St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13

piled the facilities for water shipment down
the grand natural water way of the cont.
nent, and the immense water powers along
the Cannon river to turn the mills to manu-
facture the cotton that can most convenient
ly be brought hither from the south. Men
have built railroads and the factories have
already been started and need only to be
multiplied in the varieties of articles manu-
featured, and increased and extended with
the development of the grand agricultural
regions to the south, west and north 1t is
not ours, however, to dwell on possibilities,
except incidentally. We will leave that to
others and deal only in the record of the
year, 1888. Presbyterian church statistics
should have following corrections and adj
ditions: Present membership, 225; chart
ties, $780, missions, $3.50; miscellaneous
expenses, $780,
Red Wing manufacturing establishments
gave employment to 1,033 persons during
1888, to whom was paid in wages the sum Of
S424, 406, and the gross value Of manufac-
tured products amounted to s2,509, Ops.
There was expendedin buildings and i'm
provements during the year 1927, 1885, Pieces
of mail matter received at Red Wing post
office, l, JOG, 1913. Paid out during the year
for railroad freight on grain and manufac-
tured articles shipped out of the city, S178,-
796.4S. Amount of freight sent out, 1885,
Ais, $50 pounds. Value of railroad tickets
sold, $50, 074.47. Freight shipped by river,
not including grain sent in barges, 100000
pounds. Red Wing warehouses have handled
grain to the amount of 1854, 900 bushels.
The mills have ground 800, 900 bushels OF
wheat into flour. There has been expended
on the public schools for current expenses,
S15, 1893. Is, of which amount -, 501.94 was
paid out for teachers wages. There graduated
from the high school twenty-five students in
June, 1888, with the highest hOnors, and the
public schools of Red Wing rank among the
best in the nation. Number of pupils en-
rolled in the public schools, 1880. Number
of students in Red Wing seminary and par
ish schools, 342. Postage stamps and postal
! cards sold at postofice, $50, 094. Church
expenditures foF the year, s24, 1857. Dis
counts on loans by the three banks with
100000 capital each, 50, 765, 900. One
hotel, the st. James, which is favorite resort
of travelling men and tourists, entertained
during the year 7,7S6 guests, besides its
regular boarders. With such record city
OF 1000 population, which few years ago
was only an Indian village, no one can be
skeptical as to the possibilities of the future.
| At $40 p. m, the train reached Hastings
where there was a band and a large con-
course of people awaiting US. Hon. j. f.
Norrish gave few words of appropriate well
come, and the train pulled out for home, every
member glad that the trip was so nearly oyer
while heartily glad that they had taken it.
purse of S175 cash had been raised and was
distributed among the train hands,
from our faithful engineer down.
At 4:30 the train ran into
the Union depot when, after piece by the
Great Western, three .rousing cheers were
given for the C. NJ. d st. Paul r. R. and its
courteous and gentlemanly officers, and the
second excursion of the st. Paul Jobbers
Union was at an end, and each member of
the party quietly departed for home among
regrets and adieus.