The Ely miner., 1929-12-27

For several years, Minnesota Leg
ionnaires through their department
Amer1canism commission, have been
sending honor scouts from Is area
councils, on canoe trip along the
Canadian border. Department Amer
icanism chairman, Mike Hurley of
Pine City. believes that you viii en-
JOY the account Of the trip. by honor
scout. George BAH of Troop No 10.
st. Paul, who writes:
While on my way from st. Paul
70 Ely with Bill Ingenhutt In Mr..
Pote's car, I had good chance To
think II seemed only q few hours
since had talked to Mr.. Neibel about
my going as one of The American
Legion Scholarship representatives on
the Northern canoe trip sponsored by
Region Ten of the Boy Scouts of
America A week before this. names
such as Ely and Winton were un-
known TO me. Even Eveleth and Vir-
g1nia were only family located in nv
mind. For years / had been waiting
and hoping TO explore real woods.
had heard stories about getting
lost, OF running into bears, of seeing
porcuplneS, beavers, and SkInks. But
the outline Of these pictures was very
duh and indiStinct- Then, thought
TO myself, what benefits viii I get
from this trip? had known Bill for
only few hours, and knew that all
the rest Of the boys would be perfect
strangers 10 me The material I
would get for English themes would
be worth a small fortune to me.
was anxious to learn new camping
methods, I was certain I would learn
much about geography and natural
science. Then there was my love for
adventure
decided to learn everything I
could about camp life and the woods.
/ admit that I picked on Mr.. Chase
quite often; however, he found a re-
treat from my questioning, foolish and
otherwise, IN his bed at night as I
was a sound sleeper. I found out
that poplar is good hrewood, that
bears leave bad odor In the woods,
that the call Of a white -throated
sparrow resembles the noise made by
human whiSuing, that Sun-burnt
legs are pretty -hot," that balsam and
white cedar bOughS make a nice soft
bed, that trout taste good fried for
breakfast, that the word portage is a
synonym for work, and that the word
scisSor-bin is applied to other verte-
brates than birds. Don't think for a
minute that this is all the knowledge
gained either
wish could have brought some Of
those beauty spots home to my back
yard After our first hard day Of
travelling, We camped on the southeast
shore of Knife Lake We had been
travelling along the Canadian border.
There was such a contrast between
the scenery on both sides of Knife
River that can't help mentioning it.
On the Canadian side great pines
rose up against the sky line like giants
coming down to the water TO drink
On the Minnesota side were scrub
poplar and cottouwoods croucliing In
fear
While pitching camp we heard
noise like high wind blowing through
the tree tops BY breaking through
the underbruSh and climbing over
moss covered rocks, we were able to
discover the cause Of the roaring
Peering out of the darkness Of the
forest in the early evening, we saw
white foaming, Seething water, dash
ing and laundering over jagged green
rocks. The reflection from the white
ness of the water gave us the idea
that We might yet be able to get a
picture Of il The others snapped
their cameras and went, but / just
sat on mossy green log. My eyes
tried TO follow particles Of foam as