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FACTORY IS APPARENT
I is the aim of the best business men
In Minneapolis to make of their city a
perfect buying center for the retail and
wholesale houses of the west and
northwest. To this end they are great
ly interested in securing for the city a
tremendous diversity of jobbing and
manufacturing interests. It has been
frequently pointed out in the Journal's
industrial page that the city will grow
apace as a buying center, as it will be
come more and more unnecessary for
buyers in the west to go farther east
than Minneapolis to secure full stocks.
This condition will hold good when
Minneapolis jobbers feel justified in
carrying sufficiently large amounts of
merchandise to take care of all of the
northwestern trade, and when Minneap
olis manufactures are sufficiently di
versified and large enough to supply the
major part of the demands of the
northwest jobbing trade.
For many reasons this is so. There
is a saving to the retail and jobbing
houses in Minneapolis territory' of the
mileage expenses of buyers from this
city to eastern points and back, and
also iu living expenses while on buying
trips. The saving on freight is "fre-
Minneapolis, in Order to Be a Perfect Buying Center
for the Great Northwest, Should Be Better Equipped
to Supply the Growing Furniture TradeThe
Advantages Which the Trade in This
Section Is Entitled To,
The above modern and complete cottage home in Kenwood at the very
moderate price of $3,100 cash or easy terms.
Has 6 rooms beside bathroom and pantry, ample closet room, full ce-
mented basement, full line of nickel plumbing. (Vapor heating plant,
clean, steady and economical). Hardwood floors throughout, hardwood
finish downstairs, full complement of screens, storm sash, shades, chande-
liers, wall decorations.
Large south front lot, 50x135 to alley, lawn walks, grassy lawn, and
fine shade trees. Three squares from Kenwood car line in midst of new
homes and built less than two years. Owner's promotion in business takes
him out of city. Share his good fortune by purchasing this place at less
than its cost.
Exclusive Agents, 206 So* Fourth St.
5000 Well, a new house, exact duplicate of one we sold for $8,500. AH walls
tinted, extra fine finish rooms extra large best of everything hot water
heat, in fact, a perfect home, in fine location Hennepin car 9 rooms and
attic.
MORRISON-CRITTENDBN CO., Phoenix Building.
$3500 will bUy a brand new 10-room house near Interurban car, close to uni-
versity. Fully modern, open nickel plumbing, hardwood finish, full base-
ment, fine lot house about ready to move in. Chance, to make $500 on this
investment. Will rent for $40 month. This property is going to be sold,
and if you are wise you will come quick. It's sure to goremember, new
and up to date.
MORRISON-CRITTENDEN CO., Phoenix Building.
$3750Here is a beauty, arranged for two small families fine barn to be re-
fitted for another will rent for $60 a month. Property new and as fine as
silk. Just ready. Nine rooms, $200 in leaded work, $200 in hand carvings.
Stone porch, fully modern mantles, columned openings beautiful corner
all improvements in street. You can live in one part and rent the bal-
ance and make 10 per cent on every dollar you have invested. House built
three years. Get a hump on and look this fine home up.
MORRISON-CRITTENDEN CO., Phoenix Building.
$2600Just listen, brother. We have a home built last year that has 7 fine
rooms, east front, fine shade, fully modern, open nickel plumbing, hot water
heat, full basement cementedin fact, a house that you would like. Owner
must and will sell and this is like finding a home. We want you to see this.
MORRISON-CRITTENDEN CO., Phoenix Building.
SEE THIS HOUSE? What house? Why that little beauty6 rooms, slick as a
pin, new, clean, fully modern corner lot, fine heating plant, open plumbing,
golden oak finish columned openings a real beauty and at your own price.
Think we can sell -this for $2,350. Just think, $2,350 ior a brand new
house that is a beauty. This must be seen to be appreciated.
MORRISON-CRITTENDEN CO., Phoenix Building.
SELL HOU
W. W. CLARK REALTY CO
313 Nicollet Ave.
Saturday Evening', y^
quently equal to a normal profit for the
smaller houses west of Minneapolis.
Important Considerations.
It stands to reason that the Min
neapolis jobbing houses can get lower
freight rates in car and trainlots than
the smaller houses which must buy at
less than carlots. It stands to reason
also that the factories can save for
their customers the difference between
rates on the raw material and the
usually much higher rates on the fin
ished product. And a third element of
saving is that of time, inasmuch as
buyers can get to the Minneapolis mar
ket and back in at least a week less
time than to the eastern markets, and
orders can be filled much quicker from
Minneapolis than from the east. This
last item is much appreciated by houses
in Minneapolis territory, because of the
elimination for them of possible delays,
seen and unforseen, between eastern
cities and Minneapolis, both on ac
count of freight congestion at big rail
road transfer'points and thru the wash
outs in summer and blizzards in win
ter.
