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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11
TOURIST, TIMBER
VALUES ESTIMATED
SECRETARY VIBERT OF ARROW
HEAD ASSOCIATION GIVES
FIGURES ON TOURIST AND
TIMBER VALUES IN ANNUAL
REPORT.

The Minnesota Arrowhead Asso-
citation was organized three years
ago, and started out to sell north
eastern Minnesota as summer
playground to the American people.
A report issued last month based
on registration at different points
makes a conservative estimate that
there were in excess of 200, Jy0 out
side people who spent their summer
vacation in the Arrowhead Country.
This is an increase of 25 per cent
over 1926. This gain was made
with a material falling off from the
states directly south owing to poor
farm crops, floods and no extremely
hot weather. Through concentrated
advertising in Illinois, Michigan and
Indiana we were able to Offset this
loss and in addition to show gain
of 25 per cent over last year. This
publicity cost for the year did not
exceed 7c per person and if the
average tourist spent $4,000 in the
Arrowhead Country, this industry
was worth 100000 and the cost
of advertising was less than " of
l per cent.
After careful survey and analysis
of conditions generally in the Ar
rowhead Country, we found, roughly
speaking, that there were 100000
acres in northeastern Minnesota bet
ter suited for raising forest crop
than anything else. That nearly
half of this land was on the delin-
quent tax list and that it might be
described as "no mans land no
one having any interest in it; parts
being continually burned over and
becoming an eyesore to our Visitors.
That this land, put under forest
management, would be landscape
of beauty and eventually produce
crop of timber that would build
up this country industrially, and in
dustry means payrolls. A further
survey to determine generally the
ownership of these 100000 acres
showed that about 100000 acres
were owned by the U. S. Govern
ment and were within the boundaris
of the Minnesota and Superior Ma
tional forests. We found further
that the u S. Forest Service, under
whose management these lands
were, had set up forestry manage
ment plan to produce timber and
maintain recreational facilities and
had developed these plans enough
to show results. As an example, on
the Minnesota National forest with
headquarters at Cass Lake, on some
100000 acres the government has
been producing raw material in the
following values:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11
COUNTY ENGINEER
CHARGE Of ROADS
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRO-
CEED TO TURN OVER CHARGE
OF ALL ROADS TO COUNTY
ENGINEER SHEPARD.

Steps to give the county highway
engineer complete charge of all road
work in St. Louis county, taking this
work out of the hands of the seven
county commissioners, were under
taken by the board of the st. Louis
county commissioners at their meet
ing Tuesday afternoon at the court
house. The board sees the change
as method of effecting big saving.
A committee composed Of A. E.
Dyer, Hibbing, chairman of the
board; John GulDranson, Proctor,
commissioner of the fifth district;
Walter H. Bergen, county auditor;
c. E. Adams, attorney for the board;
and S. B. Shepard, county highway
engineer, was appointed to work out
a system and program for the pur-
pose of turning over all highway i'm
provement work to the highway eng
ineer.
The action was taken by the
board in accordance with a state law
passed in 1921 giving the county
board authority to appoint a high
way engineer who shall have charge
of the highway work of the county
and forces employed thereon and
who shall make, prepare, survey,
estimate and prepare plans and spec
ifcations which are required by
him"
1t was explained that the move
is being taken to standardize road
improvement in the county and to
cut the annual cost of improving
and building or paving roads; also
to reduce the staff Office help keep
ing road accounts, and in road
forces, tool houses, machinery and
trucks 1t was explained that by the
method many thousands of dollars
could be saved each year and re-
duction in the special road and
bridge fund levy would result.
If the new plan is put into effect
the county commissioners would
have no jurisdiction over the roads.
It was stated that many thousands
of dollars are spent in each district
annually because certain delegations
and clubs demanded road improve
ments in their district when such
improvements benefit only a hand
full of farmers.
After adopting the resolution ap-
pointing a committee to study the
method of having the entire work
turned over to the county highway
engineer, the commissioners met in
an executive session to discuss the
subject.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11
MATT bALLAs IN
HUNTING ACCIDENT
WHILE HUN TING MONDAY
MATT BALLAS WAS ACCI.
DENTALLY SHOT BY A COM.
PANION - INJURIES SEVERE
BUT NOT NECESSARILY FAT.
AL.

