St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-05
Much of its products fined ready market at
home while the remainder goes east.
IRON AND NOVELTY WORKS

ate as their name wonld indicate q machine
shop and foundery. They do a general bus
mess as would be expected of such an insti-
tuition, but like many individuals they have
their hobby and that is an iron farm fence.
Though the vast belt of timber
adjoining Mankato furnishes natures
own material for fences at
very reasonable figure yet the more remote
prairie districts tributary to her find it not
only expensive by reason of transportation
but also from lack of durability, cost of con-
struction and liability to destruction from
prairie fires. was much surprised to learn
that the timber farmers in this vicinity are US
ing barbed wire for fences with an abund-
ance of timber on their own land.
The Mankato Iron Fence Novelty works per-
ceiying the great and growing demand for
perfect, cheap and durable iron fence have
procured an invention and are now manu-
featuring an iron farm fence which combines
all the elements desirable to make it popular
with and useful to the farmer. 1t consists
of tubular wrought iron post with & three
Hanged cast iron base which, when the post is
driven into the ground, comes
just above its surface and thus
secures the post from the rust which would
soon destroy it were this part also wraught
The posts being tubular offer much greater
resistance for the amount of iron they con-
tain than in any other form and are designed
to be set or driven III the ground just four
rods apart To these posts, which rise four
feet three inches above the surface, three or
more barbed wires are attached by means Of
small bits of tie wire inserted in holes drilled
through the posts. Between each two are
three iron stays which are firmly attached to
the wires by means of iron staplus which
effectually prevent their becoming sepa-
rated should any one of them become more
slack than the rest or should they be attack
ed by stock. When once the fence is set
and the wires attached there is no slack or
sagging except between posts, distance of
| four rods, Us the wires are so attached
as not to move upon the posts.
The posts being set this distance apart offers
less actual resistance to pressure of stock
than if nearer and being more flexible is less
liable to be broken easily, resuming its posi-
ton as the stock gladly retreat from the
quick remonstrance of the sharp iron barbs.
fence of this kind is but tifly cents per rod or
thirty cents per rod for posts and stays alone.
| The indestructibility of this fence which
neither rots down nor can be burned up, its
perfect protection to crops or resistance to
attacks of stock, its cheapness and the rapid
! ity with which it can be set, removed or
transferred renders it at once the most de-
sirablc farm fence imaginable and must i'm
mediately come into general use.
The company referred to and which have
undertaken its manufacture were organized
July, 1888, with the following officers:
PRESIDENT. A. Willard.
| Vice President-C. d. Taylor.
Treasurer George II. Clark.
Secretary-S F. Barney.
They have paid up capital Of S25, 900 and
besides doing general foundry and ma
chine shop trade they will build a large
amount of this farm fence and ornamental
dooryard fence this season. They employ Il
large force of men and will enlarge their
works to suit the necessities Of their trade
which in the farm fence line cannot help but
prove enormously large as the practical tests
already made show 1t TO be the most desira-
BILE farm or railroad fence ever invented.
MANKATo MANUFACTURING co.
This com pany was organized in July, 1873,
and has been most successfully operated ever
since. They do a general foundry and ma
chine shop business and manufacture steam
engines, both stationary and portable, and
all kinds of saw and Touring mill machinery.
They have some very complete and expensive
machinery, operate four large power lathes
and two very large iron planners. In city
like Mankato where manufacturing indus
tries are already assuming such large proper
tons, although as yet but in their infancy,
such an institution as this must be one Of
the most vital Importance and fortunate
enough is the city to possess
it under a management not only able fnan-
cially to meet all business requirements, but
alive 10 their necessity, and ready to adapt
their manufacturing to all demands, regard
less of the amount or class Of work desired.
During 1883 the company have turned out
over S23, 900 worth Of work and have en-
ployed nineteen men. The coming years.
business bids fair TO be much in excess of
last seasons, and their works have been
somewhat enlarged, the necessary wood shop
having been put on the ground floor. The
company have $50, 900 cash capital all paid
up, and are Differed as follows: President, j.
A. James secretary and treasurer, r. Roberts
superintendent, II. Il. Lee.
1t is decidedly a home institution, having
been founded and being now operated wholly
upon home capital. The perfection and ex-
cellence of their work is rapidly building up
something more than q purely local trade,
and orders from adjoining towns are of fire.
quent occurrence.
MANKATo BOILER WORKS.
This institution, very necessary adjunct
to such an establishment as the one just de-
scribed, is located upon an adjoining lot,
and was established March, 1888, by j. D.
Harding & Co., for the manufacture OF
steam engine boilers. During the
season they turned out ten new
large boilers at "a cash value Of 5000,
among which were the boilers for the Man
kato cement works and other city manufac-
turing establishments and several shipped to
adjoining towns, besides large amount OF
repairing which they have turned out as cir
cumstances have required. They employ an
average force of about fifteen men and are
the beginning ofan establishment which one
day will be of no small local importance.
MANKATo CooPERAGE.
With the establishment of so many manu-
featuring concerns and lines Of business al
Mankato using upward of million barrels,
casks, kegs and tubs annually and with such
an inexhaustible and excellent supply of al
woods necessary to their construction close
at hand in it no matter of wonder that the