A fourth element is in the amount of
capital required by the small houses to
carry on business. They are enabled by
the nearness of the market to buy often
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and therefore to carry smaller stocks.
This saving in turn permits the more
rapid development of business, because
of the less capital required.
And. going a step farther, the neaT
ness of the market makes it possible to
do a more satisfactory business, both
to the storekeepers and to their cus
tomers, as the storekeepers are freed
from the disheartening load of over
stocks and the customers can have
fresher assortments of merchandise to
choose from.
To the end that merchants may come
often to the market, the Twin City and
Northwestern Merchants' association
provides several spring and fall excur
sions at low railroad rates, which are
sufficiently patronized to snow the ap-
BE SURE
AND LOOK AT THESE.
$1400Here is what you are looking for
a good house and barn nearly an acre
of land just the place for raising your
own vegetables, chickens, etc. call for
location it's very cheap.
$2350Takes a good investment in a
new house of twelve rooms, built last
year east front on large lot near Soo
shops rented for $27 per month part
cash, balance easy terms it is only two
blocks from street car and you could
not put up the buildings for the price
asked.
$2200Here you are and a good one
eight rooms, good cellar, city water, gas,
sewer, large east front lot, good barn it
is all right and will suit can give very
reasonable terms take a look and call
for further particulars. 2322 Pierce
street
$500For some fine, large lots east of
Central with all street improvements in.
$150 to $300 for some good lots on the
hill east of Central, near church, school
and stores street cars, etc.
Both Phones, or call evenings.
.L PALMER,
2411 CENTRAL AVE.
44 Feet Business Property
ONLY, gfcaggg*
Per Foot, *P 1 0 %M
One of the principal business streets of
the city, with 4-story buildings on both
sides, party wall on each side. We have
44 feet vacant. Cellar dug, street
stone paved. This is a genuine bargain
and ripe for improvement.
125 THOUSAND PEOPLE
pass this property every day. Look it
up.
48 LOTS with about 1,200 feet of Lake
shore at Excelsior, on Gideon's bay.
These lots are from 50 to 75 feet front
each and can be bought for $175 per
lot. Over 200 shade trees.
$700For cottage and barn at Anoka.
One-half cash.
$5000For 11-room modern house
with barn, one block from cars, in Lake
of the Isles east front.
$3600An elegant 7-room house with
every modern convenience, one block
from Nicollet cars near 36th st.
$1100For 7-room house, at 2415 Irv
ing av N only $150 cash, balance $15
per month. Nice large lot with trees
and garden.
Nine-room cottage to rent at Minneton
ka, furnished, $135.
Tbe Finance Company
OP MINNESOTA.
H. F. Newhatl, President,
550 TEMPLE COURT.
Lata Call Properly.
There is no section of the city
offering such attractive inducements
for speculation as land facing Lake
Calhoun.
I have 972 feet for sale at a price
less than $10 per front foot. The
tract will cut into 20 lots, the least
of which will be 60 by 163 feet.
Sewer and street cars in front.
Geo. Odium
Phoenix Bids.
8-Room Modern
House.
2507Lyndale Avenue South. Built
by owner who is leaving town and
must sell immediately.
A complete modern home. Full
basement and attic, sideboard, fire
place, screens, storm windows, awn
ings, shades, gas fixtures, gas range,
Storm King furnace, water meter,
Back yard inclosed. Built four years
ago. Call Sunday or through the week
$1,850
Takes nicely located two-story. 11-room house.
City water, sewer and gas, porcelain lined sinks,
storm sash, screens. Lot 40 feet front by 110
feet deep. Rents for $21.00 per month., $1,000
cash, balanceai6 percent.
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THE MINNEAPOUS^OURNAll1
"Take Action"Do Not Resolveh
would be greatly appreciated if we could, as private citizens, in some way avail ourselves of the infor-
mation and skill of the superintendent of parks in laying out and beautifying our own humble grounds.
Your well-kept yard is not only a moral value to all the members of the household, but it is an inspira-
tion to your neighbor. But a well-dressed man "brushes the heel as well as the toe," so don't forget the
back yard. Here is where the youngest member of the flock gets his first impressionsand they are apt to
be lasting ones. Thus you are now scattering ashes, cinders and tin cans, or making pansy beds for future
generations. You say, "But I am more interested in my own generation." Very welldoing anything
for it? Have you tried an improvement association in your neighborhood? I is worthy of your effort
not a spasmodic trial, but continued, hearty support.
The Portland Avenue Improvement association is of age this month. I was born twenty-one years
ago. Has it paid? We will be content to let those answer who have traveled over its well-kept thorof are.
