New-York tribune., 1885-01-05
A TEAR IN MINNEAPOLIS.
REMARKABLE GROWTH OF TIE CITY.

An EXCEPTIONAL wINrI:R AND Az MrRoYisED
ICE-PALACE.
lFRoM AZ occ AsIcsAr oR,KsPosEES THE TRIBUNE.
MINNEAPoIIs Dec. 29.-rhe ending of year
"a always welcomed with congratuiaion aud cicciDgs
by Minneapolis No, because the city finds the time
heavy and II likes o see the years ~ bY; Ont
simply because the close OF year gives II srecoua
ezcnse for footing up ourishing the
statistics OF It's growth before the world. And the
statistics .arc-f such thing may b. believed Of any
satisic---curiouS ard worth lttile n0urishng. Oh
New Years Day ne Minneapolis rib'uV purposes prb
fishing IA manInnih twcaty-fOur page paper with ull
isurrs OF the citys progrrss In the last twelve months
Your CORES spondcnt has allowed oi the
copy advance proofs ot the number. aud 1t Is from
them that the majority of the following figures are
taken The city nOw claims population OF l21,OOo
soals. Thirty-nvo year. It hal no population at
AL The nour mills oi minneapolis have now daily ag-
grcgale capacity OF 2D.7Oo barrels than the mills
of Ssw- York aud q; Louis put together The ship-
mcnis nour from tho city during the past year have
amounted 100000 b,shels, AGAINST i.l0000O last
year nnd tho receipts of wheat 10 nearly 3O.OOOOOO
bn-hels-an Increase OF 90 per cent over any former
year. Nearly 5000 buildings have been put up
In the las; twelve months at cost OF about - 100000
The production of the yatoas manufactures 0f tho
city exclusive OF chief items o G0ur AMI uuber
has been worth In the nsighborhOOd Of S32,OOO.OOO
Only eight years ago the total value OF the citys manu-
features did not amount TO $i0O0G00. Less thar forty
years ago you could have bought the whole site Of Min
neapo. for $50 To-Day ground In the best parts OF the
city is worth much 800 frunt foot. These art
rather big stout facts.
The drawback TO the place Just now is the weaiher
We are having Another ep0na winter Winters here
are usually exc ,ponal they quite the rule. Last
winter exceptional; this In exceptional and. II IA
s,'r TO -ay winter will e equally crceT tlona In
Cbrl.tmn, week mercury nlckrred between 20 aud
3O- below But t,r cold weather has advantages
Far ammo time past the cts has been asitaug IN a
vague iccpa similar 10 that At Montreal
last We Ar; the cold weather hls nteped in and pro-
yded ono without any ot the trouble Of Org1niz
one of the colest have hal. of the finest
blocks cty cIht nrc, and before the wafer could
be Induced ont of the frOzeh pipes the names
had attained good heaiway aud before evening hhd
coupletely Quilted the entire building The O<s IN the
building about $4,000, not quite one-half
sfryed was Tie whole Of the County Bar AssOceitiUns
law library BIT the hniling IL the great slSht or
the city, and Is daily photographed from every Obtain
able JOint ~ IL 80 Intensely cold tuat the
water ~ the heat from the fire subsidized froke
nnost directly the walls What did not freeze
tLrrr was by the time reached the ground. In ths
WAY by the dripping from the walls and roof, hiigc
enlbeukment solid formed eight or ten
feet high covering the entire sidewalk, and stretching
yera feet over the roadway. Every ledge and sill
and pIrapet Of the block Is Of course crsed over while
the water freezing 1t dripped formed iLseii into long
slender ribbons nnd fc@tOOns u! Ice which diapr tho
whole face building. aud screen with nil elaiOr-
ats crwork o gliteriug wliie The only Things tha
can in any 10 krBc TO IL are tire barley sugar
churches and pagOs OF confecti oners, hut this Is IN
fnitcy delicate and complicated In It's tracery
than tile vision OF the most nsT ired pastry
cook Wben lighted up with baIe OF electric lights IL
palace lit for tie habitation OF Hans Andcrsens Snow