Telegram-herald., 1890-05-13
A SPLENDID IDEA
Members or the Valley CITY MIL
ing Company Want
4 SEB DOCK LINE ESTABLISHED
Along The River from Lsiteits "a scnass
shop 10 siKth-st-A wasts Of sGAs.
a&At watsr-1hs C0up&ny
MAKES Purchass.

Prof. c. G. Swensberg, Moresa 5.
Crosby and W. y. Rowe, composing the
Valley City Milling Company, have an
enterprlsing scheme on foot which, II
encouraged and finally carried out,
viii result n the grsndest boom that
Brdge-st. and North Canal-st. ever saw.
Last Saturday the company purchased
the o. L. Brown & Co. milling plant,
warehouse and elevator, and Is now
capable Of producing more -four than
any other concern IN the city. The
Valley city Milling Company nov owns
two mills, and their combined daily
output Will figure up600 barrels of hour
per day. The warehouses have the ca
pacity for storing 100, 900 bushels of
grain AT one time and 10, 900 barrels Of
flour.
This extensive investment, however,
Is by no means the limit OF the COM
pany's enterprise. What they want
now IS a new mill and a big one. They
want TO build Il on site which IS now
useless waste of water, Just west
OF the old mill al the east end OF the
Brldge-st. bridge. But before dong
this they want 4 proper dock line es-
tablIshed, starting at the west front or
the Leltelt machine shop, and extend
ing straight north to the east end OF the
Slxtn-st. bridge. Unless this dock line
Is established, the company Will not
build the proposed new mill. AS the
dock line is at present 10 is about as
crooked as II could be. The Leitelt
building is the only one that stands out
IN the river as far as It should, and If
the east side of the river were built up
sohdly with brick buildings extending
IN straight line TO SKth-st., the APP
pearance would be decidedly business
like.
What Prof. Swensberg, Mr.. Crosby
and Mr.. Rowe would ! Ike 10 see would
be a solid stone wall TO designate the
proposed dock line ami keep the chan
mel III a straight line The dock line
as established at present curves IN and
forms a sort of bay in front of the Val
ley City Milling Company's property.
during the summer season the water
along the bank is only about SIX inches
deep and at times there IS no water at
all. 1t resembles a frog pond more
than anything else. Covered with
green scum and reeking with filth it is
a regular hot bed for malaria and
typhoid fever. If stone wall should
be constructed straight from the Leitelt
building to the Sixtl-street bridge, TINS
property could be and would be, filled
up and built with solid brick
buildings. BY the riparian right,
all property owners on both edes
of the river own to the. middle of the
stream, but land that IS covered with
water, of course Is not assesSable for
taxes, nor, IN that condition, is it OF
any value to anybody. II the wall
should be built, and the intervening
space between it and the river bank
filled in with earth, the city would
acquire many acres Of taxable property
along the line, and the taxes on prop
erty rendered so valuable by beng
centrally located, would amount
to great deal TO the city.
The land now occupied by
the TELEGRAN-HERALD building, Pike
block, Tower block, and many other
surrounding blocks. was once a waste
of water, IN fact the old steamboat
channel extended as far rs Campau
square. Long ago this space was filled
III and built upon, and Is now reck0Eed
among the most valuable property IN
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