The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-07

highways under the Babcock amend
ment.
Mr.. Brozich stated that Senator
McGarry was working on plan to
have commission Of five capable men
appointed to look after the building
of the paved highways and that it
was the opinion of the senator that
such a commission would eliminate
graft and useless expenditure of
funds for unnecessary equipment.
Al. Thomas stated that he would
like to have the sentiment of the
club for his own information when
he attends. the next meeting of the
Legislature.
H. E. White spo e in favor of the
commission of highways. HI. j. Mer-
dink moved that the club go on rec
ord denouncing the plan of having
a commission appointed to have
charge of highways under the Bah
cock system. Carried.
lie SHdlI lIiStIuCGSO Tie ScCISGdiy
to send copy of the resolution to
Representative A. j. Thomas for his
information.
A. j. Thomas spoke on the good
work that had been accomplished by
the Fair Tax Association and that
in his opinion the club should contrib
ute toward its support, that thus far
the other range cities had contrib
lted literally and suggested that the
club contribute not over 500 to the
organization at this time. Moved
and supported that the Ely CONNER
cial Club contribute 500 to the Fair
Tax Association. Carried.
Kenneth Duncan spoke on the ur-
gent need of European people espec-
tally the Armenians and stated that
at recent meeting of Range Engin-
GERS, Messrs. Wolff, Strachan and
Duncan had been appointed as a
committee to push the relief work in
| Ely, but that before the committee
started such move they would like
to have the support of the Ely Com
mercial Club.
Moved and supported that the
Club approve the committee named
by the Engineers Club to have charge
of the relief work in Ely and to also
approve and back the committee in
their efforts to obtain funds for the
relief of European people. Carried.
Geo. T. Ayres asked the club if
there was any possible chance of
keeping the road open between Ely
and Tower during the winter months
and that he believed that the traffic
that would result if such a move was
made would be well worth the ex-
pense involved County Engineer
Hughes said that this question had
been considered by the commissioners
and that in his mind the expense of
keeping this road open during the
winter months would equal the cost
of maintenance during the summer,
that due to the many hills and curves
he doubted very much whether any of
the trucks now on hand would handle
the work.
Several members spoke on the adj
visibility of keeping this road open
also the Winton and White Iron roads
and suggested that the County Com
missioners be asked to keep these
roads open during the winter months.
Moved and supported that the Com
missioners be asked to keep the Ely
| Tower, Winton and White Iron roads
open during the winter months and
that it was believed that the traffic
on these roads demanded such a
move. Carried.
Albert McMahan as representa-
tive from the Ely American Legion
spoke of the plans of the Legion to
endeavor to obtain a good band fol-
Ely and that it was their plan to try
and have the present organizations
merge into one, to ask the city to