Three hundred feet of channel will be dynamited by the Aetna Powder Company at the outlet of Lake Bemidji soon. The new bridge which spans the Mississippi at this point blocks the old channel. The Aetna company will use an electric appliance in doing the work and the various charges which will be necessary in building the new channel will be fired at the same time. The river has always given much trouble at the outlet and with the new channel all danger to launches will in the future be avoided. The channel will be dynamited sometime during April. (B. Pioneer, March 18, 1914)
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