. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . This has taken place in spite of adverse circumstances, which make our growth all themore surprising and gratifying. To-day Minneapolis, both in the volume of business done and in theconfidence of those whose confidence is most to be valued, stands without a peer as a center for thehandling of agricultural machinery. The fruit shippers of the original markets look upon Minneapolis as a phenomenon. No place inthe North or West, outside of Chicago, can compare with Minneapolis in
. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . This has taken place in spite of adverse circumstances, which make our growth all themore surprising and gratifying. To-day Minneapolis, both in the volume of business done and in theconfidence of those whose confidence is most to be valued, stands without a peer as a center for thehandling of agricultural machinery. The fruit shippers of the original markets look upon Minneapolis as a phenomenon. No place inthe North or West, outside of Chicago, can compare with Minneapolis in this line. She has been aheavy consumer, and besides has been a point of distribution for a large territory. Thejobbing in dressed meat received a strong impetus during 1888. The prospect of a consider-able development of the packing industry here seems to have aroused the outside concerns to aggressiveefforts. Two large packing firms have established important branches and have done a fine business. ,There has been little if any falling off in the sales of the agencies formerly established, so that the busi-. ^\ tLL, CeN IRAL PARK. 24 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. ness, as a whole, has been noticeably increased. The North American Beef Company began businesslast fall. This is a branch of the George H. Hammond Company, which has houses at Chicago, Omaha,Detroit and New York. The Kansas City Dressed Beef Company, whose goods have hitherto beenhandled at this point by other parties, placed a branch here early in the year and have done a thrivinghusiness. The popularity of the Northern-grown seeds has lesulted in an increase in that line of business offrom forty to fifty per cent. There is a strength in seeds grown in this latitude that commends them toplanters all over the couutry. They are accordingly preferred to all others, and are rapidly attaining areputation. The territory covered by Minneapolis seed men is much wider than it was a year ago,and its growth is but beginn
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