The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-02-03

First Meeting Under New Officers Tuesday Evening;
Excellent Work Shown For the Past Year; Membership
Fees Lowered.

Sent delegates to Winter Sports meet
ings on the Ranges.
Gave financial assistance to advertising
| trip to International Aircraft Ex-
position
Advertised in 13 newspapers and in 6
magazines.
Helped put on Outing exhibit at the
National Outdoor Life Exposition for
the ninth consecutive year.
Supported resolution of the Minnesota
Arrowhead Association presenting
Fire Prevention program to the state
department.
Secured appropriation from County
Board for expenditure on labor at the
Ely Airport
Opposed curtailment of incoming mail
service through discontinuance Of
certain trains on the D. w. P. Ry.
Sent delegates to the Arrowhead In
stitute on Community Fairs, in Du-
luth.
Made out So applications to the Fish
and Game Department for wall-eyed
pike, brook trout, lake trout and bass,
for the sportSmen of Ely.
Asked for additional deputy sheriff pro-
lection for Ely and vicinity.
Cooperated with Eveleth, Virginia and
Tower in erection of signs directing
tourists to this end of the state.
Sent out road condition information
several times week during the
tourist season to information bureaus
in Tower, Virginia, Eveleth, Hibbing.
Grand Rapids, Duluth, International
Falls, Cloquet, Fort William, Port
Arthur, Superior, st. Paul and Min
neapolis.
Helped support City Base Ball and City
Hockey teams.
Planted 377 cans of wall-eyed pike. ITO
cans of lake trout, SO cans of brook
trout, Is cans of rainbow trout and
thirty cans of bass in the lakes and
streams near Ely.
Purchased two year supply of ELY"
booklets and 5000 maps for adver-
Using purposes.
Helped arrange for Goodwill trip thru
Southern Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Illinois.
Sponsored the Ely Community Fair.
Sponsored outing exhibit at the County
Club Building at the State Fair.
Endeavored to secure September 18th,
opening for the duck season.
Helped to secure Federal Appropriation
for labor in clearing wind-faIlen tim
Der.
Endeavored to secure financial assist
ance from State and Federal funds
for local loggers in clearing wind
fallen timber.
Helped sponsor Policemen's Convention
in Ely.
Sent delegates to Steel-to- Wheat high
way meetings.
Opposed the one-buck law.
Secured and had mounted, several fish
specimens for exhibit purposes.
Called public mass meeting on question
of annexation of towns from 9Th
Commissioners District to 4th Com
missioner's District.
Requested the City Council to arrange
for making its own Christmas decora-
tions and festooning for the last
Christmas holidays.
Appointed committee to study posi-
bilities of the location of a State
Forest Rangers Station near Ely.
Purchased moving picture protector and
screen for use in advertising purposes.
Sent Ely's All Club Health Champion
to Court of Honor in Duluth.
Sent literature to Information Bureaus
in dozens of the larger cities of the
middle west.
Received and answered 1877 personal in
quirieS from prospective tourists.
Sent literature to another 200 persons
whose names were taken from lists
sent us by information bureaus of
several newspapers and from the Ar
rowhead Association.
Took active interest in legislation having
direct bearing on Ely and vicinity.
Maintained information bureau in Com
munity Service Center building.
Held fourteen board of directors meet
ings, 10 regular meetings and called
two public mass meetings.
Furnished names of resorts, hotels, out
ing companies, hardware stores and
various other business enterprises in
Ely to different tourist directories and
to others making inquiry for same