The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-04
MINNESOTA MINES
SKATER RECORDS
STATE DEPOSITS YIELD $3,500,00o
IN ROYALTIES, TAXES AND
OTHER REVENUES.
FAIR PROPERTIES BIG ASSET
Represent Double Original investment
According to Report of Retiring
Secretary-Net Cash Gain Of
$91,779 Made in Four Years.

Secretary-Net Cash Gain Of
$e1,779 Made in Four Years.
St. Paul.
In record breaking year In the iron
mining industry in Minnesota that is
now ending, the state was directly en-
riched more than $3,500,0O0 by royal
ties, taxes and other revenue derived
through the deposits of iron within its
borders, State Auditor J. A. O. Preus
announces. Approximately 45,OOO,O00
tons of iron ore have been shipped in
the last u months from state and pri-
vately owned mines in Minnesota, &C.
cording to reports to the auditor.
This great total is far in excess OF
the 1916 output and eclipses the pre-
vious high record Of 1913. Shipments
from state owned mines reached the
100000 ton record mark, showing
that those properties were the scenes
of as great activity as the privately
owned properties.
minnesota owns about one-tenth OF
the known, developed, marketable ore
within it's confines" said Mr.. Preus.
"the total of the last official estimator
being 1,4S1, 919,7S3 tons, of which 49,
S91, SOB tons is in school, university
and other state lands. The state re.
ceives Is cents ton royalty. Out of
80 opened mines, 81 were on the ship
ping list this year."
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Fair Is Big State Asset.
Featuring statement disclosing
"some startling facts regarding the
terrible burden the Minnesota State
Fair has been to the taxpayers of the
state" and showing a net cash gain OF
$91,779 from the last four fairs, the
report Of J. G. Simpson, retiring secre-
tary of the Minnesota State Agricul.
tural society has been presented to
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist. The
secretary asserts that the fair proper
ties are worth $1,72S,565, and repre-
sent $265 for every 81 Of original in
vestment.
The comparisons include direct state
appropriations Of $4,000 a year in
1913 and 1914 and $4,000 a year for
the two succeeding years, also net
cash gains from fairs of $34,945 in
1918, $12,273 in 1914, $27,133 in 1915
and $16,S2S in 1915. Earnings for the
four year period total $45,S4S in addi.
ton, making a total gain Of $1S7,127
as reported.
1T must be gratifying to the people
of Minnesota to know that they have
such a magnificent institution as the
Minnesota State Fair which, in addi'
ton to all the benefits they have
gained from it, has a property worth
$3.50 for every dollar put into It," con
tinues Secretary Simpson. while II
is contrary to the laws of nature &c
commemorative any educational institu
ton, and make 1t return money divid
ends upon capital invested, this has
been the case with the Minnesota
State Fair"
For Taxation Conference.
A movement has been started by
Senator George H. Gardner of Brain
erd for the organization Of a state
conference on taxation among repre-
sentative men from all parts Of the
state during the session of the Legis'
lature, probably late in February.
The proposal is for a series of con
ferences to aid the Legislature in
bringing about important and neceS'
sary changes in Minnesota laws re.
lating to taxation, as explained by
Senator Gardner.
Solves School Problems.
Minnesota gradually is solving her
own problem as affecting the encOur.
agement of individual talent among
grade school pupils, a modern idea OF
educational system. The twenty-iIrst
annual report Of the inspectors of
State graded schools, filed with the
Governor, shows that whereas one
teacher was responsible for forty-four
pupils sixteen years ago, the present
average enrolment per teacher is
twenty-eight.
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Blame Demurrage hates.
Minnesota railroads given an inning
in the hearing before the state rail-
road and warehouse commission on
their application for permission to in
crease demurrage charges on intra-
state traffic, introduced testimony by
traffic experts that car shortage re1iee
has resulted from higher demurrage
rates in other states. The experts de.
MED that the advances of demur2age
charges increased railroad revenue.
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Solem Gets New Trial.
Ole o. Solem, convicted in Jackson
county OF the murder of his mother-in-
law, Sigri Halderson, it being charged