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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

Go to Frank Pierce for your win
ter shoes. He will treat you right.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

Hot or cold baths at Written 4
Elite barber shop.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

If you want cheap home in
Southwest Missouri,
Northwest Arkansas,
Indian Territory,
Texas or Louisiana
Write for copy of
"Current Events," published by
theK ansas City Southern Rail
way. S. 6. WARNER,
6. p. & T. A.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21
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This signature Il On svssy box q .hs genuine
Laxative BroHo- Quinine TAbis''
ths rsmsdy that eares cssa b 80 az
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

The best pill meath the stars and
stripes; 1t cleanses the system and
never gripes. Little Early Risers
of worldly repute-Ask for DeWitts
and take no substitute. A email
pill, easy to buy, easy to take and
easy to act, but never failing in re-
suits. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
arouse the secretions and act as a
tonic to the liver, curing perman-
emily. Morrow & Co.
For SALE.-Good six.room house;
two lots 5Oxl42 feet each; fruit and
shade trees; cellar that cost $50;
COW barn, horse barn. buggy shed,
chicken house: good sistern; fine
ueighborhood, corner location.
Property in good repair. Inquire
at this Office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

Baxter and Chetopa Mail and Hack I.ii+.
Daily Except Sunday.
Leaves Baxter p. M; keelville 3;%';
Melrose 4, arrives at Chetopa at p. m.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

G. r. Gould has just received q
big lot of grass and clover seeds.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

Armstrong, the Rast Side barber.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

Special attention given to childrens
hair cutting at Armstrong; shop
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

If it's a bilious attack, take Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
let's aud a quick recovery is certain
For sale by A. r. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21
Stops the Cough
and works off the Cold.

Laxative Bromo- Quinine Tablets
cure cold in one day. No cure, No
Pay. Price Is cents.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

Mail and passenger trains run daily
freight trains daily except Sunday. Mai
closes at postofice 80 minutes before trair
time.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21
SEVERE ATTACK OF GRIP.
Cured by One Bottle of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy.

"When l had an attack of the grip
last winter (the second one) / actu-
ally cured myself with one bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy"
says Frank w. Perry, editor of the
Enterprise, Shortsville, N. Y. This
is the honest truth. at times kept
from coughing myself to pieces by
taking a teaspoonful of this reme-
dy, and when the coughing spell
would come on at night l would
take q dose and it seemed that in
the briefest interval the cough
would pass off and l would go to
sleep perfectly free from cough and
it's accompanying pains. To say
that the remedy acted as most
agreeable surprise is putting it
very mildly. had no idea that it
would or could knock out the grip,
simply because l had never tried it
for such a purpose, but it did. and
it seemed with the second attack of
the remedy caused it to
not only be of less duration, but the
pains were far less severe, and l
had not used the contents of one
bottle before Mr.. Grip had@ bid me
adieu." For sale by A. K. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-03-21

"A large number of Quapaws were
in town Tuesday, getting their lease
money. Heretofore the members
of the tribe have drawn the bulk OF
their money from parties living in
Baxter Springs, and few of them
ever came to Miami. The change
of conditions was effected by Rob-
inson & Harvey and Don Wills who
have been leasing large bodies of
Quapaw land. AS most of the lease
money is paid monthly the Indians
come the first of the month for their
money, a goodly percentage of
which is spent with Miami mer-
chants, instead of all going to Bax-
ter as heretofore.-Miami Herald.
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eied, maintained as q strictly 6rsi-clsss hotel
and b open the year round.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

