Louis, piled up into steep hills, torn with myriad gorges and 

 strewn with glacial boulders, lies useless at present in the 

 hand of man; but it supported a rich and productive forest 

 once and can do so again, in no other way can it prosper. 

 Then why not make it a forest? It will cost money, of course, 

 but not such a prohibitive sum. Think for a moment of the 

 thousands of dollars that a city willingly spends on a small 

 park in the heart of the city. And how little they have for 

 their nioney. Moreover, the city park is a continuous ex- 

 pense as long as it exists. The money spent on a half-acre 

 park of this character should purchase and put in shape one 

 hundred acres of this land on the Dalles, which could be 

 maintained as a forest for a nominal annual cost and would 

 eventually be not only self-supporting but would furnish an 

 income for the support of the city parks. Surely the city 

 could well afford to have several thousand acres of such for- 

 est as this. The city could not make a better investment. 

 For the money revenue is insignificant compared with the 

 other benefits to the city. 



The beauty of the old approach would be restored, the land 

 around the city, otherwise worthless, would be put to work, 

 the forest would be a real park, such as is possessed by no 

 other city in the Union. Many European cities have them 

 and they are always the pride of the city. Other noble sights 

 they have a-plenty, but it is this beautiful, useful, profit-paying 

 forest which is the pride of every citizen. 



Nor does the forest block development. Summer homes and 

 truck gardens can be scattered through it, wherever the soil 

 is suitable, and the surrounding forest makes them only the 

 more valuable. It need not be done all at once. Make a 

 small beginning, add to it gradually from year to year, and 

 before the most optimistic can realize it, Duluth will be the 

 proud possessor of a magnificent forest. 



Here is an opportunity for some wealthy "captain" of the 

 range to obtain immortality by presenting this land to the 

 city; an opportunity for the city to purchase the land under 

 the "municipal forest" law, or an opportunity for the citizens 

 to demonstrate their short-sightedness by letting the chance 

 go by. Which shall it be? 



