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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



reserved, for no fair-minded person will, after thorough investi- 

 gation, dispute the facts set forth above. 



At present, a little less than half the area has been designated. 

 The land to the north and west of the town of Cass Lake, south 

 of the Mississippi River, is not to be reserved, thus allowing 

 the town an outlet and area for truck farming. Almost the en- 

 tire area chosen, which lies east and south of Cass Lake, is solid 

 Norway and jack pine land. In the southwest corner of the tract 

 are a few small patches of hardwood. Elsewhere one would find 

 great difficulty in selecting more than eighty acres of land in 



view from lake shore. 



any one place without including jack pine sand. There are hard- 

 wood tracts on the reservation, but they lie south of Leech Lake 

 and east and north of the proposed ultimate boundaries of the 

 selected area, within which there is still far more Norway and 

 jack pine land than will be needed to complete the selection. It 

 is the ultimate judgment of the writer that prevention of set- 

 tlement on this area is itself a distinct benefit to the locality. 



Land which is not fit for farming can still grow trees, yet so 

 slow is the process that individuals cannot be expected to go 

 into the business. State governments may do something, but 



