The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-05-28
TOURISTS TO VISIT
BEMIDJI ON TRIP
Second Annual University See Min
nesota First Expedition Coming
Here During June.
TAKE IN RANGES AND BORDER
Six Credits to be Given Regularly
Registered Students Who Make En-
tire Trip--lntermission for Meet.

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Bemidji and the entire northwest
ern part of the state will be visited
on the second annual "See Mime
sofa First tour to be conducted by
the university, according to an an
nouncement of the itinerary by Pro-
lessor E. M. Lehnerts. PROFESSOR
Lehnerts conducted the first tour
last year and will be in charge again.
Outside of the twin cities three
principal centers will be reached;
northcentral Minnesota and the Guy
una iron range, Lake of the Woods
and the International boundary line
and Duluth, and the Lake Superior
region. The tour will last four
weeks. It will begin June Is and
continue till July 4, when there will
be an intermission to allow teachers
and other educators to attend the
meeting of the National Educational
association in st. Paul from July 20
to Is.
Meet at University June Is.
According to the schedule which
was announced today and which will
be printed and circulated at once,
the tourists will gather at the library
of the university on the morning Ut
June Is. Three days will be spent
in visiting the leading factories and
industries in Minneapolis and st.
Paul and interpreting the geological
formations in the environs of the cit
les. PROFESSOR Lehnerts, who will
be in charge of the tour, will explain
the significance of the geological
formations. June 10 will be spent
in visit to Taylors Falls and and the
Dalles of the St. Croix and Inter-
state park. The following day the
party will spend in Saltwater in
speeding the new prison.
Week on Guyana Range.
The second week will be spent on
the Guyana Range. The party will
leave Minneapolis on the morning of
:JaHe~22 and go to st: Cloud, where
they will make an auto trip to sur
rounding quarries. The two follow
ing days will be spent at Brainerd
and Crosby and other points on the
range.
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
tour of the iron mines. The 25th
will be spent journeying from Brain
erd 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 excursion on lower
and upper Red Lake and on June ~
the second week Of the trip will come
to close with the party travelling
back to Bemidji and making a tour
of the surrounding country.
Boat Ride on Rainy River.
The third week will be spent in
the vicinity of Lake of the Woods and
the International boundary line.
June %, 20, 80 and July 1 will be
taken up in travelling from Bemidji
to International Falls and on a boat
ride down the Rainy river. July 2
an automobile tour will be made
through the new agricultural coun-
try from Warroad to Thief River
Falls. Lake Agasiz will be visited and
the state drainage bitches inspect
ed. The following day Mahnomen,
Detroit, Alexandria and Glenwood
and the beautiful lake region of Min
nesota will be visited. The third
week of the tour will end July by
the return of the party to Minnea-
polls. 49,.
1ntermission for Convention.
After an intermission to allow the
teachers and educators who will
make the tour an opportunity to at
tend the convention of the National
Educational 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 scenic beauties and geologic and
geographic features of the vicinity
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