Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 16, 1909, Page 5

i I f F DISTRICT 1S HOME Congressman C. B. Miller Returns to Duluth and Gives Interesting Interview in News-Tribune. SAYS TARIFF ON ORE NECESSARY Cuba Would Rival Mesaba Range in Production of Iron With the Tariff Removed—Aldrich Bill an Improvement. Congressman Clarence B. Miller re- turned from Washington about a month ago. Asked to talk about af- fairs at Washington in which the peo- ple at the head of the lakes are par- ticularly interested ,he said: “When the tariff bill was returned by the ways and means committee it was found that iron ore was on the free list. 1 made an investigation to find what effect the free admission of ore would have on the iron industry of Minnesota. I learned that within the past two or three years they had discovered ore beds ou the north coast of Cuba which are capable of equal- ing in tonnage the output of the en- tire Mesaba range. These Cuban ore properties were acquired by certain eastern people interested in the iron basiness and they can mine this ore at low expense and deliver it on the Atlantic seaboard at $2.85 a ton and make a profit. The Cuban ore is as good as ours. The bringing of Cuban ore would mean the curtailing of the market for Minnesota ore and we would lose in direct proportion to the amount of the importation. It wouid work a special hardship upon all own- ers of low grade ores in this state as well as upon those working low grade ore properties. “If thisore were to be admitted free, it would be possible for large concerns, in case of difficulty of any kind in the west to discontinue oper- ating the mines here and to purchase ore there, an@ even inthe best of times togive advantage to Cuban importation. Free ore would work disastrously, especially to fee own- ers. A mining lease uoder which most companies operate the mines, is in its essence only an opportunity to purchase ore at a cer- tain specified price. Thereis noth- ing to prevent, ina great many cases, the operating’ company from throw- ing up its lease and purchasing Cuban or any other ore if it can do so to advantage. This brings the need of a duty on iron ore close home to all the fee owners and prospect owners in this locality. “TJ took up a movement for duty on iron ore and working in conjunction with such others as would be found interested in the same way, but who lam sorry tosay, were few in num- ber, and secured a promise that the tinance committee would report a duty of 25 cents a ton on iron ore. This is the present situation. It looks as if the senate will pass the bill inthis form, but it is of the utmost importance that those in- terested, especially on the Mesaba and Cuyuna ranges, should communi- cate with our senators and any other members of the senate they may know, urging the wishes of this region for protection. I regard the situation as one of grave importance to our people and one all should in- terest themselves in. The extent of the movement for free ore may be appreciated when it is understood that practically all the furnace in- terests and all the people interested in the iron business on the Atlantic seaboard, especially in such cities as Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York, are making every effort to have all tariff on iron ore removed. “The tariff bill as passed by the house, witha few exceptions, isa distinct reduction and revision down- ward. There was a very earnest and sincere effort made by a majority|> of the Republicans to lower the tariff whenever it could be done with- out seriously crippling American in- dustries. Personally, £ endeavored to consider the interest of the cun- sumer as well as the pr ducer, and many more members acted iu the same way. ‘The Democrats, houw- ever, surprised us in many instances by becoming zealous advocates of the protection principle and voted to boost up the tariff whenever the in- terests of their localities could be served by such a course. In fact, the highest protectionists, so far as lum- ber and some other items are con- cerned, are to be found among the Democrats from the southern states, “The senate has proposed quite an extensive increase in certaio sched- ules. If they pass the Dill in this form I think the house will insist up- on a reduction. In fact, we are