There are other similar associations, younger, but enterprising and efficient. The organization of these improve-
ment associations marks a spirit of civic pride and the maintenance of them means incidentally a strength-
ening of neighborhood ties, which may mean much even in a city as large as ours
So let the local improvement organizations be formed. Don't attempt to cover too much territory.
Perhaps a single street or avenue will do, if the driveway is long enough. You'll be surprised how much
co-operation and real assistance your aldermen and street commissioners will render you, assuming you will
make only reasonable demands upon them.
But don't wait for the neighbors." If the family is large enough, elect, within the precincts of your
own domicile, a juvenile board of aldermen and appoint front and back yard commissioners. If your table
is set for only two, call a meeting and without passing any resolutions, "take action."
James B. Sutherland.
preciation of the merchants of the move
in their behalf.
Function of a Jobber.
Jobbing houses are nothing but large
merchandise clearing houses. In this
day of division of labor jobbing houses
do their part in assembling goods of
a certain line to save buyers from the
necessity of chasing over all Christen
dom to pick up stocks, by attending to
that feature of the business themselves.
Wholesale men testify to the necessity
for their own existence by maintaining,
each of them, pick-up" departments
to go out and secure articles in other
lines which their customers prefer to
buy in one order rather than to open
small accounts with several houses. For
the same general reasons manufacturers
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WE WANT
TO SELL
Our Enormous Interests in
Desirable to Concentrate
Prices Inconceivable!
$250, Vincent and 42d St.
$250, Washburn and 43d St.
$1SO, Vincent and 47th St
$200, Young and 45th St.
establish their plants near the big
wholesale centers or maintain dis
tributing agencies there.
An enlargement of the clearing-house
idea is then to make the city a big
depot or manufacturing point for all
lines of goods, as the typical wholesale
house aims to carry all the products in
its particular line.
Another point is that Minneapolis
has by right of situation a certain ter
ritory to whose tribute of trade it is
entitled. And it is Minneapolis' right
to demand that business by virtue of
its position. First, however, Minne
apolis must make good its demand by
showing ability to take care of all this
trade. One move then is to educate
the people in the principle of home
Choice Residences.
$16,000The Eugene Hay home -on Clifton ave. A choice colon-
ial residence in a fine location with the best surroundings.
$13,500The Timothy Byrnes Kenwood home, 210 feet of
boulevard frontage, modern twelve-room house and barn. Can
be had with less land for $10,000.
$6,500Regan residence, corner Second av S and 31st st, 15
rooms, all modern, cost $12,000.
$5,5002548 Grand av S, lot 47x87, 9-room new house, hot wa-
Two good houses on Lfowry Hill, $12,000 to $15,000.
NICKELS SMITH
311 NICOLLET AVENUE
J.H. DURYEA,
820 N. W. Bldg.
$1250A nice little cottage of seven rooms, all In good condition ?300 down,
the finest little cottages on the north side built three years
seven rooms, gas, water and sewer fine lawn and shade trees.
$2300Modern house of eight rooms, full basement, good barn full sized lot
neighborhood unsurpassed. This is a baigain.
S2100-House of eleven rooms, stone walk, complete. This house cannot be
built today for less than $3,000 can be used by two families house has
been newly painted and papered and Is in good condition.
82300House of eleven rooms arranged for. two families two woodsheds two
cellars nice little barn. This is a good income property rents for $23 per
April 1, 1905.
trade for home factories and home
wholesale houses and then to take care
of the business.
Business men have begun at home by
buying in Minneapolis material for
Minneapolis buildings. Notably this
has been so with the Orpheum theater
and the new Auditorium, and th,e agents
of William Deering announce today
that so far as possible they will buy in
Minneapolis or thru Minneapolis agents,
material to be used in the new office
building at Fourth street and Second
avenue S.
A Specific Need.
The necessity for more furniture fac
tories is being urged now as a move
toward the end which is being sought
by business men, the Commercial club
and by other organized bodies and by
individual real estate agents.
The need of a chair factory has al
ready been described in this page.
There is none here now. In the case
of furniture factories additional compe
tition and breadth of diversity in
styles is sought. So long as furniture
stores and house-furnishing establish
ments buy any proportion of their
stocks outside of the city it is not a
ftooma-furniture
For Plats Call at 4z5o Upton Avenue South.
There is no More Beautiful Property than
that on the West Side of Lake Harriet
The Lots are Uniformly Good and of Generous Size I
This is the sychological MomentSeize ItAny Terms. Come in for Plats.
Plats Will Be Sent to You Saturday Evening if You Phone.
