The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-05-29
NORTH MINNESOTA
IS TO Be VISITED
SECOND ANNUAL UNIVERSITY
SIGHTSEEING TRIP is MAP
PED OUT.
PARTY TO GATHER JUNE IS
Four Weeks Will Be Devoted to See
ing the Entire Northern Section
of the State-CompIete Timer
airy Is Announced.

of the State-CompIete timer
AIRY Is Announced.
Minneapolis-Th Twin Cities and
the entire northern part of the state
Will be visited on the second annual
See Minnesota First" tour to be
conducted by the university, accord
ing to an announcement of the itin-
erary by Professor Z. NJ. Lehnerts.
Professor Lehnerts conducted the first
tour last year and will be in charge
again
Three Principal Centers.
Outside OF the Twin Cities three
principal centers will be reached:
North Central Minnesota and the
Guyana Iron range, Lake of the
Woods and the International bound
airy line and Duluth, and the Lake
Superior region The tour will last
four weeks. 1t will begin June 10
and continue till July 4, when there
will be an intermission to allow teach
ers and other educators to attend the
nioO'ihS VI IHS NdtiOuoi LouSdtiouoi
association in st. Paul. The fourth
week will be from July 20 to %.
According to the schedule which
will be printed and circulated at once,
the tourists viii gather at the library
of the university on the morning of
June 10. Three days will be spent
visiting the leading factories and in
dustries in Minneapolis and ST. Paul
and interpreting the geological forma-
tons in the environs of the cities.
Professor Lehnerts, who will be in
charge of the tour, will explain the
significance of the geological forma-
tons. June 10 will be spent in
visit to Taylors Falls and the Dalles
of the st. Croix and Interstate park.
The following day the party will spend
in Saltwater inspecting the new
prison.
The second week will be spent on
the Guyana Range. The party will
leave Minneapolis on the morning of
June % and go to ST. Cloud, where
they will make an auto trip to the
surrounding quarries. The two fol-
lowing days will be spent at Brain
erd and Crosby and other points on
the range.
Up Mississippi by Boat.
The tourists will go up the Missis-
sippi by boat from Brainerd to River
ton, where automobiles will be wait
ing to take them for an inspection
~ he hn och will
be spent journeying from Brainerd to
Bemidji, where field studies will be
made. From Bemidji the party will
go to Redby, making study of the
surface of the country en- route. The
following day will be spent in an ex,
Lake and on June q the second week
Of the trip will come to a close with
the party travelling back to Bemidji
and making a tour of the surrounding
country.
The third week will be spent in the
vicinity of Lake of the Woods and
the international boundary line. June
%, 30, 80 and July l will be taken up
in travelling from Bemidji to Inter
national Falls and on a boat ride
down the Rainy river through the ten
thousand islands of the Mississippi.
July an automobile tour will be
made through the new agricultural
country from Warroad to Thief River
Falls. Lake AgassiZ will be visited
and the state drainage bitches .in-
spected. The following day Mahno-
men, Detroit, Alexandria and Glen
wood and the beautiful lake region of
Minnesota will be visited. The third
week of the tour will end July by
the return of the party to Minneapo-
lis.
Intermission for Convention.
After an intermission to allow the
teachers and educators who will make
the tour an opportunity to attend the
convention of the National Education
association in st. Paul, the party will
again gather July 20 for the final
week of the tour. The objective
point will be Duluth, where the seem
ic beauties and geologic and geog-
raphic features of the vicinity will be
studied. The harborS and docks VIII
be visited and an excursion made by
steamer to Fond du Lac. July Fl will
be spent in field studies on the Me-
sabi range and in the inspection OF
mines at Chisholm and Virginia.
The following day will find the
sight-seers on Vermilion range and
making an excursion on Vermilion
lake. July % trip will be made
from Tower to Two Harbors and by
steamer to Grand Marias. The next
day will be spent at Grand Marias
and Thompsonite beach and on July
20 the members of the second annual
See Minnesota First" party will re-
turn to Duluth and dispense.