begin- ning to feel inclined, at least some o* us are, to keep up the: fight for lower work, when the bill comes back to the house.” Value of Cut-Over Lands. The approaching exhaustion of the marketable timber supply of the United States. suggests that very possibly one of the greatest sources of wealth, as yet ‘scarcely cunsidered, may. be the cut-over timber lands of the Northwest, says Farm, Stock & Home. Pine, tamarack and spruce slashings, that.a few years ago were valueless, will, as the price of timber advances and-as they grow into marketable stock, have a very con- siderable value. Theannual increase of timber per acre represents a net income from the soil considerably larger than that from grain growing. A case is reported from Bottineau county, N, Dak., where fora period of 18 yearsan acre of white poplar grew unhindered, with the result that on cutting it paid all expenses and sold for $270 net, or an income per year of $15 to the acre. A like report reaches us from a timber planot- ing in South Dakota. Such returns are no doubt exceptional, yet they only serve to emphasize the fact that if we want wood we can grow it, and that there is good money in doing so. Closing Out Millinery Stock. Ehle, Doran & Joyce will close their milinery store during the sum- mer season. For the next few days they will offer some very attractive bargains in trimmed hats. The opportunity now offered will only be available for a short time as the number of desirable articles are some- what limited. Those who take ad- vantage of the opportunity at once will be the gainers, as to price, style and quality. We inyite the ladies of Grand Rapids and vicinity to make a call and see the rare bargins we have to offer them. EH ue, DoRAN JAYCE The Grand Rapids Milliners. Northern Minnesota The Commercial West, published at Minneapolis, prints an editorial about Northern Minnesota that is distinct- ly worth while. It is good reading for those who live in the empire it describes, and it will be good read- ing for those who don’t live init, and who therefore, in all probability, bayen’t the faintest idea what a relm of potential richness and grat- ness It is. The Commercial West truely says: ‘“Phis northero half of Minnesota has about one-third the population density of the southern balf, but bas natural resources in timber, water power, iron ore and uncultivated ag- ricultural land that are perbaps uuequaled by any other like section of the globe. Northern Minnesota’s has thearea of Ohio and substantially as great natural resources as Ohio once nad, but with only one-tenth of ohio’s present population. Northeru Mign- esota is the equal of Switzerland in area, but is greatly its superior io arable soil and railroad facilities, as well as in mineral and timber wealth and water power resources; but it has only one-fifth the population of Switzerland. This makes it plain that Northern Minnesota offers rare opportunities to the settler and investor, as well as the captains of industry in mining, manufacturing and agriculture, All that this great industrial empire needs is more population, and located as it is at the center of the continent of North America, with the best of transportation facilities from all direc- tions, the influx of immigration will be speedily forthcoming -— indeed, is now swiftly on the way. “Let it not be infered, however, that Northern Minnesota, notwithstand- ing its vast abundance of unseized and unexploited resources, is a how- ling wilderness.’ 1t already has more railroad milage than Maine or Mass- achusetts. It has close upon 600,000 population, all busily engaged in the forests, mines, cities, farms and railroads. Its freight tonnage by rail exceeds the total for all Newengland. ‘Among the finest agricultural land in the worjd are the famous wheat lands of the Red river valley. In this fertile section there are still upwards of 1,500,000 acres of govern- ment lands subject to homestead entry aod something like 2,000,000 acres of state lands can be bought for $5 to $15 per acre on easy terms with long term payments at 4 per cent. Don’t kick because you have to but- ton your wife’s waist. Be glad your wife bas a waist and doubly glad you have a wife to button a waist for. Some men's wives’ waists have no buttons on to button. Some men’s wives who have