The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-11-09
.BALk LAKE SHORE STREET
Property Owners Make Proposed High
F way Impossible, Reports Torrance.

Bemidji will not have the pro.
posed new street along the shore of
Lake Bemidji. At a recent meeting
of the city council Mayor Parker,
City Attorney Torrance and City
Engineer Stoner were appointed a
committee to report on the posi-
bility and practicability of establish
ing such a highway. Mr.. Torrance
prepared and presented the follow.
ing report to the council on Mon.
day evening.
AS members of a committee ap.
pointed by you to investigate as to
the feasibility of the establishment
of a highway along the shore OF
Lake Bemidii from the Mississippi
River to the foot of Third Street to
take the place of the present estab.
lished highway to Mill Park Add.
ton. we respectfully report:
The Minnesota & International
Railway Company has offered to
grant to the City a permanent ease.
ment along Lake Bemidji for a high.
way so far as their right-of-way is
concerned, but only on condition
that the present crossing of Bemid il
Avenue over their tracks be vacated.
The Townsite Company owns a
piece of land between Third Street
and the right of way of the M. & I.
about 40 feet long, and shows no
disposition to give US highway rights
along that strip, and that portion of
the proposed highway would have to
be secured by purchase or condemna-
ton.
The railroad company further
states that in case they granted the
city a permanent easement for a
road along the lake shore that they
would provide in their instrument of
conveyance or easement that in case
they wished to enlarge their present
yards and it became necessary to ex-
tend the highway out further into
Lake Bemidji, that the city would
have to stand ready to so move it
at its own expense.
I'VE find that owing to the fact
that Bemidji avenue has for years
been the established channel of
traffic from Mill Park, Nymore and
that portion of territory tributary to
the city on the south, much opposit-
ion would be raised to the closing of
the present crossing over the M &
aud the Mississippi river, and the
city would have a right to expect
very serious opposition to the vaca-
ton of any portion of Beltrami ave.
nue..
The cost of establishing this
highway, which would include filling
in of the lake along the right-of-
way of the M. & I. the purchase of
the right-of-way along the townsite
company's property, and the practi-
cal impossibility of being able to
vacate Bemidji avenue where it
crosses the railroad, compels US to
report that we consider it inadvis.
able to attempt to change the
present highway at this time.
The change in location of the
M. & I. depot will, in our opinion,
make the present railroad crossing
of Bemidii avenue far less dangerous
than it has been in the past, and
with comparatively small expense an
approach to this crossing could be
constructed that would make the
present highway very satisfactory
one for all those who would have
occasion to use it." -
The council accepted the report
as final disposition of the problem
and complimented City Attorney
Torrance for the lucid and compre.
hensive manner in which the facts
of the case had been presented.
Real estate loans. No delay.
William c. Klein. O'Leary Bowser
NJ