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COMMERCIAL IIISTOI~Y OF MILWAUXEE. 259
amall wooden building somewhere about where I~RADFORD BRO-
THERS' store now stands.
DANIEL H. RICHARDS published the Advertiser, meekly, just
above where the Republican House now stands, in the Second
Ward.
ALEXAFDER MITCHELL mas banker in the west half of the
office of DAVIS & MOORE.
Messrs. KILBOURN, JUNEAU, G. EI. WALKER, Dr.
Co1.
WEEKS, JAMES H. ROGERS, Mayor ~RENTISS and E. CRAMER,
whose names are so Camiliar to you now, were then proprietors,
land dealers, money lenders, and gentlemen at large.
I have run through the list, picked up at random, from me-
mory, in part, to give you the names of some of the leading
actors of that day and their occupations. I shall have occasion
to refer to this list in a subsequent part of my remarks.

Pirst Shipn~ent Grain.
of
Up to 1841, no grain had gone out of Wisconsin. I think I
am correct in stating that I purchased during the winter of '40
and '41, the first cargo of grain that was sent from the then
territory. The amount was small; I advertised to pay cash
for it, and gathered about four thousand bushels, which went
to Canada in the spring of 1841. From this time on, more or
less grain came to town, and I suppoae I am correct still in
saying, that the firm of HOLTON & GOODALL, up to 1844, pur-
chased more wheak than all others put together. But still the
amount was trifling, not exceeding in the entire year, nor even
reaching, as much as now arrives in a single day in the season
of marketing this commodity.
Warehouses.
Let me speak of the first warehouses that were built in Mil-
waukee, or rather that were standing here in 1840, and of their
history. Beginning at the south ; Capt. SANDERSOB had built
upon the hard ground on the westerly rim of the south bay, just
north of the Kinnekinnic, a large two story heavy framed build-