The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-01-06

Inc ABOVE receipts are from pine logging
only. Expert forestry administration would
largely pay for itself in utilizing grades and
classes of timber pulp-wood and fuel
to market. Revenue from wise and scien-
tifc cuttings and sales, and the removal
of dead and down timber, would pay for cost
aiding the growth of young timber of desir-
able classes. 1 believe that. even from the
estry a source of revenue, instead of expense,
and that. If we stop the present loss and de-
year find state forest a growing source
of public revenue, and blessing to the
people instead of. as today. a source of peril
to life and property.
Department of Geology and Mines.
AFTER rna mi mining and shipping to the furnaces
record of production. Minnesota has now
definitely located body of ore, amounting
to 1.S47, $4,000 tons, which is one-third of
the available and merchantable ore of the
United States and upon which taxes are paid
into the state treasury. Minnesota iron ore
which is ~ per cent of the total production
of the Lake Superior region, about 60 per
cent Of that of North America. and perhaps
one-fifth of that of the world And yet Min
nesota has no state department of mines,
and not eyen in operation at this time, the
u ts geological survey, found in most of
Our educational institutions. notably the
public schools university and agricultural
colleges, lead the world in wealth and in
come from these mines. 1t has long been
apparent that mineral resources which prom
come of more than 500, 000, 900 require de-
tailed expert administration. Our state
geological survey, created from the proceeds
of the government salt spring land grant,
was discontinued over ten years ago, at the
height of it's usefulness and before it had
completed its work.
From the standpoint of good business
management there can be only one thing to
DO and that is to establish a new geological
survey and department of mines and fol-
lowing the example of Wisconsin, Michigan
and Missouri, make such appropriations from
necessary n ma N tai N
a department of geology and mines worthy
OF our great mineral industry and resources
The expense of such administra ton will be
returned in revenue to the state many fold
Mine royalties and leases this year earned
in twenty years the state treasury has real
lied from its mines $1,S50,000 not including
taxes. The state tax iron ore this year
is s61S,0 600, which is over thirteen times the
state tax from iron ore in 1900. In the past
four years, since the organizat ton of the Min
nesota tax commission, the state treasury
alone has realized $2,450,000 from iron mine
taxation, not to mention the still larger rev
enue contributed by the mines to the supnort
of town, county, village and city governm emit
and for roads, bridges and schools in the
iron producing counties
Department of Game and Fish,
Nature has richly endowed the state of
Minnesota with game and fish. 1t is one of
our natural resources, in the conservation
of which the state has been most fortunate
The total disbursements of the department
for the year 1910 amount to SOS 4o717 Out
of 504 prosecutions, there have been only
S2 acquittals. and the sum total of fines for
the year 1910 amounts to sS,e24.45.
One of the best investments made nv the
state is the improvement of our fish hatch
cries so as to increase the supply of fish
The total distribution of ,fish-fry for the
YEARS 1909 and 1910 amounts to 1s9,SS6967
which is an increase of 100, sos, 667 over the
wears 1907 and 1908.