The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-11-23
HINCKLEY COMMISSION
Work of the State Relief Board
Wound Up as Far as Hinckley Is
Concerned. f..
HAVE SPENT OVER $91, 900.
And Will Need $4,000 More to Put
Things in Good Shape---What
Has Been Done.


ST. PAUL, Nov. 23.-The state relief
commission has nearly completed its
labors i'm caring for tine fire sufferers at
Hinckley. Sandstone, Mission Greek.
Pokegema and the surrounding farm
ing community in Pike county, which
was visited by the great forest fire
Sept. l and Q.
At u meeting OF the commission at
Hinckley, at which Messrs. FL. Ell. Hart,
M. G. Norton of Winona, Kenneth
Clark Of st. Paul and Colonel Graves
OF Duluth were present, c. A. Pills.
bury of Minneapolis, being absent in
Europe A number Of cases were dis
posed of. and the commission
Closed Up It's Business,
SO far as Hinckley is concerned. The
warehouse will be kept open and filed
with provisions, which win be dis
tributed under the direction of George
d. Holt of Minneapolis, the agent of
the commission, who will remain there
several weeks and visit the various
houses to provide for such families and
persons as are in need of provisions.
The commission has expended all the
money in the relief fund, amounting to
something more than $9I, 900. Mr..
Hart's records and the Office at Hinck-
ley will be removed Monday. The work
at Sandstone viii be continued two
weeks longer, as it was found neces-
sary to build 40 houses instead of 10, as
figured on, and the titles were not
cleared as readily as those at Hinckley
and the other points.
More than 2,0OO,0 feet of lumber
have been used in building homes for
the fire sufferers, and 275 houses alto
gether have been built. Complete out
fits of furniture, household goods, etc.,
have been supplied to $50 families, and
instead of the 1000 people the commits
sion figured On caring for, it has fur
nished relief to 2,40O About 80 per
cent of the people are satisfied, and the
other 10 per cent is composed of people
who would not be satisfied under any
circumstances. The commission had
planned to provide farmers with cows,
wagons, etc., but found that the fund
would not reach. The commission,
after all that has been accomplish ed,
finds that it '., a.a-'s.-.- 80. I, y e .-.-
! WIN Require About saO, 900 More
to care for the destitute people, widows
and children, ETC., during the, winter,
and this sum the commission decided
to individually contribute, Trusting
that the legislature win provide for the
people in the fnture and reimburse
them for their personal expenditure
when it meets in January. The com
mission is entitled not only the graft
tude OF the fire sufferers, but the state
should be grateful for the work accom-
plished by the commission. The indi-
vidual members-all business mem
have given their time to the work with
out a thought Of compensation, nor
would they accept any IL It were
offered them. Besides their work they
have gone to considerable individual
expense. A+f"
Work in the Woods.
Kenneth Clark, treasurer of the COM
mission, said that a great majority of
the fire sufferers who are able to work
would be employed during the winter
by the iumbermen. "Mr. Norton, one
of the members of the commission,
Mr.. Clark said, "owns 100, 600, COO feet
of pine lumber in Pine county, which
must be cut off this winter Mr.. Norton
had intended to cut the timber at the
rate OF 100000 feet per year, and
Thus enough more laborers will have to
be employed on Mr.. Norton's
timber alone this winter to do
the work which ordinarily it would
hare taken 10 years to accomplish.
Norton alone has / 200 men in his en-
ploy within eight miles of Hinckley,
and the lumbermen generally will en-
ploy large forces of laborers this win
ter The Sandstone Quarry company
at Sandstone has begun operations and
will employ 100 men during the win.
ter. The Great Northern Railway
company is putting in side tracks for q
yard at Sandstone, and about 100 more
men will be employed all winter on
that work. AT present there il no one
in the burned district that we know of
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