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Panl, is pushing contracts through the win tor. He is building a fine dwelling for Wal ter Sanborn on Virginia and Laurel avenues, and a cottago for Kiinble B. Cullen on the Fort road and has several other jobs on hand preparing for next spring and summer. He considers the present outlook for his busi ness better than it has been bsfore for years. Besides his building and carpentry jobbing, Mr. Gates runs a drilling machine for wells and sewers and fits pumps, in whioh business he employs four men additional tc those enumerated above. W. E. Gronewold employed six to twelve mechanics last year, and expects to employ as many or more through the coming season. H. B. & O. Larsen employed twalve uioa last season and think the proeoeots are good fox thoir needing as many or more mea next season. Charles Leonard employed sixi^en haoda through the last building season. John Nelson employed six hands last sea son. Timothy Uuardon employed thirty men last season. Reiner <fc Dressel gave employment to twsnty-fonr men during the last building sea son an! es^et to have work for fifty dur ing the couicg season. John Seeger is engaged in building twelve grain olerators at stations along the St. P., M. & M. railway. He expects to need more shop roora ia St. Paul this sea son. Sheire & Bio. report tho prospocts for !<".ilder-j for this season as very good. . Taylor & Craig employed n part of last season fifty men. They do general carpen ter work anJ ara agents for and constructors of the lleeuy hoisting apparatus. Wilcken & Konier employed twenty-four men last summer and expect to hire moro this summer. Mr. Wiley, who employed eighteen to twenty men last season, considers the build - ing prospects for this year better than for many years past. The preparations for building this winter, he has observed, arc employing an unusually large number of men. Beck & Rank employ twenty-five painteis in the building season. Judson & Braok employed ten to twelve painters last season and expeot to have work for a larger force this season. Krahmer & Son had twelve to fifteen painters employed through the last building reason. Crittenden & Co., who employ twenty-five to thirty men in the building season, lay roofs of pitch and gravel, slate and iron, manufacture galvanized iron cornices, win dow cap 3, etc., liru proof doors and shutters, Critteiideu's iron siding for elovators, mills, etc., and Hayea' fire proof ventilating sky tights, etc. Most of the new business blocks in the city show their work in galvanized iron, and their roofs and iron Hidings, etc., p.re to bo seen in uae in nearly every city and village in the State. Breen & Young bnilt last season the piers of the Fort Snelling bridge. Mr. Mullen had the stone contract for the new elevator. Adam Ran employed fifteen quarrymen and stone cutters and masons last season. Santer & Ran arc drossing the stone trim mings for the new market house. Mr. Zollman employs seven to eight hands in the busier seasons of the year. BUTCHERS AND PACKERS. The butchers of St. l'iml with their assist ant?, number 94, and the paoking houses employ C 8 men, a total of IG2. The former, in their neat shops, arc to bo found in every part of the oity. Tho packers, working for the wholesale trade, have until now been limited in their operations by the la.sk of a supply of hogs within profitable hauling distance. The extension of tho railroad sys tem and tho greater attention paid the last l.vo years to stock raising by farmers of tho central and southern parts of the State has given them through the season just closed n larger supply of hogs than was anticipated, but the advance of prices which set ie soon after the packing season opened deterred some from buying, in the hope of a fall of prices, except just enough to fill current orders. In January, 1879, dressri hog? were selling in this marke* at §2. 75 to $C per owt. and mess pork at $7.50 per banel. In December last hogs ro.-agad about §j per cwt. and mess pork ai>c. - *12.£.0 per l>arrel with the demand fa the latter quite up to the supply. One nota ble feature of the season's operations has been the increased proportion of live hogs brought to this market. In fact it wr.. ■ the first lesson in which any considerable number of livt !iogs were shipped to St. Pan!. The average quality of tho hogs market 1 here is very good, and it is a remarkable fact that tho hogs raised in this latitudo arc wholly fiee from the diseases common and dangerous among those raised in southern lova, Missouri, Illinois and along the Ohio valley. Batchers and packers here are all agreed that they never knew of a case of in fectious disease or trichinte, or of any sort of epidemic among Minnesota bred hogs. Until lately our farmers generally held that they oild not afford to raise hogs for marketing, bat experience has shown them that the extra care required here and the extra cost of feeding and fattening— as compared with southern lowa and Illinois— is more than made up in the market by tho superior weight and quality ef tho meat. The supply of beef has also until lately been quite limited, but this season Minnesota stock breeders will sell thousands of beeves to Chicago packers, because the economy of great paoking houses enables the packers to pay better prices than butchers will ordinarily give and, further more the packers are at all times needy to take all choice cattle offered. In addition to the increasing home supply an unlimited number of cattle may be brought from Mon tana. Several thousand head of