The Irish standard., 1915-09-01


entire state of Minnesota has popu-
lation of over twelve thousand happy,
prosperous people busily employed at
vocations and avocations such as they
may elect to, or by nature find them
selves best fitted to perform in the
daily course of public, civic and NUM-
cipal affairs. St. Cloud is the county
seat of Stearns County, in the heart
of rich agricultural region second
to but few in the whole world and
ranking we'll up with the best that
our glorious Northwest can send
forth as evidence. 1t bears the title
of Granite City, fittingly i'll a certain
way, being attributed to the many ex-
tensive quarries of granite which COM
bine to make an aggregate OF one mil.
lion and a quarter dollars worth OF
produced export each year. st. Cloud
is located on the west bank OF the
Mississippi river, seventy-slx miles
from St. Paul, in northWesterly d.
rection, the Father of Waters flow
ing from St. Cloud down to where it
undulates through the Twin Cities on
it's way southwark to the gulf: The
Great Northern and Northern PACING
railways swing in and out over their
double track system on their path
north and west from the twins. lhe
Minnesota Central running between
Minneapolis and St. Cloud is well
nigh completed and this gives st.
Cloud one more artery of commerce
with which to bring in the outside
world in it's quest for locations giving
assured promise of great future de-
velopment. Among the rapidly IN
creasing number of thriving industries
now in active operation in the city OF
St. Cloud are two flour mills, twenty
four granite polishing plants, two
foundries, three woodworking estab-
lishments, paper mill, two. blank
book factories, two wholesale gro
ceries, three breweries, five banks
picking plant, one large hat and glove
factory, two daily papers, four week
ly papers, a library, state normal, high
school and three parochlal schools,
the magnificent Elk's home costing
$4,000 in first erection, the Great
Northern car shops, gas and electric
light plants, street car connections
with Sauk Rapids, and Waite Park.
The Public Service Company of St.
Cloud, one of the leading and more
prominent of the local business en-
terprises supplies electric light and
power to the villages of Waite Park,
St. Joseph, Rockville, Cold Spring,
and Richmond. An efficient hospital,
handsome opera house, several civic
parks, all conspire to round out the
we'll balanced prominence for indus
trial and civic achievement for which
she bears so permanent reputation.
All church denominations are repre-
sented in St. Cloud, many splendid
churches testifying to the devoutness
of the ruling percentage of the popu-
1ation, the Catholics having some es-
pecially impressive and beautiful edl-
fees. Around St. Cloud stretches
farming area Of proven capacity OF
production, and a wealth of steady,
abundantly prosperous farming trade
flows in to St. Cloud from the radius
of many miles. Land runs from SIS
to $3.50 per acre with leaning strong
ly toward the last named figure. St.
Cloud is under the commission form
of government having three commits
siOners elected for three year terms
and receiving nominal compensa-
ton each year. In the adjacent
farming locality, dairying, live stock,
poultry and fruit raising are carried
on extensively. Public library, public
hall, two business colleges, normal
school, ten miles of sewerage system,
The entire scope of territory in which
St. Cloud is the hub, is one that has
experienced the continuous flush of
afhuence as result of ideal location,
conditions, advantages and opportun
ity. And naturally, the concentrated
essence of this is found in that hub
with its radiating spokes of advance
ment ever present and conspicuous
even to the newcomer
EIPCT NATIONAL RANK