St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-01
HARVESTER WORKS SITE
AT the Back OF Large Real Es-
tate Deal


One of the largest and most important
deals in realty that has taken place in
st. Paul for years was that maze Sat
urday of last week, when a syndicate
composed of gentlemen of prominence
in real estate circles purchased from
ex-Gov. Ramsey thrty-iye acres lying
and being i'll the northeast quarter
of southwest quarter OF section
90, town 20. range %. The
transaction is important, as bearing OH
the location of the great Wood har-
vester works. for there can be no queS-
ton but this purchase was based on the
strong probability that the Wood COIN
pany would select site in the Imne-
date neighboriood of the property re-
| ferred to- The Ramsey piece bought by
the syndicate lies Immediately west OF
of Cavalry cemetery, being bounded at
its western end by Victoria street and
on the south by the Great Northern
road. 1t is not definitely known who
made I'D this syndicate. but the names
of Samuel Sloan, L. Il. Kavanagh and
William Golden have been mentioned
in connection with the deal, and no
doubt the gentlemen are the moving
spirits in the enterprise.
At the time when efforts were being
put forward to secure the Wood Har-
yester company for st. Paul one OF the
strongest advocates that the city pos
sessed was James }. Hill, the president
of the Great Northern road. Not only
did he devote his time and that lndom-
table energy so characteristic OF the
man to the bringing to a successful
issue the project. but he was the largest
contributor to the stock, as an incentive
tnua rdc cnnttrinU fine pri1a Resides he
made personal visit to HooSick Falls,
n. T., and labored aSsiduously with the
officers Of the Wood company to bring
to a successful issue tue project i'll
hand. The ultimate result shows with
what effect ne labored. Mr.. HIPS OBJ
Iect in his endeavor to allure the big
company here was two-fold: First, to
give an impetus to the manufacturing
interests of st. Paul, and second, in the
event of the company coming
here, to have it locate its plant
on site in close proximity
to the Great Northern road, which will
thereby reap rich harvest i'll the car
rying freight.
Putting all these facts together. it is
as near a certainty as anything can be
plant of the Wood Harvester company
will at a no distant day be located on
site in the immediate vicinity of the
property purchased by the syndicate.
1t is not reasonable to suppose that gem
tlemen of the capacity Of those compOs
ing this syndicate would expend $4,000
for that is the price paid for the thirty
five acres referred to-in the purchase
OF piece of realty abutting Calvary
cemetery merely as lucrative invest
ment III the present state of the real
estate market. There must be another
motive not apparent to any one
but those directly concerned, and
that motive will be readily understood
when the Wood company locates its
plant. The purchase of these thirty
five acres has been kept very quiet by
all parties concerned in the deal, the
intention of the syndicate being, no
doubt. to buy up all the property out in
that neighborhood, and that before the
fact of the locating of the site is settled
definitely and the fact becomes known
to all. Just the exact site that will be
chosen has not been learned. There
are three pieces lying almost midway
between the tracks of the Great North
ern and the Northern Pacific roads con-
tanning so, 40 and 40 acres respectively,
and these pieces or others adjacent will
without question be chosen as the site.
Mr.. Hill holds the key to the situation.
and at the proper time will press the
button and the harvester company will
nestle down IN the vicinity referred TO.