The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-02-11
ll65 Signers
Await r. A.
Power Loan
Project AS Now Planned Will
Cover q Town.
ships
ASKS 100000 LOAN
Amount Stated To Be More
Than Enough For
Construction

Stearns county's rural electrifi-
cation application was sent in to
the REA at Washington ON Friday,
February 5, from the county extern
sion office at St. Cloud. The pro-
ject covers the 1165 signers Of
which 11O9 lie adjacent to the pre-
posed Zines covering 400 miles Of
distance in Stearns county. The
project as laid out now covers parts
of the townships of Melrose, Sank
Centre, Ashley, Raymond, Getty,
Lake George, Crow River, Lake
Henry, Spring Hill, Grove, MILL
wood, Oak, st. Martin, Eden Lake,
Munson, Farming, Albany, Krain,
Holding, Brockway, Avon, st. Wen
del, Collegeville, st. Joseph, Wake
field, Luxembourg, and Rockville.
Only few single county projects
in Minnesota are larger than this
one and it is also larger than sew
eral combined county projects that
are being worked on at the present
time. The loan application calls for
a loan of 100000 which is more
than enough to take care of the
necessary construction in this
county based on the construction
figures in Meeker and Mcleod
counties where construction con-
tracts have already been let.
Officers of the Stearns county Or
ganiZation were anxious to learn
about the attitude of REA to-
wards the Stearns county project.
A while back on January 18th the
officers met with Boyd Fischer, the
development engineer of REA, at
St. Paul concerning the Stearns
county project. Fischer at the time
was well pleased with the map
showing how the project was laid
out but urged little greater dens-
ity of users along the various lines.
Since that time almost 300 more
users were added and this now
gives nearly the desired density. It
is not known at this time just how
much money is available for loans
on Minnesota projects at the i'm
mediate present because so many
counties in Minnesota are working
on this compared to other states. 1t
may be possible that several
months may be necessary in order
to get loan approved. The Norris
Rehburn bill provided for money
being available for additional nine
years for REA loans of this kind,
but specifies that not more than
10 per cent in any one year can go
to a single state. Minnesota is lead
ing the way compared to the other
states on this program and the 10
per cent that might be allotted to
Minnesota might prove insufficient
to take care Of the needs in this
state. 1t is definitely certain, how
ever, that enough money would be
available after July LIST, the begin
ming of the new fiscal year, to take
care of most of the Minnesota ap-
plications.
Even though the application is
now sent in for 100 users and 400
miles of lines the officers Of the as
ISOLATION believe that additional
users and miles of construction can
be added to the project. In view of
this encouragement Is being given
to folks in the townships already
partially covered and others in
which no proposed lines are plan
ned to concentrate their efforts in
the next few weeks to securing as
many signers as possible for this
new program. Stearns county still
has many farmers partially interes-
ted in this program but they felt
that 1t was not far enough along
for them to pay much attention to
it. The opportunity of coming in on
the program will soon draw to a
close and this is especially true in
sections where new lines must be
added in addition to those already
nrOnuOood