The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02
THEY HAVE HOPES
Prospects for Growth of East
MankatO Are Bright.
Residents on Fill Want Main
Street Graded Down.
[ aCk of Good Water Is One of
the, Problems.
Electric Line Will Help Out This
Pretty Suburb.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
People of East Mankato, that extern
sive plateau that is approached by as
cending the long incline of East Main
street, have great hopes for the future
of their part OF the city. Up here at
present there is very much scattered
population of eight hundred to thous-
and souls, probably on an average the
| most athletic people of the community,
as so many of them have grown used to
ascending and descending Main street
| hill. Those who do this habitually de-
clare that they do not mind it at all.
| Nevertheless, the more timid, who live
down in the lower town, are deferred
from settling up in this fresh and
healthful region, when they look upon
the long incline of seven or eight blocks
that must be assembled to get to the main
part of East Mankato from the main
part of the city.
Some agitation has been springing up
to ameliorate this difficulty by grading
down the upper portion of this HILL
rendering the incline a little longer, but
not so steep. Several property owners,
who are interested in having this done,
say they will bring the matter to the
attention of the city council next spring
Some talk also of having the street ma
cadamized, that it may be more pass
able in muddy weather.
How to get good water is another
problem that has long been studied over
by parties interested in the growth and
development of East Mankato. 1t is
| true that the question is not nearly so
serious up there as it is over on Bunker
hill, and yet there is a difficulty about
water, that tends very strongly to keep
people from locating on the plateau.
Those who live near the edge of the in
cline find it practically impossible to es-
tablish wells on their property, and for
the most part depend upon cistern wat
er When this gives out they 60 over to
the city reservoir from which they can
carry water by hand, or they get water
from the wells of their neighbors, who
are located farther from the brow of
the hill.
Those who live at some distance back
from the edge of the hill do not find it
so hard to sink wells. Many can get
plenty of good water by going down
twenty to twenty-five feet. 1t should
not be hard proposition to establish
a little water plant somewhere in this
neighborhood for the people of East
Mankato. AS yet, however, little has
been done in this direction. Many of the
people look longingly upon the public
reservoir up there and would like to
have mains laid to distribute its water
among the people of this part of the
city. This project has been agitated at
the council meetings from time to time,
but has always been opposed with the
argument that there would be INSULT
cient pressure to cause the necessary
flow.
1t is not alone for household use that
the people would like to have some kind
of public distribution of water, but for
|
of Frank Draper on East Main street
caught fire last spring and its top was
burned off, it was a bucket brigade of
women that saved the rest of it.
More important than all other wants
of the people of this community is that
| of street car line. People are building
| high hopes on the system that is now
being agitated, and have been urging
the Willard company to run line ont
through East Mankato by way of Glen
wood avenue, Bruels avenue, Dickinson
street and Guenther street Others have
raised the cry of having line go di-
rectly up Main street, using the cable
, system to ascend the grade. The peo-
pie up there claim that if East Mankato
should once be reached by car line,
its delightful climatic advantages would
soon make it the residence portion of
the city, and houses would spring up by
the score.
In the summer time it is much cool
er on this plateau than it is in the low
or town. In the winter time the breozas
up there are pretty stiff. but the peo-
pie say they do not mind them. In the
Main street cut. however. the nc { 'nr-
winter winds are biting. These wials
are not much felt at the brow of IT, Ii,
as the abrupt ascent defects the oHr
rents upward from the surface of the
earth, and these currents do not descend |
to the ground again until they have trav
ersed quite distance.
Fine Bunch of Plums.
From Saturdays Daily.
E. M. Zuel today placed in the window |