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 . notwithstandingthe men of various nationalities engaged in the mines throughout the range, little—apparent—friction has existed, and greatly to the credit of all concerned, betweenemployers and employed. A strike which at one time threatened
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 . notwithstandingthe men of various nationalities engaged in the mines throughout the range, little—apparent—friction has existed, and greatly to the credit of all concerned, betweenemployers and employed. A strike which at one time threatened serious consequencesoccurred however once, amongst the Chapin and Ludington men when the miners—there being no Saturday night shift, work being quitted at 6 p. M,, and the managementwanting work to continue till u p. m.—went out for five days. One hundredPinkerton constables and various sheriffs reached the scene, and remained for two weeks,the miners having threatened to stop the pumps, and let the mines fill. Armed withWinchesters, 250 men threatened an attack. The ringleaders were later on arrestedand sent to states prison ; the miners returned to work; Captain Rundle resigned;Captain Oliver took his place, and the faithful pine trees catching up the remnants andburden of the episode, purged the atmosphere of further industrial Hydraulic Works and Air Compressors—Menominee River. In the old days what is now Stephenson avenue, was a continuation of the new stateroad, the trail over which teams hauled and sometimes mired on their way to CrystalFalls by Badwater and Florence. On the west side of the track at the intersection ofFlesheim street, only two houses broke the flank of the forest, and from foot to scarp ofhill top the dark trunks of the pines formed a black battalion of whispering a change has come over the spirit of the dream. In place of horse and windlassand a few thousand tons of ore a year, with steam and compressed air as much a
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