Montana cattle were marketed and shipped here last season, and the extension of the Northern Pacifio this year to the Yellowstone with the establishment here of proper stock yards and packing houses— and a market — will bring here twenty to forty thousand head of Montana cattle every season. In connection vith the stock yards will be found further mention of the paoking houses which are probably to be built this season hi time to begin operations in October next Our list of batchers and packers is as follows: Heat mahkets. R. C. Acly & Co. , 47 Robert, 3 hands. Theodore Beulke, 159 East Seventh, 3. M. Delaney, 186 West Third, 3. George H. Dyer, junction of Washington and Market, 2. Hiram Dyer, 113 Rice, 2. JohnEgan, 79 Minnesota, 2. John Eibcrt, 17 East Seventh. J. F. Eisenmenger, 22 East Seventh, 8. Louia Eisenmenger, 115 Wabashaw. 4. Oottschftmmer & Co., 1H Ewt Seventy 3. H. Q. Haas, UK East Seventh, 4. M. Hanauer, S Mississippi, junction of Broad way. J. V. Heydcrstadt, 97 aud 09 East Seventh. Charles ilouck, corner Rico and liiinca, 2. Jahnkc & IlartuiiK, Seventh between Earl and Boas. Win. Easmirski, 162 West Third, 2. Jacob Kiefcr, 68 West Seventh, 8. George Lamb, Jaokson, corner of Eighth, 3. H. Lamb & Sons, 90 East Fourth. J. W. Lulcy, SS Jackson. Lyle ft Son, 183 East Seventh. J. F. Melntosh, 49 Robert. J. T. McMillan, US to 121 East seventh. John Marty, 278 East Seventh, 4. Henry J. Meyer, 113 Mississippi corner of Glcn coc, 3. Moritz& Ilazenzahl, SO Mississippi, corner of Someisot, 3. John J. O'Lcary, VIS West Third and 39 West Fourth. O. P. Peterson & Co., 215 Broadway, 4. Phare & Dahms, Virginia avenue, corner Nel son, 2. Charles Picaert,2Ds Fort. Nicholas Rebhelz, Taylor and Offatoana road, 2. Gottlieb Ris, 210 Fort, 2. Henry Schneider, 228 Robert corner Twelfth, 2. Julius Schneider, corner Market aud St. Peter, 2. H. Schumacher, 14 Rise. 2. Henry Schumann, Bridge between Fifth and Sixth. A. Spangenberg, 162 St. Peter corner Tenth, 2. Robert Spangenberg, junction of Rice and Car roll, 2. JohuSkok, Fort. 2. Thomas Skok, 210 Fort, 2. Frank Wsnzel, 280 Fort, 3. Weyl & Ehrmanntraut, 195 East Seventh, cor. ner Broadway, 3. Wild & Metz, 336 East Seventh, 2. . FOBK AND BEEF FACEEB3. F. V. Heyderstadt, 97 and 99 East Seventh, 8 hands. H. Lamb & Sons, 90 East Fourth, 5. F. W. Luley, 88 Jackson, 7. J. T. McMillan, 118 to 124 East Seventh, 30. John J. O'Leary, 128 Went Third and 39 West Tenth, 8 hands and 4-horse steam power. J. F. Mclntosh, 49 Robert, 8. FJ.3H PACKERS. Eastern Fish Packing company, 134 X Jackson, 2 hands. E. B. Mitchell, who employs threo hands in the preparation of dried beef, may be found at 26 Minnesota. M. Hanauer, 8 Mississippi street, is en gaged exclusively in the making of sausage and the preparation of dried beef and beef tongues. George Lamb, Jackson street, corner of Eighth, who has been many years noted in the oity for his specialties in pork and sau sage, while maintaining his specialties, has lately added the usual line of meat supplies of & city market. Charles Piesert, 295 Fort, is engaged ex clusively in tho making of sausage and head cheese. The pork packing in St. Paul (for the trade) during tho season now closing has amounted to 25,610 barrels. This excludes tho packing by butchers for their own shops and for retail customers. Exoluding the same class of beef paoking and that branch of business does not make a large showing, but H. Lamb & Sons have boen forced into the business by the urgent demand this season from houses they supply with pork, and have put up 500 barrels of beef. Next season, if present plans are oarried out, not less than 75,000 hogs and 10,000 beef cattle will be packed in St. Paul. The Eastern Fish Packing company of Jackson street, is a new establishment, ex clusively in the fish trade, keeping a full line of goods for jobbing, and engaged in pack ing and repacking for the retail trade and families. BUTTON FACTORY. Tho only esUbliHhmont of this kind in the Xoithwett is th»t of Mr. August Eemper, li West Seventh. Mr. Kempsr was en gaged in tho business in Europe end when h', migrated to this country he brought the imphmenis and maohinery of bis factory ■-itb him. He established himself in St. Tsui in Jaly of last year and introduced his goodg quite largely into trade. His appara tus and stock of materials enables him to fill orders for specialties at any time and mtken bis factory a great convenience for mer chants and dressmakers, who can be supplied ut Bhort, notice and thus keep up with changing fashions without the loss of carry ing largo stocks of slowly soiling goodf. Oriiors now coming in for the spring trade indicate that Mr. Kemper will have omploy meut this season for a number of hands, and when ho ctn obtain the co-operation of our wholesale houses or otherwise bo enabled to supply the retail trade of the Northwest his factory will be one of the most important manufacturing institutions of the city. CARRIAGES, WAGONS, ETC. The carriage and wagon makers and wagon smiths and blacksmiths of St. Paul number 198 men. Our list below shows eight manu facturing establishments, employing seven to forty-one men, which sell their products to buyers all over the Northwest. In all there we thirty-eight factories and shops. In classifying them as carriage or wagon mak srs, while there are only a few establish ments confined to the one line of work, wo iiavo classed them according to their leading lines, and explanatory particulars are given In the notes following the list. CABBIAOX MAKEBS AND SMITHS. A. H, Cavender, 58 and 60 East