The Shevlin-Carpenter Lumber Company closed a deal with the Bemidji Townsite Company, whereby the former come into possession of over a hundred acres of land at the south end of Lake Bemidji, with shore rights, for the purpose of erecting a saw mill, and also all the parks on lake shore in the city between the dock and Diamond Point are included. The price paid for the property was $7,000, with the condition that the city of Bemidji can buy the parks in question for the sum of $2,000. (Bemidji Pioneer, 8/7/1902)
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