New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-01-10
MANY MILLIONS FOR MILLING.
Eagle Mill Requires Large Amount
of Cash.
Past Years Record Shows Much
Business Done.
Eagle Brands Sold in All Leading
Markets of the World.

Through the courtesy of the secre-
tary of the Eagle Milling company
the Review is able to give to the peo-
Of the city a comparatively correct
idea Of the amount of business that
large institution has done in the year
just closed.
The city takes pride in the fact that
it has, through its flour mills, become
known as the second city in the mill
ing industry in the state, in the
amount of flour manufactured and
shipped, and this is largely due to the
business energy and push of the man.
agement of the Eagle mill, and has
been done in a comparatively short
space of time, or since the return of
Chas. Silverson to this city.
| The approximate report shows that
in the year 1905 the mill ground the
enormous amount of 1859, 1856 bushels
of wheat, the figures are beyond the
conception of the average person.
Presuming that a farm of 160 acres
was able to produce 5000 bushels Of
wheat, it would take 1858 farms of this
size averaging about twenty bushels
Of wheat to the acre to keep the mill
This amount of wheat ground into
flour made 99l, 476 barrels, or just a
little less than 100000 barrels of
flour. Figures give but an incomplete
i1oo of +la amount of 1,,,e;noce 4b;e
represents. A train load is but a
vague statement to most readers, but
everyone knows the size of a barrel of
-four; it is the largest package pur-
chased by the family, either in sacks
or barrels. Now imagine the Eagle
mill shipping in one year 1000, 900
barrels of flour, this would be enough
to supply 100000 homes for many
weeks-say easily more than a month s
supply for a city the size of Phila-
delI hia. Again imagine this -four
passing before your eyes on the rail
road-7569 cars or 300 trains of twenty
five cars each.
Estimating the population OF the
United States to be S0,000,000 people,
the Eagle mill made enough flour in
the past year to give each person three
: loaves of bread and have enough
left over to give the people of the
|, Minnesota an extra allowance OF
several more loaves, or if the people
of this city were required to dispose Of
this amount of flour each person in the
city would be required to take 16f
/ barrels, Or $4,000 pounds or l61 tons
I To grind this immense amount Of
+ grain the mill consumed more thar
| $500 tons Of coal and before the
| product was finally placed on the mar
) ket the service of 249 people were re
quired all operating under themanage
t ment of the Office in this city. OF this
i regiment Of men, nearly as large as
was the First Minnesota when it made
n its famous charge at Gettysburg. there
t are employed in this city, l42. There
t are thirty nine agents in country
elevators, fourteen travelling statesmen
fourteen men in Chicago, thirty one il
! New York and nine in Boston.
The product Of the mill finds its mar
!, and in the European countries as vel
as Africa, South America and Yves
India ports. To dispose of thi
amount of grain required the paymen
v of 1856. 1852. 40 freight, costing the com
pany to operate the mill 1897, $50
: and requiring a capital approximate.
of more than 81, 000, 100000
Il While most of the -four that is manu-
!. featured is shipped in barrel lots, tn
. trade Of the east, and especially Ne,
: York, Boston and Chicago, demand
. a smaller package and the mill ha
\ recently installed system for putin,
. up ive-pound packages. A specia
= machine for sacking this is operate,
= by electricity and is one of the mos
IS interesting parts of the mill Thes
: packages are put up for sale to tn
le poorpeople ofthe cities who are unabl
to buy in larger quantities.
= The constantly increasing deman
= for the -four that is manufactured i
'e this section of the state and particu
= larry in this city, makes itevident tia
= as the years pass the facilities of th
: Eagle mill will be increased and b
kept up to the demand by the intro
y duction Of labor-saving devices an
: all modern Improvements. The mi
: is perhaps the most interesting pIac
9 in the city to visit and the men i
:. charge of it are always courteous an
y pleasant in their treatment of visitors
~ One of the very noticeable things
lie connection with therecent snow stor
lis the promptness with which peop