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 . at from $150to $300, located as they are within half a mile of the postoffice. In 1881, Capt. H. , one of the best known mining experts in the Menominee, embraced Norway-citizenship with all its opportunities. The prospects at Felch
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 . at from $150to $300, located as they are within half a mile of the postoffice. In 1881, Capt. H. , one of the best known mining experts in the Menominee, embraced Norway-citizenship with all its opportunities. The prospects at Felch Mountain were waningand he sought Norway as the securest harbor of refuge, and in partnership with purchased 80 acres of village property from Carl Wendell, who owned thesurface right as stated. Captain Colwells opinion is entitled to respect. He has knownthe peninsula for thirty years and the range since its discovery, and pins his faith on Norways mineral and in- 1 . dustrial future. He came in 1887, with Mr. Angus in on the ground floorSmith of Milwaukee,mine, and is at presentderickton, Lakeside andSubsequent to theprior to 1887 the date ofcelebrated Aragon, theremercial lassitude; with itsation of confidence. Fromhad little market value,tance and worth ; cornerchanged hands at $200 aincreasing up to date,fortunes ebbed no Mr. James B. Knight. president of the Aragontime agent for the Fre-Ingallsdorf properties,boom of 1880-3 an(ithe discovery of the nowhad been a period of corn-development came restor-this time property whichsuddenly rose in impor-lots then held at #200,foot, with value steadilyThe flood of NorwaysAs a herald of this redun-H. Rowe in 1886, estab- dant prosperity came in that year his hotel on Summit avenue. The great urban fire of the followingyear, though it laid the town in ashes and reduced his hotel to a cinder, kindly spared His present rest for the weary, with every modern convenience challengesthe traveller
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