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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 691
order was withdrawn by the commissioners. The petition remained
without action until October 7, 1910, when the commissioners decided
that election should be held on. November 1st.
Of fifty-one voters at that election, thirty-three voted against
the incorporation. The "Report of the Inspectors of Election" stated
that they found the place selected as the place of election was "in
a room adjoining a saloon." They considered it "an improper place
and, therefore, held the election in Johnson's Boarding House, immediately
west of the designated poling place."
No further attempt to secure the incorporation of Spina was
made until 1913. A petition signed by Luigi Cordileone and others
and filed with the county auditor on August 26, 1913, sought to bring
about the incorporation of only twenty acres, that is all of the land
platted as the townsite of Spina, the twenty acres being the western
half of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section
fourteen, township 58-19, upon which townsite there were then resident
237 persons. The petition was signed by twenty-seven persons,
who were all sworn to be legal voters of that place.
At about the same time the county commissioners were advised
that a petition had been presented to the village council of Kinney
by certain residents of Spina location, asking that Spina be annexed
by the incorporated Village of Kinney. The petition had even been
adopted by the Kinney Village council, and a date fixed for election,
when the county commissioners, on September 6th, granted the petition
of Luigi Cordileone and ordered notices to be posted in the
townsite of Spina calling upon voters to ballot, on October 10,
1913, and designating the "vacant store building, lot 17, block 3,
townsite of Spina" as the place of election. The voting was in favor
of incorporation.
The assessed valuation of the village of Spina in 1913, was $11,069.
In 1919, it was $15,582. Its place in the township is therefore not
a very important one, when one considers that Kinney's valuation
runs near to two millions and Buhl's to almost ten million dollars.
However, possibilities of growth in visible wealth as well as population
are ever present on the Mesabi Range, and the present Spina
may be the nucleus of a much greater Spina a decade or so hence.
Mining.—The mines of Great Scott Township are all in township
58-19. and a full review will be found in the Buhl-Kinney chapter.
The principal mines are, or have been, the Grant. Thorne,
Sharon, Shiras, Woodbridge, Itasca (Dean), Cavour, Yates, Kinney,
Dean, Wade, Deacon, Wanless, Seville, Whiteside and Frantz. The
ore shipped from Buhl and Kinney in 1919 season totaled to almost
one and a half million tons and immense stripping operations are
under way in one mine, where an electric 300-ton shovel has been
introduced. The available reserve of ore in the Buhl group of mines
runs into eight figures.
Schools.—The schools of Great Scott Township arc excellent,
some of them being models of architectural excellence, and practical
utilitv. The high school at Buhl and the Wilson School at Kinney
are schools of which the township might well be proud. The school
district is known as Independent School District No. 35. which centers
at Buhl, and has direction of education throughout townships
fiftv-eight and fifty-nine north, range nineteen west. (See Buhl-
Kinney Chapter.)
Taxes.—The assessed valuation of Great Scott Township in 1919
totaled to $586. ,^86, exclusive of the about twelve million dollars