The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-04-26
MANKAro FREE PRESS.
UNION DEPOT.
THE BOARD OF TRADE COM
r1ITTEE MAKES A REPORT.


Called to Consider the Project
Special Committee Appointed to
Look Into rlankato Stone interests.
At the meeting of the board of
trade Monday Chairman An
drews, Of the special committee on
union depot, presented the following
written report:
"Io the Honorable Board of Trade:
GENTLEMEN:-YOur committee on
union depot beg leave to submit the
following report: We have had a ses-
)sion of the committee and after due
deliberation concluded to ask for a
| joint meeting of those officials of the
4 different roads entering our city, who
have power to act on questions OF this
nature. To this end the following let
tiers were sent to Supt. Spencer, Of the
Omaha line, and to the local agents of
the @. & n. w., the M. & St. L. and
the z. M. & St. p. Rys.
"'DEAR SIR:-The committee APP
pointed on union depot by the board
of trade Of this city at it's last regu-
lar session is very DESTROYS of meeting,
at an early date, those officials of
your road whose duty it is to consider
questions of this kind.
"'We feel that it will be to the in
terest of your road as well as our grow
ing city that we have an early confer
ence with them.
"'Will you kindly communicate this
message to them, and ask for an early
reply? You will much oblige.
Very truly yours
''(The above was signed by all the
members of the committee.)
"TO the chairman OF your COM
mittee an official, high in railroad
circles, made substantially the follow
ing statement: There is no doubt in
my mind but that our road will some
time take up it's track now running
through the city, of Mankato and
move it to the river front. This of
necessity will be but question of
time, but this is not the time; the
business of the road will not justify
it now. AS an illustration, said he, lin
Nov. and Dec, 1898, in the matter OF
corn alone 10000 Car loads OF this
grain passed over our road from Ne
braska, while in the fall of 1894 not
one carload passed over it from that
state.
est will cost the company S250,000
to make the contemplated change,
and we do not feel like doing that
now
Respectfully submitted,
J. W. ANDREWS,
Chairman.
JNO. N. HALL,
JOHN KLEIN,
JN6. G. NOE,
IsIDOR LONGINI."
Letters were received from f. E.
Powers and G. E. Johnson, saying
that they had sent the communica-
tion to their higher officials. Mr..
Powers said that he hoped that good
results would follow the committees
efforts.
The report was accepted and the
committee continued.
A lengthy discussion followed, in
which the proposed conference was
favored, and sthe idea advanced that
if necessary the remaining land on the
river front should be offered to other
roads and fiagmen ordered on the
crossings of the Omaha road in the
residence portion. Otherwise that
road would never do anything,
although it has been highly favored
by our citizens and has given little in
return.
M. B. Haynes reported from the
committee on Mathews Hill that there
is good prospect of getting the i'm
provement done, as the county COM
missioners seem to favor it. They pro-
pose to run road up the hill by the
side of the present one, in front of
the old Mathews place. The repair
ing of the sand road beyond will be
left to the future.
HIP. Christensen brought up the
matter of using Mankato stone by our
people, and moved that special
committee be appointed to investi-
gate the stone question.
The subject was discussed at
length, some of the members favoring
the use of Mankato stone in this city
to the exclusion of all others, and
other members taking the view that
variety of stone on our buildings is
bound to come and that it can do no
harm to our stone interests while
giving us better looking city.
Capt. J. r. Beatty explained that
the building ledge in the Mankato
quarries is under several lodges of
bridge stone and costly to get at un-
less the bridge stone can find ready
sale, which during the hard times it
has not in such quantities so as to
make the building stone ledge I'M
covered sufficiently for large con-
tracts. At Kasota the building stone
ladna iC close To the surface and Ii