Mesabi Tribune history

By 1900, the official census of the village (the founders of Hibbing had chosen the “village” and not the “city” form of government) showed about 2,500 people.

Here, in 1905, on the left is John Hayden and on the right is Frank Evens.

The company eventually built hundreds more houses after the mine began operations in October 1955.

Krueger started work as a mining engineer at Reserve in June 1964.

The following article was written by Al Zdon who came to Hibbing in 1975 as the Range Editor for the Hibbing Daily Tribune.

Larry Selzer, president and CEO of The Conservation Fund, based in Arlington, Virginia, told the crowd the nonprofit is committed to a nationwide effort of seeing that “forests remain forests.” Since 1985, it has protected over 8 million acres of America’s most important, at-risk lands and waters.

The building, constructed heavily with steel, had been transformed into a hotel after Reserve Mining closed in 1986, its demise largely due to its inability to compete with imported steel.

He soon became Managing Editor of the newspaper, a position he held until moving back to the Twin Cities in 1994.

When Rouse and her husband, Mike Rouse, bought the nearly 7,000-square-foot structure in 1995, it had already been converted into a small hotel, then named the Alder Inn.