waists with buttons on to button don’t give a continental whether they are buttoned or not. Some men don’t have any wives with waists with buttons on to button any more than a rabbit. —Bacon,. Illi- nois, Journal. duties if it requires another month’s| OWLSGCTEREON dairy state, so can afford to take” the ‘COMES TO THE FAIR Accepts Invitation to Visit the Big Minnesota Show But Doesn't Care so Much About Doing the Cow- Milking Stunt. Gov. B. F. Carroll of Iowa is to be a guest ofthe Minnesota State Fair sometime during Sep. 6 to 11, but he will not expluit bis far famed pench- ant for cow milking unless promised a large portion of the gate recipts during the day and date of exhibition. As the State Fair management can not see its* way clear to such an ar- rangement there will be no milking stunt, although many Minnesotans would like to see such a demonstra- tion by lowa’s governor. Gov. John A. Johnson recently wrote Gov. Carroll; ‘I am advised by the wanagement of our State Fair that you are very much interested in dairy- ing. It has been with pleasure and admiration by’the people of our state that, in addition to your other quali- fications as Chief Executive, you attend to theimportant duty of milk- infithe family cow twice each day and that nothing in your daily rou- tine is permited to interfere with this detanl. “In behalf of theBoard of Manag- ers of the Minnesota State Fair. I, therefore. take pleasure in issuing to you an invitation to attend the com- ing State Fair, September 6—11, as guest of the Fair management, and I respectfully suggest that during your visit among us, you make at least one demonstration of your ability as a milker of acow at the State Fair Grounds. “Awaiting with anxiety your re- sponse to this invitation. and assur- ing you that we will not accept ‘no’ for an answer, I am sincerely yours.” Iowa's chief executive replied that he would be very glad to bea guest of the Minnesota State Fair, but “In your request for an exhbibitation of my skill in milking the family cow permit me to say, that you have over looked the most substantial feature connected with an exhibitation of that character and that is, as to whether or not your Society would be willing to-divide the gate receipts. _ In view of the importance of such an attraction as you have suggested 1 think I might reasonably expect pot less thao 60 per cent.” Champions of the Cow. Governor Johnson finds. himself sort of “‘topsy-turvy” these days, but he does not need to care. Heretofore he has only had to claim credit for all the legislature did or avoided; now he is blamed for a lot of things it did and of which he approved as well as disapproving what it did. Aud now c mes Harry Grimmer, in the innocence of his child-like nature, and io trying to make things easier all around raises another swirling of dried leaves. The legislature care- lessly amended the pure-foud laws in such a way as to require every man who sells milk, even if but the sur- plus from one boyin, to take out a license—cost one dollar. It was the governor’s off day, with his good angel on a vacation, when he signed it, and now the blame is all put upon his devoted head, with not even a dribble for the legislature. Mr. Grimmer, replyiug to an inquiry from an indignant owner of Bossy, wrote that no man need worry as to the law, as discretion would be used in its enforcement. The newspapers, always looking for truble, ask by what right the gov- ernor will use discretion in enforcing the laws; laws, egad, are made to be enforced, and if they are bad, they can be repealed, but it is not the chief executive’s part to play favor- ites. They forget the goveruor did not write the letter. He probably has scolded Harvey severly for being so careless and then passed him his fa- vorite smoke, which is not a cigar- ette. Nor evidently do they know Harney, orthey would appreciate that he could not do other than he did. Huis broad sympathies were es- pecially appealed to and the memor- ies of his bucolic boyhood, when he gamboled on the Grampian bills of Nova Scotia and every morning milk- ed a cod fish before breakfast. It is no fun this governor business anyway when too prolonged. The people are like children; they get tired of even their fondest dolls aud fall into the familiar habit of carping critics or stern