Matt Ballas, a young man wen
known in this city and an employee
of the mining company sustained in
juries Monday while hunting in the
vicinity of the La Rue mine at Arm
strong Bay which win likely lay him
up for some time. While the injur-
les are severe, physicians predict no
fatal results.
After the shooting he was rushed
to the city by the car the young men
had used to get to the hunting
grounds. The trip back was made
in record time as the injured man
was bleeding profusely. Aceomp-
anying him were John Somrok, Celia
Bianchi and John Antoncich.
1t seems that the four were walk
ing through some heavy brush with
Ballas in the lead. According to the
story told Ballas brushed aside a
branch to pass and in letting it fly
back, it struck Somrock's gun and
discharged it. The gun was only six
feet away and the full charge struck
Ballas in the back near the spine,
missing it by only about an inch.
Going in at an angle it slightly frac-
tured the hip bone, and caused much
loss Of blood. The fact that the par
ty had not proceeded far from where
the car in which they travelled was
parked made it possible to get to the
hospital in record time, the speed
prevented excessive loss Of blood and
saving his life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11
1927 ROAD PROGRAM
NEARLY COMPLETED

With the coming of November and
frosty days, there viii be a let-up in
highway construction. Most of the
larger trunk highway projects in the
1927 program are completed, or get
ting their finishing touches, the State
Highway department informs Us. In
modern road building, however, con-
struction is never entirely at stand
still, as contractors are already
starting on some of the 1928 grad
ing projects and others will be sew
eral weeks more finishing up their
jobs. Crawling also continues late
into the fall and winter.
During the season now coming to
a close, 1918 miles of pavement
have been added to the state system,
making total of Gal miles hard
surfaced. This is about SO miles
less than was paved in 1926, and is
much less than has been done II he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11
Sunday and Monday, November Is

and IA.
As the Scottish Joan of Arc, Miss
Gish plays a role so totally different
from any in her career that it seems
amazing. AS Annie Laurie, noble
women and mistress of the great
Maxwelton Castle-then as a wom-
an, Drawing the spears of her own
tribesmen to save the man she loves,
she has a role that plumbs the ele-
mental depths of a woman's soul.
The New picture is a gorgeous
production; with huge replicas Of
famous Scottish castles, hundreds of
huge bearded Scottish warriors, in
kits and tartans, battling in the rug
ged Highlands with claymore and
shield; the spectacular gathering of
the clans at Maxwelton, copied from
hitory, and other elaborate details.
Norman Kerry plays the leading
male role as Ian, chieftan of the
Macdonald clan, and Hobart Bos-
worth is a mighty figure as the hist
oric wolf of Glencoe" Others in
the cast include Brandon Hurst, Dav-
id Terrence, Russell Simpson,
Creighton Hale, Patricia Avery, Jo-
seph Striker and others of note.
The story was directed by John S.
Robertson, famous director of "The
Bright Shawl" and Sentimental
Tommy" from a scenario by Joseph
inc Lovett.
Elaborate research made every de-
tail true to actual Scottish history,
until the picture could almost be
called an epic of Scotland on the
screen. All the romance and CLAM
our of the Scottish Highlands was
preserved, together with many of
the grim details of its turbulent his
Tnrv
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11

