Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06

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Chas. H. Vasely, of the state hoard |
Of control with offices In st. Paul,
spoke on Granite Possibi ties of Ait-
tie Fails. He said it was 3 pleasure! |!
to be with them as he saw SO many
familiar faces. He did not know what |
the ulterior motive was in giving him
a subject as hard as granite. He !
colored preacher id-an e1horta tion,
which would not require him to keep
to his text. 20. 600 people was truly
delightful thing to ntemplate. Some |
time back our citizens saw visions Of
SO, 600 population in 1910. That was !
not attained is no reason to stop fur
ther effort. The dreamer precedes the
worker. The speaker said that the
granite fields in the northeastern pnrt
Of the county were known ovAr 50 |
years ago. There els also q valuable
deposit of store for paving purposes at
what is known as the Rothwel quarry
southwest Of the city. The GRANTEES
were of all colors and +. Of superior
quality. both y for munrmental and
building work, but the great deposits
were of no value 10 the ground. The
larger part of the granite industry 1s]
labor and high priced at th21
although the stone has to he hauled
by wagon, it is nevertheless q tact tl6t
it hes been sold in forelgn maTketsin
competition with other GRANTEES and
st higher prices The black ranitoejs3
recognized by experienced stone. men
as the best monume tai granite in the
United States. Yet there are millions
of tons at our very door that is not
receiving the attention which it
should. He quoted figures showing
what large and valuable industry the
granite business was to st. Cloud,
there being paid in that city e60. 600
each month for labor in this line, and
pointed out what this extra amount
would mean in the channels of trade.
There was only one solution. There
should be some easier means to get the
product to the city where it should he
made into the finished article, the city
thereby reaping the full benefit of the
industry. He believed that the Water
Power company and citizens should
get together on the matter Of q rail-
road. That the Water Power company
was the greatest single power of initia-
tive-that they represented in SO many
ways what represented Little Falls and
her prosperity. There was every
possibility with the proper proceeding
that the one man shop now using out
side granite, would grew to an enor-
nous industry in but short time. Mr..
Vasaly also spoke OF the advantages Of
a beautiful city with parks and boule:
wards. He said IN closing that we
should remember that whatever move
ment helps one helps all, and what
helps all. helps each individual. ..s
:'Can We Repeat What Has Already
Been Done was the subject Of n. NJ.
Williams. :, He said that some things
had = been done when the city and
surroundings we're of much less popu-;
latlon and in much poorer condition in
oil respects than at present-aud there.
for 1t should be much easier to do
things now, but that it required effort
and constant effort at that. Building
the dam and sitting down. did not
bring enterprises here. In the earlier
days it would have been necessary to
have the factories located on the canal
but through the advancement IN cleo
tricity, the factories can be located
any where. If we can't get the 500 to
come in, we ought to build to the 500.
He said that Governor Pillsbury had
once told him that in time the over.
flow of small factories from the twin
cities would IN Themselves use up the
power here-and this seems to be COM
ing to pass. He said that: we must
advertise to get results, petty jealous:
les must be done away with We must
do something or this meeting might a.
well not have been held. hr.Wllliams al
so spoke OF the small amount Of improve
ment done in the park and the need Of
improvement on roads running into the
city as swell as the streets Of the city.
George Kiewel spoke on s'Is a Con
nection with the 500 Railroad POS.
sihle ~ He said that an every days
topic >waa that we ought to have an
other railroad. He stated that COM
mittee of which he was one, had called
number of times on Presidents
Pennington OF the 500 without much.
encouragement, but Of late was led to
believe that # the citizens OF Little
Falls would build the liue to connect
with the 500 that the company would.
in some way put the local people Ia
touch with financial backing to put the
latter through, and that there waenld Sc:
q division Of freight On goods brought
over the new line. S. 81 Ia said that last
spring 70 few OF the ci tizens had 4
survey made from tnescity sto the hixh
bridge at the SOD s iistapea of six
and seven tentnsAa lies s6ieh gave