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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			MESABI TRUST
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000065172
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MINERAL ROYALTY TRADERS [6795]
		IRS NUMBER:				136022277
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NY
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0131

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		P O BOX 318 CHURCH ST STATION
		STREET 2:		C/O BANKERS TRUST CO CORP TRUST
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10008-0318
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2122506519

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, CORPORATE
		STREET 2:		P.O. BOX 318 CHURCH STREET STATION
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10008-0318
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">January&nbsp;23, 2009</font></p>

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<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:left;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">VIA EDGAR AND FEDERAL EXPRESS</font></u></b></p>

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<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mr.&nbsp;H. Roger Schwall</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Division of Corporate Finance &#150; M/S 7010</font></p>

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<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Mr.&nbsp;Schwall:</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We are responding on behalf of Mesabi Trust (the &#147;Trust&#148;) to your letter of December&nbsp;31, 2008 providing comments to the Trust&#146;s Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended January&nbsp;31, 2008 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) on April&nbsp;11, 2008.&#160; For your convenience, we have repeated and numbered the comments from your letter in boldface print.&#160; The Trust&#146;s responses are provided below each comment.&#160; To the extent that your comments requested that the Trust provide documents to the Commission as supplemental information, we have separately provided such information to the staff of the Commission (the &#147;Staff&#148;) on behalf of the Trust. &#160;To the extent the Staff requested revisions or expansions to the Trust&#146;s prior disclosure in its Form&nbsp;10-K, we have provided examples of the revised disclosure in the b
ody of this response letter.&#160; We respectfully request that by providing such revised disclosure in the Trust&#146;s Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended January&nbsp;31, 2009 (and subsequent filings) which is due to be filed on or before April&nbsp;16, 2009, the Trust not be required to amend its Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended January&nbsp;31, 2008.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Form&nbsp;10-Q for the fiscal year ended January&nbsp;31, 2008</font></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Risk Factors Affecting CCI&#133;, page&nbsp;6</font></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in 
0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">1.</font></b><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight:bold;">Expand your risk factor discussion to disclose that one of Northshore&#146;s pellet furnaces has in fact been idled, which you disclose on page&nbsp;fifteen, and to address the extent this idling has affected your royalty income.</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Response:<b>  </b>Pursuant to For
m&nbsp;10-Q, Part&nbsp;II, Item 1A, the Trust amended the above referenced risk factor in its Form&nbsp;10-Q filed on December&nbsp;5, 2008.&#160; In addition to amending the risk factor that is the subject of the Staff&#146;s comment in its most recently filed Form&nbsp;10-Q, the Trust separately disclosed on page&nbsp;13 of the same Form&nbsp;10-Q, that Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (&#147;Cliffs&#148;) idled two small pellet</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">

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<div><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">furnaces at Northshore to address current and planned decreases in demand from Cliffs&#146; customers.&#160; As stated in the amended risk factor, the Trust cannot predict the extent to which this idling will impact the Trust&#146;s royalty income as the Trust&#146;s royalty income is generated only on shipments not production.&#160; The Trust will continue to monitor the activities of Cliffs and will file such documents to ensure that it is complying with its disclosure obligations in accordance with SEC regulations.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">C
ertain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence, page&nbsp;8</font></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">2.</font></b><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight:bold;">It appears that Mr.&nbsp;Lareau is a related person and that the transactions involving his law firm, which total almost $700,000 over the past three years, require disclosure pursuant to Item 404 of Regulation S-K.&#160; Please explain your basis for concluding that Mr.&nbsp;Lareau is not a related person, or if that is not your position, then how you concluded that the transactions with Oppenh
eimer Wolff&nbsp;&amp; Donnelly LLP do not require disclosure pursuant to Item 404.</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Response:<b>  </b>Mr.&nbsp;Lareau, a Trustee of the Trust, is a related person to the Trust under Item 404(a).&#160; As reported in the Trust&#146;s Form&nbsp;10-K, Mr.&nbsp;Lareau is a senior partner with the law firm of Oppenheimer Wolff&nbsp;&amp; Donnelly LLP (&#147;Oppenheimer&#148;).&#160; While Mr.&nbsp;Lareau is a related person and the transactions between the Trust and Oppenheimer exceed the threshold for disclosure under Item 404(a), the Trust believes that no disclosure is required pursuant to Item 404(a)&nbsp;because Mr.&nbsp;Lareau does not have any material direct or indirect interest in the transaction.&#160; Mr.&nbsp;Lareau does not rece
ive any portion of the fees paid by the Trust to Oppenheimer and the compensation he receives from Oppenheimer has no direct or indirect correlation to the firm&#146;s billings to the Trust (or any other Oppenheimer client).&#160; Mr.&nbsp;Lareau&#146;s compensation from </font><font face="Times New Roman">Oppenheimer </font><font face="Times New Roman">has no relation whatsoever to any firm revenue target or financial metric. Mr.&nbsp;Lareau does not share in any profits of the firm.&#160; As a senior partner, Mr.&nbsp;Lareau does not have involvement with the billing of legal services to or collection of fee receipts from the Trust.&#160; Accordingly, the Trustees do not believe that Mr.&nbsp;Lareau&#146;s interest in the transaction is material and therefore such transaction does not need to be disclosed as a related party transaction pursuant to Item 404(a)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</fo
nt></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Notwithstanding the above analysis, and because the Trust already provides the pertinent disclosure in other parts of the Form&nbsp;10-K, in future filings the Trust will revise its disclosure under Item 13 of Form&nbsp;10-K.&#160; The below example is provided to illustrate how the revised disclosure will read.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 37.65pt .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mr.&nbsp;Richard G. Lareau,
who became a Trustee on March&nbsp;7, 1990, is a senior partner in the law firm
of Oppenheimer Wolff&nbsp;&amp; Donnelly LLP of Minneapolis, Minnesota.&#160; That firm has been retained by Mesabi Trust
since 1961 to act with respect to matters of Minnesota law, and was retained in
1991 by the Trustees other than Mr.&nbsp;Lareau to act as general legal
counsel.&#160; Mesabi Trust paid Oppenheimer
Wolff&nbsp;&amp; Donnelly LLP fees totaling $[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; ] for legal services provided to the
Trust during the fiscal year ended January&nbsp;31, 2009.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Gross Income, Expenses and Net Income, page&nbsp;13</font></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">3.</font></b><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight:bold;">Expand your disclosure to address the nature of your legal expenses and why they vary given the limited operations of the trust.</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">
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regulations;</p>

