Certain parties expected to build a flour mill and sawmill at the dam the coming season, which would have been a great convenience for the settlers in that section of the country. How the blowing out of the dam will affect the project is impossible to say at the present time.
Later—The mail carrier who just came in to Bagley from the Neving post-office reports that the explosion that blew out the dam caused such a severe shock that all the windows in Robert Neving’s home, barn and outbuildings were broken and considerable other damage occurred around Mr. Neving’s place.
The mail carrier states that suspicion rests upon one of Mr. Neving’s neighbors as having been the party who blew out the dam and that an investigation to locate the dam-blower.
It is reported that the S. P. K. Lumber, Cedar & Tie Company sustained considerable loss through the explosion by the flood of water that was let out and that carried away a large quantity of logs belonging to the company, which were banked on the river below the dam.
J. C. Parker of Bemidji, superintendent for the S. P. K. Lumber, Cedar & Tie Company, is on the ground where the dam was blown out and is looking after the interests of his company. The work of repairing the dam so that the flood of water may be temporarily stopped and the stringing of booms to catch the logs was rushed all Wednesday afternoon and last night and it is hoped that the water will be stopped by tomorrow.1
Neving, a post-office near the mouth of Clearwater Lake, in Sinclair township, was named for lumberman and farmer Robert Neving, who removed to Saskatchewan about the year 1910.2
1The Bemidji Daily Pioneer; “Clearwater Lake Dam Blown Out Yesterday; Unknown Parties Caused Considerable Damage. Dam Will be Repaired in Near Future.”; March 26, 1908; p. 1.
2Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 123.
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