A Brick Depot Rises, and Newport Bets on the Railroad
Pressed brick arrives from St. Paul as the Great Northern builds its new Newport station — and freight figures show the town's lumber and brick trade climbing month over month.
The foundation of the new Great Northern depot is about completed and work on the superstructure will be started soon. Several carloads of material, including pressed brick, have arrived from St. Paul. The contractor expects to have the building ready to occupy within four months from the time of beginning work.
Freight business at the Great Northern is an index as to business conditions, and it shows a substantial increase every month over the same month of the preceding year. The brick plant at Albeni Falls is loading out three cars of brick every day, and the Fidelity Lumber Co. five cars of lumber.
“Freight business at the Great Northern is an index as to business conditions, and it shows a substantial increase every month over the same month of the preceding year.”
Newport's 1910 depot was the town's lifeline — the building that decided whether a place grew or withered. The same freight-and-railroad arithmetic that made Newport a boom town also made it vulnerable when the traffic moved on.
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