The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-28
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Survey Will Give Intending
Settlers Desired Data
! on Minnesota Lands Y
STATE AUDITOR TELL-.
OF PARK SITUATION
Officials Believe Bemidji Can
Secure State Park If Proper
Data Is Compiled

r State Auditor Roe Chase, in most
enthusiastic address before the noon
luncheon of the Civic and Commerce
association Wednesday, reviewed the
present state park situation in Min
nesota and stated that if Bemidji
would gather all the data possible
showing it's accessibility, the amount
of use to which the proposed park
might be put by the citizens OF the
state and surrounding country, the
possibilities of it's use for recreation
and general park purposes and the
development expected to be made in
the park in the next fifteen or twenty
wears, and if this data was presented
to the state legislature, he had no
doubt but that the majority of the
members of the Legislature would
be easily solid on the proposition and
the park secured Of the IA state
parks in Minnesota, there is only one
which is really paying as it should
pay, he said. That is ltasca State
Park. --....e55
= Mr.. Chase contended that, if Min
nesota is to enjoy the returns that
should come to her by reason or her
natural beauties, her sportsman's
paradise and other attractions which
draw tourists, she must go after this
business in a business way and not
by a hit-or-miss manner Her series
of parks must be properly located
and be properly kept up so that they
will serve, to the best of advantage,
the thousands of tourists coming to
the state in increasing numbers each
year. The parks have been hitherto
located in places without regard to
their nearness to the established lines
of tourist travel and in many $1n-
stances for this reason have not been
used as they should be. Little or no
recreation space for games or equip
ment for campers is to- be found at
any of the parks.
State Commissioner of Immigra-
ton Oscar H. Smith briefly outlined
what he hoped to accomplish for the
settlers coming into Minnesota, by
means of the soil survey, which is
going to be made all over Mime
sofa and which has already been
started in Beltrami county. The in
tending settler will have information
at his disposal as to the kind of land
he will find in the various parts of
the state and this should help to put
the land spectators, who have not
good land but who are using their
holdings to trade off to the settler
for good money or it's equivalent, out
of business and make it possible for
the man. with good land to sell or
more easily find a market for it. He
hoped to make abandoned farms in
Minnesota thing of the past.
Commissioner Of Agriculture N.
J. Holmberg dwelt upon the neces-
sity Of solving the farmers problems.
Whether it be marketing his porducts,
improving his social position or edu-
eating his family, the farmer should
have all the help possible to give him
and his position in life should be
such that he will also be able to
enjoy the good things of life.
: DR.. F. J. Away, of the University
of Minnesota, who is the land expert
in connection with the land survey,
astonished his hearers by his state
ment that the only soil in Mime
sofa which was not good for any
thing was the rock upon which there
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