The Ely miner., 1911-08-25
AMERICAS BEAUTY SPOTS"
Country North Of Ely Rivals Famous Beauty
Spots of America.
The Bears Club" Writing in the News.
Tribune Loud In Its Praises.

Our citizens have only recently
awakened to the fact that the
region surrounding Ely is possessed
of a grandeur not surpassed by any
section and that it rivals the famous
resorts of Maine, New Hampshire
and New York. Outsiders who
have visited us go into raptures
over this section for outing pur-
poses and returning tourists spread
glowing accounts of the country.
The travel over the lakes has
been large this season so far and
many parties are constantly arriv-
ing and leaving pleased to the we
will come again soon" point The
canoe routes to the northern lakes
and from here to Tower by way of
the northern lakes have been the
most popular this season. Next
year with the excellent facilities on
BURNSIDE and Long Lakes with
White Iron and the outlets from
these understanding to connecting
lakes and rivers, equally beautiful,
the travel here will be large, far
larger than anyof our people at
present realize.
A writer in the News Tribune
had the following to say and goes
to show what outsiders think oi
our beautiful surroundings:
America has no region more
abundant in beauty and romance
than the boundary waters. Maine
has its Rangely and Katahdin
New Hampshire its mountains
New York the Adirondacks anG
Thousand Isles, all fascinating il
their wildness and boldness. Blu
the boundary waters of Mipnesot,
have a charm incompatible.
Thank heaven it can never b.
spoiled. 1t is too rocky for farm
ing, the timber is safe, and it is Sc
| big and scattered that it will tax,
the careless tourist a hundred year.
to mess it up with tin cans and egg
shells. 1t should be possible tt
keep it for the canoe alone and no
let those lovely lakes get all smelly
with gasoline launches.
"One trip through the boundary
waters suggests a dozen more
One can travel over and over that
network without retracing his patti
and every day find new scenes
Next time we will make detoul
to the falls the guide spoke oi
Next time we will spend a week or
Sagonagaw, pushing into all its
deep bays and rounding every
island. Next time we will try the
Grand Portage. Next time we will
go through to Fort Frances. And
there will be next time and a
next time after that.
Those upper lakes lie in their
native innocence as the voyageurs
saw them two hundred years ago,
For the boundary waters are part
of the great trail from Montreal tc
the Saskatchewan country, follow
ed by the fur traders during the
romantic period of Frontenac, oi
the Hudson Bay company, the
Northwest Trading company, the
TX w and all their attendant
bands of explorers and freebooters,
The canoe man today crosses the
portages that they followed, traced
originally by the Indians nobody
knows how many hundred years
ago. Every inch of the way is q
challenge to the imagination.
"a. challenge likewise to the
admiration. Leaving Winton one
hurries through Fall Lake and
Eastwood with almost discourteou:
haste. And yet the Chicago party
just ahead of us spent a weel
camping on Eastwood, having {
glorious time in the wilderness
Half a days travel from Portage
Prairie on Eastwood one comes tt
the last of the logging dams, ant
from there to Gunfint the country
| is spared the curse of civilization
A little further is Knife Lake, from
which the rocky ridges roll bacl
with mountainous effect. Beyont
is Cypress, walled with per
pendicular cliffs. The guide vii