Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-08-14
PlERZ

Aug. 1--we walked to the 500
depot Monday morning to see how
work is advancing, but outside Of the
gravel train with its steam shovel,
there was not much to be seen. The
carpenters and well diggers have all
gone to Vawter to finish work there,
as Mr.. Gust Sorenstahl, the operator,
informs us. He further tells us that
the road will be completed to Moose
Lake this fall. The we'll is about 25
feet deep now, but will be made
deeper yet. 1t IS IA feet in diameter
and the frame inside is ten cornered,
and cement brick will be put inside
of the frame The tank will be put
up side Of the we'll and will have a
capacity Of $500 barrels of water. The
most interesting work one can see now
is done by the gravel crew. The 500
company has bought Is acres OF land
of Magnus Rauch to be used as a
gravel pit. They are at work with
the steam shovel now, which takes up
cubic yard of gravel at a time and
nine shovels full fill Car, which is
done in five minutes. j. Borgerding
will build his elevator soon. He has
several carloads of lumber here
already for his yard He will also put
up coal shed. R. E. Brice one of
the engineers, informs US that every
effort will be made to complete the
line to Moose Lake as soon as possible.
The grading crew, under contractor
Ed. Fable, has come upon bad place
eight miles east of Waukon. 1t is a
marsh about one half mile wide, in
length Of which is not exactly known,
Sc m no al m
feet. Contractor Fable has had a
double crew working day and night tc
fill the sinkhole, but the gravel OF
ground he fills in sinks slowly as fast
as he fills in. How long 1T will take
: to fill this bog nobody knows We are
informed that the steel crew will com
mence laying rails on the other side Of
the bog to Moose Lake at once, anC
lay the rails across the bog later on.
Mr.. Brice tells us there are severa
such places along the line, but al
--~ much smaller. One at Holding
although the trains pass over same, il
constantly sinking, but very slowly
and men are at work nearly all thu
time filling up. This is an appear anct
the engineers cannot account for, bu
they think the gravel or ground tina
Is filled in spreads out as it gets dow
farther where the mo1ass is p1obabl,
softer.
NJ. Wermerskirchen is getting a fin,
omnibus built 1t will be regula
bus; same as the Buchanan ant
Columbia house buses in Little Falls
There will be room for eight, and i
crowded, for ten passengers. The bu
will make regular trips to the depot
Quite large crowd of harves
workers went to the Dakotas las
Monday. Most of them went t,
Casselton, N. d. That place seems t.
be the rendezvous tor parties from
Pierz. There are quite a few partle
living there that formerly lived il
PierZ. Those who went Monday, a
near as we could find out are: Tn
three brothers, Mike, Joe and Andrew
Kalns, Robert Wannlnger, Jo
Schubert, John WIRING, NJ. Schommer
Ed. Stuckmeyer, Louis Schebel, Jacol
Girtz and family, John Girtz, Pete
Froehllch, John Gassert, Mamie an,
Annie Eisel.
Last Monday two families coming
from Alexandria, Douglas county
passed through Pierz. They cam
with their teams over land, and vii
settle on land they own two mile
south of Onamia.
John Vertln and p Arendt of Littl
Falls, made business trip to Pier;
last Tuesday.
Harvest will be over around Pier
by the time the readers of the Herald
get this issue. Three or--four mile
north and east of here it will TAX,
three or four days longer to finish
Grain as q whole, or on an average
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