The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-04
vACATI0NERS
SEEK RESPITE
FROM WORRIES
Record Number Floods Into
Area as Tourist Season
Gets Under Way.

Vacation bound tourists flooded into
the Ely territory this week to inaug-
urate the season with bang. Seeking
relief from the heat of the middle
west, business cares, and personal wor-
ries, they sought communion with
nature and all she has to offer in the
heart of the Minnesota Arrowhead
country.
The vanguard of this vast throng ar
rived last weekend, and the number
steadily increased throughout the week.
Most of the visitors were here for
week or two, for the time for annual
vacations is here.
Iowa cars, as has been the case all
spring, appeared to be in the majority
insofar as out-of-state visitors are con-
cerned. Many Minnesotans from vari-
Gus parts of the state are also taking
advantage of the heritage of blue lakes
and fighting fish that the Gopher state
possesses.
While June and its cool weather was
not conducive to record month"; July,
August and September are expected to
see an above average number of visi-
tors coming into the area. The weather
will be the important factor in bringing
in the tourists, and if the weather is
favorable, it is predicted by some
sources that this summer may be con-
siderably better than for several years.
One resort reports that June of this
year has been the best in eight years.
During June the Ely Commercial club
has received inquiries at the rate of
nearly five per day. Since the season
ended last fall, 451 persons have written
for information.
AS in past years, the majority of
writer's seek information on canoe trips
There are also many inquiries about
seaplane fishing, trips into the Quetico
park, around Hunters Island, and
facilities for golfing, tennis, riding,
dancing and swimming, and fishing by
no means is all that they are interested
| in. In fact two Minnesota men, who
are seeking information concerning a
canoe trip said they definitely were
to travel over scenic routes.
Another Wisconsin party was in
terested in making a tour of border
lakes to take pictures And there were
the usual number of persons who would
like to come here for vacation and
pay for it by working at resort.
Ely, located at the gateway to the
border lakes region of the Minnesota
| Arrowhead, is attracting an increasing
number of canoe parties.
This untouched wilderness offers the
ordinary individual the chance to feel
like an explorer. With an endless
chain of lakes, spreading out from a
score of starting-off points, the canoe
and ones own feet are the only means
of travel.
There are more than 5000 charted
lakes in the Superior National Forest,
heart of the Arrowhead Country. Here
one may fish and swim, camp and ex-
plore as the voyageurs of century ago,
far from the rush Of the busy cities.
Shy deer an occasional moose, a duck
with her brood, the ambling porcupine-
these are wild animals that are fire.
quently seen as the canoeist pushes his
way along the shores of the glacial
lakes of the Northland. Sunny slopes
to the waters edge, towering red pine,
a swamp of tamarack with their lacy
foliage, pale green poplar and white
birsh trees-this is the campers para
disc.
A packsack with its store of food,
fishing tackle and canoe, blankets and
a tent; these are the essentials of a
trip into the roadless region of the
border. Here is adventure that is
boon to minds and bodies seeking re-
storation by the tonic of the outdoors.
Yes-The Ely News Store