Fifth, 7 hands. J. G. Dufjgan & Bro. : Minnesota, cor. Fifth, 2. Wm. Gould, Seventh near Exchange. Andrew Kippolt, 134 East Seventh, cor. Sibley, 14. O'Donnell & Co., 124 Exchange, 5. A. L. Perkins, rear of postofiSce. Qainby & HaUowell, 54, 5C and 59 Robert, 20. Thomas Scott, 119 East Fourth. Robert L. Wharton, Sixth, near Jackson. ■ HOBSB SHOEB3 AMD BLACKSMITHS. Broughear & Dillmg, 85 East Sixth, 3 hands. M. Cram, IS9 East Seventh, 3. Vital Gnerin, East Fifth, near Robert, 2. Thomas Hanley, 63 Minnesota, 2. A. Harniah, 196 West Third, 4. Charles Harnish, 36 West Fourth. Ernst Heidenrich, 279 East Seventh. Hogan & Seme, 274 East Seventh, 2. Jackson & Cashill, 21 West Fourth, 2. Thoa. C. Robinson, 140 West Fourth. St. Paul Hone Shoeing company, Slater & Kelly, 96 East Fifth, 5. Slater & Riley, 123 East Fourth, 4. Reo. H. Tipper, 138 West Fonrth, 4. L. W. Vanderroof, 30 East Seventh, 2. Thomas Wallace, 64 East Fourth, 3. WAG ON MAKERS AND SMITHS. Boschman & Co., 283 and 355 East Seventh, 8 hands. Ebel 4 Bach man, 135 Sibley, 3. Peter Heck, 14 West Fourth, 3. Fvaeie. Mahle & Sutmar, corner Eighth and Olive, 11. John Eaufmann, 225 Wast Third. Peter Eerst, 22 Ramsey, 4. August Jobst, 120 Rice, 2. Henry Justus, SO and 81 West Seventh, corner ft Exchange, 10. Joseph Mines, Isabel nc»r Owatonn* road, Sixth Ward, a. THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 5. 1880. George Mitfob, junction of Wcshington and Seventh, 18. William Mooncy, Isabel near Owatonna road, Sixth Ward, 2. J. H. Schurincler, ofuce 101 RosaboJ, shops on Seventh and llosabcl, 11 hands, 50 hqrse htcam power. August Tillman, Fourth and Bridge, Sixth ward. 9ki)k, Zimmerman & Ohlcr, 311 Fort. Boschman & Co., make spiing road wagons and farm wagons and run repair and blacksmith shops. Peter Heok keeps wagons of his make for salo and does general blacksmith work. Peter Eerst usually employs two more wagon makers tban now. Ebel & Baohman usually employ four or five mechanics. August Jobst usual y employs cix men. He keeps wagons of his make for saldfshoes hor ses and repairs wagons. Henry Justus employs five wagon makers, four smiths and one painter. He keeps for sale wngons and buggies of his make, re pairs wagons and carriages and does general smith work. Kaesa, Mahlo & Sutmar make and repair spring and farm wagons, sleds and sleighs, and also do blacksmithihg and horse shoe ing. They employ four wagon makers, two painters and five smiths. Aid. Minea carries on a general blacksmith and horsa shoeing business and in partner ship with his next door neighbor, Wm. Moosey, makes and repairs wagons and sleighs. George Mitsoh employs eleven smiths, five wagon makers and two painters. He keeps for sale wagons and sleighs of his make; and also makes carriages, buggies, cutters, grad ing contractors' dump carts and heavy goods elevators. August Tillman will open in a new shop about the 15th of March. He will employ five men, and proposes besides general black3mith work and carriage and wagon repairing to forgo plow shares and Bled shoes. Quiiibii & HallowcU. At the beginning of Minnesota's historic period, in 1349, Alderman William H. Noblcn (known to old settlers as Bill Nobles) set up his forge on the lot now numbered 54 Bobert street. At that time and often since tho own ers and occupants of property along Bobert street expected that thoroughfare to become ths leading business street of the city. It is an important business street and in time wil 1 be of much greater importance, but tho old settlers have been often disappointed in their hopes. One day, in his little red shop, Bill struck a blow with his hammer that split the eye of the hammer quite out. Throwing down the useless tool he declared he would sever strike another blow on an anvil and it is probable he kept his word. Mr. A. D. Ca vender, since a well-known carriage smith, wa3 standing by and (hereupon bought out Nobles. In 1857 the firm of A. H. Cavender & Co. was formed, of which Mr. John G. Quinby was a member. Somo years after Mr. Qainby and Enoch M. Hallo well bought the establishment and have sinco operated under their firm name as above. Their principal buildings, as now standing, were erected in 1 8G7, and consist of a storehouse 2G by 136, four floors, tho fao tory 40 by 47, three floors, and the smithy, 20 by 60— altogether occupying three lots. The factory and smithy are calculated for the employment of 50 hands, though the highest number ever required was 45, and this win ter only 20 have been employed. The firm could undoubtedly have greatly enlarged tho volume of its business if it had not tena ciously adhered to the line of fine work. Its reputation throughout the Northwest for many years has been of a character which would have given ready sales if it had un dertaken tho manufacture of road and farm wagens. lint realizing the fact that manu facturing establishments almost inevitably rnn to specialties, and believing they had their specialty in fine carriage work, Messrs. Quinby & Hallowell havo preferred to wait the short time in which the demand for their fine work is developing. Their trade extends over Minnesota and into the adjoining Si lies, Manitoba, Dakota and Montana, and tho in dications are most encouraging that it will soon require their factory to be run at its fall capacity. Orders from quite distant points are frequent, and inoludsd in those received last week was one from Fort Banton, Montana, the fourth from that point during the winter. In this city their cabrioleta, phaetons and side-bar baggies are quite popular. They keep in stock of their