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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 683
$190,504.85, the bulk of which fell upon the mining companies, real
property being valued at $3,800,691 for assessment.
Schools.—Fayal has good schools, being in Independent School
District No. 39 (see Eveleth). The school tax in 1919 was 21.7 mills.
Present Township Officials.—The township officers in 1920 were
A. G. Anderson (chairman), E. A. Trenholm and Arsen Corbin, supervisors
; E. M. Dormer, clerk; Louis A. O. Marzer, assessor; Philip
Jacobson. treasurer.
Fern.—The Town of Fern was organized at the November, 1905,
session of the Board of County Commissioners, Commissioner Ryan
presenting resolution to grant petition of A. H. Farr and twenty other
freeholders of congressional township sixty north, range twenty west
and Commissioner Patterson moving adoption.
The petition, which was undated, state that there were at that
time only twenty-five legal voters in the township and the signers
sought to have township powers, in accordance with the General
Statutes of the State of Minnesota, said organized township to be
given the name of "Fern."
The commissioners ordered election to be held for township
officers on November 25, 1905. Place of election was the residence
of A. H. Farr. situated in the northeast quarter of section thirty of
township 60-20.
In 1905 the assessed valuation of the township was $73,611.
Taxes levied were $1,545.83 for all purposes. In 1919, the assessed
valuation was $58,866, and the tax levy in that year, $4,379.63.
The population in 1910 was 144 and the 1920 census records a
population of only fifty-seven.
The township is not well developed, but eventually will be good
agricultural land. The Sturgeon River passed through the township.
The 1920 township officials were: August Wegener (chairman),
R. Eins-
John John Magnuson and August Forseland, supervisors ;
weiler, clerk ; Gust. Larson, assessor and treasurer.
Educationally, the township is served by School District No. 81.
There is one frame schoolhouse, valued in 1919 at $3,000. The school
board officials are: John R. Einsweiler, clerk; Gust Larsen, treasurer;
August W. Wegener, chairman of directors. The school levy
in 1919 was $1,383.35.
Field.—The Township of Field, the boundaries of which are
those of congressional township sixty-two north, range nineteen west,
was organized in 1906. It then included within its limits the present
Township of Owens, which adjoins it on the east. On the northeast,
the Town of Fields borders on the Township of Beatty, for the
length of one section ; on the north it adjoins Leiding Township
on the west, Linden Grove ; and south of it is Alango Township. The
Little Fork River runs through it and through sections 11 and 12 on
the extreme northeast is laid the road of the Duluth and Winnipeg
Railway, the nearest railway station being Cook, in Owens Township.
A petition, dated at Ashawa (now known as Cook), Minnesota,
April 5, 1906, and signed by fifty-two freeholders resident in congressional
townships sixty-two north, ranges eighteen and nineteen
west, the first two signers being August Buboltz and James A. Field,
prayed for the organization of that territory under the township laws
of the State of Minnesota, and that when organized it be known by
the name of "Field." The petition testified or asserted that the total
number of legal voters then resident in the territory for which township
jurisdiction was sought did not exceed one hundred, and a rider
: ;