Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 31, 1907, Page 1

» 7 THE Histotical Society. BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE# QESOTA Cf L — VOLUME 5. NUMBER 215. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1907. FORTY CENTS PER MO.\T TIMELY SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BEMIDJI dJ. J. Opsahl Gives Good Suggestion for Citizens of Be- midji.---Better Drainage Laws.---New and Improved Methods for the Conducting State Land Sales. J. J. Opsahl, a member of the Be-|and at present making our city their midji Commercial Club, makes the | main base of trade. If a settler was following suggestions forathe be(~1[on every 80 or 160 in that territory, terment of Bemidji and northern|would it benefit Bemidji's business Minnesota for the year 1908. He|men? Consider the crowded trains says: now on the M. & I. every day with “With the commencement of 1908, | over 75 per cent of the lands vacant the the New Year, most every indi-|north of us; what would 1t be if all vidual will resolve to do certain|was well settled and Bemidji had things during the next twelve trade industries that would draw raonths. | them to us? Is there any way we “If it is a customary and popu-|can encourage settlement, gain the lar habit by individuals, would it |settlers’ friendship, good will and not be a good business proposition |trade? I say yes: by helping -them for the City of Bemidji, its Com-|to help themselves, viz: pave the mercial Club, newspapers, as well | way for new settlers ‘to find good as individuals to adopt certain de-_mquet: for their products, which velopment resolutions on New Year’s r they have to turn off for sale from day and stick by them through|their farms, and selling them back thick and thin for 366 days? onr goods at prices that will hold “Stick-to-itiveness and presistency l the trade. generally win in most cases and| First: north of us and tributary and would be sure winners in lines|to the railroad,, there are over a of good measures backed up by the|million acres of state land, mostly whole effort of our thriving city, and | covered with small timber. This its enterprising and industrious |land at present pays no taxes, nor neigebors that would be jointly in- | helps to build roads or maintain terested with us. | schools, but retards other settlers. “Take the state map and give a It should be sold to settlers and few moments study to the trade |placed onthe tax list. In many tributary to Bemidji, the large area | towns in Koochiching county over south and west that can be turned |90 per cent are state lands. this way with encouragement and| “Rules made years ago governing further railroad buildings, and then|the handling of the state lands and look carefully over the vast empire | timber were O. K. at that time, but that lays north of us, between here | timber conditions have changed the and the Canadain boundry, tributary last years so that some of these are to the M. & I. main line, the Kelli-|out of place at present, and the her branch and its probable exten-! Timber Board have taken upon them- sion to the boundry, and the M., R.|selvesto interpet the rules as far as L. & M. railroad and the Wilton | possible towards the present con- Northern, all leading to Bemidj, ‘ ditions to perserve the school funds l,j&tl»i(-ifi EERCEFEEEEEETCETETECERECERESEE EEEEE?FEG(Efi% New Years At Hotel Burroughs People who enjoy a good feast, to begin the New year, will find it served at the Hotel Burroughs from eleven a. m. until two p. m. You will do well t> come and enjoy this feast, whizh is being prepared by our well known and competent chef. And we shall endeavor to give you the syme good service throughout the New Year. Our Menu, which appears below, will be served with best service to one and all. $.50 PSS SSSSSSSS MENU Canape de Caviar Oyster Cocktail Beef Tea in Cup Salted Almonds Cream of Tomato Salted Peanuts Cheese Straw Celery Fried Red Snapper, Metelat Shoe String Potatoes B . . Breaded Valied Pike, Meuniere Potato Dutch Claret Sherbet New England Chicken Pie French Peag Ginsen Pipher, Baked Apples Home Made Noodles Young Turkey, English Dressing, Cranberry Sauce Ash Baked Sweet Potatoes Roast Prime Native Beef, York Shire Mashed Potatoes Stuffed Goose, Oyster Dre.sing, California Prunes Fried Sweet Potatoes Waldorf Salad Chicken Salad Nuts Raisins English Fruit Pudding, Hard and Brandy Sauce Chocolate Nut Ice Cream ' A:sorted Cake Pampkin Pie Apple Pie Mince Pie H. P. BURROUGHS, $.50 Proprietor $.50 333333333 333333333 333 333 333333333333 333339339333 fmflfi&““‘-‘flfi(tifii(fi(ififimii FEEEEECEEFEEE R EEECEEEEEEEEEEEEFEEEFEErEEEFEEEEFEECEECEFCEEEECECEEEEFCEFEECEEEEEEEEEEEEFCERE kww%l”#”:’”i”&l‘!ifll&iwfl&:’%fl-’l’#’aH’Q’!