there are now cottages and resorts
paying an annual land rental of
$3.50 or S1.10 per acre for the en-
tire acreage of the island. The
county in which this land is stu
ated receives % per cent of the
gross receipts and, in addition, these
cottages are assessed as personal
property and the annual tax is
about $780,"
The cuttings on this forest area
do not equal the growth and the
cuttings will be increased gradually
until in 1850 it is estimated that
they will cut at least 10000, 900
feet of timber and that the total
receipts will exceed $500, 900.
On the Superior National Forest,
which comprises very nearly 1,00n,-
900 acres, their management plan
is being worked out on the same
basis and they exsect eventually to
produce $1,00O,OG worth of raw
material annually, A million two
hundred thousand dollars worth of
material being produced annually
from these two forests means n.
least $24,000,000 payroll from
the stump including transportation
and manufacture into the finish cd
product.
The next largest owner of these
lands is the State of Minnesota
which owns approximately 2,000,-
600 acres within the Arrowhead
Country. Some of this land still
has the virgin timber, some that
was cut years ago and from which
fires have been kept out is repro
ducing very rapidly. 1t is estimated
that at least 100000 acres of this
land is better suited for forestry
than for any other purpose. The
balance of this land, some five or
six million acres, is privately owned.
If the state and privately owned
lands suitable for forestry were
handled on forestry management
plan the same as the u. S. Forest
Service has set up, you would have
an area of seven or eight million
acres that would eventually be pro-
ducing raw material to the value
seven or eight million dollars and
then the land and the product could
stand fair tax and would help 20
carry their share of the state and
local expenditures and would fur
nish raw material for industries
whose payroll would equal at least
$50, 100000 which would furnish
additional taxable value.
Let me quote from an article
written by E. T. Allen and published
in the american Lumberman" on
October Is, 1927:
Maine, our first typically lum-
bering state, has still IS per cent
of its area in forest use. Forty-four
per cent of its industrial capital is
invested in wood-using industries
Forest products constitute "A Pc
cent of its transportation tonnage.
More than a third of its industrial
population is directly employed ii
forest industry. Where would Maine
be, for tax revenue or public wel-
fare in general, with its forests an
nihilated?"
Maine reports also a 500, 600, 900
tourist business eacn summer and
states that the tourists generally
go back into the timber along tn
lakes and streams so that Maine has
built up its industry and its tour
ist business on its forest lands, ann
understand that within this area
there is no state or government
land.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11
FUR COAT DISPLAY
AT BEZEK'S MONDAY

A representative of Glemaker &
Company, manufacturing furriers,
will have on display large assort-
ment of Fur Coats at Bezeks on
Monday and Tuesday, November
14th and 18th. Come and pick out
your next coat. adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11
LILLIAN G|SH IN
ANNIE LAURIE

Annie Laurie, beloved to the world
for centuries in song and story, has
come to life again-on the screen.
This is the latest role of Lillian
Gish, queen of romantic drama, who
enacts the historic Scottish heroine
in her latest Neutrality-suspicious.
vehicle, "Annie Laurie" the dramat-
&c spectacle of the Scottish High
lands appearing at the Opera House,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11

and their receipts for 1927 will ex-
cee6 s50,0O0 During the time that
this raw material has been produced
from this forest the recreational
value has been maintained, and in
that connection, / quote from a
statement made by Superintendent
Marshall as follows:
"a concrete example of land that
is being held for the purpose of for
estry and also recreation is Star
Island. Net forestry area of island,
GIG acres. Two million feet of tim
Der have ben cut on the island with
stumpage value, $4,000. The re-
manning stand is about 10000, 900
feet. On the shores of the island
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-11-11

VIM. Cahill of Oklahoma, formerly
manager of the Park Hotel at Evel-
eth was business visitor in this city
this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-12
Truth IN the Chicago Tribune.

The Chicago Tribune is policy paperthat is all its ma
stories editorials health department advice
oveo and the oyum made to conform to the view
point lords of the middle west in whose interest
The Tribune is published
But occasionally sipup March 10 when the
published the following headed Strong Government Seen
Developing in China War" without comment:
Spurred by national patriotism which the rest of
world has considered impossible China promises to de-
veOp strong central out Of the present civil
Lieut. Col. c. c. Haffner told members of the Military
Intelligence association at meeting yesterday the Hotel
La Sale Organization of ignorant coolies and farmers into
unions based the soviet SYSTEM capable of political action
has given the southern government the real natonasc i'm
pulse which probably will establish strong national
men central China and then spread north
Col. Haffner said.
Those who understand the technique of newspaper production
will realize how this happened The copyrsaders
farther than the sixth and seventh lines caught the
of the speaker and that of the organization he addressing and
concluded quite naturally that nothing said by such individual
such audience could be otherwise than 100 cent against
anything and everything not 100 per cent American.
Even the Military Intelligence association will be suspected
time by the Tribune and copyreader will probably be look
ing for job Truth and The Tribune bitter foes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-12
Fascism and the Amsterdam International.

