bors living in Brantwood, Wisconsin, set off to look at the land. They had but little time at their disposal, but the owner brought them to the site, and pointing to a fine growth of huge pines, turned to Rondo and said, "and here you would have a pine grove from which you could easily earn your tobacco money." Rondo was every much taken by the place, and Kuusisto, too, was pleased by what he saw, so they went on to Eveleth to prepare the deeds. It was not until they returned to Brimson with the papers in their pockets that they realized the beautiful pine grove which had been pointed out to them did not belong to them after all:

Brimson: Postoffice. Katri and Nikolai Kylen's homestead in 1907. Children

Kalter, Helmi and Urho. Bull's name is "Jyry."

they had only bought swamp and rocky fields. With Finnish determination, however, they set about to clear their land.

In 1903, George Ault and family moved to the area, and it was his name which was given to the township incorporated three years later. It was in 1903, also, that a post office was opened near the Bassett railroad stop, and this post office was named Fairbanks, after the then United States Vice-President. However, postal delivery over the swamps and bogs to the various farms was not established. The result was that in 1907 people began taking turns picking up the mail from the post office and delivering it to all their neighbors; with this system, mail was received three times a week, and the duty came but once a month to the parties involved. With everybody pitching in, a `mail path' was cleared

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