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FLOUR INDUSTRY

• Industrialist
• Jobs
• Natural resources
• Machines

INDUSTRIALIST

• Charles Pillsbury
• Born in 1842.
• He invested in a flour mill,knew it was gamble and a tough business.
• It took charles pillsbury 5 years,and came very successful.
• Minneapolis became the flour milling capital of the entire world!!

JOBS

• Farmers-harvested wheat
• Barrel workers-nailed flour barrels shut
• Packers-lowest paid
• Mechanists-took care of the machines
• Thousand of people worked in the flour industry

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Wheat-main resource
• Water-a water power source for the mills

MACHINES

• Many large machines were used in the flour milling process
• To break wheat into flour.
• They were extremely expensive and dangerous

LUMBER INDUSTRY

• Industrialist
• Jobs
• Natural resources
• Machines

INDUSTRIALIST

• Fredrick weyerhaeuser
• Was already a rich businessman by the time he invested
• The Minnesota lumber industry
• He has grown up in germany
• Immigrated to the United States in 1852

JOBS

• Lumberjacks-in winter they cut down trees and hauled them away
• Sawmill workers-turned logs into lumber

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Trees-to cut down and make wood,main resource
• Horeses-to haul the lumber

MACHINES

• Sawmill-to make logs into lumber

MINING INDUSTRY

• Industrialist
• Jobs
• Natural resources
• Machines

INDUSTRIALIST

• Henry oliver
• He may have been the most influential
• In 1892 he found the iron ore source
• He owned a steel manufacturing company in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

JOBS

• Miners-to mine the iron ore

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Iron ore-to make into steel
• Earth-to mine into

MACHINES

• steam powered trains-to haul the iron ore
• Steam powered shovels-to dig the ore out of an open mine