The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-07-23
BEAUTIES OF STATE |. II
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Wonders Of Minnesota BecomlAs
Known Among Its Own Inhabitants
First Trip Always Repeated.
FORESTRY SERVICE IS BIG AID
Helps to Spread Information of Out
ing Features Passage of Amend
ment Increase Attractiveness.

BY slow degrees the people of Min
nesota are awakening to the fact that
in the scenic and climatic attractions
Of their state-jn its forests, lakes
and hills, it's network of pellucid
streams and it's always invigorating
air-they have possession of meal
culable value. The summer tourist,
ON happy outings bent, has been slow
in breaking away from the current
of tradition aud companioship which
drew him toward the better-known
resorts of Maint or the Adirondacks,
the wilds of Quebec or other distant
regions and in taking the chances
which might attend the spending of
his precious vacation days on a trip
to the Lake Park region of Minnesota.
But when he has once made the ex-
pertinent, he has fallen under such
fascination as inheres only in this
LAND of the Sky-Blue Waters" says
the Minneapolis Tribune. His first
visit has been followed by a second
and by third. He has brought 9TH
ers with him.
The Land of Rest.
So the spell has broadened and
deepened, and drawn within it's in-
fuence the tired man seeking "just
rest" in the quiet of the woods; the
canoeist, led on and on in successive
mazes of waterways; the fisherman,
who here finds an unmatched variety
of game fish, from the daintiest of the
trout family to the lordly muskal-
longe; the fowler, in quest of snipe
or duck or prairie chicken, and as
sured Of bagful; the deer hunter,
or him who would answer with rifle
shot, the challenge of some mighty
moose; the camera-hunter, often the
most venturesome of all, and the cap
tor Of the most wonderful prizes; the
artist and the nature-student, who
) here find no end of material for can
vas and notebook. And the oftener
they come, the more there is, it
seems, for them to discover and en-
joy.
Benefits Derived.
Among the benefits derived from
the State Forest service, few have
been more important than the effec-
tive work it has done in heralding
abroad the advantages of Minnesota
as Summer Outing State" in
stimulating the equipment of re-
sorts with the needful though mex
pensive paraphernalia for the roads,
trails, canoe-routes and camping
places, and in welcoming the guests
of the state to the haunts of it's for
est rangers. The service has been
wide awake to the fact that the sum-
mer tourist, when he shall come in
sufficient numbers he is sure TO
do when the peerless attractions of
our lakes and woods shall have be-
come as we'll known as those of Maine
or the Adirondacks-will be worth to
Minnesota, in direct benefits, prob,
ably as much as her famous iron
mines. In Maine alone, summer
tourists distribute $1O,OOO,OOO an
nually. 1t must be remembered that
the products and profits of the mines
mostly go abroad, while the money of
the tourist remains with us.
The Amendment.
The passage of the state forest
amendment to the state constitution
to be voted on in November next
will greatly increase the ability of
forest service along the line of max
ing Minnesota attractive to this very
desirable class of visitors. For it
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