The board has on hand about $22,000 that has been 

 saved out of aprropriations from year to year. The state 

 now owns practically all the lands bordering on the lakes 

 i^nd the trails, all that can be seen or is likely to be 

 visited by the tourist. A few tracts that are privately owned 

 are included among those bordering on lakes and roads that 

 should be preserved in the primitive state. 



"Negotiations are under way to secure most of those, but 

 it is apparent that the state must awaken to the importance 

 and magnitude of the park project and provide more liberally 

 if justice is to be done to the opportunity. 



"The privately-owned lands in the park are now in the 

 hands of three interests, the Weyerhaeusers of St. Paul, 

 through the Pine Tree Lumber company; T. B. Walker and 

 C. P. Ruggles of Minneapolis. The interests of the last 

 named are included in four forty-acre tracts. The Walker 

 interests include about 2,600 acres on which are some of the 

 finest pine trees in the state. All concerned have shown a 

 disposition to co-operate with the forestry board and to give 

 to the state every opportunity to acquire the areas wanted 

 for the preservation of the park features. The lumbermen 

 have waited more than twenty years in some cases, and are 

 not disposed to delay much longer, particularly as some of 

 the timber is mature and is going back instead of improving 

 in condition. 



Preparations Made to Go Into Park and Cut Mature Timber 

 This Winter. 



"The Walkers have their logging road constructed up to 

 the east edge of the park. A camp has been established 

 there from which logging operations outside the park limits 

 were carried on in previous years. Preparations have been 

 made to go into the park and cut the mature timber this 

 winter. Some have maintained that the proposed logging 

 operations will be in the nature of a calamity and should be 

 headed off, if possible. These who should know are certain, 

 however, that it would be advisable to let the lumbermen go 

 ahead; that it would be a mistake for the state to undertake 



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