nnk-j all standard styles of carriages, buggies and cutters, aud make to order a great variety of work. Prominent in their manufactures are platform spring wagons and Concord bag gies, and during the last two seasons the y have mannfactnreJ for dealers several lots ol » hundred "bncV boards," which have been Bold in the prairie country southwest. In connection their business they have for twelvo years sold the celebrated Concord ir.ade harnesses, for which they are the only wsstem agents, and which many immigrants torn New England would have in prefer onca to any other make, even at the 008 i and tronbie of sending Eist, if there was no agency here- •T. H. Schurmeier. Mr. Schurmeier's experiences in St. Paul may serve for an example and encourage ment for young mechanics and new begin ners in manufacturing. He came to St. Paul in 1852 with a capital not exceeding $500 and began business at his present location, as a blacksmith and wagon smith, in a little shop, with one forge. After a short time he was able to employ a helper and then a com petent smith. It is not necessary to relate the steps of his progress to his present posi tion as one of the principal manufacturers of the city and probably the best known wagon maker of the Northwest. Doubtless he has had some exceedingly discouraging trials of all his resources; but diligence, perseverance and study and use of business methode have brought him safely through two periods of panic, financial distrust and suspension of trade. His establishment includes a large smithery, wood working chop, paint Bhop, warehouse and office and salesrooms. While he manufactures carriages, buggies, spring wagons and sleighs, and has a large re pairing business, his specialty and the leading feature of his business is the making of farm wagons, of which he turns out about fifty each month. They are sold throughout the Northwest, the heaviest de mand being from newly settled regions west and northwest from this city- One-third of his make of farm wagons of last year are said to have been sold in Manitoba. Most of his sales are by carloads, though a con siderable number of farm wagons, as well as carriages, buggies and spring wagons are sold singly from the shops. Mr. Schur meier also makes truefcs and express carts for city use, grading carts, Ac, and exe cutes special orders of any diameter in his line of business. He also manufactures for Benson & Bates the spring tooth harrow they have extensively introduced in this and adjoining States. Mr. Hchurmeier states that his wheel timber and carriage timber is brought from Indiana. Ohio, <Vc, and his wagon timber mostly from tho Wisconsin big woods. He has been supplied with good maple and rook oim from Rnsb City, but has seen very little oak of Minnesota growth suitable for his work. He employs forty-one men and a fifty- horse power steam engine. Andrew Nippoit. Mr. Nippolt began his business hore four years ago. His sales of ogba, carriages and buggies last year amotxziieu to $20,000, an increase of $8,000 over 1378, and tK present trade prospects promise an equal . large increase this year, so that he begins to fool that he hasn't enough shop men. His timber — hickory and whitewood — is brought from Ohio and Indiana, no timber being fur nished here that in quality and seasoning will answer for carriage and sleigh making, although good wagon and sled timber is brought from North Wisconsin and Minne sota forests. A. n. Cavender. Mr. A. H. Oavender, who is a pioneoi among the mechanic of St. Paul, as else where mentioned, employs at this time 7 men, 4 wood-workera and three smiths and tnrse-shoers. Mr. Cavender came to St. Paul in 1848, and began blacksmithing and wagon making here in 1849. CEMENT PIPE MAKERS. The only cement pipe makers in the city or northwest of Milwaukee are Burnham & Jones, whose yard and shops are on Nash street, near Mississippi street. When this firm began its business in St. Ftul a few years ago plumbers here were paying CO cents a foot for six-inch cement pipe. Tho present price is only 15 cents. They manu facture an unglazed cement pipe which has boen tested for seventeen years in Newark, N. J., where hundreds of miles of it have boen laid in drains, and whero the first laid is olaimed to be just as good as when put down. In Brooklyn, N. V., 240 miles of this pipe liaa been laid for drains and it is pre ferred to any glazed pipe. In Milwaukee twenty -fivo miles of it were laid last year. Mr. Jones has been in the business of making this pipe ever since it was introduced into use, seventeen years ago, and he claims that it will not saturate, a fault in other kinds of drain pipes which is much complained of. He also olaims that it will uot give out, and that, when properly laid, the firm will give any reasonable warrantee of their pipes. With dram pipes they fur nish traps, curves, connections, etc. A sam ple of their pipe vrhioh had been buried in a neighboring lot for two years was exhibited to tho writer. It is hard as stone and wouM siand a heavy blow or great strain without breaking, lhey make cement well-curbing, whioli commends itself as cheaper than stone, strong and durable, and, especially, for keeping out surface water. They also make cement chimneys, which may be recom mended whero brick and masons are scaroe, a■: In our frontier settlements ; and also for summer kitchens, shops, etc. The chimneys are square in outside form, with round fiaee , are safer oven than brick chimneys, (unless the latter are of good material and niosly laid) can bo put up and cemented together in an