The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-11-12


services of at least Is men. During
the dry season he would have this
number increased to so men. Tele-
phone, road and path enter communi.
cation, he said, should be maintained
to enable fire rangers to send danger
signals on the outbreak of forest fires.
Other suggestions were made by
I. P. Cooper of St. Paul, A. M. Dun
ton of Mcintosh Ascher Murray of
Wadena, H. ]. Hughes, editor of the
Farm. Stock and Home of Mime
polls, c. S. Jameson of Little Forks,
E. c. Cheyney of St. Paul, M. N.
Kohl and G.. E. Marshall of Cass
Lake.
The suggestions ,centered largely
around the propositions of good
roads and Secretary Mackenzie is
drafting bill with good roads as the
feature but one that will include all
the other life and property preserv-
ing features developed at the meet.
ing. The character of this proposed
law will be made public as soon as
the draft is completed. 1t will go
before the convention of the North.
ern Minnesota Development asso.
citation to be held in Brainerd on
Dec. 2, for the sanction of that
body.
Il believe the meeting here
means the saving of our forests
from further devasta ton from the
hames," said Secretary Mackenzie,
"and while the bills which will 20
before the legislature at the coming
session, will call for reasonable
expenditure of money, it will be
an expenditure which will pay for
itself ten fold. From what has
developed at the gathering l feel
free to predict that the Baudette
and Spooner fire will be the last
conAagration from the forests 10
mar the reputation of Minnesota.
A. ]. Mcclure of Grand Rapids,
superintendent of the Northern
Experiment farm, acted as chair
man of the gathering and said : in.
part: =.
|"Most of the men who are buy
ing land in this vicinity are
ministers, doctors and storekeepers
from Illinois and Iowa who see an
opportunity of the land increasing
in value and of selling it later on.
1t seems to me the thing for the
state to do is to settle centeys
where there will be enough people
to work together and make it pos
sible for them to make living,
and to make 1t possible for the
poor man to make living. With
out roads ami markets it is i'm
possible.
Editor Hughes of Farm Stock and
Home said:
The danger in this proposition
is and always will be that we will
lose sight of the great fundamental
issues in trying to work out what in
relation to them are mere details.
The success of the county de-
ponds upon the freedom of its in.
dividuals. The solution is co-opera-
tive effort and there is no power in
the United States today to afford
that cooperation save that of the
federal and state governments. The
agricultural schools have fallen
down not because they are good
enough but because they are not big
enough. They were not backed up
so as to get the grasp of the whole
situation.
Take the state lands proposition.
First get an agricultural survey of
the land. Then get all the little
things that are going to make man
willing to stay and work and, having
these, let the state push out its more
detailed survey. If a man comes
into the country with $4,000 to
spend, let him go to an expert and
learn where he can invest profta-
bly,. He should have before him all
the possibilities by expert assistance,
just as the Danes are doing, also the
Irish. You are not getting very
many Danes or Irish in this country.
They are too we'll satisfied with their
own country. We should do more
for the state at large. but here is the
immediate need.
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