The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-11
ST. PAUL'S MANUFACTURERS FIND
THE DEMAND FOR GOODS
SATISFACTORY.
VISIT TO A CIGAR FAClORY.
KUHLES & STOCK. HAVE ONE Hun
DRIED AND THIRTY MEN AT
WORK.
st. Paul Lead and Oil Works DOin g
More Business Than Usual
The Creamery Trade.

The manufacture of a cigar Is an
interesting process, from the time that
the leaf tobacco is received in bulk at
the warehouse until it goes out, neatly
packed in small boxes, a tempting ar
ray Of choice Smokes" Through the
courtesy of George T. Kuhles, Of Kuh-
les & Stock, a reporter for the G o
made trip through their factory, the
largest in the Northwest, where a force
of 100 skilled employees are busily en-
gagged in turning out thousands daily
of their leading brands, the Seal of
Minnesota" "Aquila" and "Black
Bat"
The basement floor is used as ware
house, where the tobacco is moistened
and prepared for the use of the work.
ers. The weed" then passes to a
floor above where the "strippers" are
busily engaged in removing the stems.
Here also, after stripped, the tobacco
is packed in large boxes to remain
several weeks or couple of months
TO pass through the second sweat or
fever" At the expiration of this time
it is taken out and spread on racks
stage of dryness, after which it is kept
in zinc-lined cases to maintain that
degree of moisture
The tobacco is now apportioned out
to the small army of workers who con-
vert it into cigars, and then the
completed cigars go to the stamping
machine, which presses the name of
10 hro In Ooft
ers pack them in boxes, the boxes are
labelled and are then stored away in
zinclined refrigerators awaiting ship
ment.
With rare business sagacity, Messrs.
Kuhles & Stock made an eXtraOrdin-
acy large purchase of Havana tobacco
last fall-something over 500 bales
and have enough on hand to keep their
factory running for about eighteen
months to come. There were but few
factories in the country which looked
that far into the future and the price
of the delicate Havana leaf is now
rising to a point which almost pro-
hibits it's purChase-thOse who have a
supply do not care to sell.
The factory turns out in the neigh
bOrhood of 100000 cigars month, and
increasing sales keep the factory run
ming to it's fullest capacity.
Albert Norman. of the st. Paul Fur
niture company, reports that concern
to be running at its full capacity, as,
indeed, it has been for the year. 1t
makes a speciality of bank fittings and
furniture, and among the work now in,
process of manufacture is the entire
fixtures and furniture of the Northern
National bank, of Ashland, Wis, also
fixtures for the Bank of PipestOne, fix
lures for the Bank Grantsburg, Wis,
Office fixtures and bank counters for
Anaconda, Mont, car Of bar fixtures
for Butte, Mont, special furniture for
several Summit avenue residences, fix
lures for Dillon, Mont, and Red Rock,
Idaho, and a quantity of special furni-
ture, etc, for various outside towns.
The factory has just completed elegant
bank fixtures for Winnipeg, Can.
w. S. Flint, of the ST. Paul White
Lead & Oil works, reports that they are
now preparing their new shades and
changes for next season. Their bust
ness the past year has been very salts
factory and they are running a larger
force of men and have done more bust
ness than usual-Whfch bears out the
saying that in good times a man paints
his house.
Mr.. Flint returned a few days ago
from Omaha, where he attended the
national convention of Gil and paint
men, and he says the association is
preparing to wage war against the
adulerators Of linseed oil.
The Cornish, Curtis & Greene COM
pany is busily engaged in constructing
creameries at different points, including
Parkersburg and Lac dui Parle, and at
Rush City the company is putting in a
creamery and PasteuriZing plant of a
mCst approved kind.