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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
MOVES BROS. s. CUTLER.
WhoIesaIe Drltns. Etc.
CORNER s1BLEY 4 FIFTH STREETS.

CORNER SIBLEY * FIFTH STREETS.
The story of the rise and development of
many, in fact of most of the older and larger
mercantile houses of st. Paul would read like
3 fairy tale, so wonderful-almost fabulous
has been their growth and their present mag
nitude. This is true of no house to greater
extent than of the mann 10Th drug, medicine,
paint and oil establishment of Noyes Bros.
d Cutler, whose reputation extends over one
quarter of the continent among consumers,
and over the world among producers of the
goods they handle.
In the year 1868, before St. Paul was large
enough to be considered of any importance
in commercial circles, the firm of Noyes,
PETIT ~ Co. was formed and venture was
made on a very small scale in the drug bust
ness in old Union block, Third street. The
first firm was succeeded by Noyes Bros. Mr.
G. P. Noyes joining his brother, Mr.. d. r.
Noycs. In 1874 Mr.. Cutler was admitted
and the present firm has existed since that
time. During the first year of business the
old firm thought they were doing remarkably
well having sold 1922, 900 of goods, an
amount that they would consider small for
any single month in the year now. The
first month in business the sales of the
young house reached the handsome sum of
$4,000 Last month, June, 1884, the books
of the firm show sales amounting to about
Sl4S,00 There are the statistics of the de-
vclopment OF st. Paul told in line.
From the little Union block store see to
what mercantile palace the house has
grown. Here at the southeast corner of
Fifth and Sibley streets stands the great vel
low brick edfce, 63x110 feet on the ground
with four stories and basement, and it was
designed ana built especially to meet the de
mauds OF the peculiar business. Nothing is
lacking in this lire-proof structure, and the
process OF carving on the traffic is reduced
O. the utmost simplicity. Back OF the ware
house is large yard with extensive shed
storage. and on East Fourth street the firm
has an iron warehouse connected directly
with the railroads, where carbon oils, gaso-
line and all dangerous goods are deposited.
Ninety men are employed in this great in
dustry, aud the mass of goods handled is
simply marvellous. II is by far the largest
institution Of the kind in the northwest.
Their trade extends throughout the states
OF Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska
and Oregon, and the territories of Dakota
Idaho, Wyoming New Mexico, Washington
and Montana, as we'll Us through the
western British possessions. At Helena
Montana the house has resident agent who
devotes himself to the interest of the great
trade through that part of the country.
The firm has agents in Paris and London,
aud are constantly receiving shipments from
these great foreign commercial centers.
These imported goods can to-day be bought
in st Paul as low as in New York, as this is
port of appraisal as well as port of entry.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

started in and destroyed Drake's block COM
municated to-, and ruined their premises.
But their business was uninterrupted, and
they were Immediately 'ready for operations
at their present location, Numbers 225 and
227 East Fourth street, where they have q
building thirty-seven by one hundred and
twenty-five feet, with six floors, five Of which
are filled with goods of every descrip-
ton known to the lines
they represent. The sixth is
devoted to one branch of their manufacture
ing. There are twenty-seven men employed
in the house, independent of the factories,
and the business is conducted in the most
systematic and thorough manner. In the
basement are immense stores of heavy goods
and material used in the factories, and above
are an endless variety of goods required by
the harness makers and dealers of the north
west. Arranged in the best possible order
are harnesses, whips, blankets, nets, collars
and the thousand little articles known to the
trade, while ON the shelves are the many
small but important goods which are known
as saddler's hardware, and which are so
hOScoSaig III Guc cOuStrucuOu VI uuIucooCo,
riding saddles, etc.
Leather and shoe findings are an import
ant factor in this great stock, and the house
supplies the boot and shoe makers through
out the entire northwest, with their goods,
being considered the most reliable and lib
eral OF any engaged in the business, while
their stock is by far the largest of any west
OF Chicago. Their stock of fine European
feathers, calf, kip, ETC., is always full, and
they are noted among the trade for carrying
the best and most complete stock in these
lines, the goods being of their own importa-
ton.
The manufacture of boot and shoe uppers
has become most important branch of their
business, and in this industry they employ
thirteen girls and four men in the airy fifth
story of their store. But their operations are
not confined here as they have on Dayton's
bluff spacious factory supplied with the best
machinery, where forty-fye men are engaged
in manufacturing horse collars, saddles, bri-
dies, nets, halters. and all kinds of strap
work.
A fine brick store, 3Sx142 feet on the
ground, with six stories, is now being con-
structed on their old site, Nos. 1856 and 1873
East Third street, under the supervision of
Mr.. Hardenb ergh, and hence exactly fitted
for its purpose, and the firm viii occup Ply it
early next month.
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WILSON & ROGERS,
Engines. Boilers, Hdchinery. Etc.
Vos 3I6 4 as RORFpT STREET.

