Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 21, 1909, Page 4

Bread Repias Heraias'Review Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE \d at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Enterinnesota, as Second- Class Matter. —— THE HERALD-REVIEW IS THE Official Paper of Itasca County, Rranv RaPips, CoHASsET. KEeEwaTIN, NASHWAUE, Houtman, Official Paper of Village of Official Paper of U.S. District Court in Bankruptcy P. ings. ————_—_— THE WAY TO TREAT THEM. The secret of community building may properly be summed up io four words, “Harmony, Hustling, Latelli- gence, Integrity.” Harmony and unity of action is the first requisite. Without it nothing can be accom- plished. A lack of harmony is due, in most instances, to a lack of intelli- gence. In nearly ail communities there are a few mean men whose men- tal mendicancy deprives them of harmonizing with the balance of the bunch, and whose natural and cultiva- ted cussedness prompts them to belie and belittle the grand good efforts of big and brainy men who would boost and build fur the betterment of the community in which they liye. Rae Grand Rapids is no exceptiou to this general rule. There are a few— avery few—mean ones here. Instinc- tively they seem to realize that they are deficient; that they are not wor- thy of public confidence; that they aae incapables: that they are looked upon with contempt by honest folks. ue Some communities have a hard time to root out these undesirables, The man who seeks to harmonize, is a hustler, intelligent and possessed of good integrity, has neither the time por disposition to combat the dis- gruntled ‘snake 10 the grass.” He feels that to expose and justly de- nounce the barm-producing leech of the community would be compromis- ing to himself—a sacrifice of self- respect. * go The particular species of com. munity-destroying insect that infests Grand Rapids is rated as the most pernicious. The few we have in ming vary in characteristics very little. They are sianderers both of men and measures. Any project that comes before the Commercial club for con- sideration is neither endorsed or con- demed by these parasites until the members of the club have pronounced its views and made recommendations. (he parasite then takes up the sub- ject in a knowing, secret way and op- poses the position taken by the club. He is there with his insinuating slan- ders, advising those not familiar with the facts that it is all a scheme to advance the private interests of some man or set of men. It is.always a plot to rob the taxpayers, from his yiew-point. If the falsehoods thus put into circulation are challenged, the contemptible slanderer will inva- ciably lie out of it, and attempt to shift the responsibility to other shoul- The sneaking slanderer 1s not He is allowed to ders. properly dealt with. go unchecked. There is but one way He should be ignored out of the community. When it is really necessary to come in contact with him he should be kicked out of the way. eg These miserable creatures are a con- stant hindrance to the efforts of the better élement of any town. They foment discord, create factions and discredit every commendable move. A liberal application of the treatment here suggested would soon cause them to seek other fields in which to prac- tice their destructive methods. Let’s try it from now on. Lt will work. piesa bea 3 HONOR TO GUNN AND M’GARRY Cass Lake can neyer repay to Sen- ator D. M. Gunn and and Represen- tative P. H. McGarry and the host of staunch friends behind them, the great debt she owes for the magnifi- cent fight they put up for us in the legislature. Through months of hard and tire- less work—day and night—they have jooked after our welfare and brought us through to conspicuous victory, The normal school fight was the big- gest before the legislature and they brought us out of it winners against to treat him. a combined opposition embraciog every other aspiring town. Each, in his own branch of the legislature, made good in this most remarkable fight. and the town is theirs for all time to come. Here’s to Guno aod McGarry! The political trade which cut us out of the prize we had so fairly won dims not one whit the conspicuous service they did us. To those staunch friends from other parts of the state who stood with us while in six different trials of Strength we ousted the opposition, we can give at this time only the as- surance of lasting gratitude. Cass Lake has her roll, covering oearly one hundred names, and only awaits the opportunity to repay the fealty her cause received. Come and let us show you that we do not forget our friends, and that every door in our city is open to you. Neither should Cass Lake forget the service given io her behalf by those of her citizens who, forgetting home and business, spent almost two months of their time in St. Paul laboring tirelessly night and day to secure the normal. No harder work than this_before the legislature: was ever known, and Cass Lake’s debt of gratitude to these men is. great and should not be forgotten. Our city has found itself in friends and has much reason to look toward the future with all assurance of prosper- ity.