St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-14
FLOUR MILLS.

TUE PILLSBURY-WASHBU COMPANY
LIMITED.
The five Pillsbury mills constituting
the interests controlled by the PIilsblIryS
Washburn FIeur Mills Company. iim7
tied. have no peers i'll the entire world.
Minneapolis mills make annually 9.6OO.-
600 barrels OF flour. valued at So, 6O0.Oou.
aud these same mills ship to foreign
countries over 3. 700, 900 barrels OF Hour
4 year. For this over IS. 100000 bushels
of wheat are ground each year. Inc
production of the five PIllsbury mills IS
pointed to with pride by every resident
of Minneapolis. u
The PiIlsbnry- Washburn CompanyS
famous five are known as Pillsbury A,
Pillsbury b. PaliSade, Anchor and Lin
coin mills. They make $500, 600 barrels
a year, 100000 of which are sent
abroad, aud their daily capacity is ll.U9O
barrels. or 40 per cent of the flour made
in Minneapolis, and experts say they
make enough -four in one year TO MI q
line of barrels extending from London
TO st. Petersburg, or New York 20
Denver.
In 1891 English capitalists, IN
duced by the tame of MInne-
apOlis flour. succeeded in buying
an interest in the mills operated
by G. A. Pillsbury dc Co., shortly after
purchased the smaller group of mills
owned and operated by W. ID. Wash
burn IL Co., and secured the great water
power property which has made MlnDe-
apoliS q manufacturing and milling
center. This consolidation made the
most gigantic milling plant IN the world
but Mr.. c. A. PilIsbury, whose ability
ana experience had drawn the eyes OF
the foreign investors TO the &. A. PlllS-
bury x Co. mills, was asked to retain d
very large interest III. ana was made
active managing director OF the giant
| enterprise. The English investors leave
/ almost everything to Mr.. PIllsbnry, the
/ plant remaining distinctiyely Amerl-
! can industry. c. A. PiIlSbury K Co.
| whose interests were the largest en-
! tered in the consolidation. was composed
! of Messrs. Charles A, Fred C. John ,.
anu George A. Piilsbury. IL addition
/ to the five mills the Pilisbury- W ash
( burn Flour company controls the MIL
! neaDOHs & Northern elevators ana
the Atlantic elevators. PiIlsbuTy A Is
the largest flour mill III the world, hay
J ing a daily capacity of 200 barrels, anl
is located on the east side OF tue river
A massive structure OF blue limestone
! 115X115 feet in area, and seven stories
high. it is noted as model mil. 1t ila'
over 800 pairs of imported patent rolls
200 boiling reels ana middling purifiers
and has added over 100 Holt duStles'
purifiers, etc. Tue sales from the retail
department alone aggregate over SssOe,
600 year. Piilsbury b is bHilt of stoue
65x105 feet III area. six stories high ant
two easements. with as complete ant
improved machinery as mill A, ana DOH
steam ana water power.
The other mills are large ones. witt
the latest improved machinery, though
not so extensive as the two described.
The Minneapolis IL Northern eleya
tors are operated under this system now
Eight TO ten million bushels or Whea
are handled annually. and the system Q
storehOuses has capacity OF d50.Oe
! bushels. exclusive of the Minneap0li
house.
Piiisbury's Best xxx is consideret
the finest brand of flour made. and Nj
PillSbury considers it the best made !
the five mills
Mr.. Charles A PillSbnTv IS one OF I'll
most prominent inen IN the state
Minnesota. He was born DIT Warner
n. H., 1912. Several years after gradt
ating at Dartmouth college. Mr.. Pills
bury came to Minneapolis. lie IS a
authority on all milling and flour sui
iectS. and has been in his present bus
ness since 1863. He is now the pres
dent of the chamber of commerce, an
has served his city in the state senate
The Offices of the company are on I'll
second floor of the Northwestern Gual
anty Office building.