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Title: The industries of Saint Louis: her advantages, resources, facilities, and commercial relations as a center of trade and manufacture;
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: (Morrison, Andrew and Irwin, John H. C.) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: St. Loius, J. M. Elstner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of the business thatoriginated in St. Louis and has there achieved its greatest growth. About 2,-000,000 packages of the bottled product was exported last year. Domesticshipments are made by the larger breweries in their own refrigerating cars; theyalso own and maintain ice houses and storage warehouses at various points con-venient for distribution of the supply. Some of the St. Louis brewers, too, ownbreweries in other cities, so that the foregoing figures, large as they are, do notrepresent the total interest of the city in the brewing industry. THE TOBACCO TRADE. A review of the tobacco manufacturing interest of the city, from its incep-tion to the date of this review, shows that within recent years it has assumedextraordinary proportions, and furnishes also an apt illustration of the commer-cial and industrial progress of St. Louis. The earliest records of commercial facts and conditions in St. Louis, wouldseem to date the inauguration of the manufacture of tobacco here at about
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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 45 1817, for a factory was then advertised by Richard & Quarles, as located nearthe primitive post office of that era, and solictious for business. Nearly twentyyears later H. Richards, presumably of the same firm, promulgates a persuasiveannouncement to the people of Missouri and Illinois Territories, that he ismanufacturing tobacco nearly opposite Neals Copper and Tin factory. Pre-cisely the measure of business done by these pioneer factories, and their meth-ods of manufacture, are not disclosed in the narative of events. The impor-tance of accurate commercial data does not seem to have been realized by theearliest generation of business men ; but we may fairly infer that the interestthrived, for a veracious chronicler of 1841 exults over the prospect of a trade swelling every year into much greater importance. A year or two later the State encouraged cultivation of the weed, and ac-celerated development of all the industries influenced thereby, by t

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