are forty-three miles of trails and paths. There are 

 thirty-five miles of telephone in the Park and twenty- 

 five miles of telephone to Park Rapids. Scattered 

 over the Park are five log cabins for the use of patrol- 

 men. Guide boards have been properly placed at var- 

 ious points. As accurately as I can ascertain the 

 State has expended during the past twenty-nine years 

 for improvements and care, including the pay for 

 Superintendents, $126,552.00. Included in this amount 

 is the sum of $5,000 paid for a herd of elk. Adding 

 $190,456.68 that has been paid for land and timber 

 makes $317,008.68 that the Park has cost the State to 

 the present time. 



A report drawn by the late Professor Samuel B. 

 Green, of the Forestry Board, December 1908 states: 

 "In the winter of 1907-8 the Forestry Board had dead 

 and down timber cut in Itasca Park to the amount of 

 800,960 feet, the net proceeds from which, amounting 

 to $4,112.53, were turned into the State Treasury. It 

 is probable that nearly as much timber can be sold 

 from the Park each year." The records of the State 

 Auditor's office show that during the years 1903 to 

 1918 inclusive the amount received by the State for 

 such timber was $20,523.53. Previous to 1900 no such 

 logging had been done in the Park. During the year 

 1919, there was paid into the State Treasury for such 

 timber $17,266.88. About $2700.00 has been paid into 

 the State Treasury for beaver skins. 



Section 3 of the Law which placed the Park under 

 supervision of the Forestry Board authorized the Re- 

 gents of the State University to use for their forest 

 demonstration work in connection with the forestry 



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