St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-10
pROSPEROUSST.P PAUL
Sailing in Smooth Waters,
With All Sails Set to the
Breeze.
The Return of Good Times
Felt by Every Branch
Of Trade.
New Enterprises, New Popu-
lation; New Life and En-
ergy on Every Hand.
Our Unsurpassed Advantages
for Industrial Enterprises
Attracting Attention.

cation of the brakes checked the head
long speed. Some began to doubt. the
croaker and pessimist held forth and
talked OF hard times. Eastern purse
strings were tighteued up. speculation
slackened. The whole country passed
through period of depression. st.
Paul was naturally destined to suffer
with the rest.
But st. Paul was sound and robust,
suffered less than her neighbors, and is
rallying earlier.
General business in every line i'm
proves daily. The retailer is busy and
prosperous. The jobber is crowded,
and most every house in the city reports
the volume of this seasons trade from
20 to 80 per cent in excess of year ago.
The vast increase of Western popula-
ton, the many new jobbing houses To-
eating here, coupled with the rapidly
increasing facilities of established con-
Germs, the good crop in sight and the
general business revival will tend to
swell the figures of our Wholesaleing
greatly over 1890.
In manufacturing our future seems
particularly bright. The millions in
vested in industrial enterprises, the
millions paid to wage-earners each year,
the $4,000 who both ''toil and SPIN in
cur factories, and the output of sixty to
seventy millions yearly, places US high
i'll the ranks as a manufacturing center.
The labOrer is busy and in demand.
He is wanted for the building of the
new homes and business blocks, and in
the great factories locating here. A
vast amount of work is still to be done
by the street railway company. The
public works of the municipality busy
the workingman; the new bridges
building and to be built, the works Of
the railroad companies, and various
new avenues of occupation all go to
keep our laboring classes busy and
prosperous.
Parks and BOulevards,
are among the things st. Paul most
needs. We have not enough of them.
We should delay no longer in taking adj
vantage of the magnificent endowments
Of nature, atfording our city the grand
est park sites and boulevard ways on
earth. In this, as in other ways, delays
are dangerous. Why waltz Soon there
will be buildings everywhere, and valu-
atoms so increased as TO make the ac-
curing Of park properties heavy item
OF expense. The people want parks :;
they are made healthier and happier by
them. The city would be greatly bene-
fitted. and property valuations enhanced.
The beautiful Midway district, the Mis-
sissippi river, and our pretty lakes in
and about the city afford unequaled OPP
portunities for the landscape gardeners
art. No form of taxation would be
so cheerfully borne as that of creating
y In nary &c
are the beauty spots, the breathing
places, the lungs OF great city.
The Progressive Movement.
Almost every day develops some
thing new. which means an addition to
our wealth, and strengthens our posi-
ton as the Northwestern Metropolis.
To illustrates:
Through the efforts of the industrial
bureau the boiler factory of McGregor
q McTeague is to locate in St. Paul,
on the levee above Wabasha street
bridge. They remove from Duluth,
finding this better distributing point,
aud generally more advantageous to
their business. They will erect quite
an extensive works, and make boilers,
derricks, steam shovels, etc. Prof.
Phelps. of the industrial bureau, speaks
highly of the concern.
L.
Paul and Saltwater capitalists to build
and operate all electric railway between
this city and Saltwater. Such a line
would give employment to many in
building and operating, and draw much
additional trade to the city, particularly
in the retail line.
In South Dakota, near Huron, tract
of 100000 acres Of land has been sold TO
the New York Land and Irrigation COM
pany, who will irrigate the same by ar
tesian wells. Thus the crop of grain in
our tributary country is increased.
Word comes from all directions of an
Increased acreage of grains with SPLEEN
did prospects. The farmer is obtaining
good prices for his every product. The
agricultural community, as a whole, is
in better condition than for years, with
bright prospects.
At North st. Paul the "reawalkening''
is being felt. One firm, the Luger Fur
niture company, encouraged by the
Frightening times. is about to establish
a new industry-that Of making tables
on all extensive scale. Some $50, 900
will be invested in new buildings, ma
ehinery and fixtures, and every variety
of table, plain and fancy, will be made.
At st. Anthony Park the Northern
Shade Cloth works are erecting extern
siye buildings for factory purposes.
This concern has capital of $50, COO,
an excellent field, and will grow into
one of our great Industries. A number
of st. Paul jobbers, who have been buy
ing from $4,000 to $4,000 annually of
this class of goods in the East, are
stockholders in the concern, and will.
OF course, hereafter patronize this new
and important home industry.
The matter of glassmaking is attract
Il Ia
trial bureau is in correspondence with
Eastern parties who are seeking West
ern location, where good sand can be
had cheap. There has been shipped to
France quantity of sand, from which
tests will be made by the glass manu-
factors who desire to come here. men
toned in our columns recently. A Bos-
ton factory not long since made ex-
haustive experiments with sand from
st. Paul, producing the very best re-
suits In glass of every description, in
Guiding fine and heavy plate. Official
ANALYSIS by Prof. Winchell, state geoIo-
gist, diseloses the fact that our sand
runs 90 per cent silica, and is free from
iron, the average being 90 to 81 per
cent, and costing factory 81 to s15o
per ton. Here 1t can be had for the
mere ShovelIng from bank to works.
Our sand Is very superior to that used
in plate glass making at St. Louis,
which industry represents an invest
| ment Of several millions, and IS a great
source of revenue to the city.
Why not make glass in St. Paul?
With an endless supply of the finest
grade of the raw material, and our SUI
perlor general advantages as a manu-
featuring center. there is certainly
great future for this industry
And tannerles. Why send thousands
OF tons Of hides East for tanning, only
to be returned here and made into
boots, shoes and harness?
Here, too, is clay for pressed brick.
sewer pipe and terra Gotta. grains for
flour, alcohol, spirits, oat meal, hard and
soft lumber fer everything that is made
of wood.
Flax Culture.
The matter of tax culture is receiving