Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — St. Paul as a Milling Center. [ARTICLE]

St. Paul as a Milling Center.

The Pioneer Press, of St. Paul, states that there are now building at the Falls of St. Anthony five large flouring mills, of which one will probably make from 2,500 to 3.000 barrels a day, another 2,(i00, another 1,000 to 1,200, and the others from 500 to 800. In addition to this, Gov. Washburn is tearing out the inside of his old “B ” mill m order to put in improved machinery, so that when completed it will have a capacity of from 1,500 to 2,000 barrels. It is worthy of note, in this connection, that it is but a little w r hile since a 300-barrel mill was considered a large one, and 500 barrel mills were rare. The Press estimates that when all the new mills are finished and running on full time, the daily production of flour in St. Paul will be over 12,000 barrels, which, with the mill-stuff made, will load seven trains of twenty-one cais each. At this rate the yearly production will be over 3,000,000 barrels, requiring 15,000,000 bushels of grain. A New Jersey boy on the ship St. Mary, in writing home, says: “There are three things a boy wants as soon as fye gets to sea—first, to'get home; second, a good square meal, and, third, to get his fingers on the fellow who wrote ‘ Jack Hathaway,’” .