The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-08-10
MAKE CONCESSION To
MIL WAUkEt COMPANY
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Monday evening, Will the Milwaukee
people OF the Second ward on tie
Other. when the htoCkynrah question
VITA again tiireshcd out ana "a def.
iile conclusion WAS agreed upon, 20
that hereafter hostiiitlcs will ease.
Aldermen Hardly McDousall.
Miehcls, Walrath. Reeves, Winsor
and McCaitncy yer present during
he evening session. which was pre-
sided over by Mayor Hitchcock. The
minutes were read by Auditor len
sent. and which stood approved.
Superintendent Collins, Agent
shelby and Attorney Preston were
AT the meeting to present the case
of the Milwaukee company. In
speaking for the company Mr.. Pres
ton said that he did not want the
council TO feel thai the company was
at all ovcrbcarinE. ]diCtatorial or ar
bitrary in the matter of the stock
yards: that the citizens and the rail-
road company had always been har-
monious in their relations and that
the company vas dcsirous of keeping
them so. MIR. Preston stated that
their object in coming before the
council was to ask II. slight conces-
sion concerning the removal of the
stockNards forthwith as the recently
adopted ordinance made it necessary.
He said the company had tried on
severe occasions to secure other
property tc -amove the yards. but up
to the present time they had found
nothing that was suitable. Plans,
he said. had been made to empve
the wares a short distance down on
the Sioux City line, and the company
was prepared to spend about $4,000
to put in good yards. but an objec-
tion was raised, and they had to hunt
anohcr site. To move the yards out
liz the immediate vicinity Of the sew
err would not be much better, MIR.
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.,
I9l2, to have the present site clear
ed OF the present in%cumbrance In
the meantime MIR. Preston said the
company would double the exertion
toward keeping the yards clean, and
ne felt that during the winter sea-
sou there would be little or no odor
arising from the yards.
i. j. Spangler appeared before the
council in behalf of the citizens of
the Second ward, and presented al
strong protest against the granting
OF any such extension. He said the
people in that section of the city had
put up with the nuisance of the odor
and the noise from the yards for
Years, but not until within the past
year or two had they made much OBJ
to them He declared that
the conditions down in the vicinity
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
the conditions until the Off
rials came face to face with a propo-
which they were bound-to re-
spect.
Mi. S%pangler said he, could not
understand why the Milwaukee com
pany should be given any more con-
ccssion about moving their yards.
they had been declared a NUS
ance by the council, than was ac.
corded the Mitchell Power Co, or the
Oil Co., when both wer,
!equired to remove their plants at
safe distance from the residence
section. and he felt that the. Milwar-
Scc company was much better able I
o stand the expense of removal than
sither of the local companies. Mr.. {
Spangler expressed the opinion vigor- t
that the people Of the Second
ward were entitled to some consid
ration. and in that they had suffer. )
ID the nuisance for so long, ~and in ,
as the council had declared
he Yards a nuisance, he felt it would
re a great injustice to the people tt
low rescind the action and permit I
company to remain on the site
rough another year. !.
Alter the two statements had beer !
made the crossfiring began between
opposing sides. Alderman Mich. {
is from the Second ward, said that
here was a little more than a mat t
or OF dollars and cents at stake il d
he removal of the yards; that tho
eople in his ward we're entitled tt =
ave the opportunity to live there
endangering their healtl v
rom the continued offensive odor. \
Superintendent Collins was called
pom to make a few remarks, and o
aid that ali the company asked was 5
he time to get another location, that f
forts had failed to get anything at
resent. He felt very kindly dis :,
oscd toward Mitchell, and always :
ad done everything possible in his, !
forts to help the city. but, he said +
it was necessary the yards could :
g removed from the city and placed ~
here they would be of little or no :
eneft and would be the means, OF ',
cstroying a market which the in. =
stock business had been bull, =
p by reason of the bringing of SO +.
stock here for transfer ship u
tents. Mr.. Preston emphasized the :.
of possible removal of the y
T from Mitchell elsewhere and he !.
elieved that when the officials high. Y
+ up said for them to go there d
.ould be no changing of ideas on
lie subject. He said, however, that d
e did not want the statement to bt !,
in any way as a threat but y
lat it was merely an expression of
,e men higher up in railroad cir !
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