Mississippi. q. Gluek, proprietor,
Marshall, near city limits.
Orth's, j. Ortiz, proprietor, Marshall.
corner of Thirteenth avenue N.
BRICK MANUFACTURERS
Union Brick company, Second ave-
nue. .N,xcorner of Sixth.
) D.. Woodbury., 1913 Western avenue.
49,. BOILER MANUFACTURERS
M. w. Glenn & Co., Second, corner
of Fifth avenue S.
North Star Iron Works, J. w. John
son.. proprietor, River, between Sec
ond and Third avenues N.
BOOT AND SHOE MANUFAC-
~ TURERS.
Z : c. A. Heffelhnger, ~ washington
avenue S.. .#.
North Star Boot and an company,
A. M. Reid, president; F. M. Reid, sec
rotary; G. B. Heffelfinger, treasurer
and business manager; 200, 2O2 and
204 washington avenue N.
BROOM MANUFACTURERS
s Carlson & Co.. 512 First street N.
= j.; NJ. Griffith, 1101 Fifth street N.
CIGAR MANUFACTURER
E. Becker, rs First street S.
(. H. Boekhaus, 2107 Third street s..
Fred Cramer, 1920 Fourth street s..
J.. Crosse. 40 Central avenue, Mic
ollet island.
Z William Peterman, i 4 Main street N.
G.. Pfaum, 203 Thirteenth avenue N.
j. Rauch, 500 First street N.
( H. "A. Siebert, 1913 First street N.
John Sutheimer, % Washington
avenue N.
CONFECTIONERY MANUFACTURE
T.. ERS AND WHOLESALE
DEALERS.
Euler & Stuart, 41s Hennepin ave-
Y1lle.
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close of that struggle the northwest
took on new life and manufactures
made rapid progress. The story of the
development Of the flour milling in
dustry at this period is told in an
other section of this issue. Along
with its rise almost every line of man
ufacture prospered in Minneapolis;
and at this period many of! the strong
manufacturing establishments of the
present time had their beginnings.
Most of the iron working concerns,
the furniture factories, and the sash
and door establishments were organ
lied in the decade following the war.
Before the war was over, in 1854, the
North Star Wooden mill was built
by Eastman, Gibson & Co. After
changing hands and names sew
1875, of the North Star Wooden Mill
company, which has continued to OPP
crate it with success for twenty-eight
years. Another wooden mill was built
about this time, but the demands of
the flour milling business led to it's
diversion to the uses of the flour
millers.
The paper manufacturing business
began in 1859, when Cutter & Secombe
established the Island Paper mill on
Hennepin island. The Minneapolis
Paper mill was built in 1866, at the
foot of Seventh avenue S., and was
operated successfully by Warner,
Brewster e Co.. for many years. 1t
was purchased in 1889 by BIZ Nell
son, T. B. Walker and Gilbert M.
Walker. who incorporated as the Hen
.nepin Paper company. This mill stood
partly on the site Of the old govern
ment mill of 1921. It was torn down
a few years ago to make room for
the new building of the Pillsbury-
Washburn Flour Mills company, erect
ed for the cereal food department of
it's business. When the latter build
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wholesale trade. It used to be said,
Minneapolis is great manufacture
ing place, but st. Paul has the job
bling trade" This was true for a long
time. st. Paul was the first distribut-
ing point in the young northwestern
state, and the people of the towns of
Minneapolis and St. Anthony pos
sessed of the best waterpoWer in the
west. occupied themselves with de-
veloping manufacturing. The ten
dency. of jobbing trade to center at
st. Paul was intensified during pioneer
days thru the fact that steamboat nav
igation--then the only means of COM
munication between the east and
rthwest-terminated at st. Paul.
in those days the foundations, of some
great jobbing houses were laid, which
became the nucleus of a great and still
great business.
But, as Minneapolis grew in COM
merclal stature, SURPRISING ST. Paul
In population and developing an i'm
mense manufacturing business in all
the staples used in the northwest, 1T
was inevitable that wholesale trade
should grow up to q position of i'm
portance. One influence was the grain
trade. Minneapolis became the chief
grain market of the northwest; St.
Paul never had any grain trade OF any
consequence. 1t was natural that the
country should buy goods at the point
to which it shipped it's produce. AT
the same time many manufacturers
found it advantageous to add to their
producing business the jobbing of ar
ticles which they could not make or
which could be produced to better
advantage elsewhere. Other jobbing
lines came because of competition in
st. Paul; others because the promoters
saw in Minneapolis greater CONNER
cial future. AS the movement gath
cred strength no further need of
hunting for reason existed. Mime
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sofa. In 1921, when the soldiers Of
Fort Smelling started up the primitive
Waterwheel at st. Anthony Falls, they
laid the foundations of an Industrial
development, which was to demolish
precedents and records and be the CEN
trail figure in the activities Of a COM
mercial empire. III.
1t is true that for some years the
old government mill was not a COM
mercial enterprise; but it actually
ground flour: and sawed lumber and
was the first application of machinery
to the subjugation of the northwest
ern wilderness. From this very trivial
beginning the flour, lumber and gen
eral manufacturing Industries of the
northwest sprung. The old !. mill
served to advertise to every pioneer
traveller that here was the seat of
manufacturing greatness to come.
Years passed away before any fur
Their attempt was made to utilize the
power furnished at the falls for other
manufacturing. In 1847 the first saw
mill was built, and in 1854 the first
merchant flour mill. The latter year
| saw the erection of the first furniture
factory. This was built by Grin Rog-
| ers, who established a business which
has continued to the present time,
and is now the Barnard Cope Manu-
featuring company. Mr.. Rogers was
also the pioneer in the sash and door
business. He commenced the manu-
facture of sash and doors in a small
way in the same year that he started
his furniture factory, and in the fol-
| lowing year built a factory. especially
for the business. This building was
erected on Hennepin island, and wa
ter powerfwasF utilized. Few people
know thatzthe present East Side pump
| ing station occupies this same old sash
and door factory of 1855. "A certain
Mr.. Morey established himself In the
same line of !, business in S57, and
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H. F. Lillibridge, II and 10 Third
street S. - '....
McMullen & Palmer, 222 Hennepin

