St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-16

working overtime in order to keep up
with their orders. In the extensive
manufacturing district on the West side
a very favorable condition of affairs
was found last week, and the growth of
that district, as shown among the inter
views presented below, is well worth
attention. 4 new and extensive steam
engine works. to use the Allis patent, is
one of the certaintieS of the near future
for the West side. In almost every con-
Germ over there new features of manu-
facture have been added to their original
designs, and increases in working space
and in numbers of employees have gone
beyond what were considered great eX-
pectatiUns. The general report on
manufacturing throughout the city is
practically the same, ana the conditions
for good healthy growth are extremely
favorable.
Provision markets have imprOved.and
live stock is selling well here. Produce
is unchanged and steady. Fruits in
active demand at steady prices.
In the district lying between the
great lakes and the Pdcific-abOut sew
enteen states-the gain i'll population IN
1890 over the census of 1880 was about
three and a half millions, Minnesota
led with a gain in the ten years OF 52l,-
O53. The population of this state in 1880
was only 80, 773. Minnesota had an as
sesSed valuation in 1880 of S25S, OPS, 6S7,
and in 1890 of 1888. 531, 743 a gain OF
$3.50, sos, 056. Minnesota stood third Oh
the list of increase in assessed valuation
in this district, and the total gain of the
Northwest was 81, 404,6 17, 434 on assessed
valuation in ten years.
Cattlemen are numerous here on their
way to the Northwestern conventions,
! and they talk very encOuragingly of the
prospects for range stock.
Trade Talks.
Views of merchants and manufacturers are
presented as follows:
oliver Crosby, president. Am erican Hoist
and Derrick Company: 1--WE opened here on
/ the west side as the American Iron works
! and have largely increased the iron and ma
chinery business, and have branched into
! the line indicated by our corporate name
| The new addition makes the total floor space
! of the works go feet, including the new
| boiler shop We put in another engine re-
! Gently goo II. P.). Used to buy our boiler:
! in Dayton, o. We make them here now. To
| the worlds fair we sent four carloads of ma
! chinery for Exhibition. Our space there
| is 10OX10O feet We shipped 120 tons
! of finished machinery, engines, derricks and
: contractors machinery during the thirteen
| days, ending April 1. Our business is fully as
| good as it was last yeaT-more men employed
-rotal now about $50 men. The factories on
! this side, between the Robert and Wabasha
! bridges EN- piOy about 600 men and show q
pay roll of 81, 900 per month. This does not
| include the brickyard, stove works. oil mill,
| breweries. planning mill, box factory, show
case factory. vinegar works and other i'm
portant industries. In only includes seven
! concerns They are all doing first rate. Last
week we shipped tubular derrlcks to Spring
| field, Mass. Here's large contract for Nor
| burne. Mo. This picture shows four of oul
| large derricks in use a. Salt Lake City, Utah.
| Here's four more AT Charleston, S. c., and
| four at Los Angeles Cal. Yes we ship to
| Mexico and South America. That's the way
! St. Paul trade is extending, and our manu-
| facturers are we'll pleased"
c. d. Prude;i, Vice President st. Paul Roof
! ing and Cornice Works-We have large in
| ago. il was three times as large IN February
| and ten times as large in March. This month
| we expect q proportonate increase. Oul
| new Observation-Disclosures building fronts
| causes most of the new business We are
! shipping them to Dickinson. N D., for the
| opera house and store. and to Morris, Mimi.
| Newcastle, Pa; Syracuse, Neb.; San An
| tonia, Tex; Evansville, Ind. We sent cop
! per front to Y. II. Ozmun, Crystal Lake, Ill.
| also TO Iowa and Wisconsin. The inquire:
come from all over. There's the galvanized
| iron eornices roofing, etc, for town hall a.
| Hurley, Wis. and we sent rock-front re
! Gently for the worlds fair exhibit building
7jx12j feet to the Oil Well and Supply com
pany, of Pittsburg, Pa The rush necessi
tates this extra force, and every indication
points 70 its keeping up.
C. Z. Frink. Manager, r B. Fargo < Co.
Creamery Supplies and neutrality-suspicious.:
is first-rate. a great many new creamerieS
! are starting in all over the Northwest anC
they are not boom concerns They are solid
and in localities where they are justified
We sold Eve new outfits to Minnesota .partie:
| last week. 1 think fifty new creameries viii
be built in Minnesota this spring. This state
is crowding Iowa and Wisconsin on quality
and production of butter The water anC
grasses are excellent. Those burr oak open
| ings are Just right for dairy stock.
| W.R. DorT, Secretary and Treasurer. Horne
& DAM TinWare Manufacturing Company