The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-11
FIRST ADDITION
VACATION DENIED
Bailey Lumber Company Sue
cessfully Opposes Matter
Before Council.

The Bailey Lumber company, rep
resented by Attorney Fryberger of
Duluth successfully opposed a peti-
tion of the North and South Side Land
company presented to the city coun-
Gil Tuesday evening asking for the
vacation Of the streets and alleys in
the first addition to- Virginia lying
north Of the north line of Balsam
street and east Of the east line 81
Wyoming avenue. The vacation de-
sired is Of streets and alleys travers-
ing residence property under which is
located the Columbia mine of the
Jones & Laughlin interests, on which
it was proposed to begin development
work looking to the operation of the
property as an open pit mine.
The opposition Of the Bailey Lum-
ber company was based on the con-
tention that property which it owns
in the Territory affected and on which
at present is located its barns, a
portion of it's stock yards and other
property would be damaged for future
sale. 1t offered the property for sale
to the North and South Side Land
company and offered also to allow
the price to be fixed by arbitrators,
the price paid by the North and South
Side Land company for adjoining
property to be fairly considered in
fixing the value of the ground.
Testifying before the city council
under oath R. R. Bailey, secretary and
treasurer of the Bailey Lumber COM
pany expressed the opinion that the
vacation of the streets and alleys Pc
titioned for would depreciate the value
of the property of the Bailey Lum-
Der company two-thirds. Asked to
place a value on the lots he stated
that if they were plated and put on
the market for sale their value would
be approximately $1,000 each. He
stated also his concern would be will
ing to submit to arbitration on any
fair basis.
Attorney Otto A. Poirer, appearing
for the North and South Side Land
company asked the council to grant
the petition on the ground that it
meant the encouraging of a new in
dustry for the city which would en-
ploy a considerable number of men
and that the company owned all the
land where it was petitioned to have
the streets and alleys vacated and
was entitled under the provisions OF
the charter to have it vacated. He
declared that the property Of the Bail.
ey Lumber company was off the ore
body and of no value for mining pur.
poses to the company.
Attorney Fryberger contended that
the property rights Of his clients
| should be considered, that the vacation
cut it off from the use of the streets
and alleys now important as avenue.
of ingress and egress and submittet
the offer to arbitrate was fair.
A resolution granting the desiret
vacation was fathered by Alderman
NOLAN. Aldermen McGhee and Mayor
Murphy spoke in favor of its adop
ton. It was lost on a formal rol
call by a vote of S to 8, the charter
requiring that petitions for the vaca
ton Of any street or alley must b,
passed by two-thirds vote. Alder
men Harvey, Lundstrom, NOLAN
Mattson and McGhee voted for til
adoption Of the resolution and Alder
men Kellar, Coffey and Heritage, pre-
siding, voted against it
! Tho petition win b prevented 4
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