in its natural state as it is one of the famous beauty spots 

 of that section and accordingly the Farmers' club at Bear 

 River sought the interest of other commercial clubs on the 

 range in getting the state to secure a forest reserve there. 



By deals consummated through the attorney general's office 

 and the state auditor, the state of Minnesota has come into 

 possession of 480 acres of land, at an outlay of $40,000, in two 

 farms to be used as agricultural experiment farms. One is 

 located on the outskirts of Waseca, and consists of 235 acres, 

 for which $100 an acre was paid. The farm was purchased 

 from Roscoe P. Ward of Waseca. The other consists of 245 

 acres about three miles from Duluth, partly cleared, pur- 

 chased at a cost of $16,500. Only $14,500 was paid down, the 

 remainder to be paid when the land has been entirely cleared. 

 This acreage was purchased from the Greysolon Farms' com- 

 pany. 



The last legislature authorized the expenditure of $65,000 

 for the purchase of lands and erection of buildings for the 

 station at Duluth and $35,000 for the Waseca station. Both 

 are to be run in connection with the college of agriculture, 

 under the supervision of the university regents. 



The Northern Lumber company has nearly completed its 

 logging operations on Big Lake. A steam loader and crew 

 of men have been busy there nearly all summer hauling the 

 logs out of the la.ke, where they were landed two years ago, 

 loading them and shipping to Cloquet over the Northern 

 Pacific, running them on a temporary spur into Sawyer, 

 where they strike the main line. Z. B. Hoyt of Cloquet is in 

 charge of the camp, which in on reservation land, about 

 ten miles from Cloquet, and the road leading to it is 

 crossed and recrossed many times by the beds of old rail- 

 road tracks which were laid when the country was covered 

 with big timber and there was a camp every three or four 

 miles. At the completion of the work at Big Lake the track 

 will be taken up and the camp buildings abandoned to the 

 Indians. 



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