H. F. Lillibridge, II and 10 Third
street S. - -. il ...:' g. : -. -
McMullen & Palmer, 222 Hennepin
avenue. - p. "
COTTON MILLS.
Honkonp & Cummings, foot Of
Sixth avenue S: .:.... a.. "
FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS
AND WHOLESALE
DEALERS.
Barnard & Cope, Fourth, corner of
Second avenue N. &c. d. ,..-..
FENCE MANUFACTURERS. E..@
Northwestern Fence Works, P. Her
zog, proprietor, Third avenue S, cor
ner of Second. (E. d. ~. -
G.. G. Rollins, Second corner OF
Fifth avenue S.
FOUNDRIES.
M. Bryant, Third avenue S, corner
of Second. CE. Do
Minneapolis Iron Works, o. A
Pray & Co., proprietors, Fifth avenue
S, corner of First
North Star Iron Works, j. w. John
son, proprietor, River, between Second
and Third savenues: N (; -: :.
Northwestern, G. Menzel & Co., pro
prietors, Tenth avenue S, corner o1
Third. 5z,5s gs3i +.
IRDNayWORKS zs
N. H. Bolton, 1925 Main street S.
J.. E. Lockwood, First, near Fifth
avenue S. ::
Minneapolis Iron Works, Q. A.
Pray & Co., proprietors, Fifth avenue
S, corner of First.
Minnesota, c. NJ. FIardenbergh, pro
prietor, Fifth avenues, between First
and Second.
North Star Iron. Works, j. w. John
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- PRINTERS, BOOK AND JOB.
T. T. Bachelor & Co., 21o First
avenue S.
Dawson & Hall, 243 Hennepin ave-
nue..
j. C. Erwin. 1924 Hennepin avenue.
Johnson, Smith & Harrison, "a
Second street S.
Minneapolis Freie Presse, ia Hem
nepin avenue.
Minneapolis Tribune company, City
Hall building.
Ward & Mitchell, 105 washington
avenue S. at
Wilcox, Young Sc Co., 1os Wash
ington avenue S.
PUMPS, MANUFACTURERS AND
DEALERS.
Ball & Naylor, 1O2 Washington ave-
nue. S.
Buel & Cone, Main, corner of First
avenue S.
P. Osander & Co., 257 First ave.
nue. S.
Schafer &, Fricke, 2Os First avenue
Spear & Austin. 259 First ave.
nue.. S..
SHOWCASE MANUFACTURERS.
L. .Paulle, ,311 Nicollet avenue.
SPICE MILLS
Minneapolis, Hart & Monroe. pro-
prietors, 1OS washington avenue $.
r. P. Upton, rear Of los Waslliils5-
ton avenue. S..
SPRING BED MANUFACTURERS.
J.. r. Elwell, 202 Washington ave-
nue. S.
Lowell & Fish, 321 First street NJ
F. O.. Smith, 102 Central avenue. Is
Williams & Erickson, 315 Third
avenue S.
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STARCH MANUFACTURERS.

