The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-07
Came to the Woods With Her Hua-
band, Roughing it For Year,
and il Now Well Ag.ia.
DEER ARE EVER INCREASING
W. I. Cox Estimates Annual Surpaus
as 5000 but Says Moose IRE
Barely Holding Their Own.

st. Paul, Dec. TT women who
are ill will just put on mems khaki
trousers. purchase regulation lum-
ber-jaek shirts, trade the chorus
girls high-heeled shoes for wooden
socks and boots, then hunt the woods
and avoid some of the discomforts Of
civilization. they will find health,
strength and happiness. 49,
This is the formula presented by
Mrs. Anderson Gilman OF Minneapo-
lis. wife of Charley Gilman, we'll
known newspaper man and Boy
Scout worker, At the annual meeting
Of the Minnesota State Forestry a.
ISOLATION.
Mrs. Gilman appeared herself, u
an example of what life in the big
woods will do for women who have
become run down" from life in the
city. Her husband last year picked
out homestead on Elbow river.Aeer
Elbow lake, in Northern Minnesota,
a place, she said that they ''hope 10
80 worthless it win never be improy-
ed" There they built a log home.
with just as few furnishings and
fittings as possible. substituted oil
cloth for tablezHnen= and got siElAt
back to nature There. the arsf
season, they suffered colds and aches
|of many sorts. There they lived
however.
Last summer they covered 100
mile trip in canoe in six days. Mr..
Gilman carried a pack that weighed
fifty pounds. Mrs. Gilman carried q
pack that weighed thirty pounds. In
the two bags was sufficient food and
camping outfit to last for two weeks.
Neither was wearied, she said, by tho
journey.
Makes Good Summer Home.
Northern Minnesota, Mrs. Gill;
man declared, should be the summer
home for city folks. They do not
realize the chances that are slipping
through their fingers for having
beauty spots amid some of the most
wonderful scenery of America. Wo-.
men of this state should go there to
avoid the discomforts Of civiliza-
ton.
'The great trouble with women TO-
day who attempt to have such sum-
mer homes is that they do not try
to avoid just as much Homework Al
possible. If they will 90 prepared
to enjoy the big outdoors, live with
nature, sleep in the woods, learn the
use of the compass and, greatest OF
all, learn how to dress, they will re-
gain lost health and find happiness
Elk Will Live Here.
| w T. Cox, state forester. talked
on Forests and Big Game"
The state forester said that in MIN
nesota now the 2S,O00,000 acres of
land in forests. OF this amount, 49,
| 600 geo will never be cleared because
! it is too rough for agricultural pdr-
poses. There are approximately 49,
OOO,0 900 acres, which sooner or later
will give way to the plow. The time
will come, he added, when Minnesota
| will .reforest its non-agricu1tura
areas and the sooner this is done the
more revenue will accrue to the state.
Then turning to the subject of his
address, Mr.. Cox said:
snThe fur catch in Minnesota annu-
ally nets about 81 ,o00, 600 There are
approximately $4,000 deer in. the
state, 5000 moose. 200 caribou and
10 elk. The annual increase Of deer
is about 10000 and Of moose 5000.
OF the 10000 deer born each year.
wolves kill approximately 0,000 and
hunters and poachers $1,000. OF the
moose, wolves kill approximately one-
half of the increase and hunters the
iother half. So deer are increasing
while the moose are just about hold
ing their own. Thescaribou are found
north Of Red Lake, few in the OPP
posite corner of the state, and 1t is
noticed by settlers that they are be-
looming more frequent Most OF them,
however, are coming in from Canada
where they. were driven some forty
years ago by FIRE.
| "The only elk In the state are
1continusd On last paSs).