So dsgraceu disastrous has been the surrender to Mus
son of DArragona his followers the Italian Confederation
workers of Italy and the international labor move
the refo leaders of the international Fedora
ton of (Amserdam) have been moved to protest
The strength the protest weakened however, by the fact
that Amsterdam uzes the incident to take crack at the Com
muns This accomplished by the simple method of denounc
ing the tactic boring within the fascist unions
this was the mistake made by DAagona and other reormst
Italian trade union leaders
The difference the Communist workers who became
members fascist unions and DAagona that the Com
muns joined work for the destruction of fascsm while the
reformist leaders captuated to fascist dictatorship
Today leadership of the struggle against fascm is in the
hands of the Party of Italy and the struggle itself
the Communist workers and the wide OF the
Italian working class that endorse and support the Communist
program.
1t is not because leaders advised their followers
to Join that they betrayed the whole labor
mnt but because they abandoned the struggle against asclsn
gave program and leadership to the workers who and
ready fight Musson and the black reaction he represents
The Amsterdam statement auds the Italian labor leaders ire
forists) gone into exile but does not mention the
hundreds Communist workers who have been jailed and tor
tured murdered and the others who Italy spite of
the daily danger life and liberty and carry the fight
The workers and peasants of Italy will free themselves from
by supporting the Communist and by other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-12
DUMB-BELLES- LETTRES
(FoRMERLY LETTERS TO A LUNATIc'D

(FORMERLY LETTERS TO A LUNATIC")
Dear Lester:
Hello Lester darling sitting write again
though really and truly there much you
hasn't time for nothing else way boys killing
themselves of life being useless futile My brother
Percy it's all put-Up job publicity
Fannie Hurst and Otto Kahn they write into the about
it, But Percy always great hdder
He also says that Fishbn very optimistic when
he said the other day that will
million mbeces something isn't about
sonaly think that's pesmistic you?
there twenty million imbeces the
be thankful to the quacks they the
to tell you some of the best
In the first place will be glad to learn that Coolidge
Schesnger everybody is afraid Coolidge will
Khan vote but he is the where
and aren't CHATS Percys
body the Green Greenwich Village though
don't anything funny0 Coolidge will take twelve
cation to watch the farmers and the farmers will pleased
they won't mind his signing bill congress
closed for the and after they
filbuster.
Russian by the Kerensky secret
mission to raise for himself Also William
leader is tell the all
corrupt the New York police They
bribery, in Moscow then they thing
all to show doesn't it. Harry Daugherty by
freed again from the charge that with
the and Miller eighteen months
Isn't 1t wonderful how innocent people there
try? You'd think it from the looks of things.
You will also be glad
take Nicaragua The president country
the have begging take them Coolidge
said nothing doing So sending
into Nicaragua to stay there and them from the u
s. A. by force That's about all darling,
can't find to sharpen pencil So long dear. .
Your
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-12
Ruthenberg and the Labor Party

the LaFollette campaigns; and fl
nally, we tended somewhat to mini
mize the applicability of the labor
party slogan.
Sometimes these errors were made
by the party as whole, sometimes
only by sections of it. But finally,
by dint of rich experience and the
guidance of the Comintern, we have
liquidated these mistakes and have
arrived at a correct united front la
Dor party policy. Our party is
awake to the Importance Of the issue
and we understand how best to
struggle for its realization under the
given conditions.
In all these labor party develop
ments, which rank among the most
vital experiences in the life of our
Workers (Communist) Party, Com
rade Ruthenberg played a central
role. His influence in solving the
many complex problems confronting
us was invaluable. And in the appli-
cation of the labor party policy he
was indefatigable. Never an occa-
sion was allowed to pass but what
he pressed upon the workers the vital
necessity of organizing the labor
party and he gave them practical
guidance in this task through our
party. Whoever speaks of the labor
party in America must acknowledge
the work of Comrade Ruthenberg.
Comrade Ruthenberg is gone. The
great cause for which he labored so
Loyalty must continue. The masses
of workers must be educated and or
gained for their final emancipation.
Let US, therefore, apply ourselves to
the work with renewed determine
ton, drawing fresh courage and in
spiration from the rich life work of
Comrade Ruthenberg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-12
CURRENT EVENTS By T. !! ogLAnnnr,

