New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-10
new ULM STONE IN DEMAND
ST. Charles Will Macadamize Street
With Home Product.
Ten Carloads of Crushed Stone tc
Be Used for this Purpose.
The City Council to Confirm, Re.
port of Mayor L. C. Carter.

From time to time the Review has
made mention of the popularity of the
crushed product of the New Ulm Stone
Company. Yet not alone Of the
crushed product but of its select and
natural stone, of its building stone,
of its gutter stone and of the proper
ties of these different grades of red
stone.
Manager Wesley G.. Miller now in
forms US of a recent contract made
with Mayor Carter and the city coun-
Gil of st. Charles, Mimi, for ten car
loads of the crushed rock which will
be used for macadamizing few blocks
OF street way in that city.
Mayor Carter and Councillor
Matthew Clemens were in the city
Wednesday and visited the home office
for the purpose of obtaining further
information in regard to the product
and it's price. The mayor found the
terms of the local company very salts
factory and expressed the greatest
satisfaction in speaking of the rock.
A contract for ten carloads of No.. 1
and No. 2 of the rock was made, the
same to be sent to the city under the
the conditions that the local company
await the confirming Of the closed CON
tract by the members of the city coun-
Gil of ST. Charles. Thiswasto be done at
meeting held there yesterday even
ing and immediate preparations will
be made with the railroad company to
bill cars for loading the rock at the
quarries.
Heretofore and even at the present
time the officers of the stone company
have found difficulty in obtaining rea-
sonable freight prices to different
shipping points. This fact has been a
hindrance to them in competing with
other stone companies in this vicinity.
At present the local company is pay
Ing a price of 2 cents per hundred
pounds for a distance of ten miles
with the additional price of one half a
cent for every additional ten miles,
making the rate to Sioux City, Iowa,
at u cents per hundred. The object
of the officers is to obtain a special
freight rate of 5 cents to that point
and thus be able to compete with the
other companies.
If this obstacles could be overcome
it would pnt the home company in a
position to fill larger orders of their
product. In the majority of cases the
contracts with consumers could not be
closed on account of the high existing
| freight charges. Mr. Miller states
that the railroad officials have prom
ised to allow the stone TO be shipped
to the Twin Cities for the special rate
price of 4 cents and to Sioux City for
scents but it seems that this promise
was not carried out by the railroad
companies.
In connection with the above we
people to the new enterprise of the
New Ulm Stone Company and that is
thd probable process of manufacture
ing one of the finest grades of brick
that has ever been put on the market,
not only in durability but also in APP
pearance.
There are four orfve of these bricks
on exhibition in the Office of Manager
Miller. They were manufactured by
an outside firm in the Scott Brick
Press and in speaking of them, Mime
apolis parties state that for building,
they excelled all pressed brick in dur
ability and for facing purposes were
far superior to those manufactured in
the larger cities.
The bricks as they appear in the
office are of uniform size and can be