Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 27, 1909, Page 80

| | t i k | BEMIDJI, BELTRAMI COUNTY AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA. C. M, BACON. C. M. BACON. Mr. Bacon offers a striking example of what faith in a new country and American grit will accomplish. His holdings also form a basis for mature deliberation on the part of those seeking a profitable country in which to live. Coming here with but a mere pittance, so far as cash was con- cerned, Mr. Bacon got good and busy. He first conducted a hotel, and a few years later delved into real estate, and now 1s a stockholder in the T. J. Welsh Land and Lumber Company, not to mention his indi- vidual possessions in local and farm realty. He is also interested in the Bemidji Brew- ery, is a stockholder in the Lumbermen’s National Bank, he owns the most elegant brick block in the city, and while he has retired from business activiey, he still bar- ters in any legitimate proposition which comes his way. It is futile to aver that Mr. Bacon is classed among our most influential men. Having resided here for ten years, he has performed every duty incumbent upon him as a citizen, he has so comported himself that his reputation is unsullied, both as to civic and business intercourse, and The Pioneer can positively assert that it has been through the conscientious and pro- eressive efforts of such men as Mr. Bacon that Bemidji has developed into the elegant and thriving city she is. OMICH & YOUNG. Thig firm, composed of J. P. Omich and H. M. Young, represents one of the most important firms in North-central Minne- sota, inasmuch as they engage in a business which is rapidly superceding the building of modern structures. They are not only extensive cement sidewalk contractors, but estimate on and execute contracts for every work known to cement, the material that has become a mania with persons interested in building lines. In addition to their con- tracting interests, Messrs. Omich and Young are extensive manufactures of hollow con- crete blocks, cement posts and steps, etc., making a specialty, however, of hollow con- crete blocks, which have no peer as to dur- ability and general utility. The concrete blocks manufactured by this concern are so composed that they possess a continuous air space, thus wholly obviat ing the damage of absorption of moisture or dampness, and the attendant evils which ac- company such conditions. These same blocks also permit of plastering without lathing, and this .one feature alone is suf- ficient to recommend them to the trade. Messrs. Omich and Young are skilled in the craft of cement mixing. They have photos to produce of all the work they have done, they have solved the problem of prop- er cement mixing, and the coming year will see them undertaking the completion of more than ever before, notwithstanding that the past years’ business performed by them was on a prodigious scale. The Pioneer can easily commend this con- cern to the thousands of readers of this elaborate Souvenir Edition as being men of means, activity, public-spiritedness and trained men who have long since compre- hended every technical point of the business in which they are engaged. spme——c A. A. CARTER. Mr. Carter is ex-mayor of Bemidji, and one of our well known real estate dealers. He has been a resident of Bemidji for seven years past, whence he came from Superior, where he had lived for some twelve years, being then engaged in a similar ‘business he now conducts. Mr. Carter was a good city executive. During his administration, through his activity, the cold storage plant and cream- ery was established here, and the pleasure resort known as the ‘“New Grand Forks Bay,” with its twenty-five elegant sum- mer cottages, were given being. Mr. Car- ter also established the Bemidji Axe Handle factory, one of the city’s most influential industries. He was also suffi- ciently influential to interest certain capitalists in an electric street railway system for this city, but owing to the money stringency this propostion is still held in abeyance. - There is no doubt but that Mr. Carter has accomplished much for Bemidji and interests contiguous thereto. By both per- sonal solicitation and his individual purse he has engendered and fostered many public movements, and that he is an astute and conservative business man his record portrays. While not now an offi- cial, Mr. Carter is the same zealous citi- zen that he has always been. J. J. CONGER. Mr. Conger belongs to the great army of strong-armed, ambitious and sturdy men who are rapidly developing this county and daily enhancing the values of both <city and farm property. Mr. Conger originally come from the Empire state, settling in Manchester, Iowa, where he lived until seven years ago, at which time, being attracted by the rapid open- ing, virgin soil and growing cities which abounded in this vicnity, he came here forthwth. Mr. Conger -was a farmer up to his advent here. He appreciated the re- sources and richness of Beltrami county as to soil, industrial possibilities -and as a pleasure resort, and at once embarked into the real estate business, in which he is still engaged, both as an individual owner of farm and city property, and as a local agent for the Minnesota Hard- wood, Land and Development Company. This is one of the most powerful land companies in the northwest, holding and controlling as it does, extensive tracts