The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-22
On This
Occasion
lust few thoughts by the Editor on things
Material snd unnatural

We had an invitation to attend the
inauguration Of President Hoover at
washington on March 4 The invita-
ton was to join with special tram
made up ar the Twin Cities and 70 De
known as the Minnesota SPECIAL
While we would like nothing better
than TO be able TO attend this world
renowned function. the campaign LETT
US like the campaign funds OF one OF
the major partes-an in the RED HOW
ever. a rate Of S87.66 has been made
for the round trip with etc's extra II
YOU are DESTROYS Of going get In touch
with Claude Mackenzie, national COM
mitteeman for Minnesota at St. Paul
and arrange with him The train VIII
leave on March 1st-
Some parts of Europe are in the
throes Of a cold spell not experienced
in the past two hundred years. Now
10 add TO the confusion and suffering.
a flood is being experienced Ely has
been having cold weather for the past
two months but 50 far nothing more
serious than a few frozen pipes and
the use Of an extra ton or two OF coal
has resulted In this section Of the
country We glory in cold weather and
winter sports and winter operations
are given an added zest with 30 or so
below zero. This is accounted for in
the dry atmosphere that prevails For
real honest to goodness cold that pen
etrates. the one below zero atmosphere
OF Chicago or New York is worse than
80 below in Ely Our neighbors TO
the left. Hibbing not to be outdone IN
-. 1-1s-
mometers read about ten degrees lower
than any other range town
Durango. Colorado. a mining, town,
has been snow bound for nearly two
weeks and is suffering from food
shortage Crews which have been
working day and night to cut through
the snow slides TO reach the isolated
800 residents Of Silverton and Eureka,
were forced TO quit their work by an
other storm. The Animas canyon which
leads TO these towns is completely
filed with drifted snow and tunnels
are being dug through the drift
Durango. and the mining section in
the vicinity, is given local color by rea-
son of the residence there a few years
ago of the late John Columbo and sew
eral other Elyites who have narrated
the snowslide dangers Of the noun
tains and the necessity Of building
snow sheds TO ward of the slides from
railroads.
While We are speaking Of cold
weather, since the timber has been cut
from the range country. the there
mometer has not reached the depths
reached IN the early days. History
shows that in 1881-1882 while men
were packing supplies TO the iron find
at Tower, the crew coming over the
Vermilion Trail, cut ice on the En-
barrass river on July 8, in order TO
get water TO drink and for tea. The
story also goes that Capt. Morcom in
charge Of the Minnesota Iron Com
pany work at Tower a few years later
sent in a requisition for theremom-
eter to the company. When being
asked whether he preferred a Faren-
heit or Centrigrade system. he replied
that Il don't care what kind is sent,
only that il be six feet long and be-
gin at Zero
The ore tax situation is still on at
the state capitol at st. Paul The
big hulabaloo on the subject has de-
veloped into siumering of the taxa
ton pot and at present there is no
saying as to what wiz happen. The
Twin City newspapers are still send
ing out columns Of stuff IN the effort
to make the range towns appear as
funny" as possible and to detract at
tention from the south state greed and
grasp IN the matter. The range dele
cations opened the eyes Of some of
the legislators and an atmosphere of
doubt seems to prevail The DOWN
state bunch do not feel so cock-sure
Of their large income from the range
country should they monkey too much
with the iron ore taxes The subject
seems to be at a standstill The legis-
lature feels that more study should
be given and there seems to be ten
dency for larger interim taxation in
yestigation particularly as it relates to
iron ore.
The strictly state taxes on iron ore,
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