The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-18
From the Rush City Post.

Editor Post:-If you think this
communication would be of interest
to your readers, would be glad to
have you publish it.
was at Bemidji three days, where
I met Hilda Burkman and Prof. Hay.
Mr.. Hay had been conducting a
summer training school there. He
did not look as we'll as he did when
I last met him at Rush City. He
said that he had been i'll but was
now feeling fine. He seemed to be
in happy frame of mind and is
we'll pleased with his present loca.
ton at Thief River Falls.
Miss Bu~kman was looking fine.
She seems to like it at Bemidji. She
wished me to remember me to he1
friends at Rush City. I might add
that if indications count for any,
thing, there is not much hope fol-
her young gentlemen friends at
Rush City.
Bemidji is the finest place on the
M. & I. railway. It is in the south.
ern part of Beltrami county and has
a population of about 1000. The
G.. N. railway crosses the M. & I. al
this point and the Red Lake railroad
has it's beginning here. 1t has large
lumber mills and other industries
and is the distributing point fol
lumber camps north of there. 1t is
nicely located on beautiful Lake
Bemidji. The bank is about thirty
feet higher than the lake, which has
a sandy beach, with clear water and
clean. There are many beautiful
trees of different kinds on the mar.
gin of the lake and scattered all over
the city. There is fine driveway
around the lake. There are many
nice buildings, including banks
hotels, school houses, churches, ETC.
Bemidji has electric lights, water
works, sewer, free delivery of the
mail and all other modern con
veniences. 1t has come to be q
great summer resort for tourists or
account of it's delightful climate anc
many other attractions.
Blackduck is an enterprising towr
of about 1000 inhabitants, only five
years old. There is a good deal o1
shipping of pulpwood, ties and wooc
from this point and there is some
fine farming land in this vicinity
1t is an up-to-date place with all the
modern conveniences.
Northome is smart little town
shipping much wood products.
Big Falls has some good farming
land near and many homesteader:
have settled in this vicinity. 1t ha.
a fine large hotel, but it is insufficient,
to accommodate the trade, anc
nearly every night guests are turned
away and have to seek rooms else
where, often with private families
On this trip there, I had to put u1
with private family and slept in {
room where there were six beds.
At o'clock a. m. I boarded thu
coach of the construction train a.
Big Falls for Littlefork, eighteer
miles farther north. The roadbec
was new and rough, and the trair
crept slowly along through swampy
region. In some places there were
good groves of cedar, spruce anc
tamarack and in other places onl,
stunted tamaracks and bogs. We
reached Littlefork at 7 a. m. The
village is about half mile from the
station with the river between. We
walked about quarter of a mile or
muddy trail to the river, and
crossed it in small boat. It took
a long time for all of US to cross as
only four could cross at a time
Llttlefork has population of about
IS. 1t is located on a peninsula
formed by the Littlefork river. The
peninsula contains about four square
miles and is considerably highe,
than the level of the river. It is
we'll wooded and drained and is the
finest townsite on the line with the
exception of that of Bemidji. There
are three saloons, two general stores
two hotels, a meat market and two
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