Edmund GWalton Agency5
T. a, 135. N. w. Main, 1355. Agent for Thomas Lowry..' 300 HENNEPIN AVE.
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There are a great many furniture dealH
ers in Iowa and the state is a rich and
prosperous one. I has been worked by
all the concerns here taken into comr
sideration, and the invasion of the Iowa
capital by the Minneapolis manufac
turers is simply in line with the policy
of securing central depots from which
goods shipped in carlots can be dis
tributed most economically by local
freight."
Local Business Large.
This paragraph points to the faeti ,J
that at least one of the local factories
is pushing to hold trade in Minneapolis
territory. But the local business is not
to be sneezed at. An estimate of the
average annual volume of the down*
town house-furnishing trade is $5,000f
000 and for the city is $6,250,000, with
an estimate for 1905 of $6,250,000 and
$8,00p,000. A good proportion of this
is furniture.
Among the heavy Minneapolis furni
ture factories may be mentioned thes
well-known names of the Barnard-Cope
Manufacturing company. Ford Manufac
turing company, Grrau-Curtis company,
Levin Brothers, Luger Furniture com-
S'urniture
manufacturing center,
be urged that a sufficient va
riety in style is not offered by the Min
neapolis factories and that goods can
be Dought more cheaply in bulk else
where. If this be true it is simply an
argument for enough more factories to
make more styles, sufficiently backed
with capital to sell at the best market
prices. The Furniture Journal says:
Furniture distributing centers are
becoming more and more important fac
tors in trade. Advantage has to be
taken of everything in the way of
freights. Competition has never been
so keen as now. Certain territory west
of the Mississippi and particularly west
of the Missouri river is largely dom
inated by jobbers. Des Moines, which
is the great geographical and railroad
center of Iowa, promises now to be
come the battlefield between the job
bers and manufacturers who seek to
enter more effectively the territory. I
is announced that the Minneapolis Bed
ding company will put in a branch
there. This means that Iowa will be
well worked for business hereafter.
any McLeod & Smith, Minneapolis
company, North St. Paul
Table company, Cree-Dickson Manufac?
turing company, Minneapolis Desk
Manufacturing company, Minneapolis
Office & School Manufacturing comi
pany.
Yet this goodly list does not get'a
proper proportion of the Minneapolis
and northwestern business. One reason
is incapacity to cope with the great de*
mand in turning out product and an
other is that diversity of styles is not
sufficient to keep buyers at home.
Furniture men believe there is no rea
son why a furniture center such as ex
ists at Grand Bapids, Mich., may not
be established in Minneapolis, for there
is the growing business to support it.
The Grau-Curtis company is one of the
first to make a new move for increased
business. It is to put up a four-story
factory and office building at Central
avenue and Seventh street N E to cost
about $20,000. This is in the furniture
district and near the new $25,000 build
ing of the Bintliff Manufacturing com
pany which contributes picture frames
in the house-furnishin industry.
HILLg S
WE WANT
TO UNLOAD
Columbia Heights Make It
Our .Ideas
Absolutely No Bottom!
$250, Abbott and 44th St.
$150, cor. Baird and 46th St
$100, jSfo Zenith and Abbott
$100,io^odnWashburn
&42th St.
ptional Bargai in
No. On Far
Lands
I own 1,560 acres of well selected land, in the neighborhood
of Pierz, Morrison county, Minnesota, that I will sell at very low
price, if bought as a whole, or will sell in small tracts to suit the
purchaser.
This land has all been carefully selected by the owner and
it will bear the very closest inspection. The soil is black loam
with clay subsoil it has some very fine natural meadows, also
considerable timber which can be used for fuel. Parties that wish
to buy land, either as an investment or for a home, will make no
mistake to investigate this land.
Remember you have no commission to pay, you are buying
from the owner. For prices and terms apply to E. M. KEERON,
43-44-45 Minnesota Loan and Trust Building, Minneapolis, Minn.
A Most Delightful Suburban Home
With large lawn of acres, covered with fine large white oak trees and
shrubbery. Large Colonial house with twelve large rooms, all modern, gold-
en oak finish, hardwood floors, fine large mantel, columned opening between
parlor and library, built-in refrigerator, open plumbing with hot water heat,
acetylene gas plant, large basement, vegetable cellar, 100-barrel cistern,
screens and storm sash, built aa warm as it can be built, with a large base-
ment barn, room for 8 head of stock, 2 bo* stalls and room for 4 carriages, 2
oat bins and room for 8 tons of hay in loft. Chicken house and yard com-
plete. The above
placeeisschoole
at th corner of 44th N and
6 blocks from 8t grad worth $6,500.00,Ave.l wil be sold fo $4,500.00.yonl
Terms to suit. For particulars inquire at place or A,
I. A. SANBORN, -.355 Temple Court
Morgarn
and