The Menominee Iron Range : its cities, their industries and resources, being a sketch of the discovery and development of the great iron ore beds of the North, situated within portions of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin south of Lake Superior : submitted as a hand-book for the information of those seeking a profitable field for labor and investment . f the adjacent country—exaggerated tidal waves of greenest vegetation—go rolling and skipping, a sea ofcurving mountains into near and very heavenly horizons. Whether any such exalted ideas as these entered into the considering caps of SilasC
The Menominee Iron Range : its cities, their industries and resources, being a sketch of the discovery and development of the great iron ore beds of the North, situated within portions of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin south of Lake Superior : submitted as a hand-book for the information of those seeking a profitable field for labor and investment . f the adjacent country—exaggerated tidal waves of greenest vegetation—go rolling and skipping, a sea ofcurving mountains into near and very heavenly horizons. Whether any such exalted ideas as these entered into the considering caps of SilasC. Smith of Marquette, who is credited with being the first discoverer of ore in thedistrict, or of Col. Whittlesey, who exploited the country in the early 6os, it is notmy province to determine. How these tales of discoveries later led to actual develop-ment is explained by Mr. A. P. Swineford (Annual Review of Lake Superior Mines, 1881)who quotes John N. Armstrong as the first practical pioneer, and whose investigationsled to the development of what is now the Mastodon, and of the Shelden and Schafer,which subsequently became the Union mine. Mr. F. G. Clark, county surveyor, writesthat early in 1880, the Maltby Bros, and Ephraim Coon took an option on that portionof Sec. 20, T. 43, R. 32, now known as the old Crystal Falls mine, and worked it. The Menominee Iron Range. 129 until the following October, when they surrendered the option to Geo. Runkel and S. Both of these latter gentlemen played an active part in the amplifying ofother discoveries, and were largely instrumental in the creation and early growth of thisphysically gifted village. Contemporary with these operations, Capt. Frank Raher,another mining expert who had graduated in the Norway district in the earlier days,reached the Falls in the winter of 1880, directed hither, as he told me by enterprisingMr. Breitung. He located on this same Sec. 20, on which he built a log shanty, andwith his party of f
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