[Newspaper]
Publication: Minnesota Chronicle and Register
St. Paul, MN, United States
vol. 1, no. 25, p. 2, col. 5
New Article of Minnesota Commerce.
A friend and acquaintance of our junior has sent him, enclosed in a letter, the following editorial article from the Cincinnati Daily Dispatch of the 17th ult. It will be seen that the white sands of Minnesota are about to become as valuable as the yellow sands of the Sacramento. — The material from which this elegant glass ware was manufactured was taken, we believe, from Mr. Lambert's well, near near his residence on Third Street. Our advices state that through the instrumentality of Mr. Young, a Company is about forming in Cincinnati for the purpose of entering largely into the manufacture of glass in St. Paul next season. We have no doubt it will pay well. We wish them all success in the enterprise.
"GLASSWARE FROM MINNESOTA SAND. — We have heard a good deal of the golden sands of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, and have seen some of their conglomerated grains; but we have seen the products of some of the sand from the new Territory of Minnesota, which are equally valuable with the Pactolean grains which have rendered California famous throughout the world. We have been shown a splendid massive glass pitcher, of crystal clearness, and extraordinary strength, — and a pocket flask, and a powder horn of a variegated clear, and opaque material, made at the Glass Works of Messrs. Gray and Hemmingray [sic] Hemingray, up Hammond Street, (by the way, the most enterprising and ingenious manufacturers in their line in the country,) of sand brought from the Territory of Minnesota, last Fall, by Isaac Young, of this city.
The success of the experiment is complete, and the specimens before us clearly prove that in addition to her vast forests of pine timber, the new Territory contains a California treasure in her sand so admirably calculated for the manufacture of glass-ware. Sand of the proper quality for the successful manufacture of glass, is rarely found in quantities sufficient to make it an object. It exists in portions of Delaware and New Jersey and we are informed that the works at Pittsburgh are supplied mostly from Missouri. The sand from Minnesota from the crystal clearness soundness and strength of its glass is unsurpassed, and must form a great article of export as well as give rise to numerous factories within the limits of this new and thriving Territory.
It is well worth the while of those interested, to call and examine these fine specimens which may be seen at the establishment of the manufacturers."