hour's time with out tho assistance of an oxpert, and plaster ing v« - ill adhcTu so as to allow any finish to tho rooms through which the chimney is set np. These chimneyu will cost only about lihlf as much as brick chimneys and they un doubtedly have the merits of drawing well and not fouling. Tho firm is desirous of in troducing, also, cement flagging for base ments and lawn and garden walks, which has stood severe tests ia thy East, which can be worked to ovals, circles, etc, and which they will guarantee to bo durable. Samples of tho flagging may bu Bern at tho factory. Messrs. Barnham <fc Joues hope to soon ob tain as large a portion of the business in their line of the city >■ . •■ to enable them to give employment to ten or fifteen men ttc year round. Atprostct they nmploy five 01 six in the season and but tfi i in winter. CIGAR MAKERS. Cigar making is one of the leading indus tries of St. Paul. The product of the citj shops last year amounted to 5,742,900 cipara or, in value, as sold by the makers, to about $300,000. The number of manufactories In the city at this time is 28, employing 219 hands, as follows: J. H. Amos, 72 W. Third, 4 hands. Aug. Barman, IC2 VP. Third. Ohas. Brachc, 169% E. Seventh, 9. Wm. Bretag, 29 Maria avenue. F. Brautigan, 178 W. Third, 2. Wm. Eis, 63 Robert, 2. Fernandez, Solis & Co., 156 £. Third, 5. Adam Fetsch, 111 £. Third, 25. h . Gaanhagen, 119 E. Seventh, 15. H. A. Hageman, 137 Mississippi, 2. Lonis E. Hauser, 105 E. Third, 9. John Hart, 104 Jackson, 20. James Harrison, 90 E. Third, 29. C. H. Iltner, 86 Jackson, 3. Cbas. Koch, 63 Banfil. Knhles & Stock, TO Robert, 2. John Kenkel, 98 Bates avenue. John Mark, 61 Wabsshaw, 10. McCarthy & Virplanck, 104 Jackson, 6. Miller Bros., 79 E. Third, 23. Moeller A Stahlman, 64 Wabashaw, 24. A. Nothelfer. 398 Fort, 4. Frank OUtn, 15 Sibley, 8. Henry Phillips, US Jackson. 4. Chas. Ringwald, 73 Goodrich avenue. Nicholas Schwemler, Prospect Terrace, Bizt'b ward. Sylvester Sulzbach, 40 Jackson, 5. Chas. Wack, corner Bluff and Mohawk, Sixth ward. The new firm of Moeller & StaKlmann is composed of Mr. George Moeller, the well known cigar maker, late of 68 East Third street, and Mr. George H. Stahlmann, for several years lavorablj known to all visitors to his father's place of business, 21 Waba shaw. They began business this month in one of the largo stores of the new Sherman block, with 24 cigar makers, but have given bonds for 25 and hope, as soon as their trade connections are established, to employ the full number. Another new firm is Fernandez, Solia & Co., who have recently begnn business in a modest way in on the second floor front of 15C East Third street, intending to make a specialty of fine cigars and hoping to build np a considerable trade in their specialties. Most of the cigar makers, located on the principal streets, have retail departments, bnt Knhles & Stock, Harrison, Hart and mo3t of those located on non-business streets manufacture exclusively for the CLOTHING AND UNDERWEAR. Grouping together the manufacturers and jobbers of clothiDg, with the makers for the retail trade, we have a total of 52 establish ments, employing 1,453 handg, and which produced last year probably over $1, £00,000 worth of goods. The list is as follows: L. Anderson, merchant tailor, 34 Jackson, 8 hands. Aucrback, Finch, Oulbertson & Co., manufac turing clothiers, 50 to CO Jackaou, 400. Daminiok Barthel, merobant tailor, 140 St. Pe ter. Briggs & Merrill, manufacturing clothicra, 34 Jackson, 10. Brechcr, Becht & Co., manufacturing clothiers, 104 East Third, 96. Campbell, Burbank & Co., manufacturing clot h iera, 83 and 85 Third, 250. Dow & Bergfeld, custom tailors and manufac turers, 108 Jackson, 85. Fergus Fahey, merchant tailor, 68 West Third, 11. rail Fischer, merchant tailor, West Seventh at_d Franklin, 4. P. il. Forssell, custom tailor, 48 Jackson, 2. Wm. Qeisenheyner, merchant tailor, 93 West Third, 4. H. 8. Haas, merchant tailor, 23 East Third, 27. A. L. Haajled, merchant tailor, 138 East Sev- enth, 3. L. HauHcr, merchant tailor, 121 East Seventh, 3. A. Hendrikscn, custom tailor, 11 West Third, 2. Honry Hcnncmuth, custom tailor, 32 East Sev- enth, 2. Herman Ho.him, merchant tailor, 213 Broad- way. J. K. Hilyard, clothing repairer, 125 Robert, 3. Charles Hoennig, custom tailor, 65 West Fifth. A. G. Johnson, merchant tailor, 9 1, 1 £ Jackson, 2. F. E. Eampfer, custom tailor, 32 East Seventh. T. C. Jones, shirt maker, 5 East Third street, 9. Henry Kcllerman, custom taiior, 194 East Seventh. O. Eersch, merchant tailor, 131 Jackson, 2. Charles Ereyer, merchant tailor, 266 Robert. R A. Lanpheri Co., shirt makers, 109 East Third, 13. * M. Lazarus, repairer, 141 St. Peter. Win. Lee A Co., manufacturing cloihicn, 63 and 65 E. Third, 75. Lindekes, Warner & Schurineier, manufaotur- ing clothiers, 259. John Luth, custom tailor, 236 East Beventh. W. L. McGrath, merchant tailor, 105 East Third, 15. Mathes, Good & Schurmeier, merchant tailors and manufacturers, 82 Jackson, 42. Meyer & Gall, merchant tailors, 78 Jackson, 18. Monten, Peterson & Carlson, custom tailors, 129 East Seventh, 3. C. Mohr, merchant tailor, 44 Jackson, 2. Charles Mueller, custom tailor, 61 Washing- ton, 2. Wm. Niehaus, merchant tailor, 86 Jackeon, 2. George Palmes, merchant tailor, 81 East Third, 25. John Picha, merchant tailor, 60>£ West Third, 8. Chris Popp, custom tailor, 76 Wabashaw, 3. Ohas. F. l'usch, merchant tailor, 113 St. Pe ter, 8. Edward Rausch?r, repairer, 73 West Seventh F. S. lti>=-t , repairer, Thud and Eagle. J. Sandcll, merchant tailor, 251 East