New Ulm review., 1906-12-26
EAGLES GREAT RECORD.
Interesting Figures Regarding
New Ulm's Leading Manufac-
turing Plant.
Over Four Million Bushels of
Wheat Ground into Flour.
This represents an Output of
Nearly One Million Barrels.
Railroads Receive Nearly $780,
900 in Freight Charges alone.
AnlountOf Business Done Approx
mates Four Million Dollars.

The average citizen of New Ulm
would not believe it, but it required
over four millions of dollars to carry
on the business of New Ulm's leading
manufacturing plant during the year
just drawing to a close.
The statement seems an incredible
one, but it is borne out by actual
figures supplied by the company.
To begin with the actual number of
bushels of wheat ground into flour
was 4, l6S, ,222. At an average price for
the year of 72 cents per bushel, this
represents an outlay of S3,00l, ll9.6
for the raw material alone. When
one stops to consider these figures
seriously he begins to realize what
it means to New Ulm and the sur
rounding county to have such an in
stitution within our midst.
Nor were the farmers and the
people of New Ulm the only ones to
reap material benefit. Figures fur
nished by the Eagle Mill Co. indicate
that the railroad companies were also
heavy benefciaries. AS a matter of
fact. the Chicago & Northwestern and
Minneapolis & St. Louis railway
companies during 1906 collected from
this one institution alone $79O, S46. 49,.
You will naturally ask how this can
be possible. Well, figure it out for
yourself. The Eagle Mill during the
current year manufactured 891, ,684
barrels of flour and 81, 463, $50 pounds
of feed. This represents nearly 5,lo0
cars of flour and 400 cars of feed.
The product of the mill was shipped
chiefly to the Middle and Eastern
states, but the firm also has good
customers in the southern part of the
United States and in the United King
don, Holland, Scandinavia, Finland,
Germany, South America, South
Africa and West India ports.
To handle this extensive business
required 1877 employees in New Ulm,
49 agents at county elevators, IA ira
yelling statesmen, II representatives in
connection with the Chicago Office and
9 representatives in New York, "a to-
tai of 22l people receiving salaries
from this single New Ulm institution
another interesting item was that of
fuel. The mill has one of the finest
power plants in the state and to keep
it in operation required the consump-
tion of Is, 400 tons of coal.
To sum up, the total operating ex-
penses of the plant for the year will
be 1878, 490.14. This of course does
not include the Improvements which
have been made within the past year
and which, when completed, will make
the mill one of the largest and best
equipped in the state.
The mills total business for the
year foots up $4,000, ,894.13.
The Eagle Mill Co. in addition to
the four large elevators in New Ulm
has a large line of outside houses, fifty
in all. Thirty eight of these are leca-
ted on the Northwestern line, twelve
in Minnesota and the balance in South
Dakota. On the Minneapolis & st.
Louis road the company owns houses
at Searles, Hanska, Ia Sale, st.
James, Echols, Klossner, Lafayette,
Fairfax, Clarkfeld, Boyd, Dawson
and Madison.
Al ali of these houses all kinds of
grain are received and during the past
year 741 ,43l bushels of grain, other
than wheat, were purchased at 5 cost