—Cass Lake Voice. _—_-— DRAW ONST.LOUIS AND ITASCA Princeton Union: ‘Tuesday’s St. Paul Dispatch had a cleyer cartoon, representing a granger-looking legis- lator, with a derby hat cocked jauntily on the side of bis head, ex- tending his hand to a buxom damsel, wearing a skirt labeled ‘‘Total Ap- propriations Bills, $18,000,000,” to assist her into a boat, the side and stern of which bore this inscription, “Available Revenues for 1909 and 1910, $12,000,000." The query is where is the $6,000,000 coming from? That is dead easy. The legislature should authorize and direct the state auditor to draw un the trea- surers of St. Louis and Itasca coun- ties for any amount necessary to make up the deficit, whether it is six or ten milliun dollars, and collection of the auditor’s drafts should be en- forced at the point of the bayonet if necessary. Those hewers of wood and delvers in the mines of St. Louis and Itasca counties should feel flat- tered at beiog afforded an. oppor- tunity of supporting the state govern- ment. Aiken and Crow Wiog coun- ties will be drawa upon later when it is no longer possible for St. Louis and Itasca to honor the drafts. —_—oso_" A. M. GREELEY observes in the Big Fork Compass that the tonnage tax wouldn’t be a tax—it would be more like a ransom. Hivi City is svon to have a new First State bank. That neighborhood to the south of Grand Rapids is picking up some. Hill City will sure grow and prosper, now that she has a railroad outlet. si eH Zara Ir wAs an easy chance to steal thousands upon thousands of dollars from Northeastern Minnesota and get away with it without beiug sub- ject to arrest and prosecution. The house and senate both saw it in that light and the robbery was attempted. oe WITH the passing of L. A. Rosing the state of Minnesota has been de- prived of one of her worthiest sons. After years of physical suffering and poor health L. A. Rosing died at a St. Paul hospital on the 14th inst. For many years he had been promi- nent in Democratic politics. He was chairman of the Democratic state committee when John Lind waselect- ed governor, and later served as pri- vate secretary to the governor. In 1900 he was the Democratic candi- date for governor against Van Sant. ; Io the Johnson regime he had seryed as a member of the board of control. Rosing was an able and honest man. + en Governor John A. Johnson will please take notice that Itasca county selects him to lead the grand march, eS OOOO OOO OO a Cc’ Che Ladies .... Before you get your new suit, come in and get one of the Spirella longhip mod- els. This corset meetsevery Q demand of fashion, ranges from extreme to medium. Q For wear and comfort this ¢ corset has no equal. Mrs. C. RING. } ewoucooOooO COO CO Oe oo DODO OOOOWD VES oof HERALD-REVIEW COMMERCIAL Book and Job Printing EST KIND OF WOR KIND OF STOO. Civil Engineering SURVEYING, ESTIMATING. CONSTRUCTION, SUPERINTENDING AND DRAFTING ITASCA ENGINEFRING CO. GRAND RAPIDs, MINNESOTA J. A. BROWN, Mgr. Phone (68 e inferior grade. renene Only one way to do it—fence them off—let our wire fencing do the work. remain on duty much longer than fencing of an NIO It will do it cheaper and is Fencing Of Sterli many times over. Eliminate all danger of a scratched up garden The cost of fencing off your poultry will be saved _Of Sterling Quality Quality GREAT WORK DONE ON THE WESTERN MESABA RANGE Continued from page one. of the SteeY corporation has made possible on the Western Mesaba range. What independent corporation of today would be willing to sink $15,- 000,000 into the ground without a cent of return? What small corpor- ation would be willing to enter the fleld where a washing plant costing in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 is nec- essary before the ores may be brought to a merchantable grade for ship- ment? What independent corpora- tion would or could build up the model town that bears Thos. F. Cole’s name, furnish the children of its em- ployes with an %80,000 school and erect houses in which the employes and their families may live in com- fort, ease and enjoyment of life? Not many, and perhaps none. “The Steel trust wouldn't spend money unless it was certain of re- turns”’ is the cry of those whose prin- cipal business in life is railing at the corporations and crying out that the common people are oppressed. Be that as it may, great resources are necessary for the development of a region of the Western Mesaba, and if that development is possible only through the wealth and power cof a combine like the Steel corporation, it is well for the Western Mesaba that such combine exists. The develop- ment of the district—the opening of nesota just so much more riches, so many more people, so much more commerce and an_ increased pros- perity. Itis confidently believed that the Canisteo and Walker pits will form the greatest mining property in Northern Minnesota and from pre- sent indicatious, the prediction is not amiss. Thousands of men will be glven employment for years to come. Capital is necessary to labor, as well as labor to capital and even if the Steel corporation does receive returns in full measure when actual mining operations begin, it will have taken the risk, put 1n the money and will be entitled to its share of the profits. The men employed in the mines, and Northern Minnesota as a whole. will share in the remainder. A year ago, the ground between Coleraine and Bovey bad hardly felt the prick of the steam shovel’s points. The work on the Canisteo and Walker pits was just beginning. To- day the pits have been extended over amile and they are down to the ore bodies, at most points, from eighty to 100 feet below the level of the sur- rounding country. The overburdea has been removed in most places, the water problem, which was a yexa- tious one, has been successfully com- batted, but the end is not yet. No lore can be shipped until the washing plant is erected. The washing plant taking, perhaps the feature of the work at the property. It will beerected between Coleraine aud Bovey, ap- proximately two miles frow the ore bodies, the products of which it is designed to render of commercial value. The site has been graded and construction work is starting. A big force