Seventh. Sohefers Broa. , merchant tailors, 40 East Third, 14. L. J. Sjaswand, repairer, 95 East Fourth. John Somera, custom tailor, 32 Minnesota, 2. John Vick, repairer, 171 West Third. G. Vitcofsky, repairer, 124 Wabashaw, 3. A. Walla, merchant tailor, 31 West Third, 2. C. J. Weverson, custom tailor, 67 East Third, 2. Those whom we havo here designated oh merchant tailors, carry considerable stocks of cloths, trimmings, etc., while others whom we have designated as custom tailors, under take to carry only special lines of goods adapted to their trade and the season. Some of tho merchant tailors, it will bo observed give employment to a good number of hands and these carry stocks whioh allow the widest latitude for selections by cue tomers. Atierhuch, Finch, Vulbertson & Co, While this firm is more widely known as the loading dry goods bonse of the North west, it is in this paper to be considered as a manufacturing firm, inasmuch as the manu facturing department of the establishment gives employment to more than four hun dred persons the year round. For some years the firm had had frequent occasion to notice that in certain classes of made-up goods included in their lines of trade the Eastern makers were not well adapted to Northwestern requirements and in 1875 they began, experimentally, with seven sewing machines, the making of overalls and jump ers. The new departure soon proved to b« in tho right direction and machine* were ad ded until economy dictated the purchase of a small steam engine for run ning the machines. They now em ploy a fifty-horse power engine, have 125 hands steadily at work in their building and 250 to 300 regularly employed outside. To making overalls and jumpers was early ad d d woolen shirts, working pantfl, lumber men's {rocks and all kinds of lumbermen's clothing. Then as the widening circle of St. Panl trade inoluded tho Black Hills and Montana, it was necessary to edd a full line of miners' goods and water proof duck suits. Next followed the making of tents, wagon covers, stack covers, tarpaulins and duck canvass goods generally, and cotton flour racks, burlaps for oats and feed and wool sacks. And, recently, since Minnosota mil lers are permitted to ship their flour to Europe in sacks instead of barrels, tho mak ing of export flour sacks has become- a spec ialty of the manufacturing department of this house. They are made extra strong and ranging in capacity from 140 to 230 pounds. Daring 1879 the articles manufactured by this house numbered over 400,000, and their ag gregate value exceeded $225,000. The rapid increase of the wholesale trade of St. Paul has already indicated to this firm a need, of increasing its manufacturing facilities, and it is accordingly making arrangements which will enable it during the year to add a large number of hands to its working force. Leading Merchant Tailors. Very few visitors to St. Paul who have un dertaken to write their impressions of the people have failed to compliment the city on its goodly proportion of fine-looking men. Of course these compliments ought to go to the credit of the tailors, for everybody knows, from looking glass obser vations if not from studying others, that there is a good deal of truth in the saying that "the tailor makes the man." No donbt St. Paul men who are made np by such ar tists as Fahey, Haas, McGrath, Palmes, Bchefers Bros, and many others whose names we might ospy from the list above, will acknowledge that they owe the preserva tion of good looks as well as sundry oil Is to their tailors. These we have here mention ed and others cany stocks of cloths and tailors' goods which fairly entitle them to the name of merchant tailors and will be found always np with the fashions of the day in goods and their make. Campbell, BurbanTc «© Co. This firm, wholesale clothing dealers, occu pies the fine stone block, Nob. 83 and 85 East Third street, on the nertheast corner of Third and Robert streets. The building has a frontage of 40 feet on Third street by a depth of ICO feet, and has three floors exclusive of tie basement, and all of them are needed for the extensive business of their well-known clothing house. The members of the firm are Thomas B. Camp bell, W. E. Campbell, Henry C. Burbank and C. W. Carpenter. In 1875 they found it necessary, in order to meet the demands of their rapidly increasing trade, to add to their wholesale business the manfaotnre of a certain line of goods, such as shirts, drawers, overalls, jumpers, eto. Since then to the manufacture of these articles has been added that of all kinds of clothing and furnishing goods, until to day they manufacture nearly all the lines of goods required for their im mense trade, which extends over the entire Northwest From a small beginning their manufacturing department has increased un til at present they give employment to over 250 persons, and use up raw material an nually to the amount of over $ 100,000. The excellent quality of their stock is appreciated by retail dealers and their customers, and the manufacturing depaitacent of the house seeing destined to grow np with the country to still greater proportions. Wm. Lee & Co, Messrs. Lee & Co.. engaged iv mannfac taring about two years ago, to supply certain classes of goods for tl c Northwest, required in connection with their extensive wholesale trade in dry goods; and now employ in the manufacturing department 75 men. The articles made are chiefly cottonade and cas simer pants, overalls, shirts and blanket goods— for the use of lumbermen, miners, teamsters, etc — and the business grows rap idly