St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-31
o Beaver Lake
Lake Phalen. .
o Como Park.

scribed stock because of the belief that
it was going to add materially to the
growth of the city. There is no
doubt that the investment is good
one, but, as one subscriber remarked
yesterday: 81 can find plenty of OPEN
ings for the investment of my money
and had l been asked to place my
money in the Wood Harvester works
as pure investment l do not think |
would have done SO. Not that the in
veStment is not a good one. but because
prefer to put my money into other
channels. / look at the matter from
this point: Here is great corporation
proposed to be located in the city,
which will furnish employment for
many hundred citizens. While | care
nothing for the investment. it will,
certainly, in the end be advantageous
to me to put some money into the organ
iZation to help it along" LII this way
vast amount Of money was subscribed
to the stock of the company. and ac-
cordingly the benefit to accrue to the
city from the works will be
keenly watched. 1t largely depends
upon the success attending the w God
Harvester works that support will be
forthcoming for other enterprises
offered the city. If the benefits from
these works come below the anticipa-
lions of business men, it is manifest
that little support need be expected for
new ventures.
There is probability that the direct
ors of the Wood Harvester works are
going to have considerable difficulty in
selecting site. Five sites are being
particularly canvassed for the works
that is, five particular sites; the number
offered the directors range into hun
dredS. Every owner of few acre lots
in or near the city limits is ciamoring
for the selection of his piece of proper
ty. Outside of this general scramble
are four tracts of land, one of which is
almost certain to be selected as the
Wood Harvester site. These are:
1. Beaver Lake.
2 The Stees tract.
3. Mississippi street
T. Rice street.
$. j. j. Hill tract.
The Beaver lake site appears to be
the one most favored by the Wood
Harvester people, and on account of its
situation a terrible howl is being raised
by business men. Beaver lake is just
five miles from the city hall and court
house. 1t is situated in the eastern
part of the city, away beyond Dayten's
bluff, and is on the Omaha line. 1t is
two miles east of the East Seventh
street cable line. The feeling against
this location was forcibly expressed by
.. l.. Taylor. He said:
Against Beaver Lake
1t would be very short-sighted policy
Oh the part of the men at the head of
this mQpufapfQry tr, tOnotp on onv, of rho
outlying property. 1t would render it
impossible to awaken. enthusiasm for
any subsequent manufacturing enter
prise that might be desired. The SUBJ
ScrlberS to this concern became enthuSi-
aStic owing to the fact that it was the
expressed intention to locate the works
in the city. They did not mean by that
strictly within the corporate limits of
the city, but in such location as would
render this enterprise conspicuous,
both TO outsiders and the residents of
st. Paul. 1t is only in this way that
the full benefits of such an institution
accrue directly to a city. If this project
degenerates into real estate scheme,
all further attempts at cooperation ill
the development Of manufacturing in
duStries will be futile, and the Mime
apOliS remark will be extremely peril
nent that st. Paul has paid all her
money for one big institution, and it
will be long time before she gets any,
thing else.
This interview expresses the general
feeling of many business men and SUBJ
scriberS to the stock of the company. 1t
is thought that quite sufficient money
has already gone out of the city to build
up manufacturing suburbs, and that it
is time, if sites can be secured, that
manufactures be located in quarters of
the city where some good will be done
toward its general upbuilding. This To-
eating of factories in the woods, making
1t almost necessary for would-be visitors
to the work to procure trusted gIide
to find them, is played out-or, at least,
it ought to be. That, at least, is the
sentiment of the business men inter-
viewed yesterday. For instance, Will
Read said:
ut is absolutely foolish to go into the
farming districts to locate manufactor-
les. especially If sites can be secured
nearer the center of the city, as l under
stand they readily can. To select site
five or more miles from the court house
is not going to give the city the full ben
eft of these works. 1t simply means
this: That in the locality selected there
Will be sort of boom in real estate
This will be good for the owners; it will
stimulate trade in one section of the
city, but the prosperity of the
whole will be lacking. 1t SIM
ply means the upbuilding of
suburban district at the
expense of the city generally. / am OPP
posed to these suburban freaks. 1t is
time we paid more attention to the gen.
eral veal of the city. 1t is only money
and time foolishly wasted to attempt to
build up an unlimited number of small
manufacturing centers. Besides that is
not what we want. What we do want
is to enlarge the manufacturing import
ance of st. Paul. Here is the beginning
OF our development in this line-the Sc
curing of the Wood Harvester works.
Shall we take retrograde step and
locate these works in the woods where