St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-26
ST.PAUL TO THEFROnT
The City's Great Industrial
Growth During the Past
Year.
Figures That Indicate the
Progress Made in Manu-
featuring.
Splendid Work Of the Indus
trial Bureau and Invest
ment Company.
Description Of the New En-
tepprises That Have Been
Started.

the SUNDAY GLOBE.
The magnitude of the manufacturing
interests of st. Paul is but little under
stood, even by her own citizens. This
is doubtless owing in a great degree to
the quiet and unobtrusive nature of
many of he's most important industries.
AS an illustration we may name, among
others, that of cigar making, and the
production of the cheaper grades of
clothing. which occupations are gener-
ally carried on without the Intervention
of pOnderous and noisy machinery, in
the upper stories Of the taller business
blocks, where they are removed from
common observation, and hence attract
little or no attention. Nevertheless
these two branches of business alone
employ probably not far from $500
persons. and aid in supporting not less
than 1900 people.
Were the same number of operatives
employed in boiler shops, machine shops,
-four and lumber mills, or similar noisy
work, or even these occupations carried
on in buildings separate and apart from
other
Business Establishments.
their presence and activity would be
more forcibly impressed upon public
notice, and they would constitute a
much larger factor in the General ap-
probation Of the Importance of our III
dustrial pursuits. The existence of the
relatively large number of these quiet
occupations in St. Paul, and their close
utilization with the jobbing houses, in
measure accounts for the too general
disposition to disparage her industrial
Importance.
If her citizens would carefully OBJ
serve from year to year the statistics of
the wonderful growth Of her manu-
featuring establishments in number, in
the value of their products and in the
multitude of their busy employees, their
conceptions OF her Importance as cen
ter Of these activities, and Of the part
they play in contributing to the general
prosperity, would be vastly enlarged,
greatly to the benefit Of
E'Ise whole Community.
The official statistics of our manu-
featuring output for the year 1881 shows
the value Of their products to have been
SIS, 4G6,20l. In 1889, eight years later,
bAAN IL NlAtAN lloNi iCclSCQ " 100, CJt,
while last year the figures mounted up
to SCI, 40, go, an increase Of SIS. 12l, 702
i'll a single year. Thus the in
crease in valuation III eight years
is shown TO be 400 per cent, equal
to an annual average Of 80 per cent.
The number of employees in these in
dustries for 1889 is reported to have
been 25.341, and the number Of estab-
liShmentS at J2S, an increase of 1S4 over
the preceding year. Assuming that the
number of employees last year increased
in the ratio Of the increase of the out
put, the number of workers in our fact
cries aggregated the respectable figure
of 3, 462. Assuming further that each
emplOye represents a wage-earner for
the support of three individuals, mod
crate esGmate-it will be seen that S.
$50 people, considerably more than
half of our population, as reported by
Porter's Census,
are dependent upon the prosperity of
our manufacturing establishments. No
more impressive lesson ON the value and
Importance OF these enterprises can be
presented than these figures afford. In
I4iiS NOliiiNNttUu II ll4dk Uc NCli ~ COLI
slider another view of the subject by a
brief comparison between the progress
made in the jObbing and manufacturing
industries of this city. The people of
st. Paul have for many years taken a
just and laudabe pride in the magnif-
cent development of her jobbing trade.
Much of her marvellous progress and
prosperity in the past has been at
tributed to this leading branch of bust
ness. But, as gratifying as has been its
growth within the past eight or nine
years, It's rate Of increase has been no
match for that of the manufacturing in
terests, as the following figures will
show:
Beinning With the year 1881, the job
bling business amounted to $40, $50. 999,
as against So, POI, the value of the
manufacturing output. In 1889 the
value of the jobbing trade was $780,
126, S92, while that OF the manufactured
products was S4S5, 9SS.94.
Thus it appears that the increase of
T'Iae .FObbing Trade
in the eight years was, in round num-
berS about % per cent, while that of
the manufactured products was more
than 800 per cent. If we extend the
comparison 50 far as to include the bus
mess of 1890. the Increase in the former
will be shown to DE less than 800 per
cent, while that of the latter has been
more than 4C0 per cent, all within the
space of nine years.
In 1881 the value Of the manufacture
ed products was less than one-third of
that of the jobbers, while in 1890 the
former is more than one-half of the lat,
ter. 1t is only question of few years
when our manufacturing interests will
Tar outraliE III value the jobbing trade
of St. Paul. The gain in the last eight
years has been effected in the face of
many serious obstacles, and for most of
the time without any special efforts to
advance our Industrial interests The
growth has been largely the result OF
the Intrinsic merits Of our industries, a
constant and rapidly
Growing Demand
for their products, and the wise and
efficient management of existing estab
liShmentS, rather than of a multiplied.
ton Of their numbers by any artificial
or abnormal stimulus from eXtravagant
SPECIAL inducements. 1t has now beer
demonstrated by the most conclusive
tests that there is no point in the North
west better adapted to the business OF
manufacturing and distributing prod
ucts on gigantic scale than st. Paul
Her transportation facilities are frs
class; her supply of cheap and varied
raw materials in almost every line is in
eXhaustible, and her markets are prac
tlca!iy unlimited. On Thursday the
writer Of these notes. visiting one Of
our factories. inquired the destination
of some cars then being loaded on
side track, and was informed that one o.
them was for Texas and another Mon
tana, while member of the firm was a
that time closing q large contract a
Americas, Ga.
Referring again TO the rapid growtl
OF our manufacturing interests. ii ma,