1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 531
sold at $40 an acre." The land pays well for development from its
"cut-over" state. Potatoes are an excellent crop on new land, then
a three-year rotation, oats or other grain, timothy or clover, and potatoes
is recommended. Clover is practically a weed in St. Louis
County, and in an average season it has been asserted that the yield
is "in round figures $100 worth of forage from an acre." Cleared
and ploughed land in the vicinity of Eveleth "is worth not less than
$100 an acre." It is excellent sheep land, and the pioneer farmer,
Wm. F. Haenke, has had surprisingly good results in sheep raising.
To Eveleth belongs the distinction of being the first city in the Range
country to establish a Farmers' Market, and "every year Eveleth
holds a Farmers' Day, at which the products of the surrounding farms
are displayed and prizes awarded." Much of the future prosperity
of Eveleth lies in the proper development of surrounding agricultural
land.
General City Improvements.— "More than 95 per cent of the
streets of Eveleth are paved. Bitulithic pavement is the most common,
with a few blocks of concreted block pavement. The total yardage
completed with the six years to end of 1919 was 105,256, all of
which is bitulithic on concrete base, excepting 14,241 yards of ereosoted
blocks on concrete base. The sewage-disposal system includes
a septic tank, built in 1916, at a cost of $20,000. There are ten miles
of sanitary sewers and five miles of storm sewers, and the streets
are kept clean by modern motor-driven flushing equipment. There
is a detention hospital, and several other public facilities that indicate
that Eveleth is a good place in which to live. The system of playground
activities directed at the public expense is thorough and effective.
The supervisor of playground activities, A. W. Lewis, is paid
$2,280 a year.
Publicity.—The Eveleth Commercial Club leaves no stone unturned
that might uncover benefit to Eveleth. George A. Perham,
present secretary, is an enterprising, experienced, and alert public
oiBcial, and the club embraces all phases of Eveleth activities and
interests. The present directors are: C. B. Hoel, president; John E.
Manthey, V. E. Essling, vice-presidents; L. E. Johnson, treasurer;
P. J. Boyle, J. C. Poole, E. J. Kane, J. S. Saari, J. G. Saam, and C. R.
McCann, directors.
The local newspaper, of course, is a direct and ever-present
means of publicity. The Eveleth periodical goes by the name of the
"Eveleth News," and is a well-edited newspaper. Its history may
be said to embrace all the newspaper history of Eveleth, for in it have
been merged all the other papers ever published in Eveleth. The
"Star" was the original Eveleth paper, and was published for many
years by P. E Dowling George A. Perham founded the "Mining
News" in 1903. It later became the "News," and was owned and
edited by Mr. Perham from 1903 to 1909, when ownership and direction
passed to David Yarin, of Alayville, N. D., who, one year later,
sold to A. E. Pfrcmmer. In 1914 the ownership passed to T. H. Peterson
and L. O. Magee, who conducted the consolidated papers, "Star"
and "News," under the name of the latter, until 1915, as a private partnership.
Since that year, the business has had corporate existence,
the newspaper and printing business being incorporated under the
trading name of the Eveleth Printing and Publishing Company.
Mr. Magee was a stockholder and an active associate in the editorial
direction of the jiaper until 1918, when he entered the Ignited States
military forces. In due course he reached France, and met his death