Engines. Boilers, machinery. Etc.
nos. SIC SIS ROBERT STREET.
At Nos SIG and 31S Robert street, which
is the second street west of, and running
parallel to Sibley street, on which the Union
depot is located, is a large yellow brick
building, within whose walls is conducted
business of great extent and Importance.
The business was established in 1851, at a
time when the goods which the house carries
in such quantities now were in very limited
demand 1t would be difficult to specify all
the lines in which Messrs. Wilson 81 Rogers
DEAL but in general way may be men
toned engines, boilers, machinery and
plumbers and gas and steam-fitters sup
plies The building is 50xl00 feet in ground
dimensions, and has three stories and a
basement, while in the large yard in the rear
is an immense shed for the storage OF the
heaviest goods. The opening of the great
northwest has almost entirely occurred since
the house was established, and the demand
for these classes of goods has grown enor-
mously Line after line has been added,
until now The firm includes in its catalogues
articles that are usually distributed among
several establishments. For the benefit Of
the trade and Others few specialties NAV be
specified Taylor Manufacturing company's
automatic cutoff engines; F. c..
Wells steam pumps; the Trahern hand
pumps: Lafferty's wooden pumps: Mitchell,
Vane Il Co.'S. chandeliers; futile IS Bailey's
hot air registers and veutilators: also a com
plete line of Hayden Co.'S. brass goods. The
stock is always fun and complete.
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MATTHEW, HAYNIE s. Co.
Manufactures of Buffalo Far Goods.
276 JACKSON STREET.

Manstfactures OF Buffalo Far Goods.
276 JACKSON STREET
No maxim is truer than the fact that
liberal treatment of customers by CONNER
cial house will invariably win and retain a
large clientage, and in the case of the firm
above mentioned this course has proven
eminently successful, their methods are to
pay in cash the highest market price for furs,
hides, pelts, tallow, WOOL &c, and the result
has been that their quick remittance system,
persistently pursued, has permanently placed
the names of over 800 shippers on their
books
1t NAV not be uninteresting to our readers
to call brief attention to the ability OF this
house to meet any demands of trade that
may be made upon them. Their extensive
Warerooms at 276 Jackson street are crowded
with heavy stock of goods which they are,
as they come in preparing for export; indeed,
their export business in raw furs is phenome-
nal in its magnitude, extending throughout
all the fur buying countries OF Eu-
rope. They have organized their bust
ness into three departments, each
of which is ably managed by skilled chief
The manufacturing department is devoted to
the production of fur coats and robes, they
are using in this branch all
kinds of furs from buffa-
10 to seal, and something over thirty differ
ent styles of garments are produced and fin
ished in truly perfect style as regards cut
and finish. 1t has always been conceded
hat there are great difficulties in the way Of
giving perfect fit TO a fur coat and their sue
cess in this line has made their products pop
ular favorites on the market, and is wit
ness to the thorough knowledge Of their
business which they possess.
In the hides department the buying and
preparation of hides, pelts, and wool are
given special attention-all consignments
made to them in this line are like all their
other specialties paid for cash DOM, making
a very desirable feature for the shipper, as
spot money always talks and talks loudly.
In fact, taking into account the
perfect system which reigns in this
house in the disposal and handling
Of merchandise, their popular ready cash
methods of buying and the personal respect
and esteem in which the members of the
firm are held, we are not surprised at the
strides which their business is making annu-
ally, especially throughout the inlands
OF the Dakotas, and we predict remarkable
future for these bright and enterprising
VOuDp men
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STRONG, HACKETT s. CO.,

