The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-10-30


know more than we do now. As
said befoe there is no question
about the ability of this Committee.
There is the job for this Commit
tee-get people to coming this way
and, once they are interested, be
able to show them the opportunities.
| And so, in the preliminary set-up,
there are three proposed divisions
of work:
| agricultural Development, Indus.
trial development, and Recreat onal
development, with an executive COM
mittee on which the whole thing
centers and through which there
will be contact with the Association.
| This preliminary set-up was sent
out to the members of the Commit
tee in August. 1t brought a num-
Der of valuable suggestions, which
will be taken up by the proper COM
mittees when they are organized.
And it also brought out the fact
that the members are pretty well
| agreed on number of important
points.
1t seems to be generally agreed
| that the more the members work
| themselves and the less they de-
pend on hired experts, the better re-
suits we shall get. 1t is agreed
| that monies collected for develop
ment purposes are easily spent ano
too often without producing any
very great resIlt." 1t is unanim-.
| ously agreed that we ought to avolt
duplication of effort, and it is pretty
clearly understood how the line is
| to be drawn between the work of
the Association and the field of the
local commercial and civic bodies.
This is the Wholesale organization
of the members of the Association.
Along the lines of industrial anG
agricultural development the Ass,-
citation with it's comb. med resources
of men and money can cover more
ground than any one community
can reach, just as it will in its ad-
vertising. Why, right here in the
organization of tbs Committee, we
have diversity of interests repre-
sented that no single community
could furnish. If you will read the
letters in my files you will see that
in the composition of this commit
tee the Association has an asset that
could not have been obtained ex-
cept through Association. We cover
more territory than any one COM
munity can reach and we have a
common point of view little differ
ent from the viewpoint of any
| locality. The basis on which we
are organized brings in of itself
some of new elements of coopera-
| ton.
There will be no duplication of
| effort. That is one point on which
the m m it te is unanimously
| agreed. 1t was to avoid duplica-
| zion of effort that the Association
was formed in the first place. When
| each local organization tries to do
the whole thing from the ground
up, that is nothing but duplication.
of fut lily. They are all ooing the
same thing and none of them are
getting anywhere. They spend little
labs of money for advertising and
hone of them accomplish anything.
| That is exactly why they combinee
resources to avoid duplication of
| effort and to make the combined
Efforts more effective. And in tn
Association, and in this Committee,
we are not going to do anything
hat the local chamber of commerce
Or commercial club can DO better
for itself. But we are going to do
some things that none of them can
do alone, and we are going to cover
| some ground that none of them can
/ work economically single handed.
| We shall have in mind at all
times the Arrowhead Country as
whole and not one center or Sec
/ ton. The opportunities in agricul-
ture or industry that may be de-
veloped will be opportunities for
the region and, wherever the condi-
lions are suitable, one community
will have as good right as another
to grasp them.
1t is up to the Committee to pro-
duce those elements in the develop
ment of the Arrowhead Country, or
to develop those factors, which are
available only to the combined re-
sources of the Association. 1t is up
to each community to work out its
own salvation with the added grip
on the situation that it gets from
this organization of forces.
This Committee will get results.
l will not try to anticipate what
they will be nor to indicate what
methods will bic followed. The
committee itself will determine not
only how to tackle it's job but how
far it will go in exploration and ex-
ploitation of the. field.
The summer visitor is not the
only possible investor. There will
be projects to be worked out by the
business men of each community
The committee or its members may
participate TO any extent desired.
ALI sorts of activities are possible
and permissible and maybe profit
able.
The immediate JOB is to formu-
late a five-year-program and CO.
operate in carrying it through. The
goal is to sell the Arrowhead Coun-
try to America, to. show ourselves
and to tell the world the opportun-
tiles that are here.
To conserve time and to permit
the activities to get started, the fol-
lowing organization committees have
been tentatively named, all being
from Duluth unless otherwise speci-
fed:
Executive Committee.
c. II. Bagley, E. c.. Congdon, Geo.
/ IL Crosby, R. T. Hart. Moose Lake,
r. II. Holiday, Hibbing. II. G.
Horribly, Cloquet, A. L. Ordean, w.
| 5. Robertson, MI. Stewart, G. w.
Welles, T. s Written, Virginia,