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 . titude above Lake Michigan. It is north of Chicago; it is about 300miles east of Minneapolis and about 160 miles west by rail from Sault St. Marie. Theseare variously well known points, hence any student of latitudes should be able withoutthe
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 . titude above Lake Michigan. It is north of Chicago; it is about 300miles east of Minneapolis and about 160 miles west by rail from Sault St. Marie. Theseare variously well known points, hence any student of latitudes should be able withoutthe aid of an atlas, to locate the gateway to the Menominee Range. In 1866, the Breen Bros., as may be remembered, discovered the mine which bearstheir name. Its history I have followed. To-day a new shaft 160 feet deep has beensunk within thirty rods or so of the old one, alongside the original Dublin shaft, outof which 2000 tons of blue bessemer have been raised this season. Of this, 1,500 tonshave been sold to the Joliet steel works. The Loeffelholtz Mining Co. of Milwaukeeare the lessees, who are pursuing a systematic exploration of the locality, and are wellsatisfied with the outlo ok. Waucedah of course is on the extreme eastern outskirt of the range, and theapparent richness of more western points has interfered with its righteous 68 The Menominee Iron Range. The mine referred to, which is of course but an exploration in the mining sense ofthe term, is the only shaft at present operating, and employs but a handful of chief present claim to notoriety rests in its possession of timber limits, andfarms. Over 1,500 men are employed in its winter lumber camps in which the Holmes,the Spaldings, the Kirby Carpenters, the Menominee River Lumber Co. and others areinterested. Waucedah trembling on the rim of eastern civilization and western devel-opment, remains immature. It has a population of 150, a post office, presided over bythe pioneer prospector
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