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 . xplorationshowever were proceeded with until 1870, when the fee of the property, consisting ofthree forties, having passed into the hands of the discoverers and Judge Ingalls andS. P. Saxton, the latter commenced the first active mining opera
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 . xplorationshowever were proceeded with until 1870, when the fee of the property, consisting ofthree forties, having passed into the hands of the discoverers and Judge Ingalls andS. P. Saxton, the latter commenced the first active mining operations recorded in theregion by sinking several test pits and cutting two long trenches across the deposit outcropped adjacent to the present railway station at Waucedah. A lull in operations in 1870 permitted revived attention to be directed Menominee-wards and John N. Armstrong, an old woodsman and explorer, was sent to prospectupon the new range, and examine and take up lands for Mr. Breitung. Acting upon the information thus ac-secured part of sec-range 29. At aboutCurry, anothei ex-river and instituted asuspected mineral,ers it was learned—Whitehead, one ofon the range—thatore was in place butever likely to comeActive operations,in abeyance. Thewas purely tentativeitive, and it was notspecimens of the oreof the Hon. Harrison. Dr. Nelson P. Hulst. quired, Mr. Breitungtion 10, township 39,the same time S. , ascended thesimilar search for theFrom these adventur-so writes Mr. Lewthe earliest settlersa banded ferruginousthat little good wasof it. however, yet remainedwork of Mr. Saxtonand completely prim-until 1872, when somehad reached the handsLudington, then Gov- ernor of Wisconsin, and had by him been brought to Milwaukee for purposes ofanalysis, and submitted to Dr. Nelson P. Hulst, chemist for the Milwaukee IronCompany, that the business attention of representative iron men was drawn to the mineralresources of the range. The result of this examin
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