The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-04-07
CONSERVATION COMMISSION BECOMES ALARMED

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and homes and business of the whole state
to be permitted thus to be destroyed to the point is
workers cannot the products of Minnesota farms
Cor shall the state step regulate taxation
w to arss and a play aHd let this develop
pay large Of hs an so the
legislature and the people of Minnesota
Taxes Have Done 1t
The Legion Posts the ranges Duluth; the Com
mercial Clubs and Chambers of Commerce. the City Councils
many Of the cities in the Arrowhead country the news
confiscatory taxes levied the industry For long time
of the mining only idle talk the
throwing of leases and the removal Of activities other
all that Minnesota afford to lose this industry
THIS M ru as on n Sa@a
the people of the emphacay in the two
Elmer Blu Tells the World
Elmer Blu solicitor for the subsidiaries Cor
poraton, WCCO in Minneapolis last Friday gave
situation the in the face After citing ills
drew to the a a b
of the state He also stated that mining confined to rather
with the present condition Of this important industry
Mr. Blu then went on to state that the mining industry
and transportation of iron that produces IL
pa and that had in eod to 1 the rua
OF the state TO rhe benefit of future generations
He then attention Of This his to the plight
people of the who of the plight mining
companies in and that these companies better off
farming but that there was no such thing subsistence
and that while the farmer able to produce living
of paying taking of the unemployed task
they attempting the face of existing
sadded with Under the laws the state iron whether
mined unmned assessed at fifty cent of it's full and
such hiph
rate Plated property assessed at 40 cent and agrcu
per higher than other industrial
business and SO cent higher than agricultural
In addition to the heavy burden of ad general
he iron ORE III to SIX per
900 annually This not based income
nothing depreciation only for taxes and not
even all all the the costs ss Sc Of to operation
ten which still further costs the companies
s M aa e tire @
by court decision The personal property in the
mined during months when ore is not being
shipped and is penalzed for being mined furnish
In 1882 the commission recognized decline
O. a n IN It's yaYs %
100000 The application Of the mining companies for similar
purposes the now that did in 1929
when prices Of all commodities at their Thus
other property and the increase in all evies to the
Mr. Blu cited Prof R. e. Blakely, who in his publication,
Taxation Minnesota chapter on mining taxes
which illuminating Prof Blakey found that from
1925 1929 each of produced
81 cents for taxes while the labor per only
80 cents He found that such labor
costs by So per little over 70 per
cent all production cost Mr. Blu also stated that this has
caused the cancellation the year leases
covering than ore one company
has been driven from the state and has Michigan
is of higher grade than the average Minnesota
where lake and rail freh ess where there
stock piles royalty occupation tax where
mined half the
tax per ton of ore mined in Minnesota.
had made
effort affect economies by securing royalties dividends
have been passed. have been reduced
remains the with market for the product egi
ature in session and could
ducon by cutting off the extra imposed the industry
will far allow compete with the ores
other states and countries order survive depression
also bespoke for the industry the assistance of all branches