Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 5, 1911, Page 7

——EE EEE } | ' } Imperfant Pago GRAND RAPIDS AFINE . TOWN IN WHICH TO LIVE It Has Broad, Parked Streets, Lovely Lawns and Hand- some Homes. Originally an Indian Trading Post, It Is Now a Thriving City. More Than $150,000 Was Spent for New Buildings Last Year. ae In common with thw rest of Itasca county, of which it is the county seat, Grand Rapids is having e healthy end continuous growth. New bufidings cost- ing $150,000 were erected last year. The city is the home of a large number of people of means and has many hand- some residences. Its location is ideal for a city, being on a level plateau just high enough above the Mississippi river a mile. On each block are six hand- some steel standards each supporting; three-globe electric lights, a duplicate of those in Superior. Its court house, three large brick schools and Carnegie free public library,| are all fine architecturally. Most of the residence streets, in addition to - being parked, are lined with trees. Last week the village assessors com- pleted a careful census of the city,; which gives it in round numbers a pop- ulation of 2,600, which is an increase of/ 3830 over the federal census a year ago. At this rate Grand Rapids will double i. pee in the next ten years. principal industry, the Itasca paper mills, pay out an average of $6,000 a month in wages and more than that for pulpwood and fuel, a total of, more than $12,000 monthly, practically, all of which is spent in Grand Rapids.; The paper company has begun Wark, on a ig steel and concrete boiler’ house and will install boilers having, 600-horse power capacity. A number of lumbermen make their headquarters! here and help to swell the Yee pay-' roll. As the county seat and the home of all county officials, many additional thousands find their way to this city. Grand Rapids has its own electric light and water plant. All of its streets. are well-lighted with arc lights. Con- sidering the size of the city electric light rates are reasonable, even low,, being 10 cents per kilowatt hour, with at 10 per cent discount for prompt pay- ment. This makes the rate really 9 cents, as against a 10-cent flat rate in, Eveleth and 15 cents in Virginia. A flat rate is charged for water, $5 a year and up. The water supply is drawn from Hale lake, which is partly in the village limits. The water is pure and clear. Plans are on foot to extend the lighting system to La Prat- rie, three and a half miles distant, bh aerene re he as Sas COURTHOUSE AND SHERIFF’S RESIDENCE, GRAND RAPIDS. which flows through the town, to afford| and to light the fine farmhouses perfect drainage into that stream. The city owes its birth to Indian. trading and its early growth to lumbe 2 it is the center of a rich agricuitu region, dotted with fine farm hou ang barns. It is in the iron zone. Surrounding Grand Rapids In all di- S scenery in the Northwest. way as a summer resort. wealthy people of Grand Rapids and} people from a distance have cottages!] in a 15-inning game, j which is one of the best in Norther rections is some of the most beautiful| Minnesota. and is often called to point Only four| many mites away is Pokegama lake, with 130] ids miles of shore line, which is winning its| which is great. Some of the| feated and all the farm- barns e way ear ces already takes much, pride in the Grand Rapics band and orchestra, m ay. In the Grard Rap- Juniors it has @ baseball team Recently this team de- the Proctor Juiiors, who nad unbeaten record last ye by 2 to an and the next CENTRAL SCHOOL, GRAND RAPIDS. ‘ yn the shores of the lake and on the) Gay slands with which it is dotted. | When a stranger arrives in Grand Rapids he is impressed at once with the beauty of the town ern railway extending for several blocks along Third avenue, the main business thoroughfare. This street Wher he steps} off the train his first view is of the parked right of way of the Great North-) walloped Proctor 6 to 1. points on the Great Northern betwen Duluth and Crookston receive as much freight as Grand Rapids and it is a shipping point of importance. During last fall and win- ter more than 30,000 bushels of po- | Few railway tatoes were shipped from here. Most of these were raised between Grand Rapids and La Prairie and between THE HIGH SCHOOL, GRAND RAPIDS. paved with & ment which wili cement sidewalk and curbing. gether the city has more miles of cement sidewalks and it covers) the acre. enitoid, a cement pave- last for generations. On the opposite side of this avenue are Alto- than four|Taised an average of 200 bushels tq Grand Rapids and Pokegama lake. Foi these potatoes the farmers received an average net price of 48 cents and While I was at Grand Rap» two miles by two and a quarter, being] ids six carloads of potatoes, 3,000 bushy almost square and as level as a floor.