into an importance] which bids fair in time to rival the distinctively jobbing trade. Li u (l fleet, Warner & Schurmeier. This firm, though it has been organized less than two years, having from the first ap preoiated the importance of associating a cer tain line of manufactures with the wholesale dry goods trade of the Northwest, has in op eration a mannfaoturing department which gives employment to 250 persons. They make overalls, pants, shirts, blanket goods duok-lined goods, etc., of styles and weight best adapted to this climate, and the out door employments of a largo part of tho peo ple. Brecher, Becht <£ Co. Messrs. Brecher, Becht & Co., in connec tion with their wholesale trade in furnishing goods, etc., employ twenty- eight hand sewer?, cutters, etc., and sixty-eight opera tors of sewing xnaohines in making shirts and overalls. Other Clothing Manufacturers. Two new firms havo lately entered the business of manufacturing clothing in St. Paul for the jobbing trade. Messrs. Dow & Bergfeld occupy two floors and the basement of No. 108 Jackson street and employ eighty five hands. They make np all kinds of clothing for the trade. Mathes, Good & Schormeier occupy the three floors and base ment of No. 82 Jackson street and employ forty-two hands. Their trade in jobbing made-up goods to retailers is extending rap idly and bids fair to require their exclusive attention to manufacturing for the clothing trade. COFFEE AND SPICE MILLS. Tho preparation of coffee and spices for trado and consumption, gives employment in St. Paul at present to forty persons, most ly trained experts, to which another establish ment will soon add ten to fifteen. The three establishments in operation now are located as follows: John A. Berkcy & Co., Riverside Mills, 135 E. Fourth. Granger & Hodge, 62 Siblcy. Vollmer & lbs, mustard factory, Martin near St. Peter and Park avenne. Me3srs, Berkey & Co. are jobbers to the trade of teas, coffees, etc, and of their pre pared and manufactured products. They occupy one of Warm's Fourth street build ings, and employ twenty-four to twenty-fhe persons in roasting, grinding and packing ooffet:-!, in grinding and packing spices, and in manufacturing Berkey's baking powders and flavoring extracts. The business was begun in 1576 and has developed to such an extent as to require the whole of the four story building occupied by the firm, while tho goods and trade-marks of the house are familiar to dealers and consumers through out all the extensive country which trades with St. Paul. Messrs. Granger & Hodge, who started their business here in 18C8, in connection with their wholesale trade in teas, coffees and spices, prepare roasted and ground coffees and ground spices for the retail trade and manufacture the White Star baking powder. Exoept teas, which rarely require repacking, and which they purchaso by tho invoice di rect from the importers, their goods are put up in their own packages, the labels of which are universally recognized throughout the Northwest as distinctly indicating both quality and quantity. They employ four teen men in the manufacturing department. The building, No. 124 East Fifth, in J. H. Pemroy's new block, is being fitted up for Charles It. Groff, late of the firm of Groff & Barkey, who will open there next month in the tea, coffee and spice business, employing a number of skilled workmen. Vollmer & lbs grind and prepare mustard for city and country trade, using a three horse power engine to operate their mills. COOPERS. We have only six distinctively cooper Bhops within the city limits, but four or five coopers are included among tho employes of the breweries and packing houses, and modern improvements in the making in the forests of staves, headings and hoops have largely added to the number of finished articles a city cooper can produce in a year's work. The 8t Paul shops are located as fol lows: Joseph Brings, 200 Fort, 2 hands. William Buck, 111 Eagle, 3. Nicholas^ Gruber, 109 Eagle, 3. Frank Poppler, Stewart avenue corner of Yankee, 3. 3t. Paul Barrel Works, C. 8. Wilson proprietor, 19 Eagle, 21 hands and 14-horse steam power. H. O. Young, 68 E. Fourth, 2. The establishment known as the St. Paul Steam Barrel Works, was put in operation about two yean ago. Its capacity is equiva lent to 45 pork barrels and 100 flour barrels daily. From Feb. 22d, 1879, when Mr. Wil son became the owner, to Deo. 31, 1879, the products of the works were 36,000 flour bar rels, 3,000 pork barrels, 1, 600 butter firkins. 1,000 ten gallon kegs, 520 five-gallon kegs and 21G half whisky barrels. The building of new flour mills and tho establishment of large packing houses the coming season, (and the probable establish ment of a large sugar refinery), promise nn immense city demand for barrels, the mater ials for which can be had from numerous points on our railroads, east, north and west. FARM MACHINERY. St. Paul Harreater Works. This institution is operated by a stock oompany, of which E. M. Deane is president, G. H. Bigelow vice president and John E. Miller • ecretary and treasurer. The offices are at the corner of Fourth and Robeit streets and employ nine men, including the two executive officers, tho president and sec retary. The shops are in the eastern suburb of the city, a short distance southeast from Lake Phalen. About 180 men are now em ployed at the shops, the force varying dur ing the year, according to season and the supply of skilled workmen, from 150 to 2i.T>. The machinery of the shops is propelled by a 125-horse power eijgine. The principal buildings ef the manufactory