‘)i’i’-li!}‘)):iii-i&&!!’33353’533!59399533")93‘5333393!’33’”33-‘)-’331‘)"353%!333’!51‘)’5 interests. Our joint legislature com- mittee on state lands and timber conferred with the timber board and the land commissioner about these matters, and then introduced cer- tain new regulationsto better con-|UP; form with the conditions, but the bills were buried in the last rush of the session. Oneof the rules was that county and local shool officers should be agents of the land depart- ment make regular reports" to same on conditions of land and timber treepass, etc., in their districts, and where any fines for treepass were collected, all, or part, should go to the local school district. “Ancther rule was that the pre- sent system of selling timber by standing estimates should be dis- continued, and in -pine, saw logs, ties and poles, sale™-should be made on bank scale or count “And third, and most important to the settlement of the north country; to discontinue the ,cash estimate sales by forties or sections, giving two years permits with one year’s extensions, but sell such mixed timber only at regular land sales (as the auditor now is doing on small amounts of mixed timber) one of the main objects gained would be to stop the present waste, to permit holder of three years use of lands without taxes to the community, and also three years interest on the purchase of the land to the school fund, while on the other'hand this mixed tim- ber is of far more encouragement and value to the actual settler (and the community as above) than to a transient logger, as a settler can take his time in removing same with his own laborers he clears the land, thereby working at home, opening a farm, paying taxes and spending the loggers’ profit in the development of the local commun- ity, as labor represents on that mixed timber in most cases 75 per cent to 90 per cent of the mar- ket value and the state stumpage price from 10 per cent to 25 per cent only, like cedar. post . bring- ing the state an estimated stump- age price of % per cent and pulp wood 50c per cord, when cut and hauled out. “The labor and a reasonable margin for logging or manufacturing will amount to from eight to nine times the stumpage value, the same in jack pine lath bolts and even ties. Under the present system the permits hold the lands out of the settlers’ hands and off the tax list for an average of three years, and when the scttler gets it, he gets a stumpy barren to improve, and has to go away, from home to work for others, while, if we changed the rules and sold this timber to the man who will settle on it and improve the place, he will have work at home at good margins. Whether the state gets all cash down for the timher at the time of sale would be immaterial, as the cash must be loaned out, and interest can only be used, and in case of part time on the timber, under safe precautions, the state would get its interest in advance, which it gets on its loans after the year is past, and also tully as good, if not better prices. “Let Bemidji people consider if rules along such lines were adopted, would it help the north country’s development, and be a good adver- tisement on which to bring in settlers to buy state lands? It isso: It will be good for Bemidji, and let us bring pressure to bear upon the Timber Board and land department, so that at the coming land sale next spring, north of here, they have the lands appraised with above object in view as far as present law allows them, and then also see that the public opinion is moulded in favor of it strong enough so that the next session of the legislature will heed our demands for fair treatment of north country interests. “We should cultivate the rail- roads’ interest in our development ideas, get them to pull with us in all moves and get them to encourage industrial plants here at Bemidji for the rough products of the timber and soil by special rates for each in- dustry. The railroad will be found fair, provided we show themthat it is our mutual interest and that they will make money by such rate en- couragement. Our commercial club should have a freight rate bureau. “Suggestions asto a few of the many things we should work for in 1908 and get established here: a box and crate factory, a broom and hardwood novelty factory, an excel- sior mill, a stave and heading mill, a starch factory to use up low grade potatoes, and encourage potato