The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-08-08
WESTERN DEVELOPMENT.
Progress of Industrial Development in the
West.-Milwaukee in the Lead in the En-
largement of Factories. -Raiiroad Earn
ingS and Gossip

| Progress of Industrial Development in the
/ West.-Milwaukee in the Lead in the En-
/ largement of Factories. -Raiiroaa Earn
| ings and Gossip.
! Boston Daily Advertiser July stil i.ao
| | learn from Mr.. Luis jackson. indus.
trial commissioner of the Chicago. .,.i!.
waukee & st. Paul Railway, that ind Us
! trial development continues to make
| great strides in the west.
| Factories already existing have been
enlarged; new factories have been estab-
| lished through local enterprise and
| branch factories have been built by
| eastern concerns. In the matter of en-
| largement of already established factor
les, Milwaukee probably takes the lead
| The Allis Chalmers Co. is constructing a
] plant the buildings of which will cover
30 acres This concern recently installed
| the immense power plants for the New
York elevated roads. The Nordb berg
company, which makes the heavy min
ing machinery for the northern Michi-
gan copper mines, the mines of South
Africa and other places, has built a for
| midable works adjacent to the st. Paul's
entrance into Milwaukee. Mr.. jackson
enumerates over 20 other concerns in
Milwaukee that have enlarged their
| works, while several new factories have
located there.
At Freeport, ILL.,, new plant has been
built by the Slower Co. on the st. Paul's
tracks, employing 500 men, for the man
ufacture of windmills and gas engines.
At Beloit, Wis, the Fairbanks Morse
works already employing over 1850 men.
has just constructed a new steam pump
works which will employ $50 additional
men, and though $50 new houses were
built by Beloit citizens this year there is
not enough house room as yet in sight
for the additional men. The Elgin
Watch works at Elgin, Ill, has decided
to start the construction of additional
buildings to its plant, which will en-
ploy 500 more hands. Development is
going on all over the territory. The
American Cigar Co., which a couple of
years ago put up large tobacco sorting
house at Madison, Wis, has completed a
new sorting house at Sparta, Wis. The
Sparta house employs 500 hands for four
months in the year. This Wisconsin to-
bacco, which is ''binder,' has now an
established reputation all over the
United States, especially in New York
and Boston. A company is establishing
a cement post factory at GAINESVILLE, Wis
It is expected that this cement post will
largely supplant the wooden post in the
west. At Des Moines, Ia, large works
making clay conduits for telephone and
telegraph wires has been established.
At Charles City, Ia, a gas engine works
has been built on the St. Paul works.
Mr.. jackson mentioned list of foun-
dries. machine shops, tow mills, canning
factories wire fenceworks, malt houses,
and other industries that have recently
located, including the large steel car
works at Davenport, Iowa.
Mr.. Jackson opines that, as the doc
tors with their advanced and diversified
knowledge of hygiene, have rendered the
epidemics that in times past have spread
over large areas less harmful, so will di-
versity in manufacturing make CONNER
cial panics less frequent, and when they
do come shorter and more contracted in
their harmfulness. The telephone and
even it's ''nickle in the slot" attachment,
belongs to that high class of manufac-
turing that tends to make an Industrial
nation with steady flow of business.
When one half the world is engaged in
merely growing wheat to exchange it
the market for wheat and coal soon be-
comes glutted and stagnation follows.
Where the modest householder can get
into an enameled bath tub, telephone his
friends, turn on hot or cold water, he
takes an interest in the worlds business,
and instead of hiding all his money in
stocking, he invests part of it in the new
necessities. This is the whole principle
of production and exchange. 1t is what
one man and his labor exchanges with
that of another man, the more diversified
the better.
Farms along the st. Paul are also be-
coming more diversified. A crop of one
kind of grain is no longer depended up
on. In this connection Mr.. Jackson re-
Gently published a creamery statement
which shows that the number of butter
and cheese factories on the st. Paul road
is already great, and is increasing every
year. On March l, 1900, the st. Paul
road had ], 166 butter and cheese factor
les tributary to it; in 1901 it had 1924;
in 1902 it has l,415. 1t is a fact that
most of the best butter that comes to
the New England markets from the west
is from stations on the st. Paul.
RIALTO.