Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1914 — THE MILLS OF MINNEAPOLIS. [ARTICLE]

THE MILLS OF MINNEAPOLIS.

In Thirty Years They Have Made 1$ the World’s Chief Flour City. Budapeet Wfti at one time known in the world as the Flour City, but ale&g In 1678 a young town on the headwaters of the Mississippi then famous for Us prairie dogs and buffaloes had a lawyer for a cltleen who made use of the natural waterfall in the Mississippi to operate a flour mill. This small beginning pew to such vast proportions, says the Bakers Weakly, that it soon beoame necessary to build a mors modern Byßtem, and the Budapest system was adopts ed. Such other millets as Plllsbury, Crosby, Christian and Dunwoody had by this time come to this young city, and in a few years It became the flour city of the world. This city was Minneapolis. To-day 120,000,000 bushels of wheat are ground in one year into flour In Minneapolis. In the age of Pericles the swiftest flour mill In Athens produced two barrels of flour in one day. There Is one mill in Minneapolis which fills 17,000 or 18,000 barrels In one day. What the Greeks did In one day Minneapolis does in ten seconds.