The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

COUNTY. MINNESOTA. FRIDAY
Submitted by c. G Butler on hi.
lnew sewer contract in District No
|3H, aud by the Virginia Plumbing
e Heating Co. in the sum of $ls00
for the plumbing contract in the
new pest house building:
| NrQiais's Prosperous; Era.
/ If one were to take moving pic.
tures showing the rapidity of the
growth of Virgins the present sea.
son he would have to stay on the
job at all hours Of the day, night
and Sunday. Only one picture q
day would make skips in the film
which would look like lost cha pters
in a popular novel. There have
been towns of Mushroom charsct-
er which have sprung up in night,
and there have been other towns
which, like Topaz lust growed."
But Virginia 10 not only emulating
Topsy but is growing on a subatan,
tial basis which augers we'll for all
future, its growth being based on q
foundation of industrial activity
which insures a permanency which
is pleasing to all who have cast
their lot with us and 10 bringing
hundreds of new 9nes to the city
the present year.
Notably among these founts of in
dustry 10 the lumbering interests
of the Virginia < Rainy Lake Com
pany, and their enormous plant
in this city as we'll a. their logging
interests of which Virginia will
ever remain az headquarters. The
improvements in this plant the
present year have forced the COM
pany to provide homes for many
employees, upwards of sixty houses
being completed and under con.
struction at the present time aud it
is understood the total number of
such homes under contemplation
by the company at the present time
for erection this year equals two
hundred and four. :
This company now erects CON-
modious and modern office. build
ing, in connection with other i'm
provements at their plant, for the
accommodation Of the general
Offices Of the company, which will
shortly be removed from Duluth to
this point, and will during the com.
ing fall and winter remodel their
big new miIl-the largest in the
worldly the addition of another
band and re-saw and will also com.
pletely overhaul the comDany's old
mill, making of same a mill of
greatly increased capacity. rhese
additions promise employment to
some three hundrsh aal fifty to Eve
hundred additional men, and the
natural consequence 10 that in a
city where it is impossible to find a
house for rent at any stage of the
game the company will be- compel
led to increase. their prospective
house accommodations for en-.
ployes to a point greatly exceeding
present expectations. -.
In addition to the milling and
numbering interests Virginia 10
commencing to enjoy the fruits of
her mineral backing to greater
degree than in the earlier days of
her history, the independent COM
panies working capacity forces at
many of the snines in the district
while the Oliver company, which
has worked spasmodically in this
district in the past, evidences it's
intention of becoming far more
important factor in the city's indus
trial and commercial welfare, sev-
eral hundred men being on the
Oliver payroll at this point, while
the erection of additional homes
for employees will occupy the at.
tention of this company aud augers
tor the permanency of the improved
conditions noted.
Nor ia the building of the city
confined to the larger corporate in
terests, but on every hand is to be
seen the faith of the progressive re.
sidents in handsome homes, fully
two hundred homes being erected
this year at a cost from $1,000 to
5000 each appearing as monuments
of the faith of Virginians in the flu.
ture stability of the city of their
adoption.
The faith is well placed, and while
the Virginia of year ago may have
numbered seven thousand souls We
consider an estimate of eleven
thousand at the present date within
the bounds of conservatism, and
look forward to period five yesrs
hence when the city will. again
practically double in population.
Pastor leaders Resioaati0o.
Rev. p. o. Hanson, for the past
eleven years pastor of the Swedish
Lutheran Church, has rendered his
resignation to become effective on
November Let, after which time he