The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-07-07


create very valuable water power.
1t is estimated that from eight to
ten thousand horse power can be de-
veloped at this dam.
By means of these storage reser-
voirs, the discharge of the Mime
sofa can be, to large extent. equal
lied and made quite uniform during
the year. This will result in giving
the greatest efficiency to all water
power plants developed along this
stream. 1t is estimated that about
two thousand horse power can be
created at the Lac qui Parle reser-
voir dam, that from ten to twelve
thousand horse power will be made
possible at Granite Falls and from
eight to ten thousand horse power
can be created at the reservoir dam
which it is proposed to construct i'm
mediately above the city of Redwood
Falls, or total of from twenty to
twenty-five thousand horse power in
all.
United States government ex-
perts estimate that this horse power
when developed, should be worth at
least $40 per horse power per annum.
This means value of 100000 per
year for the power that would be
made available on the Minnesota
river when the plans of.the state are
eventually worked out. 1t means
more than this-it means that the
Minnesota river can be used as a
public highway of commerce, that
navigation can be carried on as far
up the stream as the city of Red
wood Falls at least, and may in the
future, be carried on throughout
the entire length of the Minnesota,
the Big Stone and Lake Traverse
waters and the Red River of the
North, giving us a thorough water
way from Winnepeg by Redwood
Falls and St. Paul down the Mississ-
ippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
1t is hoped that plan of cooper
alton between the state of Mime
sofa and the federal government
will be agreed upon at an early date
under which the improvement of
the Minnesota, as | have outlined,
will be worked out.
Secretary Clausen. of the railroad
and warehouse commission, has CIV
en- me considerable of his, time, as
we'll as the time Of large number
of his employees in preparing a ver-
flied statement showing the bushels
of grain shipped from points in the
Minnesota river valley on the Mil
waukee, Omaha. Northwestern and
Minneapolis & St. Louis railroads.
Please understand that these are
points actually in the valley, extend
ing from Appleton, as far as Belle
PLANE and Shakopee and including
towns like Granite Falls, Franklin.
Henderson, Redwood. exclusive of
Redwood Falls, Montevideo, St.
Peter and other smaller towns. This
classification does not include the
wheat that was grown tributary and
sold to the mills at Mankato, New
Ulm, Morton and other towns, and
when we pause to consider that prac-
tically all of the grain raised around
these towns was sold at those mills,
the figures that l am about to give
you will be comparatively small as
to the actual product. AS an illus
tration of the latter statement, the
elevators at Morton turned over to
the St. Louis railroad companies for
shipment, only 16,367 bushels, when
as a matter of fact, it is estimated
that the Morton road received at
least 100000 bushels. The state
ment prepared for me shows that
1,139,472 bushels of wheat were
shipped from these various points
twenty-three in number, during 1908.
5.498 bushels of corn; 267, 587 BUSH
els of oats; 87.O21 bushels of rye;
276, 456 bushels of barley; 108.523
bushels of flax, making a grand total
of 1884 ,557 bushels, of which the
railroad and warehouse commission
has record of being shipped from
these points.
With the wheat that was sold to
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