The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-27
ROAD THRU NATIONAL FOREST

Build Road Through Superior
National Forest.
If bill which Senator Knute Nelson
introduced in congress on Dec. 10 pas
ses, the United States government will
be pledged to build road through the
Superior national forest reserve, which
lies in the northern ends of st. Louis
Lake and Cook counties, and which ie
said to be wonderland of beauty.
The bill, which has been referred to
the committee on agriculture and for
estry of the Fedora. senate, calls for an
appropriation of $4,000 for the con.
struction of the proposed highway. 1t
directs that construction shall be under
supervision of the secretary of agricul.
ture, and that the road shall begin at a
point along the north shore of Lake Su.
perior, and follow a northerly direction
through the forest.
With the completion of the Duluth.
Port Arthur road, which will be fit fol
automobile use, the road through the
forest reserve will open up new world
for sightseeing parties, and, it is be.
lieved. will do great deal to enhance the
value of this section of the state as q
part Of the nation worth coming miles
by auto TO look over. Already rich in
beauty, so far as the accessible country
is concerned, and being advertised by
those who have come as tourist pioneers,
as it were, tue new territory will, it is
felt, prove still greater magnet.
The Superior national forest reserve is
so difficult of access at present that few
people, even of those living at it's bor-
ders, have seen it, and those of the pre-.
sent time who have explored it, it is
claimed, could be counted on the fin
gers of two hands. It comprises about
million and half acres and abounds
in wild game. The entire country is so
dotted with lakes, and 80 many streams
and rivdrs wind about within it's bor-
ders, that cauoeists have found it i'm
possible to travel many miles without
making very difficult portages.
4 good road, built with the govern
Iheiit's thoroughness, would solve the
problem to large extent, it Is thought,
and would result in the gradual develop
ment of other roads, which in time
would open up the whole reserve to the
"auto tribe" for sightseeing and camp
ing.
The action of Senator Nelson, who is
deeply interested IN the north country,
is the result of trip that was made
through the reserve by George J. Brad.
Icy, Norwood, two years ago, while be
was president of the state game and fish
commission. Mr.. Bradley was so i'm
pressed by the beauty of the reserve
that on the return from his trip he
wrote to Senator Nelson, suggesting
that road should be built through it.
Since then Senator Nelson has made an
investigation, and concluded that Mr..
Bradley was right, hence the bill.
"The nation has in this forest preserve
one of the beauty spots of the world''
said Mr.. Bradley. "Some years ago the
state made game preserve of practic.
ally the same territory. Those who
travel through this wonderfully beau.
t1fully region encounter all sorts OF
wild life.
"On the trip T made with other mem
bers of the commission we saw many
moose, deer, and other big game. It il
said that caribou, supposed to be ex
tinct, still are to be found in this coun.
try.
"Probably it Is as we'll that it has not
previously been made accessible, fol
game and some of the natural beauties
of the country might have been destroy.
ed. Now both the timber and the wild
life are protected, and Minnesots
should be able to boast national park
hardly excelled in beauties by the Yel'
lowstone.
It is difficult to believe that in Mime.
sofa there is a park of this magnitude
and of such beauties, yet practically un'
known to our people. A road through
the wonderland would throw open to
Minnesota and to the nation marvel
GUS national recreation ground.
"And 6sh-why, there Is fishing ur
there such as man never dreamed of. ]
hope Senator Nelson obtains the ap-
preparation his bill calls for.
DR.. F. B. Hicks returned from St
Paul the first Of the week, having atten
ded the State Board OF Medical Exam.
inora, maat1nU This waa tho laat moot,