HARDWARE, NOS. 215, 217 & 219 EAST FOURTH
STREET.
This strong old firm is located at Nos. 213,
215, 217 and PIG East Fourth street, occupy
ing a building 60x120, five stories, having
six floors. The house was established nearly
twenty-five years ago by the present senior
partner, Mr.. G. D. Strong, and for the past
twelve years Mr.. c. w. Hackett has been an
associate. In that time it has grown from
an infant to the leader in its line in the en-
tire northwest. Growing with the country,
and keeping fully even with the best in the
land in enterprise and activity, it has been
the pioneer in supplying the new territory
with goods exactly suited to the demands,
and has so developed that now it covers more
territory and sells more goods than any
other hardware house that exists in the re-
gion.
OF course the line Of goods carried by a
house of this size include an almost innu-
merable variety, and the utmost care is re-
quired in the selection of appropriate and
desirable makes and styles. The catalogue
of the house is a most interesting volume,
and it is of mammoth dimensions, contain
ing over six hundred leaves filled with Illus
trations. Over fifty men u are con-
stantly employed in this house,
and on the road and the territory visited and
supplied is simply enormous. This great es
Enlistment is for convenience, and in fact
from absolute necessity divided into sepa-
rate and distinct departments, each having
its special superintendent, who is responsible
for its proper and prompt administration.
Department A-Includes mechanics and
farming tools
Department Blocks, latches and build
ers' hardware.
Department Miscellaneous hardware.
Department D-Tinners' wares, trim
mings, tools, etc.
Department E-Guns aud sporting goods
This last department is very interesting
and complete, the house making specially
of everything in this line, including guns,
revolvers, ammunition, fishing tackle, tents,
and countless other goods.
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steam fitting business, he makes speciality
of providing large buildings, hotels, business
blocks, public buildings, etc., and he num-
bers among the large jobs he has done in the
northwest, the new West Hotel at Minneapo-
lis, the largest and most complete
hotel job in the United States;
Nicollet hotel and Academy of Music Mime
apolis; Merchants hotel st. Paul ;Grand hotel,
Fergus Falls; Grand Pacific, Moorhead: Inter
Ocean Mandan; the Bank and Chamber of
Commerce building owned by Heh. Alckan-
der Mitchell at Milwaukee; the Northern Pa
ciic office building st. Paul etc.
This system is being adopted throughout
the country and he has an agency at Pitts
burg Pa. He is now filing large contracts
in New York city and Chicago. In connec-
ton with his contract work Mr. Osborne car
ries an immense assortment of specialities
pertaining to steam heating, all Of which
were invented and patented by himself.
Those requiring work in this line should GER
tainly examine the advantages of this re-
markable system of heating. '
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MERELL X RYAN.
Wholesale Druggists aHd Importers.
1911 4 1872 EAST THIRD STREET.

1871 4 1872 EAST THIRD STREET.
This firm issuccessoI to Merell, Sahlcaarl
& Thwiug who started in June 1852 and did
a large AMI successful business, from the
day they opened their doors to the trade.
The firm is composed of A. F. Mereu OF
the old firm Of Merell Sahlgaard Il Thwiug.
aud Dennis RYAN who Is known over the
gaeat northwest as one Of the most success
full business men Mr. Merell during the
two years he has been known to the trade.
has made many friends by close attention to
the wants Of their customers. selling only the
rest goods aud keeping pace with great an-
vaucemeut in the sciences connected with
their business they win take their place in
the front rank Of Wholesale drug houses in
the United States
They are now fitting up the elegant new
stores Nos. 2a5. 295, and s29 East Third St.
which will be occupied about August 1st.
The stores are so x $50, i've stories and base
uent with every improvement that can be
introduced in the saving Of time and labor.
The eutire first door viii be used entirely for
Offices and sample rooms. The second floor
Is The order daor where the goods from all
parts Of the world are put up, packed and
shipped to their trade extending over west.
ern Wisconsin. northern Iowa, Minnesota,
Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming crcgou
Washington aud Manitoba.
The third door Is occupied by the labratory
from which at present is turned OFT upwards
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SADDLERY AND LEATHER.

