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

684 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
to said petition left to the option of the county commissioners the
question of detaching the northernmost tier of sections of township
62-18 from the Township of Beatty, which the county commissioners
had erected only a short while earlier, or of reducing- the territory
granted to the projectors of the proposed new Township of Field by
that extent.
The petition was filed on April 6, 1906, and appears to had at
the consideration of the county commissioners at their monthly session
held on that day. And the record shows that the commissioners
granted the petition, setting off the Township of Field as all
of township 62-19 and thirty sections of township 62-18, sections
one, two, three, four, five and six of that township having been
mcluded in the territory set apart as that to constitute the Township
of Beatty.
The first election in the Township of Field was held at the schoolhouse
situated in the northwest quarter of section seventeen, township
62-18, on Saturday, April 21, 1906.
On August 6, 1912, the Township of Owens was organized,
which proceeding reduced the acreage of the Township of Field
to the one congressional township 62-19. (See Owens, this chapter.)
That is its present extent.
In 1906, the Township of Field (62-19 and sections 7 to 36 of
62-18) had an assessed valuation of $51,089. The tax levy was
$1,410.53. The land is now in a good state of development, agricul-
turally, the assessed valuation of township 62-19 (Field) being in
1919, $81,424, and of the thirty sections of township 62-18 (Owens),
$102,332. The increase is represented in the settler development,
Owens and Field townships having now many rich farms. The tax
levy of Field, in 1919, was $5,434.98 and of Owens $7,597.11.
The township officials of Field, in 1920, were : Andrew Scott
(chairman), A. B. Tonheim and Louis Swanson, supervisors; Peter
Burtness, clerk; Theo. Burtness, assessor; John F. Buboltz, treasurer.
The township of Field is, for school purposes, part of the unorganized
school district directly supervised by the county superintendent.
There are three schoolhouses in the township, on sections
12, 23 and 28, but whether all are in use is not known to compiler of
this record. The levy for school purposes in 1919 was 37.1 mills,
probably less than the cost of providing education by the county staff.
Fine Lakes.—The Township of Fine Lakes originally formed
part of Prairie Lake Township, which was organized in 1906 from
unorganized territory.
Upon the action of Adolf Ylen and nineteen other residents
of township 50-20 in 1909 depended the erection of that congressional
township into a separate organized township of the name of Fine
Lakes. These twenty men petitioned the county commissioners to
separate township 50-20 from Prairie Lakes, alleging that the officials
of the latter township refused to make improvements in that part of
it, the officials having "spent practically all the moneys of the said
Town of Prairie Lake in township 50-21, with the exception of
approximately $240.00 towards helping build a county road near
the western boundary line of township 50-20," and that the officials
"wrongfully and intentionally discriminate against the residents of
township 50-20."
It seems that the petitioners originally thought to call the new
township by the name of "Blackwood," but finally the name "Fine