are six in nuui bar and are large and substantial. Doricy tbe last year the company rebuilt a portion of the shops which had been injared by fire and increased their capacity. They have al bo put in a complete fire apparatus, protecting all the buildings. with duplex steam pumps of capacity sufficient for combatting any fire which can occur there. Besides the shop buildings, engine house, barns and sheds of the manu factory, the company has also built a board ing house, eight cottages, a store, and a chapel for the accommodation of its em ployes. The company began its operations in 1 872, with the Elward Harvester, to which it ha 3 added the cord binding attachment for the harvester and the Eureka mower. Tho har vester is now well known throughout the country and against very sharp competition bus won and maintains the position of a fa vorite of farmers throughout tho whole Mis issippi valley. The cord binder was the first of successful devices for using cord and is usually desired with the harvester except where harvesting work is small and labor is cheap. The Eureka mower, pirticularly described in these columns when first introduced here has its advantages in direct, light draft and ea3y handling, with perfect work. Notwithstanding the fire bsses the last soas»n was a prosperous one f>t the company and this year's business is a' ready assured, contracts having been made with dealers for the sale of all the machines to be produced this season. These contraots extend into Michigan and Indiana on the East, to Texa3 South and to California West. About half the machines are sold in Minno sota and all could have been sold at home, but that it is the policy of the company to so distribute its sales as not to have ils returns depend upon the crop results in any limited area. In this connection, since tho cord bindor is generally coming into use in Minnesota and Dakota, tho question of a cheap supply of cord is one of considerable interest to grain raisers. The hemp from which it is made is mostly raised in Mis souri, Kentucky and Tennessee. The crop of last seaion was a little short so that cord for harvesting this year will probably cost twoaty-fivo to forty cents an aero. Now in nearly every farming neighborhood can bo found soma farmer who understands the cultivation and handling of flax, and the winter evenings id a farm household afford abundant opportunity for spinning the flax into just as good cord as con bo bought, while the flax seed will always have a re munerative cash price in market. The monthly pay rolls of tho Harvester Works amount to $ 8,000 to $12,000, a fact which sufficiently indicates tho value of the establishment to S^. Paul. To the country at large it is also of importance as famish ing a superior class of well inado farm ma ohinery, wbila to the farmers of tho North west, who are as a rulo required to pay the freight on eastern maohinery to St. Paul, it saves in the aggregate a large amount in freight and also in time when orders have to be sent lo the manufactory. St. Paul 1 'ow Wvrlt. This, though ono of the reoent industrial enterprises of St. Panl, has reached propor tions w ..Ich place it among the heaviest man ufacturing establishments of tho Northwest It was begun, in an experimental way, in 187G, but the first year's operations jusr.fi> d a larger venture and in 1877 buildings were erected and amply supplied with machinery and tools, at Post's Siding on Seventh street. The capital stock of the company is $100, -000, and over $40,000 hns been expended upon the grounds, buildings and maobineiy. The blacksmith shop, foundry and fitting and stock rooms are included in a building 40jc100 feet. The emery or grinding house Is 30x00 feet. The wood and paint nhopn occupy a two-story building 40x50 feet. The warehouse is a two s'.ory building, 50x100 feat, and in this building the stop office is located — being connected by telephone with the business offiVo, No. 27 West Third street. The maohinery of the shops is driven by a fifty-horse power engine and sixty mechanics are employed the year round. The products will average ono thousand plows per month. These are all marked with the trade mark of the works, a fine pointed filar, and are sold under the company's warrantee. TLat this warantee is a good one may be Judged from the membership of the company as shown in the list »f officers. The directors are A. H. Wilder, W. B. Dean,, C. H. Bigelow and Wm. Dawson — with one vacancy not yet filled since the death of Horace Thompson. The officers are W. B. Deau, president; A. E. Clark, secretary and treasurer; Louis Berthiaume, superintendent, and J. W. B. Hunter, general agent. The varieties of plows manufactured are B'Zipled to all the varied wants of Northwestern farmers. The breakers are of four kiods and differeiit sizes, for prairie, brush, grub aml.htavy grub b.-caki.ig. The Star Sn'ky plow is oneoi the most popular specialties of the works. Other makes] are stirring, timber and fire coultar plows. All theae plows have b. -n introduced throughout the Northwest and sell readily. Many farmers who are using them have pronounced them the best made plows they ever used. So great is the de mand for them that tho company intends to largely increase its manufacturing facilities and working foroe this year. W. M. Leyde— Jesse HUeheoek. Mr. Leyde is the inventor of a threshing machine, known as tie Leyde thresher, which has been thoroughly tested in this vicinity for several years, and is highly ap proved by farmers and threshers. He has been unable to manufacture it extensively