Work had hardly begun in the first of these mines than the effects of the 1893 depression began to be felt, and the further extension of mining activity appeared altogether dubious. Up to that time workers had received $1.75 per day, but it soon became almost impossible to find work. Most of those who had been lured to the scene by the mining firms soon left again, and those who remained were reduced to hunting the forests for their food. In a sense, even the name of this community, which consisted of nothing but a few buildings at the time, derives from the forests surrounding it, for when the new settlement was scheduled to be named Robinson, after one of the partners in the Adams mine, he refused to lend his name to what he thought would remain an unimportant village, and the place was named Eveleth instead, to commemorate one of the foresters who had originally travelled these forests to evaluate its timber wealth.

At the beginning mail was brought in to Eveleth from Virginia by dog cart and sled, but in 1895 the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad was extended to Eveleth, while a highway was also opened through the forest from the Fayal mine toward Virginia. Natural water resources barely sufficed for a village which had grown to a population of almost 200, but that problem was solved by damming up an abandoned mine, the Kingston, which provided enough water for the village up to 1902. The whole village originally grew between the west side of what later became Douglas Avenue and the northern side of Monroe Street, for about a mile and a half from the spot where the prospectors who made the first trial drillings had set their tents. Then, just as in Sparta, it was discovered that rich lodes lay under what had become the village, but unlike Sparta, a drastic move was not necessary, for in the first decade of the present century the town gradually moved a fourth of a mile eastward and `up the hill.' Even this proved expensive, of course, for $125,000 was spent just for moving the buildings and, in addition, the owners had to be compensated for the land they were relinquishing. There were at that time about 1,200 persons in Eveleth, but the

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