The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-10-05
WANT SETTLERS
FOR THIS COUNTY.
WE HAVE THE LAND-WHY NOT
MAKE AN EFFORT TO GET
NEW SETTLERS?

The Ely Commercial Club has been
asked to consider a proposal drafted
by the Virginia Eveleth Real Estate
Board to be submitted to the County
Commissioners.
Guided by the success of the inten-
sive campaign carried forth by the
range Real Estate Board to attract
new settlers to st. Louis County, has
prompted the drafting of proposal
asking the County Commissioners to
consider appointing commission: or
board to plan and carry on the work
of countrywide nature to interest
new settlers to come to st. Louis
County. The proposal further ex-
plains that the work should be of
selling the while of the County's
agricultural advantages.
At the present time, the proposal
points out there is no central organ
lied and concerted effort being made
to really sell st Louis County to
prospective settlers and because ofthe
size of the county and the tremend-
Gus opportunity here the proposal
states that it is necessary for cen
tralized force to be organized to put
forth and sell the county, to attract
new settlers if st. Louis County is
to have her farm lands developed.
Copies of the proposal will be SUBJ
mitted to every organization in st.
Louis County. The organizations
will be asked study the proposal
and make recommendations. A gen.
eral meeting is being called by the
Virginia-Eveleth Real Estate Board
for Friday evening, October 5, at
Virginia. All those interested in the
program of settling the farm DIS
in the county are urged to attend.
An invitation has been extended Mr..
Oscar H. Smith, Commissioner of
Immigration, to be the principal
speaker and to talk on the relative
value of concerted action in the de-
velopment of st. Louis County.
The proposal offered by the Real
Estate Board is not for the develop
ment of any particular section of the
County and asks that the work be
carried on by Commission or Board
in the interest of all the County.
This proposal, if endorsed, at the
meeting on Friday night will be pre-
scented to the County Commissioners
at their meeting on October 10.
Considering the wonderful devel-
opment that st. Louis County has
had during the past 80 years and
considering the size of the county,
this proposal is made considering the
future development of st. Louis
County. When we speak of develop
ment it is meant the settling of farm
ers on farm lands in the county.
This problem has not had any organ
lied guidance. The matter of adver-
Using to bring new settlers into the
county has been left to individual
organizations throughout the county.
In a great many cases the visible
opportunities for farming has caused
the farm land development. This
proposal considers the problem of
settling the county with the aid OF a
definite organized effort in the hands
of a disinterested commission or
board. Thinking of this problem
from the standpoint of what there
is to sell and the amount of territory
to be settled, it is the opinion Of the
members of the Virginia Eveleth
Real Estate Board that if st. Louis
County is to hold its own in compe-
tition with other counties in the state
and other states, some practical meth
cd of centralized effort is nece 'sary.
The county being equal in size to