Logs at Lower End of Lake Itasca Stranded Because of 

 low Flood Water 



men. During the session of 1893 efforts were made to perfect 

 the formation of the state park. There was opposition to it 

 on the part of men in hoth the house and senate. When the 

 legislative session closed the committees on finance and ap- 

 propriations had failed to make the necessary appropriations. 

 The park commissioner was left without any alternative. He 

 could either resign and leave the park to its fate or proceed 

 without pay to protect the interests of the park. He did the 

 latter. It is needless to say that the state of Minnesota owes 

 much to Mr. J. V. Brower for his devotion to duty. 



In 1895 the legislature saw fit to appropriate money for the 

 maintenance of the park. The subsequent history of the 

 park, history that is bound up in the history of the political 

 battles in the legislatures of the state, is of interest only to 

 those who desire to go into the subject deeply. Suffice it to 

 say, that Itasca state park has gradually grown in the hearts 



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