This line OF business has not been over
looked by the far seeing business men who
have chosen st. Paul as their base of oper-
atoms. and they are reaching out all over
the northwest for trade and during the first
half of the year 1884 they have made sales to
the amount of $3.50, 500 and dealers report
constantly increasing orders. Although we
have no extensive tanneries, yet the trade
has found out that they can buy TO better
advantage in St. Paul than in Chicago or
other eastern or southern cities
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NICoLS n DEAN.
Hearu Hara,rare. Iron. steel. Etc.

HearY HGrdirare. Iron. Steel. Etc.
CORNER FIFTH AND SIBLEY STREETS,
Away back in 1860 the firm of Nichols &
Dean was formed in st, Paul to prosecute the
business of dealing in heavy hardware and
carriage and wagon builders supplies 1t
was started on small, modest scale, as the
territory tributary to this now large city was
then extremely limited. 1t will be remem-
bered that the firm for many years occupied
limited quarters in a two-story building on
East Third street. near Wahasha. That old
store could almost be placed intact in one
story Of the magnificent store the firm now
occupies, and there would be room left 70
drive a team all around it. Such has been
the entire history of St. Paul: from small be-
ginnings such mighty results have been
achieved as are seen on every side at the
present day.
The original firm Of Nichols & Dean
consisted OF John Nichols and W. B.
Dean, and after the death of the senior
partner the style Of the firm was continued.
his son, J. Ross Nichols, who had been
brought up in the house, assuming active
TGtatt3us. rum tAAc NA4-tu@- et0Ac tlc
firm was finally obliged to move, and in 1883
they took possession of the mammoth ware
house at the corner OF Fifth aud Si6ley
streets Ii IS a lofty red brick building,
and fine specimen Of commercial archi-
lecture. The hra occupies store 80 feet
on Sibley aud 100 feet on Fifth street. with
five lofty stories above 4 basement This
vast depository IS filed with heavy hardware,
steel and nails and the trade Of the concern
has grown 10 immense dimensions. its Gus
TONERS being found through 5 territnrr 81
vast extent It is by far the largest house in
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CAMPBELL, WALSH s. JILsoN.
Machinery q. Supplies.

NOS. 173 IT'S EAST THIRD STREET
In growing country of such great dimen-
sions as that which forms this vast north
western empire, no branch of business is of
more Importance than is that of providing
machinery for the innumeraole industries
that are being constantly established. As
the thousands of new settlers are arriving,
taking up the land and forming homes and
communities, manufactures quickly follow
the church and the school house. Back in
1867 the prospect for any great demand for
machinery did not look particularly bright,
but Mr.. j. G.. freeman established business
in that line, and with the majority of the
pioneers who had the pluck to ''stick,' he
was amply rewarded, and built up a trade Of
splendid dimensions.
The firm Of j. G. Freeman & Co. has re-
recently been succeeded by that of Campbell,
Walsh & Jilson, energetic, practical, active
young men peculiarly qualified to conduct an
enterprise of such extent and Importance.
Their showrooms, where samples of the null
titu1e of goods they carry are displayed, are
at Nos. 173 and IT'S East Third street, in the
Merchants hotel block, and here can be seen
many intricate and efficient machines of the
best models and makes.
The lines carried by the house include a
great variety of goods many of which they
represent exclusively in the northwest;
among these are the following: Erie City
Iron Works engines, boilers and saw mills;
Watertown automatic engines; Lidgerwood
hosting and pile-driving engines: Pickering
governors; Branch, Crooks IL Co.'s saws;
Boston Betting Co.'s betting, hose and pack
ing; Deane steam pumps; Sturtevant fans
and blowers; wood and iron working ma
chinery, pipe and fittings, brass goods, pop
valves, Duplex injectors, wire rope, mill sup
plies of all kinds, etc.
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HARDWARE.

