Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 14, 1911, Page 1

. * ROAD BUILDING Vou, XX. LNo 50 Inherhice Page GraNnp RAPID», Irasca County, MINN.,. Wey DAY, JUNE 14; 1911 Two Dollars a Year COMMISSIONERS New Roads Occupy Greater Share of Time at June Meeting Held Last Thursday. SIX PETITIONS FOR NEW ROADS Received and Hearings » Ordered and the Board Will Act on Them at the Semi-annual Meeting on July 10. At the regular meeting of the board of county commissioners held Tburs- day, the whole board was made a committee to examine the road north | of Deer River across the bog. The! whole board will also act as a com- mittee to go to International Falls op June 16 to confer with the Koochi+ ching county board relative to the bonded indebtedness. which was made before the county wus divided. Commissioners Shellman, Nelson and O’Brien were appointed by a com- mittee Lo examine roads in the town of Balsam, and vhe county auditor was iastructed to advertise for bids for clearing and grubbing five wiles of road in 146-25. Commissioners King, O’Brien and Mullins were ap- pointed to examine the Cowhborn road and Shellman, O'Brien and Mullins were appointed to examine. roads in Trout lake and Feeley townships. Bids for the Orth road were re- jected as were also the bids for the bridge across the Bigfork river ip 148-26 and the auditcr was instructed to re-advertise them. Six road peti- tions were received and notices of hearing ordered; $300 was appro-/} priated to the town of Marcell to aid In the construction of a bridge across Rice river. The Jiquor license applications of | Chas. M. Johnson and Archie Carron, ; at Snowball, and Frank Payne, at Ball Club. were all rejected. The road running through Moose | Park, Alvwood and Ardenburst town- ships was designated as a state high- | way, as was alsu the road ruoning along the railroad track from the St. | Louis county line to the Cass county line near Ball Club, The county ~urveyor was instructed to draw plans and specifications for ditches a ong the Deer River-Cohasset road and the auditor was instructed lo advertise for bids. An appropri- ation of $300 was granted to the town of Harris to aid in improving a por- tion of ube Fulton road. Commissioners Mullins, O’Brien and Shellman were appointed to ex- amine the Vermillion road in section 14, 55-25. Petitions for roads desig- pated Nos. 95, 98 and 99 were granted while beariog 6n Nos. 96 and 97 were ordered continued. The bonds of the village deposituries were all approved with the exception of the Bovey and Nasbwauk State banks, which the county attorney did not approve on account of some defects. Tbe contract fur the bridge across the Mississippi at Blackberry was let to the Henninen Bridge Co. for $14,000 and insomuch as the ¢atimated cast was Only $10,000, the town board of Blackberry submitted a new peti- tion asking the board to increase the county appropriation, from $5,000-to $7,500. .I'be petition was laid over to the next meeting. The whole board was appuinted a committee to ex- amine roads in 62-25. The petition for county ditch No. 2, in Blackberry township was granted, W. F McCaff- rey, of Feeley petitioned the board asking that certain agricultural lands he detached from the village of Warba and a hearing was ordered. At the May meeting of the board $500 was appropriated to the town of Balsam to aid in constructing a road east from the Bovey road. At this meeting the resolution was amended and $250 was apportioned to this road apa $250 was apportioned to the road on range live in 58-23 and 58-24. Surveys of section 31, 56-25 and sec- tion 24, 5525 were approved and a petition for a survey of section 19, 56-26 was granted. The petition for the survey of sections 7 and 8, 150-28, was laid over to the next meeting. The matter of making repairs on the steam builer at the court house was referred to the court house and jail committee. The county auditor was ivstructed to advertise for bids for the construction of a road from Romans’ place on Pokegama Jake to connect with the Hill Citv road. The auditor was also instructed to adver- tise for bids for the construction of a road on the range line between 53-22 and 53-23. Commissioners - Nelson. O’Brien and Mullins were appointed to examine tbe road from Feeley to Bruce siding also tbe road on the town line betweeu 53-22 and 53-23. A petition was received asking that al] of the organized township uf Mar- cell be set aside as an independent school district and hearing was or- dered. Sume abatements of taxes were allowed and the yrist of bills was unusually heavy. The next meeting will be tue semi-annual! on July 10. Wanted--reom in exchange for musi lessons. Copyright 1909, by C. E. Let’s have some growing. KEEPS ON GROWING AKE all the beautiful things in life. away and die--youth departs, and our joys vanish. is one thing upon which time leaves mo corroding mark--Money. Zimmerman Co.--N The flowers--they wither But there ‘First Natimal Bank GRAND RAPIDS. MINH. Capital $2 5,000,00 Satpal: $5,000,00 OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pre: A. G. Wedge. Jr Cashier, C. E. Aiken. Ass’t. Cashier, J. G. Peterson DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon D. M. Gunn. A G. Wedge W. C. Gilbert. Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfelt H. D. Powers. STAFFORD KING TELLS OF TRIP This is the First of a Series of Let- ters He Will Write Conccrning His Western Trip. WRITES AN. INTERESTING LETTER Of His Views and Experiences—Is With Party of Young Men Under the Guidance of Supt. A. M. Locker. STAFFORD KING. Following is a letter from Stafford King, son of County Commissioner C, M. King, of Deer River. He is mak- ing a trip to the coast in company with a party of young men under A. M_ Locker, the noted union Sunday Schoo? worker. Mr King will furnish the Herald-Review an account of his trip and the following is an account cf his trip after leaving Jamestown: Butte, Mont., June 8, 1911. After leaving Jamestown we again proceeded westward. The prairie was still upon either side. Farms continued to appear and disappear as we sped along. And we did speed too. The train was an hour late, and, as was very evident, the en- gineer was trying to make up the lost time. Finally, we arrived at Bismarck, where we were entertained until 9:30 p. m., a period of six hours. We were taken upon an automobile tour of the city and surrrounding territory. We visited the state penitentiary lo- cated there. Throughout the whole institution I was impressed with the cleanliness of the place. Even in the rooms where the twine was be- ing manufactured, every particle of litter was removed. Also, I noticed that before each cell, hung a bird cage with one and sometimes two sonsgters in it. This may seem a small fact, but it shows the desire to make even prisoners as happy yand as cheerful as possible. When later we were in the prison kitchen, I was presented, by the cook, with a large sugared doughnut, which! was delightful. If all the cooking is as good as that doughnut was the pris- oners live well. After our inspection of the prison, ; we were taken uptown. There the] Hotel McKenzie was pointed out to us as the largest and best equipped hotel in the state! We passed on to the capitol building but were un- lable to secure entrance. On the ‘campus in front of the capitol, how- ‘ever, was an object of great inter- jest. It was the bronze statue of Sakakawea, the little Mandan In- dian girl who piloted Lewis and Clark over the Rockies. From the capitol grounds we went | {to the churrch, where a delicious sup- per was served, us. Thence, to the station and again westward through the night. During the night we passed through most of the Bad Lands, but I man- aged to see some of them by early rising the next morning. They are hard yet easy to describe. They are] ‘nearly devoid of vegetation; I be- lieve that sage brush and prairie dogs are the only things which live there. Of these two, I saw’ as much Bad Lands are*not unbeautiful. They are very uneven, being broken up; into. many pinmacles and obelisks. These rocks are worn and carved by the ‘winddriven sand until they form rocks rise up, with long deep seams in them. Others are worn, until they are bottle-shaped,. and capped by a huge flat rock. The rocks and clay are multi-col- ored. They seem to have been pointed tho, by a master hand; for one color blends with another so lightly that it is nearly impossible to determine where one begins and the other leaves off. Through that part of the Bad Lands which I saw and for a long} distance beyond, the railroad follows the bank of the Yellowstone River. This stream is pocsibly a quarter of a mile wide, and is very muddy. The | ing from side to bide of the river, and cutting bits here and there out of the banks. jstter traveling by the river for rte distance, the banks of which, by the way, were thickly strewn, with wild roses, we arrived at Billings, Mont. Here again, we were met by automobiles and shown through the city. We were driven through the country and shown the great irri- gation ditches which are fast putting “dry farming” out of date. One ditch with its particular tributaries, we were told, watered 7,000 acres of land. , Later in the evening we were banqueted at the Elk’s Club. This club is a most magnificent structure, beautifully furnished with oaken fur- niture and decorated with the heads and skins of native animals. We left Billings late in the even- ing for Butte, Mont. I was awakened about 4 the next morning by one of ithe party who sung out down the aisle, ‘All out, if you want to see the Big Divide of the Rockies.” Naturally, I want- ed to see it, altho I had seen the Rockies in the distance from Billings. So, I hurriedly dressed, too hurriedly L realized as soon as I got out on the car platform. I thought I would freeze but I wouldn’t have missed that scenery for so small a thing as that, The train was -being pushed and pulled by two monster engines, which belched forth great volumes of black smoke in vain efforts to hurry. We were crawling along up the moun- tains at about four or five miles an hour. The train twisted and curved like a huge snake. I believe that in no place from the base to the top or from the top to the base was the track straight for the length of a car. The road bed lay generally along the mountain side. On the one side the earth dropped away down to the valley below; on the other it rose up to the clouds, which curled about the peaks of the moun- tains. The track was built upon sol- id rock, or cut thru it. Upon either side huge boulders as large as a heuse stood, seemingly needing but a slight push to start them down- ward. Stunted pines defied the cold and barrenness upon the rocks. Lit- tle streams plunged in a series of falls, and rapids to the valley below. As ‘one looked downward, the track over which we had -just: passed could not be