raising, a pickle and canning fac- tqry, a wholesale grocery house, a sash and door factory, with tools for working hardwood lumber on custom | . basis, work up the normal school question, its needs in northern Min- nesota and Bemidji’s advantageous location for same. The normal school will come hard: and if Be- midji and vicinity want it, they will have to commence earnest work on Jan, 1st and 'keep itup till the leg- islature grants their demand: no let We should work with and as- sist our State Drainage Board in getting Steenerson’s drainage bill to cover the right of the state or county boards in state or judicial ditches, to levy assessments against vacant government lands, or lands that are not proved up, where it is necessary to drain through or past such lands, i e, that our rghts should be the same regarding im- provements on government lands as we have on private and state lands; or extending the Red Lake plans to government lands outside of the reservation regardirg the right-of-way and assessments. ] “Let us see January 1st, 1909, what united Bemidji has been able to accsmphsh in 1908. i ‘Yours Iespe ctfully, ] *J.’J. Opsahl.” Dr} and i uffs. We have never carried -any ‘““Seconds.” pnces on. everythmg. The best way is to come and see for yourselves. Goods Shoes, Clothmg, Gents’ Furmshmgs and rurniture We have decided to discontinue the above departments as the lease of the room expires in a few Weeks and we must vacate before that time. 1908, we will give the peoplz-of Bemidji and vicinity the benefit of the Greatest Sacrl- | fice Sale in the history of Northern Minnesota. :We offer every article in these departments at prices that will close them out, Regardless of Cost. All New Goods of Best Quality and Strictly Up-to-date. For lack of space we are unable to quote BELOW WE QUOTE A FEW PRICES: All Furs 1-3 Off A large assortment of Gordon & Ferguson fur scarfs All new styles. All Misses’ and Children’s Coats at less than cost. Ladies’ Tailor Made Skirts All $10.00, $12.00 and $15.00 skirts at. . ... ..$7.75 All $8.00 and $9 00 shirts $1.50 night gowns now $1.00 night gowns now 75¢ night gowns now All 50c and 60c goods, per All $b 50 and $6.00 suits All $5.00 and $€.00 skirts at All $4.50 and $5.00 suits at. . ... All $3.50 and $4.00 suits at. . ............... All $2 75 and $3.00 suits at, . ... svesaiaiens ] 9100 Men’s and Boys’ Sweaters 1-4 Off The prices quoted above are but a sample of the many unprecedented bargains we have to offer at this Greatest of all Sacrifice Sales. ment is large. Satisfaction guaranteed with every.purchase or money promptly re- at & Outing Flannel Night Gowns _ Wool Dress Goods All $2.00 and $2.50 goods, per yard, .......... $1.25 All $1.50 and $1.75 goods, peryard. .. ......... All $1.00 and $1.25 goods, per yard All 75¢ and 80c¢ goods, per yard yard o nns it b Silks and Ribbons 1-3 Off All Table Linen 1-4 Off ° All Embroidery Silks 2¢ Skein The balance of Hl?go%fg?wg s, Ladies’ snd Chil dren’s underwear at less thun cost. Men’s and Boys’ Overcoats at 50c¢ on the dollar. Children’s Suits All Wool Knit Goods such as underskiris, hoods, shawle, fascinators, sweaters, stocking caps, etc, 1- 3 off. Corsets’ Bon Ton $3.00 corsets Royal Worcester $2.00 corsets Royal Worcester $1.00 corsets. P. N. $2 00 corsets P. N. $1.00 corsets . An assortment of 500, 75¢ and $1.00 corsets nt Laces, Trimmings Beginning Jan. 2nd, and Embmideries | Thousands of yards of laces, trimmings and em- |jf' broideries at less than 50 per cent of cost. Shoes One of the largest and best selected stocks of shoes, rubbers and overshoes in northern Minnesota will be M sacrificed at prices never before quoted in Bemidji Space |l will not permit a list of prices. assortment *s large and you will be convinced that we are offering the most unprecelented values ever offered Come early while the on a new and strictly up-to-date shoe stock. | We carry such well known makes as Hanan & Sons, || American Gentleman and Americgm Lady. Collars " 40 dozen 15¢ “Arrow Brand” 60 dozen 16¢ “Arrow Brand” Furniture We will close out the balance of our stock of furni- ture at less than manufacturer’s cost. tunity of a life time; to buy good furniture at a cheap Carpets, Rugs and Mattmg Prlce. All—wool 2 75c All-wool . . . 65¢ Granit. . (..........50¢ funded. Goods delive'ed to any part of the city and Nymore E. H. Phone 30. collars, each collars, each . . . ... .... 9c PSS e 6 Ner s This is the oppor- =y Ingrain at..........565¢ Ingrain at .45¢c Ingrainat..........82c | Come early while the assort- inter & Co . BEMIDJI, MlNN,