St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-16
sT. pAUL,s MANUFACTORIrs.

The GLOBE has heretofore called atten-
ton to ST. Paurs advantages as a manufac-
turing center as well as to the necessity of
our people giving their attention 10 the
establishment of manufacturing industries.
II is gratifying to observe that our efforts i'm
this direction have not been wholly mis-
directed Our own people are perhaps Civ
ing the subject more thought Just now than
at any previous time i'm our history. And
| persons engaged i'm manufacturing at other
points are now turning their attention TO ST.
Paul rs place possessing superior
| advantages in the way OF manu-
featuring facilities. The first element
in favor of city as manufacturing point
is its facilities for cheap and quick trans
portation. In this respect ST. Paul's adj
vantages are conceded. The railway cen
ter of the great Northwest, and soon 10 be.
come the railway center of the entire West.
in addition TO its location at the head of
navigation on the Mississippi river.
! its proximity to the head of the great lake
system, all give it advantages for becoming
the manufacturing center of the Northwest
over all other points. The next important
element in the building up of manufacture
ing Industries in a city is its facilities for
supplying a market for the products of the
manufactures. Here it is that St.
Paul again possesses a superior advantage.
Being the commercial metropolis as well as
the railway center OF the Northwest it
affords facilities for marketing manufac-
tured goods that no other city in this see
tlon or the United States possesses, possessing
as ltdoeS the two first and most important
| elements to make manufacturing industries
a success. As these facts are made promi-
nent capitalists who desire 70 invest in
manufacturing are attracted TO st. Paul
with the purpose of locating here. provided
| they md all the other conditions as favorable
as the two we have mentioned. As an
| illustration of this is communication from
leading nail manufacturer who SAYS that if
he can get coal suitable for furnace purposes
al from 80 to $3.50 per ton be can manu-
tacture nails more profitably at ST. Paul
than in Wheeling. That this is true is APP
parent from the fact that here he would be
in close proximity to the Lake Superior ore
beds and would be in the heart OF the mar
ket for his nails. So far, then, as nail
manufacturing Is concerned, the only prob
lem to solve is that of obtaining cheap gas
coal. And what is true of the nail manu-
featuring industry is measurably true Of all
other branches Of manufacturing. The one
thing needful to make st. Paul the I'M
rivaled manufacturing city OF the West is
cheap fuel. 1t is TO this particular matter
that the attention of the chamber of com
merce and the various manufacturing syndi-
Gates that are now being formed should be
most especially directed. That quality of
fuel which will answer the purposes of
manufacturing can be gotten here as low as
$3.50 per ton is reasonably certain if the
proper effort is made to do it. And when
this is accomplished. the only difficulty in
the way of making st. Paul the most de-
sirable manufacturing point in the West
will have been accomplished.