THE REPUBLICAN

December 10, 1885

 

Nelson Bro’s Improvements

 

            For the past two weeks carpenters and masons have been busy down at Nelson Bro’s planing mills, giving that structure a general overhauling.  The whole building has been raised four feet, which will put it away up above the highest point ever reached by the flood water that every spring fills the hollow in which mill stands.  A substantial stone foundation and abutments have been placed under the building and the old engine house torn down, to be replaced immediately by a corrugated iron one, which will greatly lessen the danger from fire.

            The firm owns the corner east of its mill next to Poll’s livery stable. Next spring a solid brick building 46 x 60 feet, two stories high, will be built on the lots.  Outside, the building will be finished in a good, substantial manner but the inside will be used as a store room for manufactured stock from the mill and not be finished until the business of the city increases sufficiently to make them of value for other uses.