Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — WONDERFUL RUN OF MINNEAPOLIS MILLS. [ARTICLE]

WONDERFUL RUN OF MINNEAPOLIS MILLS.

The Output ol a Week Aggregated 185,38 J Parrels <-f Flou--. Considering that over 3,000 barrels dally capacity was idle, the Minneapolis mills made a reiaarkgblo run fora week. The output has probably not been equaled more than half a dozen times. The aggregate pr.duc lon was 18'>,380 barrels —averaging 30,897 bar.els dally, against 17?,075 barrels the week b fore, 161,265 barrels for the e»rr spending time in 1890, and 86,200 barrels in 1889, Nineteen mills weie in op ration, and they wera rrinding at the rate of 31,000 barr Is p r twenty-four hours. The millers are gradually Inert asing the quantity of steam In use to make up for the deficiency in water power. Two or three mills which have no steam are being restricted in the use of water, and matters will grow worse with them as the river gets lower. The mills, as a ru'e, are being operated as strong as j os ib e, and were it not for improvements in progress two more would bo in the operative list The prospects of higher freight rates is still a stimulus for heavy work. The advance of JO cents per barrel to the teaboard whi< h was announced for August 2.5 has only part y been enforced, some of the lines mak.ng a rate of 27 cents per JO.) pounds to Now York and to Boston.