St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-24
NOW IT'S MORE ACTIVE.
Real Estate Market in an Active Condi-
ton, With Prices Firm and Sales
Numerous.
Special Liveliness Manifested in West St.:
Paul--Arlington Hills is
Booming.
Manufacturers Coming to st. Paul
With Capital and All Like the
Transfer Grounds.
Extraordinary Inducements for Man
ufacturing- Build
ings Projected.

ings Projected.
The real estate market has been very ae-
tive during the past week and great deal
has changed hands Prices are firm, and all
property is held at top figures. A good deai
has been sold in acre lots near the harvester
works and also near the Minnesota Trans
fer. All the week there has been very
active demand for cheap lots i'll the vlclllltH
of Arlington hills. and hundreds OF shiaii
houses are being built there. In all parts Oh
the city. everywhere it is the same new
buildings are going up all around ana III
every respect there is evidence OF lncreas-
ing interest in real estate.
ST. PAUL. A MANUFAGTURING TOWN.
1t is pretty evident that st. Paul is at
tracing the attention of the manufacturers
of the country. The evidence OF TINS con-
sists partly in the fact that our real estate
dealers and business men generally are con-
tinually receiving letters from capitalists III
the East making INQUIRIES in regard to conf
ING here and establishing themselves in
various manufacturing enterprises, and
partly in the fact that several quite large
manufacturers have been established here
this season and more are coming. The
fayOrite point seems to be near the Trans
fer. Two well-known manufacturing firms
have within the past week bought acre
tracts in that vicinity and will Immediately
commence work. The last one is the hrm
of Brooks Bros. who a day or two ago
purchased five acres near the transfer and
will immediately establish thereon lumber
yard and a sash. door and blind factory.
Another firm purchased tract of several
acres near st. Anthony park and will COM
mence Immediately the erection out there
Of furniture factory. These are but two
out of a great number that have come here
quite recently The reason for this Is the
fact that ST. Paul is recognized on account
of its position as the commercial depot OF
the West and Northwest, and thus presents
superior opportunities for business and the
disposal of manufactured articles OF all
kinds. These considerations present an
argument that is unansWerable to the man
ufacturer. showing that st. Paul is the site
above all others for the location of
any industry the product OF which
is TO seek sale and patronage from the peo-
pie of the Upper Mississippi valley and the
country west and northwest to the Paclhc
coast. .I-
TO BE REMEMBERED.
1t must be borne in mind by the manufae-
turer who is looking toward ST. Paul as a
favorable site for this or that industrial en-
terprise. that the chief merit of the selec-
ton does not exist in securing an moeca-
pied field with the certainty of fair imme-
date return. but is due to the opportunity
- to develop capacity and production in the
line operated, in proportion as the country
tributary to st. Paul becomes populeus. 1t
must be kept III mind that the empire OF the
Northwest. aggregating the most fertile ag-
lands the most extensive cattle
ranges, the richest mineral region and the
most valuable and extensive forests OF the
entire country. is equal in area to more than
a quarter of the United States, and that 1t is
developing more rapidly at this time than
any other region OF the continent has de-
veloped in the past.
lit must also be remembered that by reason
of its railroad facilities St Paul is the natural
market for all this territory; that the North
ern Pacific, with its headquarters and prin-
cipal terminus here is a main highway OF
all the region indicated, and the only and
controlling route of travel and commerce for
the greater portion of the entire area. The
manufacturer then who locates in st. Paul
is not dependent upon present trade c0ndl-
tons, favorable as they may seem. but is
merely starting plant that cannot but eX-
pand year by year as the country tributary
grows in wealth, population and necessities.
What Chicago is to-day as manufacturing
center. st. Paul, backed by its commercial.
transportation and financial facilities, and
the natural resources Of the country tribu-
tary and accessible, will be within few
years.
THE FUEL SUPPLY.
MANY Eastern manufacturers have an
erroneous opinion concerning the matter of
fuel supply in this locality, believing that
works requiring constant and heavy con-
sumption of coal or coke cannot be profit
ably operated here. So far as the best an
shracite coal and coke are concerned, it costs
more to place them in st. Paul, of course, than
1t does in Pittsburg and many other East
srn manufacturing centers But this ex-
cess in cost of these particular fuels to st.
Paul is more than cOunterbalanced by the
accessibility of st. Paul to the most extern
give copper mines in the world and to the
largest and most valuable iron mines in the
country. Besides this, st. Paul
has now more direct and cheaper
access to first class Bessemer
ones than Pittsburg ever had. 1t may
further be said that st. Paul can secure an
thracite coal and coke by way OF the lakes
to Duluth. and thence $50 miles only by
rail. at much less cost of freightage than the
heavy-manufaetured goods can be shipped
to this point. There is one other matter
that may be mentioned in regard to this
matter of fuel st. Paul is not, by any
means, so very dependent upon the Eastern
coal fields, for she has cheap access to the
coal fields of Iowa and Illinois, both of
which can be reached by river freightage.
Now the fact is, that, after all this talk
about the cost of fuel, coal and coke of any
I -. i D., H.
present time at nearly the cost of delivery
in Chicago. So far as charcoal is con-
cerned, it can be furnished in ST.
Paul at far less cost than it can
possibly be obtained in Chicago OF
Cleveland 1t may also be said in addition
that the coal fields west of St. Paul, in Da-
kota and Montana, will be developed, and
in the very near future this city will be
largely supplied with coal from the West,
over the Northern Pacific road. In wood
St. Paul can boast Of an unlimited quantity
at lower prices than any Eastern manufac-
turing city can now secure. st. Paul can
secure wood, charcoal and soft coal at lower
prices than Chicago can.
IRON AND STEEL WORKS.
Pittsburg, Cleveland and Chicago iron
workers will doubtless be surprised to learn
that so far as nearness to first-class Bes-
semer ores is concerned, st. Paul actually
has decided advantage over either of the
great iron and steel marts named. yet the
statement is true 1t is well known, OF
course, that Pittsburg is compelled, by
reason of the inferior quality of its local
ores, to combine many different mine pro-
ducts together, even securing ores for
admixture from Missouri and Tennessee,
in order to procure first-class results. Cleve-
land is dependent entirely upon the mines
of the Peninsula Of Michigan, while Chi