St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-25

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sixty miles OF sidewalks, nearly seven miles
of street paving, and over twenty-five miles
OF cub and gutter work.
The flour production of the year was
1851, 900 barrels, an increase of half mil
lion over 1885. The total export was
: 2.543, 600 barrels. The average daily out
put was over 19, 900 barrels
This years saving season was shorter,
by six weeks, than usual, and the output
OF the saw mills was reduced accordingly.
The total cut was 262. 636. 019 feet of luH-
Der, 80, 925, 900 shingles and IS, 1854. COO
lath. The lumber cut of 1885 was 313, $685.
166 feet.
For permanent work in the line of park
and boulevard systems, the city has spent
1888 4O4.2S; care and improvement have
cost 5000, 900 more This years park eX-
penses were $91, 900.
The city fire department cost SITS, DOC,
and the police department S125, 900 this
year. Their net cost for 1887 will be nearly
$780, 600.
1t cost Minneapolis during 1886. for mu-
nicipal life, the neat sum of So, 500. O00.
More than half million may be added to
that sum for the expenses of 1887.
The estimated cost of the years. building
is $11, 1923, SIS. The building inspectors
figures, exclusive of plumbing, bridge work
and work carried over from 1885, show
SO. O99 O52.
The building permits for 1886 vera
1908, against 500 for 1885. Of these 1,9S3
were for dwellings not larger than two
stories.
| Seven hundred barns. at an average cost
of $500, were erected this year, as against
$50 at an average of $3.50 in 1885.
There were 26 failures in 1886. with total
assets $162, 0O00 and liabilities 1921, 900.
| The failures i'm 1S0S harod Al with liz
bilities over $500, 900.
At the close of 1886 there are 265 mor3
business houses In Minneapolis than at thss
close of 1885. This does not include bust
ness changes, but simply additions.
There are 80 school buildings and 307
school teachers in the city. The gross eos 3
Of the school department for 1886 was
8! $49S, g55.42.
The enrolled scholarship. in the, publsc
1885. ''4'2
Four new school houses we're erected III
1886, at cost OF $97, 900.
For grading streets and sidewalks thu
city paid out--out OF ward funds-$333,r-
22O.73.
TO keep up the street sprinkling in 1885
the city paid the sum OF $50, 210.0S.
During the coming year it is probablc,
that work will be begun on four new
bridges over the MISSISSIPPI.
The cost of the water department for the
year was $37S 43O.23. In 1887 the expense
will be much heavier ard will include the
new North side pumping station.
There were were 1856 miles Of water
mains laid in 1886, making total of S0.4
miles now in use. In 1887 there will be
laid "a miles, making a total of LIT
miles.
The bonded debt of the city at the close
of 1886 is IS, 629, 600, which includes about
$500, 900 of bonds authorized but not yet
issued.
The North Minneapolis sewer tunnel alb.
sorbed &c., 451.85 during the year, but bad
luck retarded the work.
In the Eighth ward, during the building
season, 1,O49 buildings were erected at a
cost of nearly So, 500, 900.
Minneapolis received, in round numbers,
33, 900. 900 bushels of wheat this year, Lead
ing New York by over 5000, 900 and MAIN
tanning her supremacy as the largest wheat
market in the country.
Minneapolis bank clearings for 1886 will
run to nearly $140, 600, 900, an increase Of
| IA per cent. over 1885.
The total expense of the engineering de-
partnent for 1886 is $745, 1866, a big in
crease over last year, but small when CONS
pared with the bridge work for next year.
The year 1886 will always be memorable
as having been the first year of the Expo.
siton.
The suburbs of Minneapolis are better
lighted (by the city, than any other pore
/ ton. Two hundred electric lamps are iM
constant use at West side street intersec<
lions.
The population for Dec. 25, 1885, is esti4
mated all the way from 40, 900 to Ito, 600.
On May 1, 1885, it was 1919. 200.
A frni c,fo mot, Tvs
in motion to carry off the product of the
flour mills. Fifteen full trains day, each
| way, carry in the wheat and draw off the
| flour and milstuff.
| The CITY laid 60 miles of sidewalk, set 10
miles of curbs and constructed So miles of
sewers, besides grading 52A miles Of
1 streets.
| Street paving was very light this year.
but the amount ordered for next year will
more than make up for it.
| Capital invested in banking now runs
over Sc, 600, 0O0 including saving securi-
| ties. Three new banks have been organ
| lied during the year.
| Jobbing trade in Minneapolis has in
| creased nearly 10 per cent over last year,
| exclusive of flour and manufactured goods
| jobbed.
Minneapolis made over half million
more barrels of flour in 1886 than in 1885.
| and exported more than 10 per cent. moro
of the total.
| The city ends up the year with 1o4
1 churches, whose estimated value is over
| So. 900, 900. There are ffty-twO schools.
public and private, worth $1,200,000.
| Fifteen railroads carry freight in and
out of Minneapolis, the lines aggregating
| %. 100 miles of road. There are short
| lines included) 1874 daily passenger trains $
| from the three depots.
| The flour mills consume 140. 600 bushels
of wheat daily, or about 40 100000 bushels
annually, if run to their full capacity.
| The nineteen saw mills have capacity
of about 375. 600, 600 feet of lumber in the
| saving season of six months and a half.
| Minneapolis, in 1886, originated more
| than 27O, 900 car loads of freight, or over
| Is, 600 average train loads.
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