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<p align="left" style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt 1.0in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font>responding to SEC comments under the SEC&#146;s
disclosure review program;</p>

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correspondence with holders of the Trust&#146;s Units of Beneficial Interest;</p>

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Trust on its governing documents, and representation of the Trust in connection
with inquiries from third parties regarding the Trust estate; and</p>

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related to all of the above matters.</p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 36.7pt;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Each year the number of
hours spent on the above activities varies, in some cases significantly, based
on changes in applicable laws and regulations, and activities of third parties
that have or are reasonably expected to have a direct or indirect impact on the
Trust.&#160; In addition, certain matters are
appropriately handled by junior attorneys with lower billing rates and other
matters require the attention of more senior attorneys whose rates are higher.&#160; The billing rates of the attorneys performing
legal services on behalf of the Trust also impacts the total legal fees that
may be billed in any given year.&#160; In future
SEC filings the Trust will expand its disclosure to include the nature of the legal
services provided by Oppenheimer during the applicable reporting period.&#160; The below example is provided to illustrate
how the revised disclosure will read.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 36.7pt;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 1.0in;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">During fiscal 2009, Oppenheimer
Wolff&nbsp;&amp; Donnelly LLP (&#147;Oppenheimer&#148;) represented the Trust and assisted
the Trustees in the preparation and filing of the Trust&#146;s current, periodic and
annual reports with the SEC and related securities law compliance.&#160; Oppenheimer also advised the Trust on various
other legal matters related to inquiries from third parties in the ordinary
course of the Trust&#146;s administration.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Engineering Comments</font></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">The Trust Estate, page&nbsp;18</font></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">4.</font></b><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight:bold;">We note you reference Cliffs Natural Resources, former
ly Cleveland Cliffs Inc. (&#147;CCI&#148;), proven reserves for the Northshore Property as 303 million tons.&#160; Please disclose separately, both the proven and probably ore reserves, the annual production capacity, and note that the reserve estimate consists of standard equivalent pellets in long ton units of 2,240 pounds per long ton.</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">

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<div style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Response: Because the Trust has no employees, does not operate the mine at Northshore and does not have access to the information required to estimate the iron ore reserves at Northshore, the<b>  </b>Trust relies on Cliffs Natural Resources (&#147;Cliffs&#148;) public filings with the Commission for such information.&#160; Provided Cliffs continues to make this information publicly available, the Trust will expand its disclosure to address the comment of the Staff in its Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended January&nbsp;31, 2009, and in subsequent annual reports.&#160; The below example is provided to illustrate how the revised disclosure will read.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><font size="2" face="Times Ne
w Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.8pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In Cliffs&#146; most recent Form&nbsp;10-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was for the year ended [&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; ], the following information was provided by Cliffs regarding the estimated ore reserves at Northshore.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.8pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

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  Capacity</font></b></p>
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  </font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Year</font></b></p>
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><p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .75in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight:bold;">A detailed permitting and government approval schedule for the project, particularly identifying the primary environment or construction approval(s)&nbsp;and your current location on that schedule.</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">4</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Courier" style="font-size:10.0pt;">

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<div><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Response:<b>  </b>The Trust has separately provided the Staff with a copy of the report it received from Scott Wilson Roscoe Postle&nbsp;&amp; Associates (&#147;Scott Wilson Report&#148;) as supplemental information in accordance with Section&nbsp;C of Industry Guide 7 and Rule&nbsp;12b-4 of the Exchange Act.&#160; We hereby request, on behalf of Scott Wilson and the Trust, that upon completion of its review Scott Wilson Report, the Staff return the Scott Wilson Report to us.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:left;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We believe this response
letter fully addresses the matters discussed in your letter of December&nbsp;31,
2008.&#160; However, if you have further
questions or comments, please contact me at (612) 607-7309.</font></p>

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