St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-25

efforts at manufacturing were made
there, scarcely generation has passed,
and yet we discover the entire water
power utilized, and the agency of steam
and electricity supplementing 1t until
more than half of the power now used
in manufacturing is furnished by these
later discovered agencies.
The manufacture of flour is largely in
excess of every other creative Industry.
being almost If not quite one-half the
value in product OF all the other induSt-
ries combined. More than 100000 bar
rels have been manufactured during the
past year, an increase Of nearly 100000
over that of the year 1888, and there is
good promise that the product OF next
year will to degree surpass the year
just closing. 1t is expected that the
sale of the great milling properties to
English syndicates, contaminated late
during the past year, will have ten
dency to attract the attention of other
European financial centres to the large
profits obtainable in the Northwest, and
stimulate the introduction of other capt.
tai to open up and develop other indust-
rles which now languish only because of
capital.
The lumber industry has continued to
hold the second place in the industries
OF Minneapolis for these twelIty-One
years. During 1883 the total product of
the sawmills, added to the financial pro-
duct OF the planning mills and sash. door
and blind factories, aggregated Sll. 16l,-
900, and the best posted lumbermen
Of the city estimate that 1889 will show
a further increase Of from 100000 TO
100000.
During the past year the manufactur-
ing industries of the city have been in
creased by several new plants. and there
are still others arranging for adding to
the wealth of the city by an early re-
mOval TO the city the coming year. Not
able for its size, importance of
the plant and number of men
employed, which has commenced
operations during the year 1889, is the
Robertson IL Mo an street car and Omni-
bus factory. This plant did not COM
mence active business until late in the
season, and yet it has just completed
and turned out its first order of ten street
cars, and has orders now ahead suffi-
cient to keep the present plant occupied
for
TWELVE MONTHS IN THE FUTURE.
The outlook is so good that the com
pany has determined to double the size
of the plant during 1890, which will
provide employment for more than 200
additional skilled mechanics.
Some half dozen other manufactur
ing plants, of minor size and impor-
lance, have been added to the indus
tries during 'S9, and still others will
open during go, thus showing that the
city is easily holding the supremacy
predicted and anticipated for it in the
early days of its municipal history
1t has not been the design of this ar
ticle to give more than cursory glance
at the manufacturing industries of our
sister city, but to call outside attention
to it's undisputed superiority as manu-
featuring center. and thus to induce
capital to seek location where the re-
turns will be sure TO be ample and GEL
tain. The first steps have been taken
toward cooperation in the various in
duStries and interests of the Twin Cities,
and it is conSumation devoutly to be
wished and worked for, that in all future
industrial. commercial and financial
transactions of st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis shall be counted as one, and that the
trade showing of st. Paul shall
rebound no less to the glory and inter
est of Minnesota than the industrial
statistics of Minneapolis shall shed
luster upon st, Paul. The cities are
one in interest, one in ambition, one in
enterprise and clergy. The profit of
one is the profit of each-the losses of
one are the losses of both. st. Paul
cannot be prosperous if industry Lays at
the falls; and Minneapolis sleeps the
sleep of a perfect inanition when the
commerce of st. Paul seeks other chan
nels. The day of puerile and childish
competition has gone by. and both cities
have donned the garments of municipal
greatness, never again to doff them.
They have won fame wherever upon
the face of the earth their names have
been spoken. Their names are never
spoken separately. save in ridicule and
derision. We have a common destiny,
and if the people of both cities are as
wise as they are enterprising, that des-
tiny is unsurpassed by any point in
America.