The Ely miner., 1929-09-06


welcome your checking account and in
return for being your accountant will
exact a small fee.
The practice or ordering undesirable
characters out of town is coming IN
for a scoring in many places. If some
one is too rotten to live in one COM
munity, why inf1ict another commun-
ity with his presence? Why order dis
reputable characters out a city and
have them locate in another placer AT
Austin recently a whole family Was
ordered out of town and as per orders
they disappeared. Neighboring towns
are now wondering where they are as
the name of the family was withheld.
They may be in a neighboring town
or even here in Ely.
The legal profession has sustained
a great loss in the death of w. D.
Bailey of the firm of WaShburn,
Bailey & Mitchell of Duluth He was
81 years of age and has been promin-
ent in legal circles of Duluth and the
ranges for 35 years. Mr.. Bailey special
lied in mining law and handled the
famous North Forty cases at Hibbing.
He was also active with the Lake
Superior Tax Association and last WIN
ter made a notable address before the
state tax commission on public ex-
penditureS on the ranges.
The Ely Miner is publishing series
of credit advertisements weekly. These
ads are being printed in the hopes that
the public will heed the lessons sought
to be given and will keep their credit
intact. In conversation with many Of
the business people of the city we find
that the majority need no such les
son but there are some who toy with
their credit too long and finally are
unable to keep it in working order.
1t is a source of much pride to
learn that the rural schools of St.
Louis County won first place in COM
petition against the county schools
of the state at the State Fair. The
awards received indicate the high
grade of education set by the schools.
To Superintendent of Schools Barnes
Is much of the credit due for having
developed an unusually fine system Of
education in rural st. Louis County.
While some people in the south end
of the state are continually harping
on the worthlessness of this county
except for iron ore and taxes, the
statement made last Monday by the
judges of the poultry section that the
exhibit at the st. Louis County Fair
at Hibbing was superior to the State
Fair exhibit, should be gratifying to
the people of the county and illumin-
ating to the people of the other coun-
ties of the state.
The Winnebago City Enterprise
gives the northern end of the state
q rap and inadvertently compliments
the section also much against it will
when it said: Southern Minnesota
is one of the best agricultural sections
In the Northwest and millions of dol
lars in farm products are hauled over
its highways each year. There is nc
reason why the trunk highways of this
section should not be improved as are
those of the northern part of the
state, which traverse millions of acres
Of cutover regions, and are almost
useless during winter months, being
used in the summer season principally
by tourists and sportsmen"
Yes, why2 Faribault county was
settled and in existence something like
fifty years before the northern end OF
the state came into public notice. Why
the roads are in better shape here
than there is not a conundrum. II
Faribault county had followed the
same procedure followed in st. Louis
County and had bonded itself long
before the trunk road system was es-
tablished and used the same to build
. trunk line Of paved highway in its
own county, this wall would not be
necessary. Further, that if the paper
has reference to No. Highway from
the Twin Cities to Duluth or No. II
from Duluth to the ranges, we will
say that st. Louis county alone has
paid enough into the state road and
bridge fund during its existence TO
enable the paving of every road in the
county. Also that this county has
paid ten times more into the fund in
the few years of its existence than has
Faribault in its hundred or more years
Of existence. After all these state
ments, we will also state that there
is more traffic on St. Louis county
roads than there is on the roads of
the southern county, winter and sum-
mer. If all the $4,000 souls of Fari-
bault County were on the roads at one
time it would be about the same as If
one range town went out for holiday
drive. And that's that.
The 1928 figures compiled by the
State Auditor shows that Faribauit
County has an average tax rate of
40.34; st. Louis County, 6815. Acres
In Faribault County, other than town
lots, 451. .645.68; st. Louis County, s.
249,110.53. Average value per acre,
Faribault County, $3186; st. Louis
County, $7481. Paid to the state for
revenue, soldiers relief, road and
bridge and other funds Faribault
County, s78,946.07; st. Louis, $780,
756.46. These figures go to show that
we are entitled to heluva lot more
than we receive for our roads and
bridges We also make the statement
that the tourist dollar Is Of great help