Game and Fish Men Here with Nets
State Fish and Game men lifting nets on the Pike River, circa 1912.
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016 — Today, in honor of the cold and snowy fishing opener, we are posting two items from our files. The first, a story from The Tower Weekly News, discusses the State of Minnesota’s efforts to harvest walleye spawn from the Pike River — a practice which was, locally, very controversial. The second, a 1912 photograph, depicts state Fish and Game commission… [Read More]
Thomas J. Walsh
History
Thomas J. Walsh was a prominent member of Tower and Soudan’s history at the turn of the 20th Century, though his name seems all but forgotten. He was involved in… [Read More]
The LaRue Mine (Armstrong Bay Mine)
History
The LaRue Mine was a small mining operation northeast of Lake Vermilion, located along the same ridge as the larger Soudan Mine and the Consolidated Vermilion & Extension mine. It… [Read More]
Monsignor Joseph Francis Buh
History
Monsignor Joseph Francis Buh was a Catholic priest who traveled Minnesota around the time of the early gold rush, ministering to many groups of people and setting up churches across… [Read More]
Early Day History
This was a series of articles printed in the Tower Weekly News between March 14, 1914 and April 24, 1914.
Early Day History
It has been thirty years—come St. Patrick’s Day,… [Read More]
