The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-08-10
MAKE CONCESSION TO
MILWAUKEE COMPANY
'iIN ,snNtII. PERMITS TuF
COMPANY no MAINTAIN sTtaK-
NAItt,s At PRESENT Sits
lNTil MAKCH 1.

Monday evening, with the Milwaukee
company atra%ed on one side and the
people OF the Second ward on the
other. when the Stockyarus question
WAS again threshcd out ana n def
ute conclusion WAS agreed upon. so
that hereafter hosiilitlcs will cease.
Aldermen Hardy McDougall,
Michcls. Walrath. Reeves, Winsor
and Mccartney were present during
he evening session. which was pre-
sided Owe by Mayor Hitchcock. The
minutes were read by Auditor len
sent. and which stood approved.
superintendent Collins, Agent
shelby and Attorney Preston we're
at the meeting to present the case
of the Milwaukee company. In
speaking for the company Mr.. Pres
ton said that he did o want the
council to feel that the company was
at all ~ovcrbcaring. dictatorial or ar
bitrary in the matter of the stock
yards: that the citizens andt the rail-
road company had always Deer har-
monious in their relations and that
the company was DESTROYS of keeping
them so. Mr.. Preston stated that
their object in coming before the
h'N NuS w dSh ~ SlISHl cOncCS-
sion concerning the removal of the
~stockyards forthwith as the recently
adopted ordinance made it necessary.
lie said the company had tried on
several occasions to secure other
property to -amove the yards. but in
to the present time they had found
nothing that was suitable. Plans,
he said. had been made to remove
the VarCS a short distance J~v,r 49,
the Sioux City line, and the company
was prepared to spend about s3S, 900
to put in good yards, but an objec-
ton was raised. and they had to hunt
anohcr site. To the yards out
in the immediate vicinity of the sew
or would not be much better, Mr..
Preston said, as it was an undesirable
place.
What the company desired the
council to do was to make a conces-
sion concerning the removal of the
yards, and give them until Sept. l.,
l9l2, to nave the present site clear
ed of the present incumbrance In
the meantime MIR. Preston said the
company would double the cxertion
toward keeping the yards clean, and
ne 1elt that during the winter sea-
son there would be little or no odor
arising from the yards.
Il. j. S%pangler appeared before the
council in behalf of the citizens of
the Second ward. and presented a
strong protest against the granting
OF any such extension. He said the
people i'll that section of the city had
put up with the nuisance of the odor
and the noise from the yards for
years, but o until within the mast
year or two had they made much OBJ
lection to them He declared that
the conditions down in the vicinity
of the yards We're unbearable: that
complaints had been filed with him
and with the company, but that the
company had never made a move to
relieve the conditions until the Off
cials ca.rc face to face with a rope
sition which they were %bound-to re-
spect.
MIR. Spangler said he, could not
understand why the Milwaukee COM
pany should be given any more con-
cession about moving their yards.
when they had been declared a nuts
ance by the council, than was ac.
corded the Mitchell Power Co., or tho
Manhattan Oil Co., when both wer,
required to remove their plants at
safe distance from the residence
section. and he felt that the Milwau-
kec company was much better able
to stand the expense of removal than
either OF the local companies. Mr..
Spangler expressed the opinion vigor-
ously that the people of the Second
ward were entitled to some consid
Grafton, and in that they had suffer
ed the nuisance for so long, and in
asaluch as the council had declared
the Yards a nuisance, he felt ii. would
be a great injustice to the people t.
now rescind the action and permit
the company to remain on the site
through another year.
After the two statements had beer
made the crossfiring began between
the opposing sides. Alderman Mich.
els from the Second ward, said that
there was a little more than a mat
ter OF dollars and cents at stake il
the removal of the yards; that tho
people in his ward were entitled tt
have the opportunity to live there
without endangering their healtl
the continued offensive odor.
superintendent Collins was called
upon to make a few remarks, and
said that all the company asked was
tne inc TO get another location, that
efforts had failed to get. anything at
present. He felt very kindly dis
posed toward Mitchell, inc always
a done everything possible in his.
efforts to help the city. but. he said
II it was necessary the yards could
be removed from the city and placed
where they would be of little or no
benefit and would be the means, OF +,
Destroying a market which the i'm
creased stock business had been buil, :
by reason of the bringing of SO ,
much stock here for transfer ship. /,
ments. Mr.. Preston emphasized the .
point of possible removal of the !
yards from Mitchell elsewhere and he
believed that when the officials, high, '
er up said for them to 60 there q
would be no changing of ideas on
the subject. He said, however, that d
did not want the statement to be
accepted in any way as a threat but
that it was merely an expression of
the men higher up in railroad cir
p1oc tes|.