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

716 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
mining operations in the Township of Nichols have developed other
important mines. The Iroquois, the fee owners of which are the
Roswell Palmer estate, is situated in section 10, and shipments from
it began in 1903, continuing until 1914, the years yielding a total of
1,358,412 tons of ore. It is an underground mine. The Wacoutah
mine, which is operated by the Pitt Iron Mining Company, SE-SW
and SW-SE, sec. 3, SE-SE of same section, and NW-NW, sec. 11,
shipped its first ore in 1906. In 1919, the total yield from its first
year was 972,251 tons. The Brunt mine, NE-NE and NW-NE and
SW-NE and NW-SE, sec. 10, owned by the Hanna Ore Mining
Co., is on the shipping list, with a total shipment of almost 1,500,000
tons between the years 1906 and 1919, and with more than twice as
great a quantity available yet. The Pilot Mine, NW-SE, sec. 2. is
a state mine, as is the Wacoutah in part, leased to the Hanna Ore
Mining Company. The first shipment, 80,815 tons, from the Pilot
was in 1919. It is not a large property. Then another state property
is the Leonidas, situated in the extreme southeasterly section of the
township. That is an important holding, leased to the Oliver Iron
Mining Co. Almost 4,000,000 tons have come from it, to end of
1919; and there is still available about 13,000,000 tons. The Hanna
Mine, (state), W. half of SW, sec. 2, and W. half of SE, sec. 3.
has yielded practically 1,500,000 tons, to end. of 1919, first coming
into the shipping list in 1919. Prindle Reserve, a state mine, leased
to Oliver Company, situated in E. half, sec. 36, of township 59-18,
has only yielded 47,487 tons, in the three years 1914-16, since which
time it has been inactive, with 2,590,871 tons available.
Transportation.—Nichols Township has some good roadways,
and all the land is not given over to mining. There are some good
agricultural acreages being developed.
There is an electric trolley system passing through the townshij)
hourly to the other centres of the Range. The Duluth Missabe and
Northern Railway Company is the ore carrier.
Valuation.—The assessed valuation of Nichols Township in 1892
was $310,944. The assessed valuation of the township in 1919 was
$14,727,911, including the villages of Mountain Iron and Leonidas,
which villages in reality represent more than $14,000,000 of that total.
The tax levy in 1892 in Nichols Township was $3,793.51. In 1919.
the taxes amounted to $791,931.66, including those of the villages.
Population.—The township was practically without an inhabitant
in the '80s. In the early '90s, the population had scarcely reached
three figures. In 1900, the population was 930; in 1910, 1983; and in
1920, the federal census showed the township, including Mountain
Iron and Leonidas villages, to have a population of 2.923. Of this
number 1,546 persons were resident in Mountain Iron.
Education.—Part of Nichols Township is included in the Unorganized
School District, which comes under the direct supervision
of the county school administration ; but the greater part of the
township is in what is known as Independent School District No.
21, which centers from Mountain Iron. The history of that school
district will be reviewed in the chapter regarding Mountain Iron.
Administration.—The present officials of the township are
E. J. Kane, chairman; John Harwood and E. D. Rudd, supervisors;
Ben Ericsou, clerk; Oscar Castren, assessor; A. B. Carmen, treasurer.
Village of Costin.—John Costin, Jr., one of the pioneers of Virginia,
to which city he came in 1893, and where he developed a substantial
real estate and insurance business during the following twelve
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