St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-07

eial and distributing center of the North
west has served i'll measure to obscure
the growth of her manufacturing inter-
ests and give to the outside world the
impression that the large wholesale
trade having its headquarters here is
the principal reliance of the city. How
incorrect this suppOsition Is can best be
seen by visit to the numerous facto-
ries and workshops of the Sanity City
and an examination of the products
they are turning out. Such a tour of
inspection will open the eyes of the man
who has formed the impression that
st. Paul has but few manufacturing in
dustreS, and depends for her prosperity
and growth solely upon her magnificent
wholesale, commercial and financial in
tereStS.
While the part trade has played in the
development and growth OF st. Paul is
not to be disparaged, it is only fair to
state that during the past few years
another interest has been forging to the
front with the same resiStleSS energy
that marked the growth Of trade i'll this
city. This is the manufacturing inter-
est. The growth in the way Of new in
dustrieS and the enlargement of those
already established has been most rapid
during the past few years, when bust
ness throughout the country was most
depressed.
Causes Of Growth.
The causes which have led to this re-
markable growth are the same that will
insure its constant increase year by year
until ST. Paul becomes great manu-
featuring city, producing large pro-
portion of the manufactured articles
demanded by the trade of the North
west. BY this it is not meant that every
thing needed in the way of manufact-
ured goods will be made here, for that
could not be done profitably, but there
are hundreds of things in the manufact-
IRE of which st. Paul can compete with
the whole world. She has the raw ma
terials in wood, iron, fax, and a
hundred other lines at her door, and the
facilities for their rapid, easy and
cheap distribution. The people Of an
empire vaSter than the whole United
States a century agonow look to her for
their supplies. A half-century OF I'M
firing effort has given her this great
trade. a large part of which In certain
lines is supplied by articles manu-
featured right here in ST. Paul.
In manufacturing as i'll commerce, ST.
Paul builds cOnservatlEGiy and well.
No blare of trumpets marks the addi-
ton of new industry, and Solldity is
the first thing that is expected and may
be looked for when new manufacture
ing plant is started. The remarkable
development of the boot and shoe,
clothing, cigarmaking. woodworking
and other industries during the past
few years shows that in spite of local
and general depression every increase
IN population in the Northwest has
created an additional demand for goods
that are either made or jobbed by st.
Paul houses. The fact that factories in
all these lines have been obliged to in
crease their capacity every year in the
past three shows that st. Paul has a
territory as diStinctively her own for
her manufactured products as for the
goods distributedby her wholesale mer
chants.
In Boots and Shoes.
While every manufacture that has
been started i'll st. Paul i'll recent years,
with few if any exceptions, has been
successful, there is one line in which
the success has been really marvellous.
This is the boot and shoe manufacture
Five years ago there were hardly 300
people engaged in that industry: today
the three principal factories employ
about LOGO people, and what is more to
the point and speaks volumes for the
city and country, all these people are
ElNCD 6Ncly WOIhlIb Jay
In the year. There are no dull seasons
in the boot and shoe industry of st.
Paul.
Thirty years ago the making of boots
and shoes in this city was commenced
at the very bottom of the ladder, the
founder of one of the great factories of
to-day himself working at the bench
His goods gained reputation that grew
and spread as the Northwest developed.
The trade was educated to goods of st.
Paul manufacture, and year by year
all the goods the little factory could
turn out found a ready sale. The first
factory was enlarged and re-enlarged
until the present time. and now gives
employment to nearly 900 hands, and
this year will have an output of nearly
100000.
Another factory DeXt in point of age
to the one named above is comparatively
young, but has met with success be-
You'd the most Sanguine hopes of its
founders. Five years ago the total out
put of this company was under 100000,
and employment was given to between
nifty and Seventy-fiye people. AT the
present time 500 hands are employed
and the output for the current year Will
exceed $1,500,000. And this is not
enough to supply the demand for goods
of st. Paul manufacture, and next year
IHlS factory VIII De enlarged at least %
per cent and its capacity may be
doubled.
The third large factory, although it
has not been in the business so long as
the two previously mentioned, already
employs over 200 people, and is unable
TO supply the demand for goods of st.
Paul manufacture, and in less than a
year the propIietors confidently predict
that they will be giving employment to
over 500 hands, and turning out nearly
$l,5O0,000 worth of manufactured goods.
An Unlimited Field.
st. Paul now ranks as the tenth city
in the manufacture of boots and shoes
III the United States, and is rapidly adj.
yahcIDg to the first place. This may
Seem surprising to those unaQuainted
with the rem arakble advances made by
this industry in the past five years, but
1t is fact nevertheless, and ii the same