This branch of business is rapidly in
creasing in amount, fact which is easily
accounted for when it is remembered that
the articles which are included in a heavy
wholesale stock in this line of goods enter
very largely into the necessities of a new
country for building and furnishing from
the claim shanty of the settler to the palatial
mansion of the millionaire. The st. Paul
dealers appreciate this fact and are prepared
to meet it. An idea Of the magnitude of
this trade in st. Paul can be gathered from
the fact that the amount of sales in this line
for the first six months of the year reached
the immense sum of 50, $50, $50.
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DRUGS PAINTS & OILS,

That there is a constantly marked increase
In the sale of these articles will 20 without
the saying. The rapid increase in the num-
Der of new houses not only in st. Paul, but
all over this va st Northwest requires an i'm
mense amount of paints and oils to beautiiy
and preserve them, to say nothing of the 9th
er uses to which they are put and SO long
as man is mortal he will use drugs in the
vain hope to prolong his mortality. The sales
in this line last year amounted to 81, 500, 600.
For the first half the present year they reach
the sum of 81, $50, 900.
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It seems almost unnecessary TO tell the
trade of the great northwest anything about
this wonderful old establishment that has
kept so even balance throughout the coun-
try, and indeed the world, for so many years,
since 1926 but it would obviously be impro-
per TO omit a mention among the most
prominent business houses of a new metro
polls, so popular, extensive and well con-
Quoted a house as is the st. Paul branch
under the management of Mr. George 3.
Woodward. This branch was established in
st. Paul six years ago the I'd of this month
in contracted quarters on East Third street.
1t practically controls the central northwest
to the Rocky Mountains and its business SO
Aourshed and grew with the development of
the country that it was forced to seek much
larger quarters, and, in March 1888, when
the splendid new building on Sibley street
between Fifth and Sixth was completed, the
establishment was removed to Nos. 81 and
373 The building is one Of the handsomest
and most stately in st. Paul, and the stores
occupied by Fairbanks, Morse 81 Co. are 33x
$50 feet with five stories and a high base
ment. This vast storage capacity is crowded
with goods.
Fairbanks scales are universally
acknowledged to be the most accurate and re-
liable, the strongest and most durable.
They are the standard of the world; they are
used by the U. s. government; they are
made of the best material and are the best
finished; they are all carefully inspected
and are most delicately adjusted. There are
over 500 varieties of the Fairbanks standard
scales, ranging for every purpose and every
business from the massive platform scales
for railroads to the most delicate balances
required by druggists and jewellers. Those
requiring the best, most accurate and most
durable want nothing but the Fairbanks,
and over so, 600 were sold in 1881 Besides
Fairbanks scales this house provides the
popular Eclipse windmills for pumping or
gearing. tanks, pumps and all attachments.
They erect water tanks for towns and rail-
roads complete, and have just closed con-
tract with a railroad company to complete q
number of water stations, the foundations
and wells alone being provided for them.
Among their goods are also grain testers,
Smith-Vaile steam pumps; boilers and stand
pipes; patent water pipe; trucks; grain
wagons; cookie mills; lever and jacii-screws;
hand, push and velocipede cars; Hancock
inspirators, and a thousand other articles
which ii will be found interesting to examine
in their warerOoms.
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CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.

While not counting up into the millions
SO far us sales are concerned, yet, when the
reader stops to think moment in regard TO
this branch OF business, he will come to the
conclusion that half million dollars repre-
sents an immense amount of these articles
This branch of business is on the increase
and whereas the sales last year were nearly
$500, 900, the sales bid fair to reach nearly
double that sum as they amount to 1912, 900
for the first half Of the year.
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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

1t is not surprising that the sales of agri-
cultural implements are on the increase
from year to year, when tie vast area of the
fuest land in the world comprising almost
every acre of the Northwest, most of which
is still waiting to be clicked by the plow,n
is taken into accoant. During the six months
of the present year ending June Both the st.
Paul dealers made sales to the enormous
sum Of 81, $3.50, 500. This demonstrates that
st. Paul is the great distributing point for
this class of goods.