| els, hite way” for a| neapolis, Third avenue is the “ distance of seven blocks, or about half! Wash., were sold to Begg & Co., of Miny for shipment to Spokan 1,600 miles away. The selle: | | | j | Feceived 65 cents a bushel on board ears. Grand Rapids is portant retin Peigge xe | an im~ shea Northern e crew to at ‘apids, Cohasset and Deer River. "The Nashwauk extension of t! Northern railway joins the Dania hoe with all parts of the Mesaba iron range ‘and connects it with the Duluth, Mis- ‘sabe & Northern trains at Coleraine. "It is only a question of time when the Missabe road will be extended from Coleraine, only nine miles jthrough Grand Rapids to Pokegama’ lake, as all this territory is rich ir ‘iron ore. e } The city has smendid public schools ‘twenty-five tegchers. This month itwenty pupils the high schoo “who are eligible to jmal schools. It is a matter worth ‘noting that during the last seven years ymore boys tHan girls have graduated ‘from the high school. This is an indi- sation of the wealth of Grand Rapid ‘Nearly everywhere else most of the boys have to leave schogl before fin- (ishing and go to work, &- Grand Rapids is an {eal location for woodworking establishments of ali kinds. It has clay which makes fine brick ard brick plants yie.a rich returns. A creamery Is be- ing built and will be followed by .the construction of a potato stora: The city has two gcod hotels, Jnd everai smatler ones. It has @ +" 2 moving picty ow. It is the s' re ? nting and fi-h- meh» . de and unt sec The voluntre re best wn farms or [2 in to-do men of the city have rms dings cf farm lands. These m ow best the walue of these land agricult' and as fast as they accumulate a plus in business they buy more farm lands. That ought to be the most con- vincing argument of all to farmers whe are seeking new homes that Itasca; county’s agricultural _ possibilities, combined with cheap land, are not ex- «celled anywhere in this country. WANTS and ~ FOR SALE Five Cents Per Line FOR RENT—six room house with bath and also barn.—A. Wood. FURNISHED ROOMS for rent, all new and modern, phone No. 168. WANTED—100 lawn mowers to sharpen at George Hewis’ electrical shop. We handle Johnson’s candies, the best made, try a pound box. Miller’a Confectionery, DRESSMAKING—Will do sewing at home or go out by the day. Mrs. Arnold, Riverside Hotel. LOST—blue and white seal pin, from Lawrence university—finder please return to this office. WANTED—Young girl or old lady who wishes a good home and small wages. Inquire Herald-Review. WANTED—sgirl for general house- work in family of two. Inquire of A. J. McGuire, Northeast Experiment farm. : FOR SALE—Some office furniture and a new Monarch typewriter, all in good condition. Call at this of- fice. WANTED—good reliable girl for cook and to look after house in fam- ily of two.—J. C. McKusick, Marble, Minn. ie Three hundred Rexall remedies one for each ailment, absolutely guaranteed, at the Red Cross Drug store. FOR SALE—Two cows, two heifer calves, one two-seated open buggy, 1,500 teet mapie flooring —A. J. Dor- an. phone No. 102. FOR SALE—two horses, well bred, and three years old, weight 1,200 and 900 pounds. Write or call on A. L. good for speeding or driving, eight Lallibertie, Cohasset, Minn. HAY STUMPAGE FOR SALE— I have 160 acres of first class blue- joint hay stumpage on the Willow River Meadows, 2 miles from Brauer Spur, on the Hill City railroad. Will sell half or all. Mowing machine can be used on these meadows, and the grass is very fine. Write E. L. away: (with a school population of 700 and’ were graduated from! jenter the state waiversity or the nor-; . here would Doubled in Population in Three Years. Woodworking Industry Gives Steady Employment the Year Around. Center of a Rich Farming District, Which Is Being Settled Fast. Situated at the foot of navigation up miles, an ideal location for woodworking eS-| jirch, which commands a ready market! tablishments and surrounded by rich { on the upper Mississippi river, which steamboats ply for 150 = COHASSET, WHER RAILS AND Fast Growing Town Has RIVER MEET for timber. The sawmill is paying $2,000 a month in wages and other lumbering interests which center here, including the Erskine-Stackhouse com- pany, Dunn & Marcia, O’Brien & Calla- han, Skelly Brothers, and James Riley, of Minneapolis, more than that, making the monthly payroll at Cohasset at this writing approximately $10,000 monthly. Common labor commands $2.25 a day, and sawyers, steamboat men and skill- ed workers in the factory and saw mill are paid much more. It is a common saying in Itaca county that no man who wants to work need go idle in Cohasset. The Great Northern Railway .com- pany will make important improve- ments at Cohasset this summer. The capacity of the depot is to be doubled. Next to Cloquet, Cohasset is the most important shipping point on the Great Northern between Crookston and Du- luth. Fifteen to twenty loaded freight cars leave Cohasset dally. The town is expanding on all sides. A year ago South Cohasset, across the river, was platted and is being built up with comfortable homes. Recently a steel bridge connecting it with Co- hasset was built at a cost of $16,000 and South Cohasset has been incorpor- ated with the original village. The Riverside addition to the town has also met with a ready sale. The bridge places Cohasset in close touch with a large territory of hard |weod lands, covered with a heavy growth of maple, oak, basswood and at the hardwood factory and sawmill. {and is developing it. farme near 4 and are helping to de- yelop this rich agricultural region. E. L. Buck has two farms, one on Pokeg- fama lake and the other a few miles up the Mississippi. The river farm. consists of 320 acres, with fine build- gs. Under cultivation are 160 acres, now in crop to timothy. clover, wheat, oats, barley, corn ld roots. On this farm Mr, Buck has some fine Guernsey catth ‘The head of the herd is a registered bull which ts helping to improve the breed of cattle in this sec- tion. Mr. Buck’s Pokegama lake farm is about ten miles from town. Here he has 1,000 acres, 160 of which are under cultivation and the rest