The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-18

The third of the series of tri-clty
get-together real estate board dinners,
4 held Thursday night at the st. Paul
= Commercial club, was a successful aHalr.
. The attendance from the real estate
organizations of the three cities was
Ramsey county Legislative delegations
were present.
- Minnesota and Minnesota real estate
J were the particular subjects, OF the
e evening discussion, to the exclusion OF
property in the three large cities IN
Interested Some shots were taken at
the legislature in its apathy towards
colonization.
: Luther Mendenhall, president of the
p new Duluth exchange, said in part:
+ "Every log cut impoverishes the state,
as pine does not grow again. Every ton
of iron removed impoverishes the state,
i as it cannot be replaced. We must do
something to fill this land. We must get
united effort to drain the unattractlve
lands in the northern part OF the state
and then to advertise them. Minnesota
is a unit and we must grow together,
talk together, and work together. The
land in the north is as good as the land
in the south, and we must unite to 90
something to make it available.'
& E. L. Miller of Duluth continued in
q similar vein saying: "The gospel We
should preach is peace on earth, good
will to men, and the resources OF Mn
nesota and the northwest; Minnesota,
with her thousands of lakes, her beauti-
full women, her remarkable past and her
matchless present. Her waterways give
the best way out for the grain and
livestock of the whole northwest and
the best way in for the manufactured
products of the east. We have the open
door, front door, back door, sliding a. d S0I
bushels Of wheat every year and make
25,OO0,O0O barrels of -four. For every
bushel of wheat we make a pound Of
butter-a bushel of wheat and a pound
of butter for every person in the
United States. The twelve billion feet
of lumber we produce. each year would,
if piled in a pile twelve feet square in
st. Paul and this pile tipped over, ex-
tend fifty miles beyond Duluth.
Minnesota has great climate. We
have the warmest cold weather and the
: coolest warm weather, celebrating, in
toxicating, delicious. We have'no fever
nor malaria; nothing to modest us ex-
We have the best schools and the big
gest school fund of any state. We have
great state university, great in its
president, great in it's faculty and great
in it's football team. We, own the bonds
of almost every other state, so that we
Sdu we'll SOY IutI tNlHuCooId udS q HIOIG-
gage on Bunker Hill. d. & y,
minnesota is great in her cities.
Sometimes we like the gay and frolic-
some Minnie better, but tonight we
think more of the sober, sedate and
pious Paul. Minnesota is great in her
wonderful cosmopolitan people; Nor
wegians, Swedes, Germans, Irish,
Italians, French, and everything else.
? She takes a son of Norway and makes
. him senator; she takes a real estate
man and makes him minister to Europe;
she takes the noblest Of her native sons
and in the best of his manhood makes
. him governor.
Introduction by the POSTMASTER, w.
G. Read, seemed to effectively draw
burning words from each speaker On
: the list were L. G. Hoffman, president
of the Commercial club; G.. Il. SAWYER,
of Minneapolis, for Mayor D. P. Jones;
Lund, the minneapolis land nd man. ann Ali III
responded nobly. :
. F. B. Snyder explained to the real
estate men the two bills he had drafted
for action by. the legislature. One is
an act modifying the form of fore
2 closure on mortgages; the other is a
bill to tax real estate thru mortgages.
The latter is now under consideration
and the former will be introduced soon.
Senator G. R. Laybourn told of the
progress Of legislative work which at
fected the real estate men particularly.
j. g.. Lennon gave some Of his early
experiences in the state as a dealer.
The closing address was made bv