will be put on later and the plant will be competed by January 1, 1910, it is expected. The water forthe washing plant must come frum Trout Lake and be- fore the plant can be put in opera- tion, an immense fill, by means of which the water will be raised so as to provide gravity force, is now in the making. The fill is in the hollow be- ween Coleraine and Bovey and the earth for it comes from the open pits, being transferred from the mines a distance ofa littleover a mile by dump cars. Thetop of the fill will be on a level of about 100 feet above the surface of the lake. An idea of the immensity of the fill may be gained from the fact that all of the earth taken from the pits thus far has been dumped into it and it will not be completed until the end of the seasou. The millions of cubic yards of earth form a mound of won- derous proportions. To the top of the fill, the water will be pumped from Trout Lake and thence it will flow tothe washing plant with gravity force for the washing process. The low percent- age of the Canisteo and Walker ores makes the washing process necessary, but when washed, the ores will be of the highest grade shipped from the ranges. Last summer, about 1,500 men were employed on the work at Coleraine and the payroll was considered oyer $60,000 a week. This year the number has increased and the outlay of money will be enormous. When the returns do come, it will be several years be- fore they will resolve themselves into dividends, but ultimately the Steel corporation will receive many times the sum put into the work. The fee owners of the Walker pit, which is under lease tu the Oliver Iron Mining the ore bodies—gives Northern Min- | j is a big under- ‘a Che SHOE SOLD ONLY BY SPSS SSS SSOSOSOSOO OOOO OOOS The registered and licens- ed jet black PERCHEON STALLION, DEWEY, weight 1,600 pounds, will stand at the stable of Sol- berg & Co., in the rear of the old Independent news- paper building, one block east of postoffice in Grand Rapids, for season of 1909. As a part of this adver- tisement we refer to Certificate No. 347 issued by Professor Andrew Boss, of the State Stallion Registration Board, show- ing this Stallion to have been officially examined and found free from any taint or defect. TION ” seed Oats. company, will receive their many thousands in royalties and thousands of men will receive their monthly wages to support growing families. The wealth of Coleraine and Bovey will bring increased prosperity to Northern Minnesota. The schools will turn out good citi- zens for the state and nation and another thriving community will spring up from what was not so very many years ago nothing but barren waste. The great gashes in the earth at Coleraine are mute heralds of the en- terpise and industry with which the iron ranges’ resoures have developed. Had the same energy been possible in the building of the Panama canal, ten years would not be necessary for that work. Any open pit mine on the ranges is a typification in reduced form of the Culebra cutand they have been cut with proportionately much more speed. The Canisteo is destined to be the greatest ot them all, it is predicted, and the Canisteo has been developed more rapidly than any of them. There is nothing aesthetic about iron mining. No sentiment but ad- miration for the power of man in over- coming natural obstacles can enter the mind in contemplation of the industry at Coleraine; but the dis- trict is not without its beauties. Regularity, cleanliness and beauty where ooe would think no beauty is pussible characterizes Coleraine, Joho C. Greenway’s model town. Certain it is that its magnificent school build- ing. its well paved streets, its rows of Tungsten lamps on the main through- fare, its comfortable looking houses, are not surpassed in any’ town of similar size in thestate of Minnesota and they are especially wonderful when squalor, filth and vice in all forms are taken as a matter of course to be attached to any mining property. The “mining camp,” as the term is understood as implied to the wild and woolly west, is an unknown quantity in Northern Misnoesota. Florsheim SHOE 3 Bas that personal distinct- ion of the well chosen Made to Order LEIBERMAN BROTHERS STORES AT GRAND RAPIDS, BOVEY, MINNESOTA POSSO SOS OSS DISS O GOO OSOOOOS SOLBERG @ CO., Owners. We also sell Hay and Feed and the ‘“ SENSA- COLERAINE, MARBLE, PPPS PSSSSSOSGOOOOOOSSooed GGGGG0: L , there are well regulated, well governed towns, with schools, churches, libraries, clubs and the social culture of the old settled com- munities. Coleraine has that culture in the greatest degree and when it was named a model town, no missomer was attempted. Neither is the admiration, which the people of Coleraine and all who know him feel toward John C. Green- way, misplaced. As manager of the Oliver Iron Mining company’s oper- ations on the Western Mesaba range, he has done things. He has accom- plished what he set out to do and never varied in one whit from the standards he set up to govern him. He has wealth and power behind him, but without the executive ability and the mental! and physical grasp of big situations, nO man could do what John ©. Greenway has done in mak- ing a barren wilderness a hive of in- dustry anda great source of wealth.— Virginian. | DR. JOHN DICKIE Veterinary Surgeon AND DENTIST WILL BE AT Pokegama Hotel Livery barn every Saturday. All work at- tended to on that day. Or call at office at WILSON’S LIVERY COLERAINE 4 VSOSSBPOST OVS POSS COSCO OOCOS OOOO | ONE YEARIONE DOLLA R FOR THE GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW E. C. Kivey, Editor and Pub, For a short time the Herald-Review may be had at the above price for cash GET IT NOW