St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26

of our own country. Minneapolis is
the great flour milling center in the
state, of course, but not the whole field
although she has all her mills can do
At Little Falls, for example, there are
no less than four handsome and large
mills with an aggregate capacity of
5000 barrels a dav. Fergus Falls has
five mills, with little greater capacity.
| WinOna has large mills, as has also ST.
Paul, Duluth, st. Cloud, Red Lake
Falls, Sank Rapids, Anoka, Mankato
and New Ulm. Smaller establishments
flourish all over the state, Glencoe, Red
wood Falls, LIE Sueur, Henderson,
Red Wing, Rochester, and, in
fact, every one of the hun
dred or more live and progressive
cities and villages located in all parts of
this queen of Northwestern common
WealthS. The Importance of this indus
try, and the value OF water as a motive
power, can be bestrealized from glance
at the daily capacity of the Minneapolis
Touring mills. There are i'll that city
no less than twenty-five mills, grinding
an aggregate of 1929 barrels Of flour
per day. Of these only eight rely solely
upon the falls for power, while fourteen
have steam plants to fall back upon.
The largest Of these mills grinds over
| 1000 barrels per day, while the next
!
barrels. The smallest turns out about
| 400 barrels.
Diversified Industry.
Great as are these two industries, lum-
Der and flour manufacturing, they are
but small portion of the Industries of
| the state in manufacturing way. The
magnitude of the boot and shoe manu-
featuring interests of St. Paul alone was
! set out by the GLOBE short time ago,
and showed that the annual output of
manufactured goods i'll this line alone Of
| the SANITY City was over S3,OOO,OOO,
while no less than 1,60O hands were
given employment. As great a reye-
lation was given in the his
tory of the clothing and cigar
/ manufacturing lines, and no account
was made of these industries in Mime
| apOllS and other cities of the state. In
! Duluth, WinOna, Fergus Falls and Min
neapolls, for example, there are large
cigar factories, and nearly every town
OF any size in the state has one or more
| factories making cigars. At the lively
little city of Glencoe, for example, there
is cigar factory giving employment to
! to upwards Of thirty hands.
The growing of flax for the seed alone
| has been and is a very important part
OF the farming done in the state. 1t has
! paid the farmers who have made ac
count Of the fiber. All this is now in
fair way to be changed. Fiber-ware fac
tories are being operated at Mankato,
and soon will be at Austin, while IA linen
| mill at Minneapolis will create demand
| for this fiber heretofore thrown away.
| This industry is decidedly inits infancy
and is capable of almost indefinite eX-
| panSiOn. Other manufacturing plants
in operation in the state are:
LinSeed oil mills.
Pulp and paper mills.
Binding Irvine factory.
Woodworking factories.
Furniture factories.
Brick works.
! POtterieS.
| Cement works.
Breweries and distilleries.
| Iron works and fOundrieS.
| Tub and pail factories.
| Car seal works.
Sewer pipe works.
These are some of the results that
! have been accomplished in the line of
manufacturing in Minnesota in the last
few years. Their growth is surprising,
| but in no one of the lines mentioned is
there lack of opportunity for increase
| and Development while there are nu-
| merOuS
Fields for Capital
and manufacturers yet unoccupIed, and
offering a rich harvest to those who adj
vance upon them prepared to SOW and
reap. The natural advantages III the
way of raw material and cheap power,
| an invigOrating and stirring climate,
and a hardy, intelligent people, are
here, and are bound to tell in the race
for manufacturing as well as CONNER
| clal prosperity and supremacy.
AlluSlOn has been made 10 the stone
! Quarrying and cutting industry. 1t is
already great industry, but it is in a
sense hardly started. The rich granite
quarries at st. Cloud are being worked,
but not as they will be. At Kasota,
ShakOpee and Mankato the celebrated
are being quarried. and large in
dustries may be SAID 10 be in operation;
but more should and will be done.
Lake Superior brOwnStODe is one of the
most beautiful building rocks in the
market, but its development should be
FASTENED. The famous Sioux Falls jasper
is commonly credited to Sioux Falls, 5.
D., alone, but the counties of Rock and
! PiDeStOne in Minnesota have more eX-
| posed Lodges and afford a chance to cut
and quarry the same stone at as low
cost. They are worked but little, when
if pushed. as they should be, thousands
OF skilled and highly paid labOrers
would find employment, and every in
tereSt of Southwestern Minnesota
be thereby advanced.
Nearly related to the stone working
industry is that of brick and other clay
working Industries for which Mime
sofa offers unrivaled advantages. At
ChaSka, for example, there are great
brick works which give employment to
mady men in summer. The clay found
there is of the finest quality and offers
great inducements TO manufacturers of
pottery and terra Gotta. At Red Wing
recently company was formed to make
sewer pipe and pottery, clay some
thing like that at Chaska being found
near Red Wing.
Iron Resources.
At the present time the iron ore
mined in Minnesota is sent East to be
manufactured. 1t is of the highest and
: best quality, and by the late report of
Labor Commissioner Carroll ID. Wright
brings the handsome sum of So per ton,
and is the highest priced ore mined in
the United States. At the present time
this is all shipped to Cleveland. Toledo
and other Eastern points. where it is
mixed with other ores, and then turned
into steel rails and other fine manu-
featured iron work. After all this has
been done the rails and other articles
are SUlpptu DdCh W DuIulu ana OU.
Paul and Minneapolis, and from these
points distributed all over the
, Northwest. Owing to the cheapness of
, water transportation vast saving could
be made if the fuel and the cheaper
grads of ore were shipped West, and
the manufacturing, or a large part of it,
at least, now carried on in Cleveland
and Toledo were done in this state. The
building of several iron works and
blast furnace at the head of the lakes in
the last few months shows that this
promising field is in fair way to be
worked to certain extent in the near
future: but there is no reason
why the manufacture of structural
iron should not be a great industry in