will be enriched by the sum of $375,000, as the state receives 

 a royalty of 15 per cent per ton on all ore mined on its min- 

 eral lands. Further, the state receives from the leaseholders 

 in the way of minimum royalties and rentals about $100,000 

 additional, so that the total income to the state in 1912 is 

 estimated to be about $500,000. 



Ore shipments from all mines over the Great Lakes in 

 August, were 7,760,248 gross tons, the highest record of any 

 month in the history of lake traffic. There is every indica- 

 tion, Mr. Funk said, that this year the shipments generally 

 from Minnesota will surpass the record year 1910, when they 

 amounted to 31,966,769 tons. It is estimated that the tax 

 levied on mines not of the state, will bring an additional in- 

 come this year of $600,000. The tax commission is now work- 

 ing on the valuations of mines, which in 1910 they fixed at 

 $232,399,191. 



The known tonnage of iron ore on "state" mines is, in 

 round numbers, 150,000,000 tons, or about one-ninth of the 

 total tonnage of the state, as admitted to the tax commission. 



A crew of eight men was sent to Nevers dam on the up- 

 per St. Croix river, September 9, to break a log jam of 

 10,000,000 feet. Another crew from the St. Croix boom 

 went to Taylor's Falls to keep the logs moving after being 

 sluiced and run over the big electric power dam at that point. 

 That is expected to be the final drive of logs on the St. Croix, 

 as no logs will be put into the river or its tributaries here- 

 after. The intention is to begin improving the upper St. 

 Croix, from Stillwater to Taylor's Falls, next year, so that 

 pleasure boats may operate with more regularity. 



QIFFORD PINCHOT, former chief forester and close 

 friend of Colonel Roosevelt, will stump Minnesota for 

 the Progressive party early in October. 

 Henry Cochems, in charge of the national speakers' bureau, 

 wired H. T. Halbert that Pinchot would be put at the disposal 

 of the Minnesota state committee. Arrangements will be 



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