The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-12-03
From Tuesdays oaiiv.

Another step in the process of get
ting all interested persons united for
enc general plan OF improvement at
I'and around the Northwestern Union
depot was. accomplished at meeting
of the North Mankato Commercial
club. held in the village hall last
evening "a
A resolution was passed declaring
In favor of the plan of filling I'm the
river. as outlined by Ben Gallagher.
the engineer jointly employed by the
city and village commercial clubs.
The same resolution was passed at a
meeting OF this joint committee held
yesterday afternoon In the office OF
Secretary f. +. Soaring Of the Man.
kato Commercial club. Mr.. Gala
gher's plan includes the removal OF
islands and other distractions, in
GLIDING piles of rocks, for some
distance upstream, so as to give the
water a clean sweep on the city side
OF the channel.
The resolution passed last evening
also declares for the cutting away of
the point OF land that projects from
the bank on the north side, opposite
the site of the pumping station. pro-
vided suitable arrangements can be
made with the owners OF the land.
II is intended, IL necessary, to buy
this point of land, for the sake OF
widening the channel at that place.
Mr.. Gallagher recommends that the
channel be widened here, where Il Is
unduly narrow. This win let the
water through better According to
his plan the channel here is to be
made just as wide, as 1t is at the
bridge. after the all and other i'm
provements are completed.
Produced the Charts.
Mr. Gallagher had charts showing
! Just how wide. how high and how
deep the river was at various points
both above and below the bridge at
I the time he took his measurements
His charts showed that the channel
for quite a distance above the bridge
was wider than at the bridge. but IL
grew a great deal narrower below the
! bridge. He argued that II would do NO
harm at all to ill in twenty-four feet
at the bridge for. even after that was
1 done that part of the channel would
still be wider. than Il was opposite the
pumping station.
! The plan was to make the channel
, as wide opposite the pumping station
! as II was at the bridge after the fill
I was made. Mr.. Gallagher took the
view that with the islands scooped
cut, as had been planned, and with
the abuttment OF the bridge on the viii
1 lage side moved back 40 feet, there
! would be no actual diminution of the
{, amount OF room the water would have
! TO get past the bridge. on the Other
hand. with the channel widened OBJ
posite the pumping station there
would be much Improvement there
as the water would be allowed to get
out better. He argued that North
Mankato could not possibly be a
sufferer by the changes proposed
' The main part OF the current was
now on the village side, but II would
henceforth be on the city side.
F. w. Lossow stated that he and w
Z. Stewart had been to see Henri,
Small one of the owners of NORTH
Mankato property where II Is IN
tended to make the cutting off of the
point opposite the pumping station
Mr.. Small, they said. was enthusiastic
for the project, and he talked about
giving up the island that had formed
adjacent to his land without askin,
for any pay for II. Il was thought
that Mr.. Small would not ask any
pay for what was cut away from his
land.
Johnson Wants Pay For Land.
But another land owner OF thai
place. NJ. c. Johnson. who was at the
meeting. was not so easilY nleased