Miscellaneous
Flour milling depended on the milling power harnessed at (water)...
What is the Falls of St. Anthony?
Flouring milling grew in Minnesota because of what crop that was grown mainly in southwestern Minnesota?
What is wheat?
An industrialist that invested in Minnesota's lumber industry and then moved on to Washington state when Minnesota's lumber was nearly depleted.
What is Frederick Weyerhaeuser?
This group of people often were the ones filling the dangerous work of iron ore mining.
What is recent immigrants?
The process of developing large, mechanical factories.
What is industrialization?
Iron ore mining grew in Minnesota because of the large amounts of iron ore found in Minnesota and its proximity to ...
What is Lake Superior?
This piece of equipment/machine removed the brown flecks from the flour.
What is middlings purifier?
This type of tree was harvested for lumber from Minnesota's forests.
What is white pine?
This piece of equipment was used by miners to remove iron ore from deep inside the earth.
What is large shovels?
In business, to put money into something offering potential profit.
What is invest?
Important iron ore ranges in Minnesota.
What is Mesabi, Vermillion, and Cuyuna?
Milling stones were replaced by...
What is steel rollers?
The lumber industry declined in Minnesota because of these 4 reasons.
What is white pine cut down and new trees were not planted, saw mills closed, logging operations moved west and lumberjacks followed?
Once iron ore was removed from the earth, it was transported by these methods.
What is trains and ships?
A unit of measurement for agricultural crops the equals 1.25 cubic feet.
What is bushel?
Two machines that influenced the flour milling industry were...
What is the middlings purifier and steel rollers?
These people contributed to the success of the flour milling business.
What is machinists, barrel-makers, and other mill workers?
The group of workers that worked long days at dangerous work, cutting down trees and transporting them down rivers and in trains to the mills.
What is lumberjack?
These pieces of equipment replaced the steam-powered shovels and trains.
What is the electric shovel and diesel train?
Owners and managers of large businesses.
What is industrialists?
In the lumbering industry, logs were sent down river and cut at...
What is sawmills?
Not the first to open a flour milling business, however, he helped make Minnesota the flour milling capitol of the world.
What is Charles Pillsbury?
What was used to keep water near sawmills from freezing?
What is hot-water pumps?
An industrialist that invested in Minnesota's iron ore industry.
Who is Henry Oliver?
Specific branches of business that provide certain goods or services.
What is industries?