The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-05-18
THE QUEEN OF LAKES
Beautiful, Summarizing, Historical
Mile Laos RightfulIy Entitled
to be so Designated.
Mozomonie Point and lzatys on Cove
Bay Bound to Become Famous
Summer Resorts.

A beautifully and profusely illus
trated and neatly printed little book
let, issued by the Mile Laos Invest
ment and Improvement company of
Milaca, tells all about the incompar-
able Mile Laos lake region and the
new TOWNSHIP of Izatys. The writer of
the subject matter contained in the
booklet is Mrs. Halesia Sperry
Foster, the wife Of the we'll known
Milaca attorney, and she depicts the
beauties of the queen Of Minnesota
lakes so succinctly and so graphically
a. to lead one to believe that our
sister village is the abode OF an
authoress Of no mean ability. We
quote a few paragraphs from Mrs.
Fosters pen:
''Of all the lakes Of Minnesota, by
far the finest and most impressive is
the large body Of water to which, two
hundred years ago, the French ex-
plorers gave the name Of Mile Lacs,'
it being then, as now, chief in size of
the Thousand Lakes of the region.
II we'll recall my first impression of
this lake. Unaccustomed, as are
most westerners, to large bodies Of
water, it was with a feeling almost of
amazement that I stood at the top Of
the high tree-clad embankment over
hanging the beach, and saw before
me the widespread waters flashing
back the smile Of the blue sky above.
Gazing for the first time upon such
scene, imagination could readily give
one at least a partial realization of
what Balboa's feeling might have
been, as he broke through the last
obstacle that shut from his view the
broad Pacific; for truly it is new
sea of promise that spreads itself be-
fore the vision: and though less gil
gantic, none the less certain are the
possibilities it represents.
II have since watched the effect of
the first sight of Mile Laos upon
other amateur discoveries, and it is
interesting to see that the impression
is always the same. The Question
often arises, How is it that the spell
OF seclusion has so long kept this
enchanted spot from the knowledge of
the world? These waters spread their
beautiful expanses within few
hours journey from the busy cities
that centralize our western commerce:
why have they not been long since
appropriated by the railroads, the ex-
cursionists and all the crowding life
of the cities?'
THE answer of course is the famil-
lar statement, This is big country
We are only now at the dawning of
the day when the ever-increasing
stream of population and industrial
development shall demand the CON-
plete opening Of it's vast treasure
houses. It has been the expansion
of single generation that has re-
vealed the West to the East. By the
growth of great railway systems there
have been opened up to the uses Of
commerce and agriculture vast terri
tories hitherto practically unknown.
The result has been an increase in
national wealth and power that is the
marvel of the world.
"And what the swift expansion of
railway enterprise has done for the
prairies of the west, it is now doing
for these fertile and promising regions
surrounding Mile Laos, which needed
only to be made accessible in order
to prove their great possibilities.
This is already an accomplished fact:
thrift and industry have here brought
about development that marks sure
advancement toward great prosperi-
ty. Coincidently there has been made
accessible a place of refreshment and
delight for the Nature-lover, the
sportsman and the pleasure seeker, to
which the state can show no equal.
''To the mind given to philosophiz-
ing on the various aspects of life, the
"1ue anu sparkling waters OF Milo
Laos with their forest-fringed shores
and shining beaches inevitably call to
mind the familiar truth that God
made the country and man made the
town. The contrast suggested is not
only physical: it is more. A touch
of Nature fingers in the mental con-
stitution of even the most sophisti-
Gated, and there are few persons, how
ever absorbed in the stimulating &C.
tivities OF our modern life, to whom
there does not come at times long
ing for transition from the uproar of
mans world to the peace OF the good
green world of Nature. This univer-
sal craving for relief from the life of
the town finds one expression in the
general rush to the country as