STARCH. MANUFACTURERS.
Minneapolis Starch Works, "A r.
Riebeth, proprietor, 523 First street N.
STOVE MANUFACTURERS.
Spear & Laird: office, 219 Henne-
pin avenue; works, Fort, corner OF
Twenty-eigh
TRUNK NIANUFACTUR
D. d. Whitney, 1S Washington ave-
nue. N.
VINEGAR MANUFACTURERS IS
Johnson, F'ittinger & Co., 1903 First
street N.
Minneapolis Vinegar Works, Best d
Morawetz and Louis c. Mueller. pro-
prietors, 222 Washington avenue N.
WAGON MANUFACTURERS.
CD. Brown, AT Main street S.
Dennis Driscoll, Main. corner of
First. avenue N.
w. Ewing, 796 First street N.
w. Lange, 113 Main street S.
Peterson & Mumm First, corner of
Fifth avenue N.
L. Rehl, Fourth, corner of Riverside
avenue.
G. seibel, Thirteenth avenue N, near
Third.
WOODEN MILLS.
North Star Wooden Mills, Paris Glib
son, manager, Second, corner of Third
avenue S.
It's surprising how few names there
are in the above list which are known
as leaders in the manufacturing tn
terests of Minneapolis Of to-day. Some
of the firms still in business will not
be recognized under the names given.
A large number are entirely out of
business now, the owners dead or re-
tired, or possibly in business else
where.
In 1878 the conditions under which
business was done in Minneapolis
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ing was erected the old foundations
of the government mill were brought
into view. s,.', 80
Linseed oil manufacture came in in
1869, when the Minnesota Linseed Oil
Works were started by g. Scheitlin,
David G.. Bell CHOW county treasurer),
and j. K. and H., e. Sidle. -Four years
later the North Star Boot and. Shoe
company was organized and the man
ufacture Of shoes in Minneapolis com
menced. Major, G. B. Heffelfinger was
manager and has always been. identi-
fed with the, business, which is now
one of the largest in it's line in the
northwest In the same year the
manufacture of crackers, and confec-
tionery was commenced by, H. f. Lilli-
bridge in a building at Washington
and First avenue s. 49,.
10 trace even the beginnings of the
miscellaneous manufacturing indus
tries of Minneapolis during this period
would be impossible within reasonab BILE
limits. But it may be said, in a gen
eral way, that during the seventies the
principal lines had been started in
some way or other, and the. foundation
laid for a great structure Of varied
industries. Statistics for the period are
rather doubtful. The Minneapolis
Board of Trade claimed a total value
of the product of miscellaneous manu-
featuring in Minneapolis and st. An
thony in SO at ss:s1,6 $50, as detailed
In the following statement written out
in a report by George "a. Bracket:
Capitai Value OF
- Invested. Product.
Wooden and carding mills .$119,500 .$174. O0O
Pail and tub fac tory. !. ;. 10000 Il sc, 0o0
Machine shops etc. -. 2o370O : 211,4 50
Paper mills. 49,. >. -. 25, 900 100, OO0
Planning, sash, blind and ,s.sz" {
door mills. j. ...,...s $4,000 $4,000
Cooper shops ......... 2O;70O 106, 900
Furniture. .:.......... $4,000 ~ 10000
Total. ......... !. 5000 300 1881 $50
Ten years later the board claimed
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son, proprietor, River, between Second
and Third avenues N.
st. Anthony, Bushnell & Hayes,
proprietors, Main, near First ave-
nue. S. 500. = = S...s
Variety, Hashow & Maish, propri-
etors, 210 First avenue S.
MATTRESSES (wovEN wIRE)
MANUFACTURER
F. o. Smith, 1o2 Central avenue.
&c. Do
MATTRESS MANUFACTURERS. I
T.. a. Salisbury, 10 Main street S..
(E.sD.) 4. s.aj.s,
OIL MANUFACTURERS
Minnesota sLinseed Oil company, G..
