The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-05-24
BUSY YEAR
SHAPING Up

While there is no great amount of
building going on in Havre at the
present time, there is no question but
that this season or year is destined
to eclipse all former years in actual
and substantial growth and increase
of population.
AS Montana does things, the season
for building has not yet opened, but
preparations are being made for the
immediate erection of the city hall,
which is to be handsome little
and dollars and will, when completed
accommodate all Of the city offices.
1t has been planned to also establish
the free library in this building, but
during the past month there has heen
!, a good deal Of discussion on this point
and strong adverse sentiment has
grown up, many believing that Havre
should take advantage Of the liberali-
. ty Of Mr. Carnegie, as many other cit
les OF the state have done, and secure
| the ten thousand dollar donation that
may in this way be had for the city
F., and that will provide proper aaccom-
modations for the patrons who will be
| in constant attendance when the Ii
brary is centrally and pleasantly 10
Gated in building constructed for
the purpose and for the convenience
of it's visitors The fact that in Sc
| to pledge itself to raise one thousand
dollars per annum through taxation,
for the support of the library, has
been the stumbling block that in the
past has estopped move in this di-
rection; but the partisians of the Ii
brary building are contending that as
an advertisement for the city the
building will be worth that amount
every year, and that any town with
ambitions to grow and prosper must
jump at such chances; and that, be-
side, a good public library is one of
the most profitable and best appre-
ciated institutions that a town or
I city can have. The maintenance of
the library may cost each citizen a
few cents per aannum; but the bene-
fits that are received could not be
bought by each individual for many
times the individual cost.
Havre is to have booster Of a
season. That is settled.
The establishment of the coal mines
on SO extensive a basis will of itself
lie a good boost. In the first place the
establishment of the new plant will
require cash expenditure of upwards
of fifty thousand dollars, and that is
some. This will be accomplished and
the property placed in full running
order under the new conditions before
the first of September With the op-
Grafton of the property fully four
hundred men will be required, and as
these men will necessarily be coal
workers, they will have to be brought
in from other places, as Havre has
none of this class of labor on hand.
THIS number of men with their fam
ilirs will number approximately four
teen hundred people, and as every
house in the city is occupied, it ispa-
tent that there will have to be few
hundred residences constructed to ac-
co1nmodate this new popllltion. The
payroll of the mine will then be twen-
ty-five thousand Gc.la per month
and tnat is so:..t to ad to h al
leaty h; rdsome monthly payroll of
the city
hut this is not all The is no
question but that tie IA lWay comp
any has finally decided 10 immediate
ly erect its new shops, a ID that con-
st .uction will be commenced inside
or couple of weeks.
This will mean that the payroll Will
be doubled, and will also mean an
added Importance to the city of Havre
as a railway center The railway co
pany made provisions for these works
long ago by securing title to the
necessary lands, and the erection ot
the shops has only awaited the time
when the demands of the road made
their establishment imperative - and
that time has come, come in taGt, some
little time ago. AS soon as construct
ion is commenced the work will be
rushed with all possible haste so as
to have the plant completed and in
comfortable working order before the
SHOWS of winter spread their emblam-
attic mantle over bench and valley.
So there is no discounting the fact