The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-05-30
5000 MORE TREES
PLANTED LATELY
ELY FORESTRY CLUB DOING A
VALUABLE WORK FOR THE CITY
AND ITS FUTURE ASK FOR
THE HELP OF CITIZENS IN PRO-
TECTING THE CITY'S FOREST.

The Ely Forestry Club completed the
planting of the entire area north of
the golf course Thursday of last week
Through the kind cooperation of the
City Council, 5000 three year old jack
pines were secured from the Bear
Greek Nursery at Aleda, Minnesota
just enough to finish the planting in
the Municipal Forest plot begun last
spring. Since the first planting, 1000
Norway, 1000 White Pine, $500 White
Spruce and 5000 Jack Pine have been
tranSplanted, the total amounting to
1880 trees, all told. The entire orig
inal area has now been fully stocked
and with good luck should be showing
results in few years.
The long dry spell we had this spring
killed off over a thousand trees in the
more exposed places. All the barren
paintings have been filled in so that
now the whole area is covered. The
three days of rain coming Immediately
after the last planting should insure
the successful growth of most of the
trees. The first few weeks of growth
after transplanting are the most crit
ical as the new root systems hav'nt as
yet more than begun their growth.
Frequent rains during the next month
will help greatly, says Sig Olson under
whose supervision the planting was
done and under whose guiding hand
the Forestry Club was organized and is
functioning with such excellent success
The entire area covered by the For
est has now been completely fenced to
keep off stray cattle and horses. The
Club is indebted to the City for help
in completing the fence. All of the
many intersecting fences have been
torn out and single fence put in
surrounding the plot The planting
now extends from the golf course on
the south, north to the limit of the
gravel pit and east and west from the
old Lucky Boy road to the skill slide
The members of the club will appre-
ciate the cooperation of everyone in
keeping cattle and horses out of the
area and particularly requests those
who have been getting gravel and sand
from the top of the hill to refrain
from driving through on the former
trail.
Already some of the Keep Out"
signs have been mutilated and sections
of the fence tempered with. This
planting is community project and
not individual 1t is up to the people
Of the community to protect and fos-
ter it. Furthermore, this planting
project, the first of its kind in the
state of Minnesota, is being used as
an example by newly organized For
estry Clubs in many parts of the
country. It's influence as a practical
demonstration of what can be done in
the matter of encouraging reforesta-
ton and interest in conservation has
been more widely felt than many real
ize The movement should be encour-
aged and helped in every way possible.
The Club is deeply indebted to the
City Council for buying the trees for
this years planting and has received
the encouraging news that the Com
mercial Club is offering it's aid in the
Roadside Cleanup Campaign.
The following members of the For
estry Club took charge of the planting
this spring: Helmer Olson. Waino
Maxi, Wilfred Brobin, Harry Newgord
Toivo Thompson, Rudy Kalan, Matt
Smrekar, Simon Bourgin and Oliver
Gonzales. They were assisted by the
following High School boys: Joe Bel
ahar, Lawrence Berglund, John Ryan,
Sulo RuotSala, John SkratSki, Frank
Mavetz, Arvo Porthan, Frank Pritzel
Onni Lassi, Louis Champa, Rudolph
Krall and ChaS. Tisovitch.