The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-20
A BUSINESS D[O(k
TO BE ERECTED AT ONCE BY
LOCAL CAPITALISTS. PETER
DUHAME!, CORBlN
MORSE AND MICHAEL QUINN IN
THE DEAL. PRESSED STONE
Or BRICK BUILDING.

Or BRICK BUILDING.
Immediately following the rather
sensational news a week ago that
Peter Duhamel had handed in his
resignation as vice president of the
First National Bank which resulteA
in considerable street talk in
financial circles, came the inteli-
gence that n company was that day
organized which purchased the va
cant lot on the corner of St. Joe and
Sixth street The consideration for
this corner was $4,000, for 1900
square feet. This syndicate is made
MP OF the following well-known capi-
talists: Corbin Morse, Eugene Hol-
comb Peter Duhanel and Michael
Quinn. While there has been many
wild ramora and wilder speculations
as TO the Withdrawal of Mr.. Duhamel
from his Office in the First National
bank, but little is actually known.
1t is reasonable to suppose, however,
that Mr.. Duhamel may have, by rea-
son of his advanced years, desired to
get away from the responsibilities
resting upon his shoulders of bank
vice president and so resigned that
he might attend to outside business
interests claiming his attention
However, that may. be, and however,
st, IL
essay TO paint the story, the business
of the banks of the down town dis
trict is going on just the same with
perciptible gains daily in every line
Of business and Greater Rapid City
is making good the newer name that
the Union gave to it nearly six
month ago. Those who have bust
ness 10 do in Rapid City. are just
now going about it--too busy to lis
ten to the siren call of anything
against the progress OF the new
town which just now is growing
healthy without any particular
watching
Those who have desire to make
d lHOuhCdIH Out Ol IL iilolG NIL III
this mans town had better get a
rear seat somewhere, and get them
selves into "a recrpnbent positions,
Rapid City is growing, and there is
no retrograding, no backward steps,
here in Rapid City, but this is wan
dering from the story that is here
to be told.
This company will begin at once
the erection of two-story build
ing on the site above mentioned to
be made OF pressed stone or brick,
as the plans may call for, which
Mr. Duhamle is this week having
made in Omaha. 1t is understood
however, that the block is to be err
ected will be of a character of the
most substantial kind, and that it
will occupy the entire corner, and
will be 90X140. The building will
be used by its builders and the CONF
pany for the sale of agricultural
implements and kindred supplies for
farmers. 1t will be built, however,
in such manner with plate plass
front on both streets, so that it will
be adapted to any commercial pur-
pose. In other words it Is to be
modern III every respect. Since its
locality is in the east part of the
city, will be contingent to the com
munity. The Rapid City Implement
company, who are getting their
large warehouse nearly completed
IN the west part OF the city near the
Northwestern freight and passen-
ger depot, will no doubt become the
transfer house, and take care of the
trade from the west and north roads
leading to the city. Hereafter there
need be no complaint nor excuse for
any FARMER within /. radius of one
hundred miles OF Rapid City in not
NEst and solyth agricultural com4
coming to the big city of the Hills
to trade, where there is lively com
petition, which the shrewd farmer
well knows is the life of trade. Let
it be understood that there is no
combines, no trusts i'll any line of
trade in Rapid City. Everything is
legitimate, and each line of trade
must stand on its own merits. This
means that Rapid City is the place
to trade, the place to buy, the place
TO sell. Watch the newspapers for
the live advertisers. Watch the
new implement houses. Watch Rapid
City grow!
President Nccd!lam to Solicit.
Following the endorsement of the
movement by President Roosevelt,
President Charles w Needham, Of
George Washington university, has
appointed Dr.. Richard d. Harlan, so
OF Associate Justice Harlan of the
United States Supreme Court, and
former president of the Lake Forest
College, to carry, direct to the coun-
try at large an appeal for subscrip-
tions to the endowment fund with
which IT is hoped to place the uni-
yersity on the broad national plane
that the first president had planned
President Needham has made tenta-
tive arrangements for DR.. Harlan to
visit practically every large center