speaks German and does not give
darn whose ears are offended. The
polite diplomats Of the former allied
nations no longer talk of the Huns;
neither do capitalist scribblers quote
Nietsche. The Germans are now re-
spectacle because they have not
turned "red" and because they have
guns, men and some money! Here is
a chance for a good poet mot good
in the Quaker Sunday School sense)
to picture the indignation of an allied
soldier now in hell or in some equally
agreeable place, who died to save
the world from German militarism,
on hearing from new arrival that
Stresemann of Germany was defend
ing the pacifist aims of Great Britain
at the league session.
ONE brief glance at any capitalist
~ paper today should convince even
an addict Of the kind of liberalism
that is purveyed by The Nation that
nothing is more certain than another
world war within a comparatively
SNOTb peTlOd OIL ltIiles luS pOloOu Bdc
experts Of all imperialist powers are
working day and night, perfecting
the most deadly gases for the next
world carnage. The nerves Of all
governments are exceedingly jumpy.
All this talk of peace and peace con-
ferences, disarmaments, is so much
smoke set up to screen the aims of
the governments from the masses.
THE next world war will be more
Il deadly than the last. For every
person killed in that debacle ten lives
win be wiped out in the next. The
slaughter will be for the purpose of
saving civilization perhaps from one
or more hostile powers or perhaps
from Communism, which means from
the rule of the workers and farmers.
The two deadliest indictments of inn
perialism are war and unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-12
FROM A GALLERY OF UTILITIES.
Your own
MYRTLE.
2. Nearly a Hero.

Manifesty Percy born to play romantic role in
life, but in piece alas! which has off, There
is about him persistent of imminent adventure He
through atmosphere charged with DRAMA tangy
with the of excements You feel that needs
just the smallest spark to touch it off, But nothing
happens
He is keyedup for something big impetuous, perhaps
cyclonic poised for action the great GESTURE the
stirring speech lowering the very brink of reliza
ton. Once you become of this arrested drama
in Percy this quverng unreeased adventure you are
comfortable in his presence waiting nervousy for the thing
to happen. The signs Of heavens foed intentions
upon him. he sits there in the cafe little bored
little hgh-strung, little nervous a hero in the fet-
tiers of common circumstance.
And somehow Percy blunders into and more Of
these letters At thirty he has shrewsh wife, three chill
dren, cumulative debts. And each additional restraint
makes the spectacle of dangerously suspended heroc
excruciating to look upon dam about to give
way mountain about to toppe the sizzle
of bomb about to go off,
No wonder everybody
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-12

ing class. 1t keeps open the very
veins of the workers for an influx
of poisonous and demoralizing prop
uganda from the capitalists. 1t
strikes from the hands of the work
ers the weapon Of the powerful poll
teal organization they should have.
The formation of a mass labor
party will represent a great step for
ward by the working class. The la
Dor party will emphasize class lines
on the political field and will give an
enormous stimulation will to the de-
velopment of class consciousness and
class organization.
The working class, thus cutting
many of the treacherous class COLA
boration entanglements which now
enmesh it and keep it helpless in the
grip of capitalism will begin to tread
faster than ever the road of class
struggle which leads finally to a
Communist mass party and the over
throw of capitalism.
This was one Of the many great
lessons which Comrade Ruthenberg
never ceased in pressing upon our
party. He was an untiring advocate
of the labor party.
Sees Mistakes Liquidated.
The problem of finding the best
way for the building of labor party
in the United States is difficult
one. Many factors conspire to make
it complicated. And in working it
out we have made many mistakes.
At first we tended to ignore the i'm
poYtance of the labor party move
ment; later, awakening to it and sud-
denly, we tended to push the pro-
gressives faster than they would go
in forming party. Then, reaching
hard for mass contacts, we almost
drifted into an opportunist policy in