Opportunities in the Forests 



WHILE so many men are madly racing about this broad 

 domain seeking opportunity to invest a few thousand 

 dollars and get back just a few thousand more, why 

 doesn't some Patriot call a meeting, get the entire crowd 

 together and deliver a speech something like this: 



"Gentlemen, please gather close about me on the plush 

 chairs and listen. What's the use of your galloping all over 

 America hunting a place to plant that money where it will 

 grow, when there's a rich, untouched field in Minnesota that's 

 yelling out loud all about its aloneness? Don't you know 

 there are certain lines of industries here which someone, 

 sooner or later, will recognize and" invite right up to his house 

 to dinner and adopt into his family?" 



After the chorus "What-are-theys" has subsided, the Patriot 

 should continue: 



Wonderful Opportunity in Minnesota for Manufacturing 

 Poplar Products. 



"Do you know that practically all of the excelsior used in. 

 this state is imported from the East? Do you know that 

 excelsior is made almost exclusively from poplar? And do 

 you know that hundreds of thousands of feet of poplar goes 

 to waste in Minnesota each year and the plants making ex- 

 celsior in other states are becoming hard pressed for raw 

 material? Do you know that poplar found in Northern Min- 

 nesota is being used for interior finishing, for ceiling and even 

 for flooring? Do you know that nowhere in the United States 

 are there such magnificent forests of poplar as are found 

 along the streams draining into Rainy river, all the way from 

 Northern Cook county to the Lake of the Woods? 



"Think this over gentlemen. Try it out on your financial 

 secretary and see if he doesn't advise you to investigate." 



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