seen. Fills and cuts and trestles followed each other is rap- id succession. Tunnels, too, were passed through. As we approached the top of the mountains we could see far down in the valley hundreds of feet below and miles away the tall smoke stacks and towers of Butte. Then, as soon as we had crossed the Big Divide, began a wild rush downward. Our “pusher” was leff behind and with brakes set we skidded around curves and over deep chasms at a dizy gait. Down into a little mountain surrounded valley we, went and pulled up at the big stone station of Butte, Montana. Butte is’ situated on the west slope of the main range of the Rocky Mountains. It was laid out in 1867. In 1908 it had a population of over 75,000 and a valuation of $48,972,423. This valuation and population also is due .almost entirely to the great mines located here, but there are other great parts of Butte which I will state first. The railroads have vied with each other in securing the immense ton- nage exported from Butte. The freight paid to the different railroads amounts to about $9,000,000.00 each year or about $1,000.00 an hour for each hour of. each day..of..the. year. The Northern Pacific, Great North- ern, Oregon Short Line, ' Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, and Butte, Ahaconda &' Pacific railroads center in Butte. That is, four of the six Butte. This is necessary when we know that nearly 9,000,000 tons of freight are shipped annually. ‘The greater part, of course, is ore. Butte has about 150 mines in ac- tivity. The deepest shaft of all is in the “High Ore” mine which meas- ures 2,800 feet deep. There ar about fifteen others which have shafts 2,000 feet deep. The latest reports show that these 150 mines o produce about 15,000 tons of ore daily, or 100 tons average. Of this output in a year is secured about 300,000,000 lbs. of copper, 12,000,000 oz. of silver and $1,500,000 worth of gold. This shows that 30 per cent of ali the copper mined in the United States is mined in Butte. Much of this mass of ore is smelted at Ana- conda, twenty-six miles from Butte, where the largest smelter in the | worlu is situated. About 125,000,000 feet of timber is used annually for mining purposes. The wages paid here to the miners is very high, $1,250,000 being paid out monthly. This amount does not include the wages of the railroad men, the office force, the mechanics or other jobbers. The mines are connected under- ground. The whol¢ distance estimate by expert engineers, which the un- derground workings include is about 900 miles. The machinerry installed through- out each mine is of the very best; being made of solid steel. blectri- city and steam are used to operate it. The engineers are experts, be- cause in the raising and lowering of the cages great danger is encounter- ed. These engineers are paid 62%4c per hour. Each “skip” (used to hoist the ore) holds from six to seven tons. In the underground workings horses and mules are used, many after once being lowered nev- er see the light of day again. Thus we see. that for perfection in organization, in machinery, in loca- tion, in general wealth, the Butte mines are scarcely equaled, I am writing this in the car at Butte. All around me is the humm- ing, noisy, city, devoid of vegetation because of the Poisons from the smelters. All bout ‘the city are the mountains towering upward like gian Upon their rocky tops, the snow lies deep, and over it the clouds hang in suspense. I know not what—but tommorrow will show it to me. Respectfully yours, Stafford —_ TWO BIG DAYS AT GRAND RAPIDS The Village Will Be Turned Over to the County Sheriffs Next Wed- nesday and Thursday. WILL HOLD SUMMER OUTING HERE Commercial Club Will Banquet the Visitors and They Will Be Tak- en to Pokegama Lake and the Mines. Grand Raqids citizens should bear in mind the fact that the high sherifs of Minnesota will be their guests next Wednesday and) Thurs day, June 21 and 22. Each year the sheriffs of the state hold a summer outing and through the efforts of Sheriff Riley it was secured for Grand Rapids this year. The Grand Ragids Commercial club has taken charge of the entertain- ment feature of the two days‘ and there is no doubt the law enforcers will enjoy them- the limit under Arrangements have al- made for triqs to the Northeast Ex- tthe concentrating meet jselves to their guidance. ' yeady been Pogegama lake, qeriment farm, plant, at Coleraine, and the Canisteo pit and other forms of entertaining and amusing the visitors, This is one of the best opportun- ities Grand Rapids has ever had for advertising her resourees and the nu- merous chances for the young map «with a smalk amount of capital and every citizen should constitute him or herself a committee of one to assist in making the stay of the vis- itors a pleasant one. Dear Amy:- Isn't it Aneadful carpet? out in one place, it The designs in carp heautiful alt the one S Lought is the had. z Akways for this carpet, where F. Ace ees time, anyhow. E. REUSSWI $ FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING to have a hole in the S used to try patching them, build soon found out that when a cakpet was worn was worn out all over. oS decided the Lest thing te do was to throw out the old carpets and get brand-new ones. efs ane getting more The Last prettiest one S've ever your friend, Lou. P. §.-S went back to the same Acliakble place SI always deal, G 2 RESON DEFECTIVE PAGE || _MINNESGTA HISTORICAL S SOCIETY,