1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 681
to have increased to 712. It is the center of a good agricultural section
of St. Louis County.
The present township officials are : Erick Lehto, chairman
Nick Lehto and Matt Hill, supervisers ; John Waisanen, clerk; John
Kangas, assessor; John Koski, treasurer; A. Waisanen and Charles
Reinstrom, justices.
Fairbanks.—The Township of Fairbanks embraces two congressional
townships, fifty-six north, and ranges 12 and 13. This area
formed part of the Township of Ault until 1918.
The first attempt to separate townships 56-12 and 56-13 from
Ault was made in 1912, a petition being filed with the county officials
on June 11th of that year, the petitioners praying for the erection
of the Township of Fairbanks, averring that for five years the officers
of the Town of Ault had neglected to build roads through the part
of the township in which they lived. No action was then taken,
apparently, by the county commissioners.
In August, 1918, another attempt was made to detach the two
northern townships from the four that then constituted the Township
of Ault, the petition signed by J. O. Clapperton and others being
presented on August 5th. The commissioners did not act until October
8th, when they resolved to detach townships 56-12 and 56-13
from Ault to form the Town of Fairbanks, and election was ordered
to be held at the schoolhouse of district 60, Fairbanks, on October
23, 1918.
On November 2, 1918. Isaac Pust, who was one of the founders
of Ault, appealed against the action of the county commissioners,
representing that the petition was not signed by a majority of the
resident male freeholders of townships 56-12 and 56-13; also, that the
separation left only eleven freeholders in the Town of Ault. His
remonstrance recommended that, in order to properly remedy matters,
sections 13 to 36, inclusive, of town 56-12 be taken from Fairbanks
and added to Ault. The matter remained undecided until
August 6, 1919, when the county commissioners decided to deny the
petition of Isaac Pust and others. Therefore, Fairbanks remains as
originally organized.
The 1920 census shows the population of Fairbanks Township
to be 324. The assessed valuation in 1919 was $132,749, and the total
taxes levied in that year $8,089.39.
The township officers in 1920 were: J. Luvina (chairman), Conrad
Johnson and Matt Antes, supervisers ; Jacob Wesala, clerk, and
Nick Kylen, treasurer and assessor.
Part of the township is without school facilities, there being no
need for such provision, but the populous part of the township is
served by school district No. 60. That district has one frame school
house, valued at $1,500. For the school year 1919-20 there were twenty-seven
pupils enrolled. One female teacher was engaged at a
salary of $95 a month. The school officials were John Stoeger, Fairbanks,
Minnesota, clerk; W. R. Depew, treasurer, and G. S. Burham,
chairman of directors.
Fayal.—The organization of the Township of Fayal in 1896 followed
the beginning of important mining operations and explorations
in congressional township 57-17, which is and since its erection
always has been the boundaries of the Town of Fayal.
The important mines are the Fayal Fee, the Fayal No. 1, No. 2.
No. 3 and No. 4, all of which are now operated by the Oliver Iron
;