time the bank was forced to foreclose, and the building became a Catholic church.

In later years Kinney has had other Finnish groups, including a Civic Club organized in 1929, in which August Johnson, Urpo Hill, O. Kangas and Anton Lankanen have served as chairmen. During World War II the Finnish relief organization which came to life was served by Olga Niemi as chairman. The MFAHS chapter has been a joint one with neighboring Chisholm.

Chisholm

Balkan, to the west of Great Scott, was organized at a relatively late date. Local government was established in 1912, but the area did not receive its present boundaries until the following year when Chisholm and portions of Stuntz Township were annexed to it. Population in 1912 mounted to 75, of whom many were Finns, and a strong Scandinavian element has remained, as evident in a mere listing of Finns serving in elective offices Ed. Ahonen, Matt Boriin, Jacob Hakala, Ed. Heino, H. and S. Heiskanen, Eino Hendrickson, Elmer Jokinen, Richard Kallio, Edwin and Matt Krogerus, Gust Lake, John Luomala, Heino Mäki Jr., John Perry, John Salonen, Wäinö Suomi and Dan Tolonen.

Iron ore had been discovered in the Chisholm area in the 1890s, by E. J. Longyear, whose name is preserved locally with the lake named after him. Chisholm itself is named after Archie M. Chisholm, who once owned the entire area. The majority of the Balkan mines in subsequent years were those located in Chisholm and its immediate surroundings. One of them, the Shenango Mine, is among the deepest (350 feet) in the entire range. The important mines are

"When I came to Chisholm in the autumn of the year 1900," reminisced Edward Ahonen in an interview with E. A. Aaltio in 1950, "there were about 10 buildings here, with a lumberjacks' camp in the very center of what started to grow into a city. A few boarding houses were just outside, near the mines. More `,ban half the population were Finns, all of them young men who

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