St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-11

hotels, brewery, with a capacity OF twenty-five
barrels per day.
FREEPoRr hf
Freeport, where the next pause was made, sa-
luted the jobbers with several guns. 1t is vii
lage of perhaps $50 inhabitants. 1t is situated in
a rolling prairie, and there is fair amount of
hard wood timber on Sank river, two miles dis
tant. There is one church in the village, a
school builning which cost $500, two elevators
with a capacity OF 10000 bushels, two general
s'oies anu ono no'e'' u1sf4pqsB atr
AT ALBANY. = = fgG
At Albany Mayor Joseph Kraker made brief
speech. This town is located in the center of a
fine wheat country; contains apopulaton of 300.
There are two churches in the place, a school
house, fine grain warehouse, with a capacity of
40, 900 bushels a custom Touring mill, and two
small hotels.
ST. JOSEPH,
Though youthful town, was wide awake, with
flags and booming cannon. 1t is the center OF a
good farming country, and an abundance of hard
wood timber is to be found within few miles.
small stream near the town furnishes a. good
water power, which is at present used to run a
flour and saw mill. There is one church, u
school house which cost $1,000, one elevator,
capacity $4,000 bushels, four general stores, and
ST. CLOUD
was the next objective point, and q multitude
met the st. Paul Jobbers. Mayor Mcdonald SAID
few words Of welcome, and introduced Capt.
j. E. West, whose remarks were in line de-
scrptive of the city, pointing as marks OF inter
est the business enterprises, the churches,
schools, water power, etc. To j. j. Hill, the
president of the Manitoba road warm tribute
xuo moi tbn ,r,I,0b od dnpa fha n,nc for
the country.
President Finch called on DR.. Day, the
''village postmaster to respond, which the
Doctor did, his enthusiasm growing with each
sentence ntil he said the theme so widened
and broadened that 1t reused the spirit of the
American eagle, and he must stop before the
eagle screamed. Two hours were allowed to
visit the town, and the party dispersed in car
rages and otherwise for that purpose.
ST. CLOUD NOTES.
The new Catholic cathedral cost $4,000.
s. E. West is building a fine house.
w. B. Mitchell is building $12, 900 house.
McElray g. Junk's store was covered with
flags
D. H. Green is building a house to cost
$4,000
Gen. McLaren was the guest of District At
torney Searles.
The Normal school is most eligible located, and
the grounds are beautiful.
The Grand Central is fine hotel, $50 rooms
and all modern improvements.
The first settlement at St. Cloud was in 1858,
by G. B. Lowry and Ole Bergson.
Stearns county is the fourth tax-paying county
in the state. Population $4,000.
The Syndicate block just finished on Washing
ton avenue is a great ornament to the CITY,
Mrs. McClure's residence cost $25, 900. n. P.
Clark is building one adjoining at the same cost.
The business blocks of Sweet and Smith and
G. G. Waller, Washington avenue, are of pressed
bricks.
The Mcclure and Searls block on Washington
avenue is built of prime brick and is very hand
some.
The residence portion of st. Cloud is as pic
turesque as can be found in any town in the
northwest. ys
Hon. c. F. Mcdonald has stylish residence,
said to be the finest finish upon the inside Of any
house in st. Cloud.
Across st. Germaine street, from Edlebrock' s
store to the First National bank, was hung 8
banner, ''Welcome. St. Paul Jobbers.''
ST. Cloud is connected with st. Paul, Anoka
Elk River, Cold Springs and Sank Rapids by tele
phone, managed and owned by the Northwestern
Telephone exchange.
Jos. Elebrock is the Oldest merchant in st. Cloud
and stood upon the disasters of 1857 and 1878
He occupies a brick building at the corner of St,
Garmain street and Washington avenue, 30x100
the best store room in the city.
East st. Cloud was nearly all built last yeal
and is wonderful section of the city. The
houses are handsome, the population fully
thousand. 1t has printing Office the Northern
Pa cifc World. The new passenger depot of the
Northern Pacific railroad was accepted on Friday
commodious handsome building.
In 1888, ST. Cloud manufactured: 1000 sets
Of bobsleds, 800 farm wagons, 30 buggies, 9S
buckboards, SO light wagons, 1900 sets of bob
sled woods, 1900 sets of bobsled shoes, $50
seeders $50 sets of harrows, 1876 plows, 10000,
600 feet of lumber, 13,000,000 shingles, $4,000
kegs Of beer, 5000, 900 brick, 100000 granite
paving blocks.
St. Cloud is picking up in manufactures. The
Rosenberg manufacturing ar turning out zoe
North Star Seeders this year. Last season they
built only three. A. Anderson & Sons, manu-
factury, are erecting large stone building for
the accommodation of their growing business.
The Mccormick company occupy four large
buildings for their farm machinery.
The natural fall of the Mississippi river, oppo-
site st. Cloud, exclusive Of any dam, is up
wards of twenty three feet. In January, 1884,
the St. Cloud Water Power and Mill company was
organized by number of st. Clouds leading
citizens for the purpose of improving the river at
this point, with the two-fold object of furnishing
slack water and boomage for saw mills and power
for -four, cotton, paper and wooden mills and var
ious kinds of factories. Men familiar with the
famous water power of Massachusetts say the
power at this point more nearly compares with
the magnificent Holyoke power than any in the
west The improvements contemplated will be
n.,1 l. i
alone is confidently expected to be ready for the
lumber season of 1885. The city appropriates
$780, 900 for this work, and private capital does
the rest.
The st. Cloud railroad system is composed of
the St. Paul, Minneapolis s. Manitoba with two
lines to ST. Paul and Minneapolis, and tee branch
line to Hinckly connecting with the st. Paul d
Duluth for the great lakes its line to the north
west reaching Fargo, Moorhead and Winnipeg
The st. Paul & Northern Pacific, running from
St. Paul to ST. Cloud, Duluth and the Pacific
coast These are finished roads. Those whose
construction is assured within the uext eighteen
months, are the st. Cloud & Willmar, and sur
veyors are in the field making final survey from
St. Cloud to Pipestone City, into the wheat fields
OF the prairie region. The ST. Clound, Mankato
& Austin, from st. Cloud to the Iowa state line,
and the Duluth, North Shore 81 southwestern,
from st. Cloud to Duluth. These roads will
points in the west Sixteen passenger trains
daily arrixe at and leave her depots. Railroad
men at present employed in st. Cloud average
upwards of 200. The st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba have over twenty miles OF transfer
track in this city, and large roundhouses and
shops.
CLEARWATER
Gave the Jobbers a cordial reception. A grain
arch of wheat and oats, thirty feet high, was
erected, at the station. the grain coming from
the farms of s. A. Howard and Samuel Kirk
The Jo5bers led by the band marched through
the ARCH Mr.. Howard said that the average
yield Of wheat in that vicinity would
be eighteen bushels, though many pieces
would go twenty-five and thirty. Oats he
put at fifty to seventy five bushels per acre. This
place Is situated the Mississippi and Clearwater
rivers, and contains nearly 1000 inhabitants.
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