The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-07
BENEFICIAL
DISCUSSION
Business Men Meet Last
Evening

The regular meeting of the Bus
mess Mems Association was held
last evening at the city hall and
the business transacted and discus
sion had was out of the ordinary
and destined to prove of vast .bene-
fit. Nearly full attendance was
on hand, the members seeing that
the Association is the proper thing
and feeling that the organization,
which should have been effected
years ago, was better late than
never.
A committee on Fish and Game
consisting of P. 7. Browne1l, w.
A. McCurdy and M. E. Gleason
was named to exploit Our excellent
fishing and hunting and take steps
towards bringing tourists here and
arranging for their comfort. The
committee was instructed to get all
estimate on the probable cost of
making BURNSIDE river navigable
for launches from Long Lake.
There is a strong possibility that
something will be accomplished in
this line as the government has
already given assurance of some as
sistance towards the accomplish
ment.
The committee appointed at the
last meeting to get up an Ely ex-
hibit for the state fair reported that
a picture exhibit was the sense of
the committee and recommended
three groups, viz: Ely and its
buildings; the mines, interior and
exterior views; the lakes, fishing
and hunting scenes. The COM
mittee was instructed to go ahead
and secure the exhibits.
The matter of establishing a
grade and putting in cement walks
and their relative cost as compared
to plank was also dwelt on at some
length. Attention of the health
board was called to the indiscrim-
mate dumping of saloon Stops on
the streets and the littering of side
walks with beer kegs and ice. A
committee consisting of Mayor
Murphy, Michael Prisk, Louis
Eisenach, Chas. Grabowsky and
w. D. Gallagher was named to see
what could be done for the Clinton
cyclone sufferers.
The hotel proposition was dis
cussed in a manner that left no
doubt as to the sentiment in the
matter. A committee was named
to see the Fitger Brewing company
of Duluth and ascertain their final
disposition regarding their proffer
to build hotel in Ely.
1t will be remembered that some
three years ago the Fitger people
offered to build a hotel on the old
Vail site, providing the citizens
would donate the site. The money
was raised but the Fitger people
decided later they would have no
strings on the site and purchased it
themselves. Then they secured
estimates on a hotel building and
have been securing estimates ever
since, $50 they say always leading
Our people to believe that the hotel
would be built. Letters from the
firm, now on file, each reiterate
their intention to build as soon as
suitable estimates could be secured,
the building to begin in a short
time. This was three years ago.
There being no organization to
take matters up, the wool-pull--
ing" has been continued up to the
present. The Association now
takes the matter up with the full
determination to come to some I'M
Outstanding with the brewery peo-
pie.
Fitger has dawdled along in
manner very discouraging, and it
has often been remarked that the
concern never had any intention of
building although constantly stat
ing they would do. You can
take horse to water, but you