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

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DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
Then they decided in favor of the petitioners, and passed a resolution
that township 60-14 be detached from the Town of Embarrass, to
form another organized township, to be known as "River"; and
they ordered election to be held, on February 27, 1912, "at the schoolhouse,
No. 5, Dist. 11. sec. 20," of township 60-14.
On February 8, 1912. the county auditor was advised by the
state auditor the name "River" was that of a township in Red Lake
County, and that therefore another name must be chosen. The
freeholders of the newly organized town asked the commissioners
to select one of three names suitable to them: Joki. Waasa, or Oulu
therefore, on March 6th the county board selected the name of
"Waasa." As that the township has since been recorded.
An attempt was made in r3ecember, 1916, to annex unorganized
township 60-13 to the Township of Waasa, a petition to that effect
being prepared by Jack Kero and others. The motion to annex was
lost at the meeting of the board of commissioners on June 7, 1917,
and it was unorganized territory until 1920.
Waasa is settled principally by agriculturists of Finnish origin,
who perhaps are the pioneers best fitted to develop such territory.
The population, according to the 1920 census, is 318, and the assessed
valuation of the township is $34,870. It is in what is known as the
Unorganized School District, that directed by the county administration,
a system economical yet adequate for sparsely populated
regions. There are two schoolhouses in the townshi}), one on section
20, and the other on section 11.
The township officials are: Sam Heikkila (chairman), Emanuel
Isaacson and Nikolai Kari, supervisors; August Anderson, clerk;
J. Rautia, assessor; Thom Koskela, treasurer..
White.—The Township of White embraces three congressional
townships, 57, 58, and 59 north, of range 15 west, and it comes into
history as one of the important mining townships of the county.
Aurora, its chief incorporated place will be given a separate chapter,
and its mining history will be reviewed elsewhere, this chapter dealing
mainly with township organization records.
The Township of White was organized in 1906, a petition dated
September 20, 1906, and signed by Charles R. Hill and others living
in townships 57, 58, and 59 north, range 15 west, appealing to the
county commissioners to set oft" that, then unorganized, territory as
the organized Township of White.
The
October,
matter came
1906, session,
before the county
and met with their
commissioners at their
approval. They ordered
the first town meeting to be held "at the Village Hall, Aurora," on
October 27th, the election date being later changed to November 7,
1906. then the organization of the township was completed.
The township then had an assessed valuation of $1,120,457. In
,
1919, the assessed valuation had increased to $9,797,502. And the
taxes increased from $21,784.66 in 1906 to $557,908.88. in 1919. These
figures are exclusive of those of the incorporated village of Aurora,
the assessed valuation of which in 1919 was almost $3,000,000, upon
which the tax levy was $234,845.04 in 1919. It will therefore be
seen that White is one of the important townships of the county.
The federal census showed that in 1900 only seven people were
resident in the township; in 1910 there were 1,036 inhabitants; and
in 1920 slightly less, the census showing only 862. However, these
figures are exclusive of those for the Village of Aurora, which
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