The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-19
JUST BESIDE BOOTH
CHICAGO FIRM AFTER PIECE OF
WEST THIRD STREET PROP
ERTY
FOR MANUFACTURING PLANT.
PLANS FOR THAT AND THE WARE
HOUSE OF THE BOOTH PACK
ING COMPANY
FOR MANUFACTURING PLANT.
MAY BE DRAWN AT SAME TIME.
Manager c. w. Turner Says the Out
come VIII Be known This
Weck-Thcir Big Plant.

The A. Booth Packing company,
whose purchase of the old elevator
property on West Third street, opposite
St Peter street, was announced IN the
Globe tie first part of last October,
will begin the cons .rutcion of its $780,
600 warehouse and cold storage plant
shortly after the list of the year. Not
only will the Booth company erect an
enormous twelve-story warehouse. or
brick and stone. on the site, as fore
casted in the c. 20 b e last fall, but 1t
was given out yesterday that another
large manufacturing concern now To-
Gated in Chicago. is negotiating for the
purchase of the adjoining property
with a view to the transfer of their
Chicago business to st. Paul, and the
erection of a factory on the ground
which will give employment to a large
number of men. and bring another
large industry to St. Paul.
A representative of the Chicago firm
will be in St Paul the early part of
this week ard look the ground over. Z.
W. Turner who represents the Booth
company in the Northwest. Informed
the C Iob yesterday, that he thought
there was no doubt whatever but that
the Chicago manufacturing concern
would locate in st. Paul as soon after
the first of the year as possible, and
build their own factory. In fact, he
thinks it altogether probable that the
two concerns will use the same party
wall, and have plans and specifications
for the two buildings drawn at the
same time. Mr.. Turner declined to
state the name or nature of the bust
ness of the Chicago firm, except that 1t
conducted a large manufacturing bust
ness and now had a branch in st.
Paul. The Chicago firm, if at all, will
erect a warehouse that will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000, on the forty
eight-foot frontage between the site of
the burned elevator and the West Pub
fishing company, and will probably
have a three-story frontage, and the
rear, which faces the river, will be
twelve stories high, the same as the
Booth company. The frontage of the
Booth warehouse will be seventy-five
feet.
The Chicago firm has been carrying
on negotiations through a local real
estate man, and it is understood he has
secured the option on the property, and
is awaiting the arrival of a member of
the Chicago firm before proceeding
further with the purchase of the prop
erty.
A gentleman who is a member of the
Chicago concern, in conversation with
W. Y. Booth. general manager of the
Booth Packing company, said his house
had been looking for good Northwest
ern location, whereupOn Mr.. Booth in
formed him of their venture in st.
Paul, and referred him to their North
western agent. c. W. Turner, who has
been quite Jealous in his efforts to Sc
cure the new industry for st. Paul.
As an nducement he has offered the
Chicago concern electric light and
steam power accommodations from the
ample facilities which his company will
have in it's new building. 1t is expected
that the matter will be settled some
time this week. as the Chicago people
who are interested in the purchase of
the property are DESTROYS of getting
permanently located in the Northwest
close after the first of the year. The
track facilities which both concerns
will have are Of the best, being con-
nected with two of the Chicago lines.
The Booth people have announced
that they will give St Paul contrac
tor the preference, and that they will
not so outside of the city for bids for
the construction of their new ware
house, and that every dollars worth Of
material for the building will be the
product of home industry except their
refrigel a tor machinery, which will have
to be purchased in the East. The stone
for the building has not as yet been
selected prominent st. Paul con-
tractor has been consulted and has
looked the site over and will probably
make his report some time this week
upon the nature of the foundation
necessary and the construction of the
re ar walls facing the railroad tracks,
upon which the Booth people will i'm
mediately have plans drawn and call
for bids. The natural formation of the
site is quite peculiar being on the side
of a steep bluff and will require deep
foundation as the bulk of the weight
OF the building and its contents will
come upon the rear walls and founda-
ton. The machinery will be located
in the basement and the offices of the
company will be on the floor on level
with Third street.
When completed the Booth building
will make st. Paul one of the four dis
trlbutlng points IN the united states
for the product of a firm which does an
immense business on two continents.
The building will probably be ready for
occupancy by the 1st of May, and
stands in a commanding position over
looking-the river and will be an orna-
ment to the city.
1t is claimed they will have the finest
and most complete refrigerator accom-
modations in the Northwest with a
capacity of over 100000 pounds of per-
ishable stuff 1t will have fifty-four
rooms of all sizes, the temperture Of
which will be regulated by four sew
enty-f1ve ton freezing machines, having
freezing dimension equal to the
freezing capacity of 500 tons of ice. The
temperature of these rooms can be
changed in three minutes. the entire
plant being fitted with the chemical
process of freezing known as the Am
mcnia system of dry air. The ceilings
are fitted with coils of gas pipes,
through which the ammonia is forced
by steam power with terrific velocity,
which causes what might be termed
q cold friction. The ammonia goes
through a chemical change while In the
pipes. When a certain high steam
pressure is applied the ammonia takes
Oh a gaseous form, which causes in
tense cold which can be brought as low
as 20 below zero, while under a lighter
pressure the ammonia remains in a
LIQUID form, and 20 above zero is the