largely in_hardwood timber. Morris O’Brien, county commissioner, who has lived here for fourteen years, has made money lumbering and has put most of it into fine farm lands, of Which he has more than 400 acres. His Bass Brook farm adjoins the village, and thirty acres of it are under culti- vation. is Black Water farm is at O'Brien’s Point, just above town, on the river, where he has forty acres in crops. His Weller’s Spur farm is five miles from town, and thirty acres of it are under cultivation. Altogether Mr. O’Brien has 100 acres under culttv: tion. He declares this to be the best agricultural section of the county. Skelly Bros. made money logging and contracting, and own two fine farms and are interested in two others. H. H. Carrier, the postmaster, who is known as the “father of Cohasset, made money in the rapid rise of village real estate and has invested it in farm lands. John Nelson and Charles Brown, the hotel men, have 200 acres partly cleared and in crop ten mil up the river, and a second farm where the Thoroughfare joins the Mississippi, where they raise all kinds of garden truck. F, J. Skocdopole, cashier of the Cohasset’ State bank, established a little more than a year ago, has shown his faith in this section by buying 400 acres of hardwood and agricultural land on the east shore of Bass lake, suitable to All agricultural products and thrive the Minnesote climate grow | | Buck, Cohasset, Minn. July 12. ‘OHASSET’S NEW SCHOOL BUILDING AS IT WILL APPEAR WHEN COMPLETED. F. W. Hor ‘ster, Sagnaw, Mich., Architect. 5 R. Brovne, Grand: Rapids, Minn., Plumbing and Heating ¢ Settlers on these lands, while awaiting ; here enormously if pr ultivated arm lands, it is not surprising that! 2° ¢,o5" will make money on their tim-/as in the older sricultural Cohasset has doubled its popu‘ation In| ber. ‘The bridge brings Pokegama |regions. | “Lumber) ing, how- the last three years. It 1s at Cohasset |lake within a distance of two miles by | ever. is becoming a thing of «he past. th k 5 | Toad. |Settiers who are coming in from Iowa, Pee eee lake, famous for its|T°R 1. Gohasset the river road runs| Illinois and other progressive farming scenery and fishing, empties into the | up into the Vermilion country to a dis-|commoniti.s are sus eding and set- ‘Along this| ting the pace, and the of them grad are quick to foll tance of twenty-five miles. road are many substantial farmers,| many most of them from Iowa. The road 1s | jacks,” ississippi_ through the Throughfare, a beautiful stream, in places a mile wide. Steamboats from Cohasset g0 rs, BRINGE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT COHASSET, WITH A GLIMPSE OF A RESIDENCE , STREET IN THE BACKGROUND. . through the Throughfare into the lake, and these summer days steamboats and saucy little launches are to be seen on the river and the lake, going and com-| along the lake shore, which opens up 4 ing from Cohasset. vast agricultural territory. Bne and one-half miles below Cohas-| Leading men of Cohasset, who have| set ig the big Pokegama dam across}made money in lumbering and other | the Mississippi, which is largely re- sponsible for making the Mississippi navigable for 150 mile above the town. ‘Even today millions upon millions of feet of logs are floated down the river; to Cohasset, where they are loaded upon cars of the Great Northern rail- way, which skirts the banks of the stream. Logging is nearing its end, although there is an ample timber sup- ply along the d its tributaries to supply dustries with material for many years ‘to come. A jy more than 100 fa mers are tributary to Cohasset, which, is the center of one of the richest and‘ largest agricultural belts in Northern ‘Minnesota. In addition great bodics of iron ore have been found from one iand a ha!f to three miles from Coha: set, an extension of the Canisteo ¢ ‘These will be developed short! ‘so that the town ¥ have lumber? woodworking, farming and mining sfurther its growth. So many beauty spots there are this northern country that it is to praise one above another. ‘itself is beautifully located and ‘turesque on all sides and nearby river and jake scenes which have 1 ‘photographed for picture postals, w are being sold all over the country ‘upon their loveliness. This section is, becoming more and more a summer re- sort for people from a distance. Many ‘Dienic parties come from all parts of the Mesaba iron range to Cohasset, Where they board steamboats and launches for trips up the Mississippi and into Pokegama lake. Here pretty: launches and rowboats always ready for hire. Cohasset’s population is about 700. ® Neariy one-third that number of men are employed here at this time, the dullest season of the year in lumbering. Sew towns anywhere of its size enjoy its monthly payroll. The hardwood factory is running only about half its capacity, yet its payroll is $5,000 a month and it pays out more than that good for the most part and the rest {s;Its nearness to the high-priced markets being improved. To the north is the| of the iron range is a big factor in Bass lake country, reached by a road|favor of agriculture in this section, amd one of the reasons why the coun- try is being settled faster than ever before. If anything, the Cohasset coun- try is getting more than its share of | business operations, have put it into! the immigration that has set in to- in hard Cohasset —Photographed for The Duluth Herald by 0. E. SCENE Johnson, Grand Rapids ON THE SHOR GH ae JUST BELOW POKEGAMA are 2 ITASCA PAPER