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 . n the Youngstown—the old Brier Hill—Mining property, later discovering the Clare Mines. Mr. Dunn was elected tooffice first in 1886, and still remains in harness in evidence of popular opinion. Hisdeclaration as to the richness of the di
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 . n the Youngstown—the old Brier Hill—Mining property, later discovering the Clare Mines. Mr. Dunn was elected tooffice first in 1886, and still remains in harness in evidence of popular opinion. Hisdeclaration as to the richness of the district is worth framing. A party of five or six,he asserts, working continuously during the summer months at any time almost,would be likely to discover a mine. The inducements for explorations are inconceivablygreat. One dilemma constantly confronts thewould-be-recorder of facts in his recital of thedaily chronology of a new city, namely theuncomfortable monotony presented by theever recurring information pumped into him,with the regularity that the lever pumpscartridges out of a Gatling, from a certainclass of citizens, who humbly confess all andevery, that each mothers son of them, wasthe first squatter to reach the town. I havealso met a dozen men who, one and all assuredme, that they individually were the original Mr. Schwartzs The Menominee Iron Range. 133 discoverers of the same mine.—But why abuse confidences?—I abstain from listing thesegentlemen, as I have no desire to be party to what I feel would inevitably culminate ina horrible and bloody vendetta, and merelj refer to the circumstance—having no specialreference to the worthy burghers of Crystal Falls—to explain the ordeals which besetthe bookmaker; if however, I should meet a man of the type referred to, who will swearthat he has discovered less than all the mines in the Peninsula, I will present him, deador alive, to the Smithsonian Institute. In 1882, when hay was $22 a ton and the popula
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