The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-09-26
'FARMER" RUSK
TALKS ON ELY
FARMER" RUSK, COMMUNITY
FAIR VISITOR TELLS THE
WORLD OVER WENR WHAT HE
THINKS OF THIS SECTION OF
THE ARROWHEAD COUNTRY.

FAIR VISITOR TELLS THE
WORLD OVER WENR WHAT HE
THINKS OF THIS SECTION OF
THE ARROWHEAD COUNTRY.
AS per the announcement in the Ely
Miner the week of the Community
Fair, Farmer" Rusk, Farm Service
speaker over the Station WENR, Chi
cago, gave his talk on Ely on Thurs
day evening, September IL.
The majority of instruments in this
vicinity were tuned in on the station
on that evening but the weather man
played us false ad the reception was
too noisy to get anything out of the
half hour Farmer" Rusk devoted to
Ely.
Other sections reported excellent re-
ception and numerous letters have
been received in this city from all
parts of the country expressing ap-
probation over news conveyed in the
talk.
In view of the fact that physicians
in Chicago and some others of the
larger southern cities have singled out
Ely as the mecca for hay fever suf-
ferers, the talk was exceptionally in
teresting to those afflicted with this
malady and the majority of letters
referred to this part of the radio adj
dress on Ely.
Attached hereto will be found the
talk in full as submitted by Farmer
Rusk:
"Howdy Folks'-thiS is Farmer"
Rusk greeting you from station WENR,
the Voice of Service, Chicago.
CAS- we open our Farm Service Pro-
gram, may I say special "HoWdy" to
the loved ones and many fine friends
up at Ely, Minnesota, 116 miles north
east of Duluth. AS I promised, upon
my return Tuesday night, during this
program I shall tell you something
about that wonder country and her
fine people-her lakes-pine forests
iron mines, railroads, and automobile
highways, all leading into the wilder
ness of pines, lakes fish, moose and
deer.
Before launching into travel talk
about the land of lakes, we will call
on Jim and Bob for musical contribu-
ton, then Mr. Charles in a short Gag
talk, Bill Bone in Bone Yard Philos-
ophy," and Jim and Bob, Marion and
Mirandy" and songs. Now Jim and
Bob in Waters of Minnetonka.'
Yesterday in the Arrowhead
sion if the 18th Annual Meeting of
the American Soybean Assn, and
| wish I might tell you about that but
tonight we are off for the northwoods.
And so I invite you to come along as
Duluth.
ct was because the doctor said that
the Arrowhead Country around Ely,
Minnesota, is good place for hay
fever and asthma sufferers to get re-
lief, that I went up last week end with
my good wife, my little niece Dora,
and, another of her auntS, Mrs. Col
Today. And sure enough in less than
two days they are feeling better and
hope and belive, they will soon be
all o. K.
Il am told there are probably 10000
such sufferers in the city of Chicago,
alone. While much is said about the
good fishing, hunting, swimming and
boating afforded by the Arrowhead
country, and I agree these deserve
special mention, yet if that climate
gives relief to hay fever and asthma
sufferers, think more should be said
along this line, also.
"It was our first trip into the pine
woods and lake country of the state
of Minnesota. We enjoyed the trip
via the Northwestern railroad to Du-
luth and the Duluth, Misabe and
Northern, to Ely. The D. NJ & NJ, is
a property of the steel company and
supplies the transportation for iron ore
from the several mines to the great
ship loading docks at Two HarborS,
where the railroad yards accommodate
10000 cars of iron and the big ships
are loaded for the transport of ore to
the steel mills at Gary. At Ely, the
concrete shaft is sunk 1900 feet into
the earth to get the large deposits of
high quality hard iron ore.
Being somewhat railroad minded, I
soon had fine friend in Conductor
Forgy of the D. M. & N. Through Mr..
Forgy and Messrs. Moonan, BONNER
and James Miglio, all railroad en-
ployees at Ely, we obtained much in
formation about the agriculture of that
section, the great mining and lumber
industries and the various camps, lakes,
etc.
1--WE arrived in Ely Saturday after
noon, found the Forest Hotel a we'll
appointed, comfortable abode over
night and by Sunday evening the trio
of sneezers were tucked into the COM
fest, neatest camp cabin, one could
wish for, out at Burley Park VIM or
Bill" Burley and his good wife, like
q Wa in w
hospitality personified and their colony
of white pine log cabins along the
shore of the beautiful White Iron lake,
is a group of summer homes for vaca-
TONERS of which they may well be
proud. All fully equipped and fur
nished throughout, even to electric
lights and fine well of soft water
White Iron Lake, while not a large
lake as lakes go up in that country, is
miles in length and from one to one
and one-half miles wide.S There is
plenty of fishing, boating, and SWIM
ming if wanted, and if one wishes to
get out into real wilderneSS-it is not
far away. Bob Becker, in writing of
his experiences in the Arrowhead
Country, spoke of this section as the
place where all your fishing dreams
come true. Ely is only about 20 miles
from the Canadian boundary, "the
gateway to the Superior National For
est" and as they say, Fright where the
wilderness begins"
"The timber consists of birch, poplar,
spruce, jack pine, some tamarack,
Norway and white pine. There are
also mountain ash scattered among
the pines and at this season they are
beautiful indeed, with their heavy fruit
age of large clusters of bright red