**Exhibit 31**

 

**CERTIFICATION**

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I, Kenneth R. Ring, certify that:

 

1.                                       I have reviewedthis quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Mesabi Trust, for which DeutscheBank Trust Company Americas acts as Corporate Trustee;

 

2.             Based on my knowledge, thisreport does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit tostate a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of thecircumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading withrespect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.             Based on my knowledge, thefinancial statements, and other financial information included in this report,fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, distributableincome and changes in trust corpus of the registrant as of, and for, theperiods presented in this report;

 

4.                                       I am responsiblefor establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as definedin Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal controlover financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and15d-15(f)), or for causing such controls and****proceduresand internal control over financial reporting to be established and maintained,for the registrant and have:

 

a)                                      designedsuch disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under my supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the registrant, including its consolidatedsubsidiaries, is made known to me by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

b)                                     designedsuch internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal controlover financial reporting to be designed under my supervision, to providereasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and thepreparation of financial statements for external purposes;

 

c)                                      evaluatedthe effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures andpresented in this report my conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosurecontrols and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this reportbased on such evaluation; and

 

d)                                     disclosedin this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financialreporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (theregistrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that hasmaterially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, theregistrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.                                       Ihave disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control overfinancial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors:

 

a)                                      allsignificant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation ofinternal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely toadversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize andreport financial information; and

 

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b)                                     anyfraud, whether or not material, that involves persons who have a significantrole in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

In giving the foregoingcertifications in paragraphs 4 and 5, I have relied to the extent I considerreasonable on information provided to me by Northshore Mining Company and EvelethFee Office, Inc.

 

 
| Date: June 8, 2009 | By:                                       | /s/ Kenneth R. Ring |
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|                    | Kenneth R. Ring*                          |
|                    | Vice President                            |
|                    | Deutsche Bank National  Trust Company     |
|                    | For Deutsche Bank Trust  Company Americas |

 

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*              There are no principal executive officers or principalfinancial officers of the registrant.

 

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