St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-15
BACKED BY A MILLION.
A Great Iron Mandatory Established
in Duluth.
EASTERN CAPITALISTS IN 1T.
a Large Number of Buildings to Be
Erected---0ther Zenith City
News.

three months negotiations have been in
progress looking to the establishment of
these works here, and four weeks ago
contracts were completed. The cor
porate title of the company is the
Duluth from q Steel works, and the
product will embrace everything from,
pig iron to Bessemer bar and sheet
steer. railroad iron. car wheels etc
10 commence with, the West Dulutb
La,tu company has given To the iron
anu steel company eighty-fiye acreo ~
ldhd, with magnificent water nriviieoos
ana unequaled railroad facilities III
gi1t being conditioned upon work being
commenced before Feb. %, 1888. and fITe
Plaht III position before the close of fine
present year. The drafting chief en-
siieeI - JONI Birkinbine, of PhiladeI-
erection of the plant. The band am
bodied in the gift is situated ON fine west
Shore OF st. Louis bay, ADJOINING tbs
steam Forge works, which are aIreadvin
operation. Between the two plants one
railroad (the st. Paul g. DuIuth1 has an
extensive system Of tracks and switches
among the buildings upon which wnrI-
VII DE immediately commenced are the
following: "'0 'i'o
96 ~" 70 pIoGnclng houses: rail mill SOCK
80 t sc rollIng mill: boiler houses. Nos. I
Snu ., !aboratory Office; Two casting sheds:
lour water tanks: one double crushe1 bnuse
t"o special cupola houses: one converter
mouse TWO elevators: engine houses Nos 2
9t1u e., furnace house; furnace stacks 6woj
a. toc' niSn; qraUgbt stacks (tWo) 200 feet
uSI9h' 90 boilers (Ous STEEL. eaeb 26 feet
10 .ons repair shops; boiler houses. Nos. ; and
y, machine shop; foundry: elevated ore
tainine loo DlIls 4 rows or coke ovens. con
ttaIniuS 1oZ ovens; seven hot blasts. nurnr
nIeo. mouse engine houses, Nos 7 and 3;
Gni Hght house; twenty coke bins.
. HdS Will be used as fuel in some of
t tile departments, and electricity will be
tne ilghtlng power. The producing
capaclty OF the furnaces will be eighty
J0hS OF ore daily, or 100 tons altogether
me boilers will be arranged in nine
DalIerleS OF four each. In addition TO
INC pulldlngs enumerated, work On Il
todI uock OF 100000 tons capacity will
De at once commenced, and this part of
the plant is expected to be in readiness
py May ID, and several charters for coal
nave been secured quietly within
WEEK or TWO. part from Buffalo and
part from Cleveland. By the end of
next week. over 100 men will be en-
pioyed on the preliminary work. and
When the plant is completed it is antici-
pated that 400 men will be daily en-
ployed. The company will manufacture
It's own coke. In the list of StockhOld-
Srs can be found capitalists from Boston.
New York. Philadelphia. and four or
hve from Duluth. Five hundred thou
ean9 dollars OF the capital is already
pau III; ana the balance is subject 10
thirty days call at any time.
WOKE Up THE WRONG Girl.
1he rather quiet locality of West
nour tins morning by cries Of HEM
but tile affair was quieted before fine
police got wind of it and kept mum
until this evening. when it leaked ont.
names being withheld for the sake of a
female concerned. In the uDDer story
or house near the corner of First ave
nue. west and First street a Young lady
rooms, and adjoining her apartment was
another room occupied by a welI-knowu
painter and male companion. There
Is door between the rooms which is
kept locked. Last night the painter
came nome at late hour, undreSsed
hlnSelf. with the exception of his shirt.
and securing key to the lock of the
door spoken of. unlocked the door and
slowly pushed it open. His roommate
slept Soundly, but the slight noise made
aWoke the young lady, who bounded
10 the moor and tried to close the door.
ana IN so doing caught one of the paint
er's legs in the doorway. SEEING AN
electric hairbrush near by. she belabo-
ored the imprisoned leg until a stream
OF blood showed how vigorous were her
blows: The painter yelled Murder.
nelp. rousing his roommate. who. not
fully comprehending the situation.
caught Ills partner around the body and
tried to pull him from the doorway.
finally rplRaSInr
quantity of flesh was scraped off by TIE
edge of the door. The affair was tried
to be huShed up, but there is a very sick
painter confined to his room by an I'm.
known % leg ailment
WITHOUT DUTY,
DULUTH, Mimi, Feb. 14.-AbOut 4
month ago the report was published
that the Canadian government. through
its minister of customs, refused to
further allow shipments of wheat for
different Canadian points from Mani
tOba to pass through the United States
1t bond. This ruling would. if carried
ont. completely kill the projected wheat
trade from Manitoba province, by way
OF Duluth. to Canada. Vice President
Thompson, of the Duluth Board of
Trade, wired, relating to reported rul-
ing, to Manager q. Il. Reeve. of the
Grand Trunk railway, at Chicago. and
received this afternoon the following
answer: ''There is no truth whatever
III the statement that the Dominion
government refuses to allow Manitoba
wheat to 90 through the United States
III bond and re-enter Canada free of
duty. l have seen letter over the SIG.
nature of the minister of customs of the
Dominion to this effect, and you can
have no hesitancy in guaranteeing that
II is true. L can get you the original
letter If you so desire. The report was
only got up by interested parties" This
settles the question for the present. and
it is believed that next spring the North
ern Pacific railway will do large car
rying business i'll bringing Manitoba
wheat to Duluth for Canadian ports.
RAKED UP IN PASSING.
Tie county commissioners, at meet.
ing this afternoon, passed unanimously
resolution resembling the order for a
special election, to consider the project
of bonding the county for S15o.0O0 for
new roads and bridges. The commits
sionerS deemed it unwise to submit the
question TO the people at this time.
West Superior is to have soap fac
tory. situated on John avenue. Paxton
Bros, Of Jamestown, N. Y, will be fhp
proprtetors and employment will be
given to sixty hands: Toilet soaps will
be the principal product.
A special county election will he heId
March Is TO consider the bonding of the
county to the extent of Sl5G, GOO fer ad-
ditional roads and bridges.
The control of the Duluth Gas & Wa
ter company has passed into the hands
of four New York capitalists.
John Chisholm. who won nearly all
the first prizes at the ice palace snow
shoe contests, received his medals yes
terday.
Persons with m oney 10 invest viii do well
10 turn their attention to Duluth and Supc-
rior. Nj. b. Harrison. Coz Duinth Nat;nnaI