New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-07-31
No. I. The German Land Association
Of minnesota. s s..s

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By an act Of the legislaturesof Min
nesota Territory passed in Marcel
1857, VIM. Pfaender, Adolphus Fisch
er. Fred. Werner, c. Victor Bechman
Julius Fischer, Adolphus Forbriger
Charles Strobel, Louis Hoffman,!
Chas. Meininger, Louis 6robel. AL
bert Tafel, Henry Esmann, Charles
Floto. Max Wocher, their associates
successors and assigns, were created
q body polite and corporate with per
petual succession, under the name o.
the German Land Association Of Min
nesota. The capital stock of the com
pany was to be 100000 with privilege
of increasing to 100000. The asso
citation was given wide powers, with
authority to erect in the counties Of
Brown and Nicollet, buildings, mills
and other structures, together with
steam engines and all machinery
necessary for the manufacture Of lum'
Der, -four, machinery, agricultural i'm
Elements, cotton and wooden goods,
paper and all such articles adapted to
the wants of the country, and to i'm
prove for the purposes aforesaid any
water power owned and possessed by
said association. .a.s.
The association was dissolved May
-, 1859. and three years later, May
-, 1862, seven trustees were appoint
cd bv the court exercising the powers
granted by statute in regard to corpo-
rations> dissolved. s.-.
No. 2 Plat Of the Town Of New Ulm
and Additions.
The plat of the town of New Ulm
and additions, as laid out by the Ger
man Land Association of Minnesota, g."
and surveyed by c. Prignitz, surveyor,
filed April 7, 1858, provided that all
inlots with a few exceptions men
toned later) should have a frontage
of fifty feet and depth OF one hun
dred and sixty-five feet. The excep'
lions were inlots located in the blocks
forming the east and west boundaries
of the town and inlots in blocks along
both sides of Center street and around
the Public square and Court House
snuare, which lots had frontage OF
fifty-fiye feet and depth of one hun
dred sixty-five feet.
The streets are eighty feet vide,
with the exception of Broadway, Cen
ter Garden, Front and Water streets
which are one hundred twenty feet
wide. The alleys are Awenty feet
wide. The courses of Center and
parallel streets are N 551a degrees E,
S 55h degrees w, and the courses OF
Broadway and parallel streets are N
34k degrees w, and S SAN degrees E.
The outlots were of various sizes
and the regular streets OF the same
were sixty feet wide and the boun
Diary streets thirty feet wide.
The German Land Association OF
Minnesota donated the streets, alleys
parks, market spaces and public land
ing to public uses forever.
By an act of the legislature OF Min
nesota. the survey mentioned above
was declared the legal survey ant
Mat of the town of New Ulm, Jan
%, 1860.
No. 3. "Neu UIm PIONEER"
In August 1857, L. Koehne, A. II
Wagner, H. Kattmann and VIM. Pfaen
der issued a prospectus stating tina
they intended, if possible, during tn
coming fall, to issue a weekly pape
in New Ulm, under the name OF tn
"Neu Ulm PIONEER" This paper
would be independent of any party Q
CLIQUE, advocating radical advance
ment, disseminating knowledge in re
gard to the conditions of the territor
and to serve as Intermediary for tn
members of the "Ansiedlungsverein
of the Turnerbund living IN New Ulr
and other places. For this purpos
subscriptions were invited at 5000 pc
annum payable semi-annually or al
nually in advance, and if sufticie1
number of subscriptions were receive
to cover the cost of establishing tt
printing plant, the paper would (
started.
Meeting with success in their u
dertaking the paper was started ar
an agreement filed in the office OF II
town clerk shows the working a
| rangement made with Lambert Naeg
| lie and Eugen Gerstenhauer to secu
the continued publication, In
agreement made January 27, ISL