"Messrs. and of Duluth and the noted geolo- 

 gist have just returned from a vacation trip at 



Nett Lake, Minnesota, and westward to Big Fork 

 rivers. There were thirteen in the outfit, including 

 the Indian helpers. The boat trip was staged down 

 across Nett Lake, down the river of the same name, 

 then up Little Fork river to the rapids. Then the 

 outfit portaged to Big Fork river at Big Fork, which 

 they floated down to its junction with Rainy river. 

 They then pulled up that river to International Falls, 

 returning home this morning. They had a most en- 

 joyable trip and also made valuable discoveries. 



"Nett river, which drains Nett Lake to Little Fork 

 liver has 170 feet fall in thirteen miles. It has 

 numerous rapids and many power sites. Moreover, 

 along its banks and surrounding Nett Lake are 

 17,000,000 feet of standing pine ready for the axe. 

 Furthermore, adjacent to the stream are large stretch- 

 es of land suitable for farming . The party/' the 



article went on to say, "had made a thorough investi- 

 gation of this power proposition, though on a pleasure 

 trip. The river, they found, possesses 10,000 horse- 

 power at normal. Furthermore, by putting in a dam 

 twelve feet high at a certain point on the river and 

 thus raising the lake that much higher, the power 

 could be increased to 50,000 horsepower. The river 

 could then be dredged out and straightened to the 

 dam site and the thus enlarged lake could be used 

 as a saw log reservoir, from which the logs could be 

 boomed down the river as needed. At the dam site 

 and at the various falls along the stream, giant saw 



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