Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-09-15


& st. P. and other lines that would
be crossed hy a continuous line in
sOuthwesterly direction, but as the
parties interested in this road arenOt
building the road for speculation as a
railroad independent oflocal interest
90 special efforts will be made to ex-
tend to the far southwest if cheap
freight rates can he secured over other
roads. The object is to make Morrison
county independent of one system; to
give it the advantage of several sys-
TENS and this can be best done by a
line Of road controlled by parties
whose interests are tied up to a great
extent with Little Falls and the sur
rounding territory. It's well known
that no place dependent on one line
OF railroad can get remark able freight
rates. No arrangementsca can be made
can be handled by no other road. 1t
knows that it can ask it's own prices
and get them.
It is we'll known that when the
Pine Tree Lumber company located
in Little Falls another road was ex-
pected to come in but none has come
and several paying manufacturing
plants have been lost to Little Falls
and Morrison county for want of an
other railroad system. Since the
present saw mills We're built the COM
pany owning the mills have pur-
chased more pine than it had when
the mills were built and the present
mills were built simply to cut the
pine then owned by the company.
The capacity of the mills will have
to more than be doubled in order to
! cut the pine now owned by the COM
pany but these new mills can
not be built in Morrison county un-
less we can get more railroad ad-
vantages.
The Pine Tree Lumber company
has too keen an eye to business to
y
business in Mon rison county to
simply help out the N. p. R. R. Co.
The new mills, unless a new railroad
can be secured, will go to st. Paul or
Minneapolis but will be located
here and also other factories
that are in contemplation in case we
get Il new road. This is the reason
why that company wants a road
that can be controlled by parties
who are interested in our city OF
county and yet the cost of such q
road is too much for the company
and parties interested to undertake
to build without some aid. 1t is 6
!, matter that will benefit everybody
, interested in this section of country
and some aid to such an enterprise il
, certainly deserving. 1t is not a bur
! den thrown upon the country; it il
simply all investment and one thai
will repay ten fold. Let a city of 10,
, 600 to $4,000 people grow up here ant
other roads will come simply for th'
! business they can get and withou
e aid. With a thriving manufacturing
city here the inevitable result will b.
} a road running from Little Falls il
an easterly direction to the south o
Mile Lac Lake and on to Duluth ant
! Superior and also an extension in ,
nOrtherly direction on the west side q
the Mississippi into the northern par
Of the state tapping the iron regions
Such extentions are the natural re
; suit that will arise from an industria
centre at this point. The advant
! ages are SO great that they canno
afford to he let slip from our hold
In the Southern part of our count,
are large forests that could sool
Z yield to the ak and saw The;
{ would find an outlet that would pa,
e for taking the timber from the Ian,
e and soon would follow fields ofgrail
where now the timber stands. I
e large amount Of this land that i
now vacant would be occupied all,
increase in value and contribute it
y quota to fixing up the roads an,
t making them more passable. Othe
D localities also will receive advantage
. in the direction of more rapidly sci
u Ting up. All these tend to lessen tn
' burden of taxation and when tn
e word taxation is used here it doe
I not simply signify having so muc
g money in the county treasur
every year, there is another taxatie
J. on the man who resides in TIL
= country that is more than the tax h
pays to the county treasurer. Tfl
y farmer who travels over a bad roa
e 10 or 20 miles to his market plae
Ie takes several hours more in which t
< do So Hauls a smaller load, wear
his wagon more. works his teal
harder and makes life more mise
~ able to hiluself. - .s-<
Y. The more thickly our county
8 settled the better will be the cond
" tion OF every thing and we shou1
- seek to better our condition nov
We cannot afford to wait and say
= will come sometime even if we d
" not exert our selves. The man
ge these days who does not exert hiI
r. self might as well not be and tt
same to a large extent is true of
community. We want these il
s proyements in our day. Why is
ic, that t,,e oh 70 w,lest and hest bnsine
to men and especially those who a