The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-23
EXPANSIVE WORK
IN CROOKsTON CITY
ACTIVITY OF THE TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND CLUB AND OTHERS.
New Dam Twelve Miles from the City
to Furnish Cheap Power-Agricul-
tural Committee of the Board of Re-
gents Visits and Compliments the
State Experiment Farm-Good Roads
Agitation. ..a
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. Er.e." Ike
Crookston, Mimi. June 2S.-Notwfthstandin
somewhat unfayorable crop conditions. intense
activity exists in commercial and financial cir
cles and Crookston Is enjoying an expansive
movement. New business blocks are being built
on almost every street and residences are spring
ing up.
Inc Work OF the recently organized commercial
cub Is becoming evident in several manufac-
turing plants headed toward the city. This will
mean the advent Of several hundred families
AT the present time about 100 new residences
are either under erection or have been con-
traeted for and before the middle Of July it is
estimated that this number will be doubled Ev-
cry business block in the city is occupied and
several new enterprises are waiting patiently
for storeroom
The power and electric light plant is making
plans for extensive improvements and in the
next sixty days Will begin work on improve
ments that will give this city sufficient power
to compete with any city in the northwest. 1t
| Is promised that factories and manufacturing
| plants using power will be furnished 1t at the
same price as is now being enjoyed by electric
power-users in Buffalo, N. Y. An immense dam
is to be built twelve miles northeast of the city
which will add many thousand horsepower to
the capacity.
State Experiment Farm Visited.
regents Of the state university has visited the
state experiment farm located north Of this
city and made a thoro investigation. The com
| mittee was highly pleased. t-
| Special attention given to the proposed
| drainage work, plans for which have been drawn
on rather extensive scale and met with thu
approval Of the committee. The work will bt
under the supervision Of John T. Stewart,
United States engineer, and it is the intention
| of the authorities to make the farm an ohjec
lesson to all owners of farming land in this sec
ton. Drainage is becoming more and more
necessity thruout the Red River valley ant
| farmers will be able to get the very best idea
and instruction from the state farm as soon a.
the plans drawn up are completed. The com
mittee at Its session this afternoon decided
unanimously that a complete system OF till
drainage outlined in the plans should b.
adopted and instructed Superintendent Robertson
to purchase the tile at once and advertise TO
bids for laying it.
The superintendent further compliments
on the work he had accomplished in this section
in behalf of good roads. The roads leading from
the farm to Crookston and in other direction
have been leveled and at the present time com
pare most favorably with the best roads In tn
| state. The superintendent has the backing o
the Twenty-Five Thousand Commercial club o
this city In this work and before the summe
has passed this section will be covered with
network of good roads. radiating fron
this city to all the small towns within a radiu
of fifteen to twenty miles.
Raising Fund. d
Funds are being raised by the club for thi
work and its efforts are meeting with an en-
thusiastic response from the business men. In
II club is also having built a.. large number Q
i split-log drags WITH which to keep the roads Il
u good condition and property owners on the out
skirts Of the city and along the princ1pa
| streets leading to the business center are MAXIM
| plans to keep these drags in use.
Those who visited the school were: B. K
Nelson Of Minneapolis, Governor G. E. Rice Q
Wilmar, E. w. Randall Of Hamltne, secretar
Of the State Fair association, and 8. G. Con
| stock of Moorhead.