The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27

the twine factory and warehouse
buildings and the building that hous-
es the immense power and heating
plant that drives the wheels and
furnishes the heat for the entire pris-,
on; ventilating is done by means Of
the most improved system OF fans.
and is complete and satisfying. The
factory building, in which the great
massof binder Irvine machinery turns
out eighteen million pounds of Irvine
each season, is $50 #. long, Sc feet
wide and three stories high. This
building, as well as the warehouse
in which the raw material for max
ing the Irvine is stored and also the
stock of Irvine on hard, is built of
reinforced concrete, with brick walls,
and both of these buildings have the
fine sprinkling system, thus reduc-
ing the possibility of loss by fire to
q minimum and saving largely on in
surance. Space has been left for
factory buildings and warehouses
for the farm machinery department
and the erection of these buildings
awaits action by the legislature now
in session.
OFFICIAL RESIDENCES.
The plan of the board of control
is to erect Immediately to the front
and to the east Of the administrator
building adequate residences for the
warden and the deputy warden and
it is expected that provisions for the
erection of these buildings, as well
as the building for the manufacture
OF the farm machinery will be made
by the legislature now in session.
When these structures are complet-
ed and the grounds, inside and out
side the walls, are graded and other
wise improved, the prison will be
complete. The completion of the
farm machinery factory and the ex-
piration of the contract that the
state has with the Western Shoe
Company will be the signal for
general hegira from the old prison
to the new; this will undoubtedly
occur within the next two years.
AMOUNT APPROPRIATED.
The amount appropriated by the
state for the building of the prison
is $2,250,O00; the plans for the
buildings and grounds that have
been carried out are in line with the
best thought on modern prison archi-
lecture, and it is confidently assert
ed by those who should know that
the prison when finally completed
will be one of the most modern in
the United States if not in the world.
The buildings are plain, substantial
and comfortable and while all the
laws and rules for obtaining the
best hygienic and sanitary condi-
tions have been carefully followed
there has been no unnecessary or
extravagant display.
1t is confidently expected that
eventually, that Is, when the prison
ers are all at work in the new pris-
on, the business of the state in
binder Irvine and farm machinery
will amount TO the enormous sum of
three million dollars year; on
this amount of business the state
expects profit of three hundred
thousand dollars each year, and
eventually it is expected that the
state will receive back every dollar
it has expended in building the new
prison.
If worked out along this line the
benefits to The state and to the tax
payers and to the unfortunate in
mates, may be summed up as fol-
lows:
First-The state will have solved
the convict labor problem on a
broad-gauged and humanitarian bas-
is, and in more satisfactory man
ner than in any other state in the
Union, resulting in the largest de-
gree of mechanical training for the
benefit of the unfortunate convict at
the minimum of competition with
honest labor on the outside, in that
the two industries selected are not
carried on in this state.
Second-The products of this la
Dor are handled and distributed for
the benefit of the taxpayers thereof.
Third-The institution will have
built itself: the industries will have
sustained themselves during the