The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-14
ATTRACTIONS FOR Au1o|s1s
MINNESOTA FAVORED WITH RAR.
EST BEAUTIES OF NATURE.

Millions to Be Spent for Good Roads
Will Mean the Continued Better
ment Of the y Highways.
BY Mr.. John II. Hohmann.
President Of the Minnesota Automobile
Association.
Minnesota has become one Of the
foremost states of the Union on &C.
count Of the development of it's tre-
mendous natural resources, worked
out largely through the medium of
good roads. These are among the
principal veins and arteries of com
MERGE. AS a good, vigorous circula-
ton of the blood is essential to the
health and normal growth and devel-
opment OF the human body, so must
the great commercial blood vessels
be properly taken care Of, and that
duty has been and is being performed
in Minnesota. Our automobiles, cor
puscles of traffic. perform an abso~
lutely essential finction in the move
ment of persons and property from
place to place. We have given them
a chance to do this work right. Let
them do their proper part, and a
mighty part it will be, in giving Min
nesota further growth and develop
ment into a commonwealth greater
and richer by far than it's early found
ers dared to dream, a leader among
the commonwealths that comprise
this vast republic.
Marvellous Beauty Spots.
What state has been favored by
nature with more lavish hand than
Minnesota? Think of her marvellous
agricultural and mineral wealth. Man.
kind has scarcely begun to draw upon
it. This state can and will give beau
tiful and happy homes 20 millions of
families. 1t needs only to have it's
resources developed to be rendered
capable of sustaining many times it's
present population.
Yet, great as are the commercial
resources of Minnesota, the state has
been no less favored in the bestowal
OF some OF the rarest beauties of ma
ture, picturesque spots and climate
that is unexcelled This is state OF
lakes. There are ten thousand of
them. Fishing and hunting reserves
still abound. There are good roads
to enable our citizens to take proper
advantage of the pleasures, as we'll
as the wealth, which Minnesota Of
fers in such profusion. Travel in any
direction in this state and your eyes
will feast upon the marvellous beauty
spots which nature has designed for
the edltication of mankind. These
gifts can easily be reached by the
autoists.
Millions For Good Roads.
Minnesota will have approximately
one hundred million dollars to spend
for good roads during the next ten
years. 1t this vast sum, which is de-
rived from the one-mill state aid tax
and the county and township tax
levies, is spent judiciously, it will
mean the continued betterment of the
highways.
The campaign for good roads has
been the means of educating the
great mass of people up to realiza-
ton of what these improved channels
OF trade mean as wealth producers.
Besides, they are a standing invita-
ton to sight-seers and pleasure seek
ers from wide expanse of territory
to visit Minnesota and take advan,
tage Of her multiplicity of lakes and
summer and health resorts.
Minnesota, The State For Autoists.
The automobile is the modern
pleasure car. 1t was conceived by a
genius and born of necessity to sup
ply the demand of the rapidly advanc-
ing times. The auto is no longer a
fad, but a fixture in the social and
commercial life. It has been the ad-
vance agent of the better highway
movement and has necessitated the
building up and maintenance OF the
lake resorts, where the mind and
body can seek that rest and content
ment which often becomes necessary
in this world of strenuous endeavor.
Minnesota is the state for the autoist.
Here he can find all that he seeketh.
We have one of the best road laws
in the United States, the so-called
Dunn law. Under it's wise provisions
the roads of permanent character
are being constructed They are the
delight of the autoist
"See Minnesota First.'
Already chain of inter-county
state roads has been laid out, extend
ing 1000 miles. The greater part of
this chain Of roads has been COM
pleted. We have the Black and Vel
low trail from Chicago through Wi
mona to the Black Hills; the Yellow
stone trail, starting from Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul, and extending
through the west central part of the
state; the old Dodd road, an excellent
graded and graveled highway, run
ming from St. Paul south through
Mortified, Owatonna and Albert Lea;
the old Government trail from the
Twin Cities, following the Minnesota
river to Mankato, and the Twin City
to Duluth road, connecting the three
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