The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-07-31
RICHEST VILLAGE
MOVING RAPIDLY
Hibbing Spending Twenty MI
lion Dollars Cost Of Moving
Into New Town. |"

Odl1y NEWS WILL ISAA yON oOA4AOSAAAAo
Of the progress Of building and i'm
provement operations In South. or
New Hibbing, Of the things con-
tributing to the whole, and it is
story we believe will prove surpris-
ing to many who make their home
in the richest village.
Very few people are there who
realize the vast proportions OF the
work now being done in the new part
Of town and the great sum Of money
involved in the big undertaking.
Probably no town on earth ever
made such history as Hibbing is
making today, and it is an almost
unbelievable undertaking-and ac-
complishment, as it will be In few
short months.
Twenty million dollars is a vast
sum Of money, but it barely covers
new town, and it is likely that sum,
as big as 1t appears, will not more
than half represent the money ex-
pended when the work will have
been completed. But it is the Hib-
bling way, and Hibbing has never yet
failed, or even hesitated, in anything
undertaken.
There are yet a few people who
talk Of moving the town." which,
Of course. is not the fact. The build
ings are being taken from about 16
city blocks of the original part of
Hibbing, a forty of land everything
a valuable deposit of iron ore which
the Steel corporation will exploit as
soon as the surface has been cleared.
There remains fully two-thirds Of the
old town that will not be touched
| the Pillsbury and Southern addi-
tons.
, The space between the older part
Of town and South Hibbing contains
Bennett park, and the remainder of
| the gap is being built up with bust
! ness houses and substantial dwell
| ings, so that in few years there
will be the one continuous, compact
city--just as the News dreamed Of
ten years ago, and printed the story
of the dream in this department.
Had not the utmost harmony pre-
vailed amongst the people of Hib-
| bling this wonderful change in tho
being Of the village could never have
been brought about. It is further
proof that there is no fighting going
on between the people and the min
ing companies, and there is no like
lihood of another fight. ever occur
ring.
The Steel corporation, early in the
undertaking, realized the necessity
Of perfect harmony, with the utter
hopelessness of progress without it,
and the big concern set the pace,
giving the always harmonious Hib-
bling some new, get-together wrinkles
it never heard of before, AS the
Steel corporation found willing CO.
workers in the ranks of the people,
the people found like spirit radiat-
ing from the corporation, and that's
the secret Of the wonderful achieve
ment that is to be seen in the New
Hibbing:
The result has been truly magic
the people and the mining compan-
les, led by the great Steel corpora
ton, have worked together in max
ing the new town, and are working
together and will continue on in that
| own-building spirit that pushes
| everything ahead of it, a force that
i has no equal in any other town in
! the world. When the building has
been completed we shall be able to
show you one of the world wonders,
and every man in Hibbing, no mat
| ter what his calling or by whom en-
ployed, can truthfully say: I'VE
did it,"
So pronounced has the spirit of
harmony become in the richest viii
lage that the stanch union labor man
! and the non-unioI labor man are
employed on the new work, on a
friendly footing, and it is a plan that
is working out to the great good Of
all concerned.
Really, after all, there is something
worth while in knowing the other
fellow, particularly when a touching
Of elbows can bring about such a
magnificent result as that to be seen
in South Hibbing.
| The news story of today gives
many details, but even with those
features clear, it. will be hard for
some minds to grasp the magnitude
Of the undertaking-an undertaking
by the mining companies and the
people of Hibbing-but a visit to
South Hibbing will be the means of
settling all doubts.
| There is to be a 100000 hotel in