Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-11-02

ON before winter sets in. The building oI
brick, with stone facings and commentator
is in the form Of a cross, each section OF
which is 1870 feet; height Of basement Z
feet; first floor IA feet second or main floor
% feet. Heating apparatus will be in base
ment county Offices on first floor; court
room, judges room, jury rooms, etc, on
second floor. From ground 10 final tho
height will not be far from eighty feet, and
when completed the building will he an on
nament to the central position it holds In rc-
1 lation TO the general plat of the city.
twas with no small difficulty that the qdp,-
ton as to where the fair grounds should b,
was settled, but il was settled right in ,hc
sand midway between Camphollville and the
head of Chisholm street. 4 forty acre tract
4 lying partly on the river was purchased,
/ fences built, adequate buildings erected, and
this year the work of making a half mile
( track was pushed with such vigor that now
right in the midst Of that sand, where 10 Is
sand under sand sand over sand and sand
everywhere, is rs solid, serviccable and
/ lively a track, sixty-siN feet wide, and
graded to n demonstration in accordance
with the rules of American lyOttiug tracks as
can be found in Michigan. Clay 20 the depth
Of about two feet was spread all over the
track, the most Of il having been hauled
some two miles This upon the sand with
the little sand that mikes in at the surface,
makes as firm foundation and as comely o
lob as can be shown anywhere in the track
building business. The cost Of all this, as
shown in the expenditures Of both agricul-
society and trotting association is s., 200, be-
sides private expenditures for SHEDS, etc, and
it is worth the money for the grounds are
within walking distance of the business por-
ton Of the city, and within its corporate linz
it,, so that police regulations are always easy,
are quite rs comely and far more convenient
than those for like purposes Of any city
in Northeastern Michigan.
A brick school house has recently been
built in the Second ward, which, when tom-
pleted, will cost $4,000, and an addition to
the Third ward school house is being made
which will cost 81 800.
And now they all hello from Poster,
dock to Trowbridge Point, from Campbell
Vile to water works, from the steamboat
landing TO the cemetery, and from Bolton a
McRae's TO the mills on the gulf The line
is an easy-going institution--no shrioking re-
quired rs between Bay CITY and Saginaw
Citv-has forty-two stations already within
the charmed hello" and more expect TO
hear the gratifying announcement: al
right go ahead in a few days.
For water power this is the hos, place and
as We should remark, don't YOU forget il,
more sharper Up at the water works the
superintendent sits in a chair with hi, feet
on box, the water six inches deep all over
the floor and drinks 'alf an 'alf-half lake
water and half river water-out of cu
glass goblet, while the birds and beasts of
which he has scores of splendid specimens
he is a taxidcrmist as well a. water sprite
hook on to the shelves and machinery all
about that Aquatic machinery hall, Il Is
not ever thus he saws. Last spring there
was q variation whereby there was more
water, and the ice cold fluid from up river
stood three feet deep on the main deck, rush
ing in and out both windows and doors, and
the quite piston engine and the pondcrous
rotaries slipped and slid, Numbered, Spa,tcr-
cd and Spurged day i'm and night out i'm a sit.
uation Of utter submergency. Now they are
putting on an upper story, not for the pur-
pose Of carving this machinery and their
operators up TO a high place, but to cstab-
lish therein an electric light machine which
is also to be run by water power. Last spring
this water got the better Of the dam, tore
away about three acres of sand, and upset
things generally. friend explained all
about how this innocent fluid got the start Of
man, made in the image Of his Maker, who
so dotes on his power to master the elements,
how il need not have been thus, and hus,
and thus, and thus, and finally he remarked
that's all know about the dam business. and
that's what's the matter with Ephraim.
Under the head of improvements We note
merely, hoping to give more elaborate men,
ton Of the structure in another letter. the
fact that the foundation is now completed Of
a Catholic church which is destined TO be ono
Of the finest buildings in the west. The
walls arc 10 be built entirely of Alpena
limestone front 10 be of cut stone; cost es-
Limated all the way from twenty 10 forty
thousand dollars.
Alpena is reaching out into the bay for
such privileges, dock room and harbor
grounds she is reaching out into the suhur7 &.
ban localities in the vicinity 10 regenerate
he sand and reclaim the marshes she is .
reaching over into the Dominion Of Ontario /
Tor fish and timber and people TO come and
improve her farm TERRITORY, for laborers in /
the woods, the mills and the workshops
she is reaching out to help the suffering peo-
pie in the burned district OF Huron pcninsu-
Ia; she is reaching for the trade Of the ports
in the immediate vicinity with an enterpris-
ng steamboat line, whereof the lively passen-
ger yacht Golden Eagle is the pioneer craft I
,he is reaching for n railroad to connect with T.
The railway system of the country, and we
nave il from the very best of authority that
,he is soon to CATTLE that said railroad she .
S reaching for population, prosperity, posi-
ion and prestige, and she is liable to win al
III points.
Details of some of the business will be .
'ound under the head of Clogs and lumber"
other points will be made later, az we can
classify this and other shore information, but
he chief thing to be considered by those
titles further south which have in times past
aiken pride in the fact that she was measur- .
lbly tributary to them or some Of them, is .
hat through the energetic development of /
ier resources by her own people, she can now .
20 sturdily stand alone. Not metropolitan /
lirs 50 much as metropolitan realities Is .
what she is assuming, and there is no one to .
question her deserved prominence financially .
md her leading position rs a commercial and .
city.
She has gown in spite Of her situation in .
ipite Of herself, in spite Of her founders, who
Is a rule never looked for a destiny more glor-
Gus than-that of n moderate numbering viii
age and who regarded the man as little less .
han lunatic, who, ten years ago said she
would sometime attain population of ten
thousand pioneers. Keen, Intelligent, obscry-
ny business men who might a few year.
lgo have taken their pick of the choice sit
iations at any price, arc now paying FOR
ony situations for residences prices that
would not be materially "of'' in Bav CITY
nd tIis IL yrao;sal,, ne I, abouId H.. fTL.ro