parents. They find fault if you do and tind fault if you don’t. What would they have in this in- stance? Would they have Governor Johnson arrest every cow owner who sold a few quarts of milk to his peigh- bors? They would not do it if gover- nor, and if they had an executive clerk who threatened it they would fire him. Harvey was right; the governor is right. They were both raised on milk aod refuse to forget their bring- ing-up or turn against their still best friend. They are the champions of the cow in the nation’s greatest pin-pricks of a lot of chronic fault- finders. Indeed, we can almost hear Frank Day wmattering “peanut politics”—Duluth News Tribune. Ray Hane Dead. Roy Hane, aged twenty-two years, died at the home of his father, Loren Hane, yesterday morning, after a lingering illness that lasted more than a year. He was afflicted with tuberculoses, and during the past nine months had been confined to his bed. The remains will be laid to rest in Itasca cemetery this afternoon. 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SRP E REE if “ Orders for Sunday Ice Cream k Must be left on Saturday 7 also carry a complete line of Dry Goods, Ladies’ and Gent’s Furnishing SHO OnE OO EUG He GORE ROE OOOOOROOOEE DEDEDE EEE ca eet alee ee Goods, Men’s and Boys’ Clothing, Hats and , il E ‘ Caps, Boots and Shoes, Rubbers, Unbrellas, vl ngineering Rain Coats for Ladies’ and Gent’s at prices to g SURVEYING, meet everybody’s purse. 5 psiaslinas $ GRAND RAPIDS : i CONSTRUCTION, # C. H.MAR acre gs SUPERINTENDIN 3 | Soe ne yrseneeseseseOenee PEDERSEN : AND DRAFTING = $ SSOCCSRLCOLES: CCCeSEseesEs: $ ITASCA ENGINEFRING CO. % GRAND RAPIDS, ¢ = MINNESOTA J. A. BROWN, Mgr. Phone 168 be pggeg me or Sete etostoctoctoctoctortoctestectestertesiese STALLION, : DEWEY, a eh RR eight 1,600 pounds, will stand at the stable of Sol- GED, W. SAWYER 318 sere scinttocs. cee ct paper building, one block DEALER IN east of postoffice in Grand Rapids, for season of 1909. INTERNATIONAL SUGARED $}@ uscmert'we teter to FEED Certificate No. 347 issued by Professor Andrew Boss, of the State Stallion Registration Board, show- For HORSES, COWS r 2 i this Stalli to h HOGS. SHEEP. pina ‘officially, Pe ae POULTRY and found free from any taint or defect.’ GRAND RAPIDS, - MINN. { SOLBERG @ CO., Owners. DEWEY will stand at Grand Rapids Mondays, Wednes- days and Saturdays; at Cohasset, Tuesdays; at Coleraine, Thursdays and Fridays. ~ ~ ots 4o’clock inthe afternoon of that de following described real pao, with the hereditaments and 1 thereunto belonging, or in anywise taining, and all the right. title and of the above named plaintiff, Frank \\ andof the defendants, Etha D. Wil nd Cordelia H. Far ot and Alfred W. Holliday vic realestate being situated in th of itusca, and state of Minnesota de seribed as follows: $4 of se4, and se of sw of section st, andsw'4 of sw ofsection 35, township 14% north,Jrange 28 west. said above described mOpersy, willbe sold tothe highest bidder for cash. Dated this 29th day of May, 1909. JOHN A. CLIN Referee, STATE OF MINNESOTA, { District Court, County of Itasca, Fifteenth Judical District, Frank W. Street, a minor, by Mary I’. Street, his guardian, Etha D, Wilmot, former: Earl Wilmot, Cordelia formerly Cordelia H, Street, and Alfred W. Holliday, Defendants. Notice is hereby given, shes by ane ofa judgment and decree of the ve named court in the above entitled action, rendered on the 29th day of May, 1909,a duly certified copy of which is in my hands for enforce- ment, I willsell at public auction to the soor of | stig cou ur bow Foc _ oe ere ge ro! court house in illawe 0 ogee ids, in Sag Minnesota, in Sati ae 'the iteh day of July, 1909, at iat a for aoe cxtect fit, simplicity and reliability nearly 40 years. Sold in nearly ay. city and town in the United States and Canada, or by mail direct. More sold than any other make. Send for free catalogue. McCALL’S MAGAZINE ae subse bers than any other fashion ma onth. veya Lat- ‘terns, dressmaking, millinery, eehcapies, pterns, Scaediewotkstaitdreetarys =. ¢ jubscri etc. Only 80 cents & INDUCEMENTS to Agents. Postal Beings airs catalogue stories, 1 double), itcluding a pattern, today, or send for sample copy. fo Ages! GIBBONS & TORRANCE, ‘THE McCALL CO., eeree. cnn. 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