INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS VAST SYSTEM OF ARTERIAL ROADS PUTS NORTH MINNESOTA ON MAP 3WA SHOP An engineer of the state highway commission TWELVE HUNDRED MILES OF the other day glanced over the road maps of ii Northern Minnesota counties. He SPLENDID HIGHWAYS WILL didn't attempt to compute the mileage of countless little cross ro^ds and laterals under LINK TWIN CITIES TO construction, but he estimated the counties have built in the last two years, have under construction now, or will have completed by NORTHERN June next, 1,202 miles of roads. In many instances the roads are being built TOWNS where it was said road building forever would 21 $£?' 1 be impossible. They pass through great forests, x: s. -v across vast swamps, over and through By diaries F. Stuart 2 *, x* rocks, across rivers and lakes. Over these The other day Hans Engleson, citizen of arterial highways the State Highways commission V// Grand Marais, climbed into his automobile, and I *, has supervision. with a few friends drove from his home town Third Street Looking East Spirit of Enterprise Credited Tight through to Minneapolis. Anything astounding about that? Surely, How is Northern Minnesota obtaining these Park is south of Long Prairie. Beyond Long sible. several things. highways ?,'The Elwell road law, repealed by Prairie the Northland shows what it is doing The Corona bog road is practically finished Do you know where Grand Marais is No. the last legislature, is responsible for some of in the road building line. and Aitkin county is building a road from the "Well, Grand Marais is a little burg on the thepi- The Dunn road law, still on the statute The same comment may be made on the western portion of that county to meet Carlton's north shore of Lake Superior and is the county books, is responsible for others. The road from Minneapolis to Duluth, following road. Since there is a road from Brainerd, seat of Cook county, that county for which spirit of enterprise which permeates the entire the Northern Pacific route through Pine City. the Cuyuna -range and Duluth will be afforded. there never has been room on the Minnesota North is held responsible for all them. Hinckley, Sandstone, Moose Lake and Carlton. Of the 65 miles of new Carlton county map, the county which always is shown in a These roads are no dreams. Most of them Its worst part is the southern half. Beyond roads 30 are being built under the Elwell law little annex. already are realities. The others soon are to Hinckley the road is fairly good. and 35 by current tax with the county share Until this month, travel between Grand be realities. This road is one of the arterial highways of the Dunn law money. Marais and civilization was by steamer and Hubbard county has highways second to which the various counties enroute, are spending One important feature of the Dunn law canoe in the summer time and by dog teams none in Minnesota. considerable money on. The State Highway which the late Highways commission calls attention in the winter months. Sometimes there isn't Huddled away among the northern counties commission is improving a terrible stretch to is that a one-fifth portion of the any travel at all. just where the forests begin to grow scraggly between Pine City and Hinckley and also is proceeds of the imill tax must be devoted to Hans Engleson's machine is the first ever and break into prairies Hubbard has been working in the vicinity of Forest Lake. The maintenance of roads. Northern Minnesota to make the trip. saying nothing, but has been building roads commission, by next summer, promises to have is prepared to keep up her roads with these which would rouse the envy of any Southern Road One of Many a real road between the Twin Cities and Duluth. funds and is using the road drag effectively. Minnesota road advocate. The road traveled by Mr. Engleson is one Lake County Opened. All the way from Long Prairie, Todd county of hundreds of miles of new highways north'ern Carlton Forging Ahead. northward to the Hubbard county line, there Lake and Cook countiesc almost have been Minnesota is completing. Highways which Carlton county is one of the little counties cut off from the outside world excepting during i§ a splendid wide highway, but when one by the middle of next summer will throw the of the North which is setting Southern Minnesota the summer months when steamers touch crosses the line into Hubbard there is encountered entire Northland open to automobile traffic. an example. Its road construction for at the few ports along the northern shore of a road which motorists call blessed. Citizens of southern Minnesota these many the three-year period ending next summer Lake Superior. It is true that there has been years have been prone to pat themselves on Is Smooth as Beach will total 65 miles, counting main arterials a fairly good road to Two Harbors, county the back and soliloquize somewhat as follows: Is is almost as wide as Nicollet avenue and only. This county is building a great, broad seat of Lake County, but that lake port "We have pretty good roads down this way. rounded to turn the rain. It is as smooth as highway from Aitkin county line. The road is situated at the extreme southwest corner of Yes sir, pretty good roads. Too bad they a hard packed ocean beach and car owners in passes through the heart of the great Corona the county and for 60 miles northeast along don't build some roads up north. Maybe we Hubbard county drive 40 miles an hour over it. bog where road-building was believed impos­ the shore of Lake Superior there was no road will have to help them out a bit some day.'' This road continues from the county's southern Wake up, southern Minnesota! Northern line into Park Rapids, county seat. North Minnesota is doing some road building that of Park Rapdis there almost is completed a will astonish you, road building, which if continued road which is the counterpart of the one to at this rate, will give citizens of North-ern the south. Minnesota justification for casting a patronizing Now it continues about miles from the 23 eye on the highways of the southern county seat to the state park, but by next portion of the state. summer it will be as splendid a highway as the one encountered when first crossing the Cities Must Wake Up. A OHOICE INVESTMENT county's southern boundary. Incidentally it is necessary the cities awake OPPORTUNITY Workmen are now putting the finishing to a realization of the road construction in the touches on another such road which begins at North, for by the time summer suns shine the park and runs north and east to Bemidji, once more there will be hundreds of miles of Beltrami county taking care of its portion splendid arterial highways into the Northland. of this highway. When that is done Hubbard Here is what soon you will be able to do county can boast a highway par excellence "with your automobile: from its southern to its northern limits. But Drive from Minneapolis to International that is not all. From Park Rapids there is a Falls via St. Cloud, Long Prairie, Wadena, road to the east and north which terminates Park Rapids, Itasca State Park, Bemidji and A great water power, Blackduck. at Akely, near the Cass county line. And abundant raw material there is another road from Park Rapids Drive from International Falls to Crookston through the inland town of Hubbard and extending via Spooner and Beaudette, Warroad, Roseau excellent transportation and thence over the Pembia trail to Crookston. east from there almost to the county faoilities, immense mills line. The ultimate destination of this road is Drive from International Falls to Duluth on almost a straight road through Koochiching Backus, Cass county, on the Minnesota and and factories, strategic and St. Louis counties. International railroad. location, rich farm lands, Drive from Duluth to Crookston via Grand Hubbard Builds 91 Miles pure water, healthful climate Rapids, Bemidji and Baglev. All these roads are new. Hubbard county May Cross Border is small, but it has completed or has near completion 'and other factors Drive, from Minneapolis to Port Arthur, 91 miles of new roads, all arterial. are bound to make a Ontario, via Hinckley, Sandstone, Duluth, Two Of these, 66 miles have been built under the Harbors, Grand Marais and thence northward Elwell law and 25 by proceeds from the Dunn great commercial and industrial across the wilds of Cook county to a road to law which distributes the state one mill road of International city the Canadian government now has carried to tax. within two miles of the international border. Falls, Minnesota. As a kindly hint to Central Minnesota it Drive from Duluth to Brainerd via Carlton might be remarked that the worst part of the Many fortunes will be 11 nd Aitkin, crossing the Cuyuna range. automobile road from Minneapolis to Itasca made by Investing in city lots. Buy now. Best bargains are offered by IIIIIIIIIIIIIIH THE AMERICAN SUBURBS I I I I N N E A O I S UU HIl A 11 If MINNESOTA Owners of Choice Plattings View of Paper Mill from Canadian Side.