improvements in the Park. Mr. Stillwell served till 

 July, 1919, when the State Forester was authorized by 

 the Board to appoint Mr. C. M. Roberts as his suc- 

 cessor. The salary of the present superintendent is 

 $1,500.00 a year. He has the free use of a house in 

 which to live and his expenses paid by the State 

 average about $28.00 a month. Mr. J. A. McMahon 

 became custodian of Douglas Lodge in January, 1914 

 and still manages it as a hotel during the summer 

 season. 



At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the 

 Forestry Board February 27, 1912 the State Forester 

 was instructed to assume complete supervising care 

 of Itasca Park and control of persons necessary to 

 be employed therein. Also, the Executive Committee 

 at its meeting January 30th ordered that the Superin- 

 tendent of Itasca Park should report monthly to the 

 State Forester. 



At the above mentioned first meeting of the For- 

 estry Board in Itasca Park, Messrs. Heinzelman and 

 AYegmann, neighboring settlers appeared and urged 

 that a road be built around the Park, for one reason, 

 that people would know when they were in or out of 

 it. The construction of a road along the south and 

 west sides of the Park was one of the things which 

 early received the Board's attention; and I think that 

 it was in 1909, or early in 1910, that the members of 

 the Board drove over it in carriages although it was 

 not then wholly completed. Some visitors object to 

 many roads because, as they say, automobiles frighten 

 the deer. 



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