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

of street paving and over twenty-five miles
of cub and gutter work.
The flour production of the year was
5,957, 900 barrels, an increase of half mil
lion over 1885. The total export was
2.543. 900 barrels. The average daily out
put was over 10, 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, $780, 019 feet of lum-
Der, so, 925. 900 shingles and IS, 1854. 600
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, 404.2S; care and improvement have
cost $500, 900 more. This years park ex-
penses were $91,O
The city fire department cost SITS, 900,
and the police department $125,000 this
| year. Their net cost for 1887 will be nearly
| $500. 900.
1t cost Minneapolis during 1886. for mu-
nicipal life, the neat sum of $4,000. 600.
More than half million may be added to
that sum for the expenses Of 1887.
| The estimated cost of the years building
is 81, 923, S15. The building inspectors
| figures, exclusive of plumbing. bridge work
and work carried over from 1885, show
| $4,000, O52.
The building permits for 1886 were
4.5O3 against 366 for 1885. Of these 1889
were for dwellings not larger than two
| stories.
Seven hundred barns, at an average cost
of $3.50. were erected this year, as against
| $50 at an average of $3.50 in 1885.
There were 26 failures in 1886. with total
assets 1852. and liabilities 1891, 900.
| The failures in 1885 numbered "a, with liza.
| bilitieS over $500.
| At the close of 1886 there are 265 more
| business houses in Minneapolis than at the
close of 1885. This does not include BUSH
ness changes, but simply additions.
| There are 80 school buildings and 3N7
school teachers in the city. The gross cost
of the school department for 1886 was
$49S, 955.42.
The enrolled scholarship in the public
schools is IA, 1914, an increase of 1904 over
| 1885,. rs 80 .,.-
| Four new school houses we're erected in
1856. at a cost of S97, 900. 8
| For grading streets and sidewalks the
city paid out--out OF ward funds-$333,-
220.73.
TO keep up the street sprinkling in 1885
the city paid the sum of $50, 210.0S.
| During the coming year it is probable
that work will be begun on four new
| bridges over Cne MISSISSIPPI.
| The cost of the water department for the
year was S37S, 43O.23. In 1887 the expense
will be much heavier and will include the
new North side pumping station.
| There were were 1856 miles of water
mains laid in 1856. making total of S0.4
miles now in use. In 1857 there will be
| laid Sc. "a miles, making total of LIT
| miles.
| The bonded debt of the city at the close
! of 1856 is So, 500, 900, which includes about
$500, 900 of bonds authorized but not yet
| issued.
The North Minneapolis sewer tunnel abb
sorbed Sos. 451.S5 during the year, but bad
luck retarded the work.
In the Eighth ward, during the building
season, 1,049 buildings were erected at a
cost of nearly 50, 500, 900.
Minneapolis received, in round numbers,
So O0O 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 $40. 900, 900, an increase of
| IA per cent over 1885.
The total expense of the engineering de-
partmenJ for 1886 is $745, 1896, 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
sition.
The suburbs of Minneapolis are better
| lighted (by the city, than any other por-
| ton. Two hundred electric lamps are in
constant use at West side street intersec~
tons.
The population for Dec. 25, 1885, is estf-
mated all the way from 14O, 600 to ITO, 600.
On May 1, 1885. it was 1922
1t requires 1850 freight cars constantly
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 millstuff.
The city laid 60 miles of sidewalk, set 10
miles of curbs and constructed 50 miles of
sewers, besides grading 52Z miles Of
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 $6,000.0 600. 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 1886,
and exported more than 10 per cent. more
of the total.
The city ends up the year with 104
churches, whose estimated value is over
So, 900, 600. There are fifty-two schools,
public and private, worth $1,000, 900.
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. 900 bushels
of wheat daily, or about 40. 900. 900 bushels
annually, if run to their full capacity.
The nineteen saw mills have capacity
of about 375. 600, 900 feet of lumber in the
saving season of six months and half
Minneapolis, in 1886. originated more
than 270. 900 car loads of freight, or over
$4,000 average train loads.
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