scheitlin. president; DC. Bell, secre-
tary and treasurer; Tenth avenue S.,
corner of Washington avenue.
CHURCH ORGAN MANUFAC-
TURERS.
Wales Brothers, ,22O Nicollet avenue.
PAPER BOX MANUFACTURERS. (
:G. L. Dickinson, 203 Hennepin ave-
nue..
John Guth, 12i Nicol1et avenue.
j.. w. Sherwood. 1913 Nicollet ave-
nue..
Middlemist & Taylor, 20 Washing
ton avenue S.
PAPER MANUFACTURERS.
Minneapolis. Paper Mill, Warner,
Brewster & Co., Canal, between Sixth
and Seventh avenues S.
Russell, Averill & Carpenter. Main.
between Fourth and Fifth avenues S..
POTTERY. MANUFACTURER
J. c. Malchow, S04 Marshall street,
CT. Do
j. G. SWAIN Marshall. near city
limits.
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from his humble start the great bust
ness now conducted by Smith & Wy
man has grown.
) The first of. the iron, work ers of the
city was E. Broad who established a
shop for making edge tools at st. An
thony in 1855. S. r. Ferguson COM
menced to make plows in 1860, and
was thus the pioneer in the extensive
business of rnanufa cturi11e agricultural
implements. A year earlier paper
making was commenced.
1t should be borne. in mind that
these manufacturing undertakings of
the fifties were very simple in their
makeup. The two villages of Min
! neapolis and st. Paul had go only a
couple of thousand population about
1855, and the manufacturing enter
prises were little more than the, car
penter shops or blacksmith shops of
to-day But they were established to
meet the wants of a community, and
the perpetuation of so many of, them
in lines of business which. have sur
vived to the present time shows
| that they were founded on cor
rect principles of supply Of raw
materials and demand > for fin
| ished product. 1t was; entirely nat
ural that the first manufactures to
develop should have. been those which
utilized the forest pfOducIS, SO plelltl-
full about the falls: or VIII CHI fur
nished the tools and apparatus for
attacking the forests or subduing the
prairie. -.
The census of 1860 reported 562
manufacturing establishments in Min
nesota, employing a capital of .$2,3S8,-
80. A considerable proportion of this
capital was invested at Minneapolis,
not a little of it being in flour, and
lumber manufacturing. But it: is safe
to say that some hundreds of thou
sands were already devoted to miscel-
laneous manufacturing in this city.
The war brought a cessation of de-
velopment for time, but with the
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MANUFACTURERS OF 1878.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Minneapolis Harvester Works; D.
Morrison, president; r. H. Jones, sec
rotary and treasurer; office, Washing
ton avenue, corner of Fifth avenue S;
works, Lake street, near Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad.
Minneapolis Pillow Works, Laraway
tS5 King, proprietors, First avenue N,
corner Of River. ..-.....,sr,
Monitor Plow Works, S. II. HFergu-
son., president and superintendent; w.
b. Jackson. secretary and treasurer;
office, 219 First avenue IS; works on
:st-&Pa;ul ss. Pacific railroad corner of
sTWenty-fifth. ~
:..ye..s,.BOX-5 MANUFACTURERS. z5.g7
& Leo. Bergman, Main, corner of First
avenue s..
r. r. Godfrey, First, near Eighth
avenue NJ. #514 - =.
& go BREWERIES. 49,:
Il CITY, zahler & Noerenberg, propri-
;etors, Twentieth avenue S, corner of
Bluff.
!. Minneapolis; Mueller & Heinrich,
proprietors, Lower leyee, foot of
Fourth.
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a, total product of s3,776,000,t and in
1877, $4,SO2,000. All these figures are
stated to be exclusive Of flour mill
