The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27
Let the Ranges Speak.

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The Herald has already expressed
its approval of the action of the
Duluth Commercial club in APP
pointing a committee to wait upon
the county board and see if it can
not be started upon the work Of
building a courthouse upon down
town site. The Herald believes
that new courthouse is needed,
that there are funds enough in
hand to warrant beginning the
work now, and that the people of
the county are in favor of a down
town site.
The Herald believes, too, that
such action as this by the CONNER
cial club is the sort of thing that
will lead to early action on the part
of the board, which has not of late
shown a disposition to take up the
matter. Therefore it would sug-
gest, since this is a county matter
and not a Duluth matter, that it
would help some if the commercial
organizations and the newspapers
of the range cities would take the
matter up and use their efforts to
procure action on the part of the
county board. This body is elected
by the people to do its work, and it
should readily respond to an un-
mistakable expression of public
opinion.
The only debatable question in
the whole affair is that of location.
The Herald believes in a downtown
site. 1t knows that vast prepon-
derance of the people of Duluth
believe in the downtown site. 1t
has reason to believe, also, that the
range people believe in the down
town site. Its suggestion would be,
therefore, that if that is the case the
commercial bodies of the range and
its newspapers take action to show
TO the county board that such is
their belief.
Range visitors to the city who
have business at the courthouse
have but limited time in which to
transact it. Even with a downtown
site they would have to keep NOV
ing. The present site involves
street car trip which adds to the
time taken up by their errands ad.
ditional time needed to wait for cars
or to walk. 1t would appear to be
even more to their advantage than
to that of the Duluth people to
have the courthouse conveniently
located downtown.
II this is the case, and the range
people take such action as they
may to show it. The Herald be-
lieves that work upon the new
courthouse will be much expedited.
Duluth Hetald.
Responsive to the appeal of the
Duluth daily, the Enterprise feels
constrained to state the feeling of
the range people as we have heard
it expressed relative TO the new
court house proposi,ion-that they
don't care whether or not St. Louis
county erects new court house or
whether it be erected on the present
court house site, on downtown
site, on Minnesota point or in the
pietV end of the CITY,
The interest of the united ranges
is for the division of St. Louis
county and the erection of county
buildings at any point the majority
may see fit to designate as the
county seat of the new county.
And the matter of county divi-
sion completely overshadows the
momentous question of whether or
not the Duluth CRATER shall be
given another opportunity to make
an ever-desired haul from the tax
payers.
The ranges pay two-thirds of the
taxes of St. Louis county, and
when the ranges have spoken, as so
generously requested to do by Du-
luth's evening paper, the opinion of
the major portion of the taxable
interests of the county may be re-
corded.
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