The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

the way of health. For years he has
lived at Walker, where the state
tuberculosis sanitarium is located
and he has watched people come to
his community, sick and broken in
health and has seen them leave as
new beings, their hsalth renewed
and their vitality revived as the re-
suit of short stay in the pine per-
fumed north land. Mr.. McGamy
says that if Minnesota's outdoors
can make you well they can also
keep you we'll and predicts that when
people actually learn that Minnesota,
instead of being a storm swept
country in the winter is just cold
enough to fill one with energy and
that in the cold crisp air there is
every element that makes for good
health there will be an influx of win
ter tourists to the Fairgrounds here
that will surprise even the most op-
timistic persons of today.
Winter sports are fast becoming
more popular in Minnesota. This
year four Minnesota cities are repre-
scented by four of the fastest hockey
teams in the United States. The
University Of Minnesota has fast
hockey team and small colleges of
this state are equally we'll represent
ed. Snow shoe hiking and trips on
skis are becoming more popular
each year. Minnesota's thousands
of lakes provide boys and girls of
the city and country alike with the
finest skating Kinks.
Winter fishing is a popular sport
in Minnesota, and on lakes through
out the state, hundreds of little fish
houses may be seen every year as
soon as the ice becomes solid
enough to hold them up. Winter
fishing is a splendid sport and pro-
vides all the thrills of summer fish
ing.
There are so many ways in which
the winter resources of the state may
be utilized, according to Mr.. Nc
Garry, that if capitalized they would
bring thousands here every winter.
1t is also the Walker mans belief
that the day is coming soon when
hotels now used as summer resourts
only, will be OPEN the entire year.
Mr.. Hotaling says that even now
there is a great amount of winter
tourist business in Minnesota, and
that every day thare are numbers of
persons calling at the office of the
Ten Thousand Lakes association
asking for information regarding
road conditions. During the past
weeks there has been great
of automobile travel in Min
nesota, and busses have been oper-
ated between many points in the
state.
With the winter travel through
Minnesota on the increase each year
without any effort whatever being
made to boost this state as winter
playground, it is difficult to estimate
what the results might be if state
wide effort were made to set forth
the advantages or the state as
place in which to live during the
winter months.
There is on thing of which Mr..
Hotaling is certain, and that is that
many of the tourists who came here
during the summers a few years ago
have found Minnesota such a Won
derful state that they are now MAX
ing their homes here permanently.
They have discovered that the Min
nesota winters are much more pleas
ant than they ara pictured in other
parts of the United States and that
at least they are much more healthy
than the damp cloudy days that are
experienced farther SOUTH
Mr.. Hotaling says, in speaking of
Minnesota as winter playground
that at Lake Placid, N. Y, where
the great winter Fairgrounds of the
Adirondack mountains are located,
the attractions do not begin to COM
pare with the beauties of the North
Star state, where anything may be
developed from winter carnivals held
in the Twin Cities to winter camps
In the deepest solitude of the mighty
forests Of the north.