The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-17

tiOnal publicity that would have cost
your department many thousands of
dollars to have obtained.
Ely's expenditure at the Chicago Out
door Exposition every year amounted to
thousands of dollars land this venture
directly promoted the good win of the
public toward your forestry service.
1t is true that Ely as small COM
munity cannot give your department., or
any lumber companies that might here
after develop that area, the same pub
licity in daily newspapers that you
might hope to receive from the City of
Duluth, but I venture to say as one
who has resided for Is years in that
area. that the forestry service will lose
its best friends if this removal Is car
ried forward
I have never found a person in that
entire area who was not willing and
ready to fight for the development,
advertising and preservation of your
National Forest Playground.
know that there is more genuine
interest by the citizens of Ely con-
corning the personal qualifications and
duties of game wardens and forest
rangers than is generally shown by the
citizenry toward the President of the
United States.
l feel that you are overlooking an
important factor in the PRONUNCIATION of
your forestry program when you divorce
the Ely community from the actual field
work and supervising headquarters of
your department.
believe that you will yield to reason
in this matter and will re-alter your
plans of removal and continue your
headquarters at Ely.
I have personally enlisted and OBJ
tanned the cooperation and support of
the Minnesota State Department of
Conservation in objecting to this sudden
and unwarranted change of location
Permit me to say that if your decision
is not altered so as to retain the head
quarters at Ely, that shall use every
agency at my command 10 enlist the
vigorous support of group of United
States Senators and Congressman, now
at Washington, who am sure will
fight with us to prevent your program
being carried out.
| AS member of the Conservation
Commission r. r. Bailey of Virginia
highly recommended Senator Lommen
for his efforts in the removal matter
and also took occasion to throw a
boquet or two at the people of Ely for
their progressive actions on public af-
fairs in the following letter to the
Senator in which he said:
Dear Senator:
I have just learned that you intend
to be in Duluth tomorrow when the
hearing on the removal of the head
quarters of the Federal Forest Bureau
now located at Ely to Duluth and pro-
test the removal.
I just want TO tell you that attended
a meeting Of the Virginia Property
Owners Association, every member OF
which is a property owner in the City
of Virginia one thousand strong and
you were commended highly in no un-
certain language for your earnest efforts
in opposing the removal and I was
requested to confer and cooperate with
you and offer any suggestions and give
you every possible assistance.
Ely, without any question, is the most
ideal spot 10 demonstrate and show
results in conservation.
First, its citizens are the most pro-
gressive crowd for wild life, forestry and
minerals, being located right in the
midst of all three things which really
are the big things in conservation.
Ely has taken most active part in
volving all these questions and has Of
fered some very constructive suggestions
together with some criticism which has
always been received with welcome BY
our commission, and if other COM
munities would take similar interest oul
Commission would better function. This
should apply to the Federal Department
as well as our State Department.
You are wen aware that at Ely anc
Winton the State maintains the largest
headquarters in Forestry and Game anc
Fish in the state and that with all the
great natural resources centering there
we have it in mind to greatly enlarge
these headquarters in the very neal
future and it seems too bad that the
Federal Government now seeks to re.
move from this ideal spot their head.
quarters, whose object should be identi.
cal with ours.
Impress on the proper authorities ant
|continue your protest in no uncertain
lway the removal and assure the Fedora
authoriteis that our Commission value.
its cooperation in looking after the
Estates interests and the Federal land
which are so interningled and tha'
while the jurisdiction can not be com
bined that to overcome any interlockins
of work and secure cooperation it woule
be best, if possible, to have them 10.
Gated in the same locality as they arr
now.
i If there is anything further that oul
Commissjon or the citizens of Virginia
who know are with you to man, can
lido, do not fail to call on us as we al
1consider it crime to segragate twt
institutions whose objects are absolutely
identical in the same localities
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