing from our citizens,
yet the company is perfectly willing and in
deed would be glad, to have any one who de-
sircs, to interest himself in the enterprise t.
the extent Of taking stock. They do not be-
lievc i'm debarring local capital from seeking
sale investment, ana the lact tnitt tniS iftSti-
tuition has behind It all the money necessary
Ia push il to any desired capacity, it is self
evident that there Is no such thing az fail.
There is very good reason for the belief that
some of our home capital, now rIsting in its
Golfers, will take advantage of the offer. This
Is not u "close corporation" but broad
gagged. believing in the sentiment that "live
and let live" is the handspring to eveLy hui
man enterprise.
MankatO Is now entering upon an era oi
prosperity and commercial Importance never
| before attained i'm all her history. With the
advent of two new railroads which are sure
to reach here the present season; the intro
duction of vast industry that will within
| year turn out fully 900 barrels of cement
day. giving employment to 300 men or more.
the re-Opening of our stone q,iarries On an
unprecedente scale, all tend to show that
| our natural resources are beginning to drop
| into proper channels and must receive their
| just rewards.
The people Of MankatO extend to Messrs.
| Parsons & Cummings the hand of fellowship,
and we believe will ever stand ready to aid
the grand enterprise they are about to cstab-
li.h here in every possible way, ana it is not
| too much to say that during the brief time
these gentlemen have spent i'm our city, they
| have made warm friends of all with whom
| thnv have cnme i'm cnntact