ing and numbering.
Conditions in 1873.
When The J o,ursr a was found
ed late in the year 1885, the manufac-
lures Of Minneapolis were just begin
ming to recover from the effects of
the depression of 1873, which had lett
business in the northwest, in a very
unsatisfactor DRY; condition. This state of
affairs was modified by; the large i'm
migration which was taking place and
the prosperity of the farming COM
munities adjacent to the city thru the
rapid development, Of the wheat-rais-
ing and f1our-making industries. But
it was more a period OF hope for the
future than any realization of great
things. -.
1t is difficultito appreciate the small
ness of all things in Minneapolis in
that day, only twenty-five years ago.
For instance, there were but two real
furniture factories, and they were OF
small dimensions and limited product.
The great iron and machine works of
to-day were represented then by five
or six rather small shops, Of which
the largest was that Of, O.. A. Pray &
Co., which stood on the site of one of
the Consolidated Milling company
mills at First street and Fifth ave-
nue. S. The Hnseed oil industry was
Represented by one small mill. One
confectionery factory was in opera
ton; the extensive electrical manufac-
turing business of to-day was un-
thought of; the knitting industry had
not been made possible by the inven-
lions which now form the basis of "a
great business; and a, dozen other
lines of manufacturing were then quite
general thing, the factories Of 8 the
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numbering had reached
such proportions that
the place achieved reputation as a
SaWmil town. For a long time these
two industries overshadowed all other
occupations, and as the city grew to
leadership in these important lines it
Was, more and more, thought of only
as the place where flour and lumber
were made In greater quantities than
anywhere else in the world. &t--.
1t was with something of q shock,
therefore, that the business world
discovered, after awhile, that Min
neapolis was manufacturing other
things besides flour and lumber and
was making them in great quantities;
even employing more capital in these
diversified manufacturing industries
than in the two old staples on which
her reputation had been built The
phrase, THE mills that made Min
neapolis famous" is one. to be proud
Of-much more. so than the similar
phrase that has become familiar in
connection with q city not many hun
dred miles away-but. Minneapolis is
destined to be famous for more than
her mills, be they lumber on. flour
mills. u. g. .,.s;........ ...,.,. : ~
A reputation once acquired is diff
cult to shake off; but the world is
now rapidly learning that Minneapolis
is a great general manufacturing
city, and that her flour and lumber,
while still leaders, are by no means
the only things IN which she excels.
Another reputation which Mime
apolis has had to live down was that
of holding a secondary position in
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city were located rather near the bust
ness center. the time had not yet come
for cheap sites in the suburbs. Build
ings were on the average small; mod,
ern appliances for projections and
safety had not. been brought into gen
eral use. In the following list Of the
manufacturing establishments of 1878
it should be rem mbered that many of
the firms mentioned did. the smallest
kind of shop work which could be
by any stretch of Imagination called
manufacturing, while the classification
has necessarily included some deal
ers," who did not manufacture at all: