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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02
ore to be mined?

ore to be mined?
"The amount of iron ore upon
state lands which may be leased and
mined is unknown, but there is alb
solute certainty that it is enormous
The state owns over Ia, 900 acres of
land in close proximity to the de-
veloped iron ore fields, and it owns
many thousands of acres more in
sections where low grade ores will
undoubtedly be developed. One in
stance may suffice. On the eastern
end of the Mesaba range, near the
new and stppendous attempt how
being made to utilize low grade mag,
netic ores, the state owns certain
section of land. A portion of this
section has been drilled and more
than 1O0,000,000 tons of iron ore
has been found. This ore will yield
the state, at the minimum, II cents
per ton, or $12,000,000 and in all
probability it will net the state a
much larger amount. There is no
doubt whatever that the state OWES
hundreds of similar low grade de-
posts which will enrich the state,
in years to come, to an amount ut
terly impossible to estimate.
There is one other very impor-
tant consideration in connection
with the new mineral leasing law
The mineral leases now operative III
Minnesota involve property which
is assessed on the tax rolls at about
S30,000,000, bringing large returns
to local communities and to the
state every year in direct taxes
Every new mineral lease will add
to this volume of property and there
by steadily increase the state and
local tax receipts without adding
one cent of burden to the people OF
the state, for every lessee has to
pay taxes upon the state property
which he leases.
"The new law is now in effect
but no leases will be made until Jan
uary 1922"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02
FOR SALE

Office of the City Clerk. Ely,
Minnesota, September 1st, 1921.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that at regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Ely.
Minnesota, to be held in the Council
Chambers in the City Hall at 8
o'clock P. M. Tuesday, September
goth, 1921, sealed proposals will be
opened and considered for the sale
of One % Type W-19-6, Ideal Sec
tional Water Boiler, rated at 1850
square feet, including D. and T.
Perfection Relief Valve and Firing
Tools.
Boiler purchased and installed in
the Community Service Center
Building in February, 1919.
Boiler may be inspected at the
Community Center Building at any
time during the hours when the
building is open.
The Boiler will be available i'm
mediately after the sale.
The successful bidder is required
to remove the boiler from the
grounds not later than October 1st
1921.
A certified check in the amount
of ten per cent of the amount bid
must accompany each proposal.
The City Council reserves the
right to reject any and all bids
Address all proposals to the un.
dersigned and mark plainly upon
the outside of the envelope "Offel
for Boiler.
BY order of the City Council
A. o. KNUTSON,
City Clerk
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FOR BIDS


Sealed proposals will be received
by the Board of Education, In
dependent School District No. II,
st. Louis County, Minnesota up un-
til eight o'clock P. M, September
Sd, 1921 for the transportation of
pupils on the following routes, as
per specifications on file in the
office of the secretary.
(A) Route No. 5-From Mile
Post No. 112 to the Ely Schools.
OBJ Route No. 6-From Burnt
side Lake to the Ely Schools.
The bidder should indicate type
of bus he proposes to use.
Proposals should be marked "Bids
for Transportation" and addressed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02

company its famous 56-piece Legion
band. Other Minnesota posts are
notifying state headquarters to re-
serve accommodations for their
members.
"On a troop train from Camp
Stewart to Camp Dodge about June
goth, 1919, was captain from the
Twin Cities who could help me Sc
cure payment of a just claim. /
am not positive as to his name but
believe it was Smith. He was trav-
cling with Company F, 32d Engin-
GERS at the time. If anybody knoys
his address, will appreciate receiv-
ing it,, writes Legionaire Joseph
Drew of Cascade, Iowa, to Mime
sofa Legion News Service at st.
Paul.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02

, Representative R. WHitchcock in
his Hibbing Tribune has the follow
ing to say of the new mineral lease
law.
From the standpoint of the
whole state, one of the most inn
portant acts of the Legislature of
1921 was the passage of the min
eral leasing bill authorizing the re-
sumption of the leasing of state
lands for the mining of various min
erals.
mo lease for the prospecting or
the mining of iron ore have been
issued in Minnesota since 1907, a
period of Ia years.
"Under the law of 1899 about
500 mineral leases were, issued and
of these 85 are still in force. Some
100000 tons of iron ore have been
mined and shipped under these leas-
es, netting the state, at the flat rate
OF rs cents per ton, about $4,000
900 to date. There are still in the
ground over 16O,000,00O tons OF
known merchantable iron ore under
these leases and this ore when min
ed will net the state more than $40,-
OUO,OUO.
These are large figures but they
are puny compared to what will ac-
crue to the state, in all likelihood,
under the new mineral leasing act.
under the old act, suspended in
1907, iron ore lands belonging to
the state were leased for a flat re-
turn to the state of 25 cents per
ton of iron ore mined. Under the
new act of 1921 a sliding scale of
royalties is provided, based upon
the iron content of the ore and rang
ing from IL cents per. ton up
ward and averaging over SO cents
per ton. The returns to the state
under the new leasing law will be
more than double the present rates
per ton.
''But has the state any Unbiased
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02

After Hibbing has taken the de-
funct st. Louis County Fair off the
hands of Duluth and made sue
cess of this very necessary msti-
tuition through the expenditure of
energy and money, along comes the
lower end of the county bunch and
starts something under the head of
the St. Louis County Community
Fair at Proctor. There is no oh
lection to Proctor having fair, OF
any other town for that matter, but
to take the name of the st. Louis
County Fair and camouflage it and
thus mislead the public, is not good
business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02

We have sent out hundreds OF
sample copies of the Miner the past
year to the people who have re-
quested copies. Later we noticed
MANY of the names to which we had
addressed papers here as tourists
Ely is known in all parts OF the
globe, not as well as it should be
but is getting better known every
year as the future outing section
of the United States, and those
people contemplating trip to this
country always make it 4 point to
send for the Miner in order to see
what the prospects. are of getting
supplies here. We have been trying
to get the merchants here to see
this point for years but all but a
few persist in overlooking this fact.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02

Jeff" Jones of the Minneapolis
Journal, a member of the recent
party making the Lac La Croix trip
editOrially comments on the needs
of Safeguarding Superior Forest
in his excellent medium. Mr.. Jones
is right. The Ely-Grand Marais
road should be built to make ingress
to the fire areas quicker and more
efficient. No other roads are need
ed but trails and portages, camp
sites and springs should be marked
improved and made more useful
without too much frills and without
detracting from the ruggedness of
the trip. We do not agree with Mr..
Jones on the licensing of the tourist
but are of the opinion that guides
should be licensed and the party
made responsible to the guide. With
licensed guide the matter of reg
istration would be taken care of.
Licenses for guides should be based
on qualifications and the mere fact
of claiming to be a guide should
not be sufficient. The editorial in
the Journal reads:
"The Civic and Commerce Associa
ton, and the similar commercial or
CARNATIONS on the Iron Range, have
decided to cooperate with the For
est Service for the preservation, in
it's natural and virgin state, of Sup
erior National Forest in the north
eastern corner of the State. This
little appreciated region promises to
become the great cutters paradise
of America.
.The associations have already
agreed that no hotels should be per-
mitted within the boundaries of the
Reserve. Likewise it is their aim
to keep "scenic highways" other
than that which reaches Gunfiint,
from penetrating this pine and bal
sam wilderness.
$50 far no system of supervising
campers in the forest has been ar
ranged. This it would seem is the
chief thing needed to guard for pos
terity the beauties of the boundary
country. Canoeing parties entering
Superior National Forest should be
required to register the details of
their plans-point, of entry, route
taken and. time to be spent. Under
such a system the wardens now scat
tered about at stations in the in
terror would be better able to pre-
vent and place the responsibility for
forest fires such as are set each
summer by careless campers.
ut is the campers who are the
unwilling enemies of this incompar-
able playIand. They have already
seriously damaged the Eastwood
Lake section, and unless some means
are devised for keeping tab on them
and placing responsibility for fires,
the famous regions of Saganaga
and La Croix will also be converted
from land of inspiring primeval
beauty to bleak desolation."
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to Geo. T. Ayres, Secretary of the
Board of Education, Ely, Minnesota.
The Party to whom this contract
is awarded will be required to fur
nish bond in the amount of $780,
90 as required by law.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
GEO. T. AYRES, Secretary.
1926 9-2 Ind. School Dist. No. IL.
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BILLY" NOONANETTES.


Drink only when you are thir-
sty,, says doctor. We try to, but
can't always connect.
Pitt is nudging pretty close to
common sense in the building of a
new community church, in which all
denominations will be allowed to
hold services. That's the commun-
ity spirit carried to high degree.
The. Minnesota Horticultural So
ciety is trying to stimulate interest
in nut growing by offering prem
iums. Minnesota has too many
nuts" as it is, and the member Of
the horticultural society who says
that tomatoes and corn can't be
grown in Northern Minnesota is one
of them.
An exchange wonders what speed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02
Carpet Cleaning.

If the carpet must be cleaned at
home, first beat it thoroughly, and II
you have vacuum cleaner go over
it with that. Then make a wad OF
cotton about the size of an apple.
Cover it with linen and go over the
carpet with this dipped in per cent
benzine soap solution. If the colors
are dulled, sponge it in weak acetlc
acid solution.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02
ORDER TO EXAMINE FINAL
ACCOUNT, ETC.
IN PRoBATE COURT.

IN PROBATE COURT.
State of Minnesota, County Of st.
Louis, SIS.
In the Matter of the Estate of John
Pahkamaa, Decedent.
The Petition of Hanna Pahkamaa,
as representative of the above named
decedent, together with her final ac-
count of the administration OF said
estate, having been filed in this court,
representing among other things that
she has fully administered said estate
and praying that said final account
of said administration be examined,
adjusted and allowed by the Court,
and that the Court make and enter
it's final decree of distribution of the
residue of the estate of said decedent
to the persons entitled thereto, and
for the discharge of the representa-
titive and the sureties on her bond.
1t is Ordered, That said petition
be heard, and said final account ex-
amined, adjusted, and if correct, al
lowed by the Court, at the Probate
Court Rooms in the Court House, in
the City of Duluth in said County,
on Monday, the 10Th day of Septem-
Der, 1921, at ten o'clock A. M, and
all persons interested in said hearing
and in said matter are hereby cited
and required at said time and place
to show cause, if any there be, why
said petition should not be granted.
Ordered Further, That this Order
be served by publication in The Ely
Miner according to law.
Dated at Duluth, Mimi, August
23d, 1921.
Ru tha Court
S. w. GILPIN,
Attest: Judge of Probate.
G. B. CLIFFORD,
Clerk of Probate,
Seal of Probate Court, st. Louis
County, Minnesota.
A. J. Thomas, Attorney for Represen-
tative. $40 9-2-9
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Taken from The Ely Miner of
the same date in 1901.

The expected notice to the Duluth
of 25 cents per ton in the price of
commencing with last Monday con-
sumers will be paying $7.25 per ton
for egg, stove and nut coal, and
1925 for pea coal. The dealers
say that many consumers took al
vantage of the warning of a pro-
spective advance and the last few
days of this month has witnessed
quite rush in the coal business.
Hard coal stocks are lower in Du-
luth than they have ever been be-
fore at the same period of the sea-
son in five years. The Eastern
markets are said to be taking about
all the mine production, and in this
may lie the explanation of the
shortage here. 1t has generally
been supposed that the coal pro-
duction at any time was sufficient
to meet the demand, but the idea
is expressed that the coal companies
would rather hold the supply down
now and keep the market steady
than produce a large amount of the
fuel now and have to curtail the
production a little later. Those
familiar with the goal situation say
that with all the shortage at the
head of the Lakes, the coal COM
panies would have to shut off on the
supply to the Eastern markets for
about three sdays in order to stock
the local docks for years supply.
The Ely schools opened Tuesday
after the summers vacation with a
full attendance. Fourteen instruct
ors are employed this year as fol-
lows: c. l.. Newberry, superintend-
emit; Lydia Messerschmidt, assistant
principal; Adelaide Wilke, assistant
principal; Bertha Brodley, Adelaide
VanBlarcom and Alice j. Foley,
grammar grades; Eva Davis, Olive
Gowen and Luella Wooley, inter-
mediate grades, Lowena Dignin
Annie Westcott and Ida Scheefe,
primary; Elizabeth Maloney, Laura
Wicklow, Winton schools.
Misses Wilke, Brodley, Foley, Dig
min and Wicklow are here for the
first time this year, the others hav-
ing taught last term. All the teach
ers are of the best to be secured
and all come recommended in the
highest. The schools open this year
under the most favorable circum-
stances. All the rooms have been
most thoroughly renovated.
A High School course has been
inaugurated and as soon as the
rooms are finished in the East side
school building, the class, at present
being heard in the old building will
be transferred to the comfortable
quarters being prepared for them.
The board of education has also
made arrangements for the pub
LEGATION of courses of High School
study and rules and regulations gov
erning the same
Bedford & Holmes this week pur-
chased the livery business hereto
fore conducted by VIM. Scott and
will hereafter run the same in adj
dition to the business recently pur-
chased by them from John Lindbeck.
Both of the young men are well
known in Ely and will do well as
their friends are numerous. It
pleaSeS us to see this firm expand
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Bad Enough as II Was.

The baby was sitting in his go-cart
and Jack was wheeling him up and
down the sidewalk. Some men pass
ing asked him if the baby was his
brother. Jack looked at him a mo-
ment, and then said: Sure; you
wouldn't catch me hauling strange
kid around"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-02
Toys.

There are possibilities in clay as
toy for your child. Let him model.
1t may develop talent, 1t will in
crease his originative genius and
amuse him.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
Admiral Benson's Remedy

Admiral Benson's plan to man
American mail-carrying ships with
naval and naval reserve crews in
case Of tic-up is sound. The gov
ernment is responsible for con-
tinuity Of mail service. When a
railroad strike in Chicago held up
the mails President Cleveland sent
troops into Illinois to force resump-
ton Of service, in spite of the pro-
tests Of Governor John P. Altgeld.
IT is certainly within the COM
potency Of the government to keep
the ocean mail carriers going by the
same means.
There is another element in the
justification for the governments ac-
ton. The United States owns a
merchant feet. The cost of its
maintenance falls on the Treasury.
II it is left idle, losses accumulate
and the purpose Of the enterprise
to promote commerce in American
bottoms--is defeated. The govern
ment Is entitled to defend its own
investment and its own interest.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
The Bergdou Mystery

Adjutant General Harris's testi-
mony before the Bergdoll investigat-
ing committee makes distressing
reading. Trying to explain why the
famous buried treasure expedition
was enveloped in secrecy, he said:
Il wanted to spare the feelings Of
the prisoner and his family" Elabo-
rating on this idea, the witness told
the committee that he assumed that
the prisoners family was at least re-
spectacle and that he would be
humiliated If seen travelling under
military guard.
Bergdoll and his brother were
both notorious draft evaders and
refugees. Their mother had helped
them to avoid arrest. They weren't
even conscientious objectors Of the
type for whom Secretary Baker al
ways had SO warm spot in his
ieart. Their conduct had deprived
there of any claim to consideration.
Il would have been jast as logical
for an officer charged with executing
the law to want to spare the feelings
and protect the dignity Of bandit
like Jesse James.
General Harris said that he was
solely responsible for Bergdoll's re-
lease under guard. He admitted,
however, that he talked to General
March before signing the order and
that he had seen correspondence be-
tween Secretary Baker and ex-Judge
Westcott, one Of the Bergdoll attor-
neys. An atmosphere favorable to
the sparing Of Bcrgdoll's feelings
seems to have been successfully cre-
ated within the War Department.
Bergdoll was aclevsr rascal. He
dan9led The buried gold before the
eyes of his counsel. He wanted to
escape 10 Germany. III hey wanted TO
see the color of his treasure in West
Virginia. He completely outwitted
them, for he ssys.he never had any
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
Corrupt America

In the New York aats-Zeitung
a correspondent calls upon all Ger
man societies in America to unite,
as only by .unanimity can they
make their influence felt in politics.
Stating that he chad the honor" to
be present at the meeting of Ger
man editors in Chicago in June,
1916, when Roosevelt and Root
were banned for the Presidency for
being un-American, he points out
that similar joint action is more i'm
portant now than ever. "The new
Administration" he adds, whether
they like it or not, will be run by
British-American moneyed inter-
ests, and that the German, republic
will profit thereby ! very much
doubt"
{ Why worry about the American
Republic SO long as the German
republic is in trouble? Any sem
sible American must realize that
the only logical approach to
Americas national problems is
with . view to the best interests of
the Fatherland. The American
government. the American press-iri
fact, all the American people, ex-
cept those born in Germany---have
been bought by ENGLISH gold. Never
before in the history Of the world
has there been such foul corruption.
One element only stands out un.
corrupted, one group has failed to
fall for British gold, one lot Of
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

German of 1921 the Same as the
1918 Brand, SAYS Ex-A. E. F. Man

TO the Editor of The Tribune. ~.
Sir: AS a traveller for the last few
months ill Italy. may take up your
space to tell the American public about
the poor German people that are SO
ground down by the cruel. militaristic
French that they are unable to pay
the sums demanded of them?
Although the currency of Germany
is worth but half of the value of Italian
currency, the Boche is all over the en-
tire kingdom. And he is still unchanged
in manner, and attire; still the same
huge, overdressed ill-bred figure, with
the little billycock hat perched on his
head; hogging all the best seats in the
trains, pushing aside women and sput~
tering his ugly language in every
cathedral and museum in the land.
Furthermore-and this fact might in
terest those who think the Germans
are harshly treated by the Allies-al-
though, as before stated, his money is
only worth half as much as Italian
money, and although American money
is worth exactly five times as much
as Italian money, he is always in the
best cafes, the best rooms in the hotels.
the seats in the observation cars and
wagons de luxe; tipping twice as much
as any other nationality and throwing
his money around in way that would
credit an American multi-millionaire.
How he does it no one knows-but he
does!
l hope that you will be able to find
space for the letter of an ex-A. E. F..
man. who finds the German of 1921 the
same choice article as the 1918 brand
j. G. B. MORSE,
Tremezzo, Lake Como, Italy, April
15, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

nf Il, yes, There will be specialists
to devote lifetime to movie
records of American Presidents
very probably a hundred years
hence. But obscure people have a
delightful way Of ignoring so much
Therein lies one Of the chief bless
ings Of obscurity. The historians
will do the wading; the students
will do the skimming in 2021 exact
ly as to-day.
A society to express sympathy
for future historians seems to us
far more urgently needed. Obscur-
ity is too delightful and stimulat-
ing and luxurious a habit to need
fostering.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
Tailless Monkeys
Has the Bronx Zoo Seen These Tiny
Natives Of the Celebesa

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. George Ensey, Of Tropic,
Fla, in your issue Of May deseants
on The Descent Of Man. He objects
to the Darwinian theory as to our
descent from monkeys and calls stten-
tion to the first book of Genesis In
the Holy Book. AS Arm believer In
the book I consider Mr.. Ensey right,
but as TO there being no monkeys without
tails, I think a little moro investisa-
tion might enlighten him.
. Years ago when q passenger on the
steamer Atjeh, of the Royal Dutch East
India Mail Line, from Batavia to Mel
bourne. Australia, made the ae-
quaintance (?) of about q dozen very
small, black and extremely friendly
little Celebes monkeys. which had ~
tails, but had probably the rudiments
thereof. They were the property Of
the Scotch chief engineer Of the vsss
sci. They were all kept in the engine
room hatch and as we'll taken care Of
by that worthy as were his own
family, If he had one.
They were the smallest monkeys I
have ever seen, the most docile and
affectionate little rascals imaginable,
Climatic changes are deadly to them
and they do not survive long out Of
their tropical element. have had quites
wide acquaintance with simians Of all
kinds, but was never able to stomach
the idea Of descent from them.
Mr.. Hornaday, Of the Zoo, might Be
able to throw more light on the little
black tailless monkeys of the Dutch
Celebes, to which the Javanese crew Of
the Atjeh showed great respect
whether in awe of the big fist Of the
Scotch chief or the supernatural
your deponent knoweth not. G.H.
New York. May 8, 1921.