St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-28
WILL MAKE LOCOMOTIVES.
A Great Manufacturing Plant Prcba-
bly, Coming From New
Jersey.
FORTY ACRES OF BUILDINGS
Promised in Case the Grant Locomo-
tive Works Are Removed to
Minneapolis.

Minneapolis business men, and eSpe-
cially the real estate men, are highly
elatcd over the fact that all indications
point toward the Grant Locomotive
works, GOw located at Patterson, n. j.,
being removed to this city in the near
future. When the buildings there
burned last spring the directors decided
not to rebuild the works, except in tenn
pOrary shape. as it was deemed advis-
able to remove them TO some other place.
Mr.. Grant, the manager. has agreed, at
the instance of Thomas Lowry, 10
visit Minneapolis and see what in
ducements the company will be offered
TO locate here. The buildings of the
works will cover some forty acres of
ground, and about 100 acres would be
required for track room and the like.
The buildings and machinery would in
volye an outlay of nearly million and
a half Of dollars, and about 1000 men
would be employed. 1t is generally be-
lieved that Mr.. Lowry will offer the
company portion of the land he re-
Gently purchased northeast of Mime
apOl;S.
fact, together with the fact that the
new Minneapolis stOckyardS Will be sit
uated near the east shore of Long lake,
DtI q SiiOkl NtlSldllCC llOlD MI 11OMlN .
land, is causing considerable of q boom
in that section. At present there are
five gangs of men grading the track of
the line, to run from New Brighton to
the graded grounds where the StOckyardS
and packing houses Will be located.
The extension of the belt line from the
s;Ockyards grounds to the Northern
Pacific and Manitoba road on the north
west will soon be pushed, and work is
being rapidly done on the line from
New Brighton to the Minnesota trans
fer on the south, which will connect
with all the roads centeIing there. At
the south end of the lake three large
ice houses are going up rapidly, and
VIII be completed at no distant date.
These ice houses will be immense in
size. The members of the
stockyards ard packing house COM
pany are all enthusiastic, and
state that things will now be pushed
rapidly, and that the packing houses
will be IN operation by the middle of
August. They all cite the South Omaha,
Sioux City and Kansas City stock yards
and packing houses as an example
which Minneapolis may well follow.
The stock yards there are complete
success and the members of the COM
pany hold that there is no reason why
the Minneapolis stock yards and
packing houses should not be likewise,
| they being the Northern entrance from
| the cattle ranches. 1t is generally be-
lieved that when the packing houses
begin operations a small city of some
5000 TO 1000 inhabitants will grow up
around them, and the town gradually
run into the town near the locomotive
works, in case they go in on Mr.. LOwry'S
land. The question of transportation
to the stock yards is one easily solved,
as the tracks of the $780," the belt line
and the Northern Pacific, all now built
or to be built by Aug. l, will connect
Minneapolis and the stock yards. 1t Is
| an assured fact that motor cars will be
put on these tracks, to make regular
trips every half-hOur or so.
The Stock Yards company and the
| Belt Line company are the same COM
binatiOn of men, although separate COM
! panieS. These men are also the 500
| line incorpOratOrS. The stock yard
| lands were purchased in the spring of
1887, and considerable money spent in
| grading that year until late in the
| fall, the intention being to put in
| the tracks and building in the spring of
| 1888; but the fore part of this year wit
messed the negotiations with the Cana
dian Pacific people, looking to the con-
! sOlidatiOn now known as the 800"
line. connecting the grain and
| stock country of Minnesota and
| Dakota with tide water and
| the Eastern states. While these
negotiations were in progress all other
scenes were laid in allegiance. The big
! deal was not closed until the middle of
| the summer. 1t was then too late to
| erect packing houses for the 1888 stock
receipts. The tracks now being
constructed into the yards, and
ice houses going up to hold
this winters crop of ice will convince
| the doubters that the Minneapolis men
back of this scheme mean business.
The fact also that nearly all of the
| original incorporators, and consequently
| the men who would be on the ground
| floor on information, are OWL
| ers of tracts of land around
the yards, bought since the inception of
| the scheme, indicate that something
substantial can be expected in the i'm
provement and development of the
stockyard section of country.
Phil S. Armour and Thomas Lowery
made trip to the stOckyards locality
| Yesterday. just what the object of
their visit there was no one knows, but
it probably had something to do with
the stockyards project.