Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-01-27
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
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ST LOUIS, Jan. 13-"Do you mean to
say that there is a rose famine in st.
Louise asked young man at for
lists this week.
Exactly" WAS the reply. "Our
flower growers neglected their roses
this year, thinking the people would
want fewer of them and we have not
begun to supply the demand that came
on us with the holidays"
Flower growing is an extremely
profitable business in this city, and
there is a large amount of capital in
vested in it. One florist not long ago
bought tract of fifty acres for his hot
houses. But there was rage for
observation-disclosures this year, and the
florists somehow got the idea that the
demand for roses would fall off. The
consequence was that New York had
to be called on to help them supply the
demand, and when the New York
florists ran out of roses, other eastern
cities were pressed into service.
The web of wires hanging over the
streets of St Louis will disappear very
soon. Three of the largest of the COM
panies that string wires announce that
they intend to lay conduits and give
up the poles as soon as they can make
the necessary arrangements with the
Board of Public Improvements. By
doing this they will escape the force
of Senator Stones bill, pending in the
Legislature. The Bell Telephone Com
pany, which owns four fifths of the
wires, intends to lay a conduit that
will cost over half million dollars.
st. Louis is about TO become the CEN
ter of one of the most important manu-
featuring industries in the country.
This is the manufacture of aluminium
from the crude kaolin ore which will
be shipped here from the mines, The
syndicate that is to build the works
here intends to concentrate the alumni
mum trade of the United States in this
city, and announces that the output OF
the factory from the first will be
twenty times as great as the entire
present production in this country.
That would be an amount larger than
the output of the word, at present,
but the enormous capital behind the
new company leaves no room for doubt
that it intends to make its promise
good. st. Louis has been chosen as
the location for the plant because o.
its geographical position, which will
greatly facilitate the distribution o.
the manufactured aluminium.
The public library of this city sue
cessfully accomplished a gigantic
undertaking this week. The library
has been in its rooms on Chestnut
street for years, and its new building
on Locust street, nearly quarter of a
mile from its old location, was com
pleted about the first OF the year Sat
urday and Sunday books were de
livered from the old rooms but larg'
force of Librarians and packers were
making things ready for the moving
Monday morning, the first of the tire,
hundred thousand books and valua bl,
documents in the library was carried
over to the new rooms, and since tina
time the work has proceeded day AM
night. Wednesday the new room
were opened and patrons of the librar,
were served there, the book deliverie
at the old rooms having continued III
to the hour when the formal chang
was made 10 the new quarters. TIL
new library is the most successful fire
library in the West, and its building i
not equalled in modern appointments
by any in the East except the Drexe
institute in Philadelphia.