The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

The ST. Anthony mill has been shut
down.
Consolidated mills B and D, Mime
apolis, are not in operation this week,
and it is not certain when they will be
started
The selling of $4,000 barrels last week
by five Minneapolis shops represented
the consumption of 100000 coiled elm
hoops and $4,000 hickory hoops.
When what you eat calls for digesters
and cathartics it's a good time to short
en- up or change the bill of fare.
c. w. Anding has sold his sugar loaf
mill located near Winona, Mimi, to ST.
las X. and Frank r. Meyers, of indie
pendence, Wis, for $4,000.
In spite of the lack of cold weather.
which in the Northwest is considered
essential. business in this section con-
tinues especially good.
The New Alden creamery is ready for
operation. capacity $4,000 pounds of milk
daily. The equipment and building are
modern and the best. The cost was
$1,000.
Graves Bros, formerly owners of the
Harrisonville (Mo) roller mill, have
bought the mill at Delavan, Mimi, and
will remove to that place to carry on
the business.
prince to the meanest subject, is obliged
to learn some useful trade.
American condensed milk is gaining a
foothold In the Asiatic markets. 1t is
supptanting the German product in ia
pan.
Kansas City figures to have 80 per
cent of the stock cattle trade. Chicago
16 per cent Omaha % per cent and St.
Louis per cent. These are round fig
ures fractions off.
The flow of fine cattle has been from
east to west so long that the tide must
turn, and it seems already to have done
so. Nebraska breeders recently sent
car of breeding cows to Vermont.
On Nov 20 the Cataract City Milling
company of Cataract, Mimi, of which ].
A Walter IS manager, made a shipment
of -four to the Transvaal for the Beers.
This company has lately filled several
large orders for South Africa.
AS soon as the milk gets colder than
the atmosphere, the vapor In the air Will
cOndenSe on the surface. as dew gathers
on a cold pitcher, and the impurities and
odors from the atmosphere will be alb
sorbed by the milk or cream on 1t.
The Canadian Pacific roads elevator,
foot of Bathurst street, in Toronto
Canada burned recently. 1t was entire
" empty and the fire is supposed to be
incendiary. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000 It belonged to the city, but was
leased to the railroad.
H. H. King & Co.. Minneapolis: Trade
showed little Improvement last week,
especially export We worked a few lots
to good advantage and had several offers
very close to our limit. Clears have been
dragging a little but last week cleaned
UP all surplus of that grade. Bran is
selling well; other feeds slow. Very little
wheat moving"
Minneapolis-Output last week. 1885, 20
barrels. Owing to the close of lakes and
dull trade mills are shutting down and
output this week estimated at 215,OOO bar
rels. Most mills last week sold about 70
per cent Of the output, chiefly domestic
Export was a shade better Inland rates
are expected to be shaded by initial roads.
Feed is suffering a little from transit
stuff having to be forced on thu market.
At EeSta. Mimi, the terminal point
the Minnesota & Iowa division Of the
Northwestern road. a partially completed
elevator being built by Foster & Miller,
was. on last Friday, wrecked by author
fly of the right of way agent. A locomo-
tive was hitched to the elevator and 1t
was pulled over, a complete wreck. FOs-
ter & Miller are independent buyers of
Echo. MINI.
Warner Cav has purchased of George
township, for $500. The land contains no
buildings. and its sale at $40 an acre is
good Illustration of the increasing value
of real estate in the vicinity of Chatfield
Democrat
The Red Wing Republican tells of a
seed cord swindle. An agent calls on
farmers with ears from three to five times
the ordinary length, and offers to sell a
hundred grains for % cents, or the ear
for 81. Should the farmer buy he will
lind on investigation that several or
binary ears have been glued together
The Bay State Milling company is de-
sirous Of having a state grain inspector
located at Winona, Mimi, and is nego-
tlating with the railroad commission.
The cost of maintaining an inspector is
about $1,000 per year, and this the COM
mission asks the milling company to
make good.
Northwestern mills were today CTues-
day. quoting patent at SO. 7003.SO pei. bar
rel In sacks. thirty-day draft, for deliv-
cry at iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin
points outside of Chicago and Mi1wau-
kee: bulk shorts, s14. and bran $3.50, in
mixed cars. thirty-day draft. For cash,
cents per barrel and 25 cents per ton
Is discounted from these quotations
A. c. Jackson Ketzeback FIGURING Man
ufacturing company, Wells, MINI: Our
domestic trade is increasing daily. Have
not Oeeh able yet to secure any foreign
offers that We could accept bids being
from I'd to Is out of line. We are stir
sold ahead on bran. but the demand for
shorts is not so great, though we have no
surplus There has been a very free de-
livery of wheat by the farmers during
the past month"
The breeders associations have already
begun to reserve dates for the exhibit
ton and public sale of breeding cattle
during the International avnoCj+;o,, -
Dexter Park Amphitheater, Chicago, next
year. Every day the scope and plan of
the exposition seems to broaden, and
there has been no doubt from the start
that it would in every way be an event
of unrivaled magnitude.