Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-15

best character; Besides the buildings abov.
enumerated as being erected by Miller d Mac
Master, there are very many Others that viii
be put up by various parties. Among thu
| most important of these will be another hotel
to cost $4,000; three-story brick for TIT
Fergus Falls National bank; an elegant resi-
dence by Alexander Angus, the brother of tht
president of the Canadian Pacific; scboo
| house, for higher educational purposes, Il
cost $4,000; a fine Episcopal church
and parsonage; and 1t is contem
plated by the latter denomination
to erect college If the plans can be perfected
during the present season. There will be, IL
short, more buildings erected during the com
ing season than during the past two years, the
money requisite to carry out these improve
ments already definitely decided upon will
amount to over 100000. There are now
two brick yards in operation, ahd contracts
have been made for the entire years product
of each. An enterprislng brick manufacturer
eating here, as the demand will be
| great for years to come, for more
brick than several yards can
turn out. The services of all kinds of mechan
| les and laborers are in great demand, and the
need is urgent for some reliable carpenter and
masonry contractors.
| The present population OF Fergus Falls is
| about $3.50, and shows steady increase.
| This is very good business point, the stores
| arc numerous, well stocked and all command
| extensive support. At the same time there is
room for many more business houses, in every
| line of trade, as the town is really behind the
| country tributary to it in growth of population
| and business facilities. There are only two
banks, both national; their combined capital
| is Sl75, 900. This is inadequate for the bust
ness of the place, and with the great increase
folya
industry, the need for greater banking facili.
ties will be still greater. good bank with a
large capital could be started with every as
surance of vigorous business. Another re-
Quirement is daily paper. There is no place
in the northwest that offers such inducements
to an enterprising man to start live daily
newspaper. The present papers are the
Fergus Falls independently, Of which
is issued semi-weeklv, the Fergus Falls Jour.
nal, and the Normanna Banner, scandina.
visn weekly.
The various secret societies have prosperous
lodges; there are Congregational, Presby-
terrain, Episcopal, Methodist, Swedish Bap.
fist and Norwegian Lutheran churches; a
building society with half million of capital,
Intended to assist working men to build
houses for themselves, and in addition all
the usual adjuDcts OF prosperous civic life.
The town is well laid ont and there are very
many substantial buildings, notably very
handsome court house and fine graded
school building. .
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
That it is place fully abreast of the ster-
ling times in which we live may be
inferred from the fact that the entire city will
soon be Illuminated with the electric light.
The company for the purpose is fully organ
lied, and the generator and entire apparatus
are on the way from the makers. The Brush
lights the one that has been selected. There
will be three towers erected at points where
the principal streets intersect, one at the court
house and one at each of the RAILROAD depots.
Owing to the water power here the expense Of
generation will be much less than in the usual
way by steam. This electric company consists
of citizens of the place.
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.
A telephone exchange will shortly be in
operation; the requisite number, forty, have
subscribed for that purpose, and preparations
are now being made towards fitting up the
wires and apparatus.
Real estate has been steadily advancing in
value, and viii SO continue to do. There is no
better place for the investment of money in
real estate than here, as its value is true, not
a fictitious one. Messrs. Miller & MacMas-
ter, the firm already referred to, showed by
their books how constant this increase of val
Ge had been. They have more property on
their books than all the other real estate men
in the town combined. SO that their transac
tions afford good index to movements in
that kind of property One instance alone of
many they pointed out to the writer will suffice
to show the opportunities for investment. MIR.
Miller showed block OF lots, twenty-five in
all, that were purchased last August, by Allen
Maxwell, the general manager OF the Mantle
ba road, for $4,200 This property they bought
back themselve quite recently for Sl7,5U0.
This too, is no exceptional instance. It is
only Que to the fact that the demand for bust
ness and residence property is con.
stantly increasing and Learly all
property recently purchased has been obtained
for purposes of improvement. At present
city of $500, composed of energetic and pro-
gressive citizens. with eyerythiug in it's favor,
it will be but very short time ere it attains
population of double that number It has
now only merely started on its career of
greatness, the embryonic germs that have been
dormant so long, are only now awakening and
quickening into life It's development will be.
must be, rapid. Potent evolutionary forces
are at work aud with the momentum now
gathered the enlargement OF its importance
will be in accordance with the imperative con-
ditions of its rich natural endowments and the
manner in which they are being turned by the
energy of man to command results that are
only possible in country like this where the
spirit Of American energy attains its widest
expansion. Rae.