L. G. Everist, Inc. - Ortonville

About L. G. Everist, Inc. - Ortonville

Ortonville sits at the foot of Big Stone Lake where the Minnesota River begins, on granite old enough to be the bedrock of the whole prairie. Winter arrives here out of open country — nothing between the Dakota line and a driveway but stubble and fence wire — so wind, not snowfall, usually decides how a morning goes. L. G. Everist, Inc. - Ortonville plows, clears and treats ice on ground where a storm can be finished and the drifting only just getting started. Roads and lots out here are wide because they have to be, and pushing snow back far enough that the next wind cannot hand it right back is half the craft. On a clear January afternoon the lake lies hard and white all the way into South Dakota, and the pavement in town is black and dry.