St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-05
GREAT GRIST GROUND.
Close of the Crop Year and the Interest,"
ing and Important Facts it
Reveals.
Minneapolis Maintains Her Supremacy as
the Leading Wheat Mart and
Milling Center,
The Output of the Mills and Their Elk
ports Show IA Healthful and I'm
expected Increase.
Volume of Grain Business Increased
Storage Capacity of the Ele-
vators Shows Gain.

The crop year of 1856 is completed and
the new crop is beginning to move rapidly.
For the old year, which ends with Aug.
81, all figuring is completed and COMPARE
sons made and the results are ready for the
study and reflection of those Interested IN
the growth and progress of this vast fea-
ture of the commerce and manufacturing of
the city. For the mills the year has been
a good and prosperous one. No great for
tunes were made at the falls of ST. An
thony, but the grist was an immense one
and the results satisfactory. For portion
of the year the market was in very de-
pressed condition and the mills ground at
an actual loss; but they filled their store
houses and met the rising markets with
stocks which enabled them to turn the year
with profit. The record made shows the
usual improvement over thepreceding year,
which is all the more gratifying that it has
been proclaimed the mills of Mime
apolis had reached the zenith of
their greatness and prosperity and
the decadence had begun which
would result in the final loss of its proud
title of the milling center of the world.
Every record shows improvement. The
mills have increased their capacity and
have increased their product. The flour
output is larger and the export IS larger.
MILLS AND ELEVATORS.
At the close of the crop year of 19S4-5,
the capacity of the mills was placed at 2S.-
900 barrels daily, which was evidently
an underestimate. During the summer and
early autumn of last year, the mills re-
ceived general overhauling and improving,
and to-day, their combined capacity footS up
the total of 33,973 barrels per day. The out
side mills controlled in Minneapolis have
capacity of 2,175, making the grand total
SO. 14S barrels.
The elevator storage capacity, which had
received boom during the year, at the
close of the crop year was 1925. 900 bush
els, which was increased, before the end
of the calendar year, by the big
Union elevator, with its 1000, 600
bushels, making the total $685. The
elevator capacity of the mills was $4,000
more. making a grand total OF 1868, 600
bushels. Since then, Washburn, Crosby q
Co. have begun the erection of two large
elevators on the Minneapolis & st. Louis
short line, with Joint capacity OF $500, 600
bushels; d. R. Putnam has put up 90, 900
bushel elevator on the Hastings d Dakota,
ana DdSleG @ OdTSll have lHCl0ooCo OhOil
elevators so, 600 bushels. This addition of
100000 bushels makes the total storage
capacity for the new crop of 1886, IL, 573, 600
bushels.
WHAT THE MILLS HAVE DONE.
1t will be matter of surprise to many to
know that during the year just ended the
mills increased their output. The reports
of the secretary of the chamber of commerce
OF daily receipts and shipments of flour en-
able the calculation which shows what the
millowners never reveal. The total of ship
ments of flour and local consumption, less
the receipts, gives the products of the mills.
This calculation, with comparative figures,
is as follows:
FLOUR RECEIPTS AND SHIPMRNTs-BARRELS.
Shipments. Receipts.