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 . e Lake Michigan. It The Menominee Iron Range. 6g is notable throughout the state as having within its limits the oldest, and some of themost important mines on the range, including the Penn famous string of pro-ducers, and the renowned A
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 . e Lake Michigan. It The Menominee Iron Range. 6g is notable throughout the state as having within its limits the oldest, and some of themost important mines on the range, including the Penn famous string of pro-ducers, and the renowned Aragon. From the track going west, lies upon your right the old village location, now thesite of the present business centre. To the south extend the additions to Norwayproper, viz.: Fredrickton, Ingallsdorf, South Norway and Brier Hill—I have wished,longed I may say, to spell that word Briar, but no one in Norway would allow over the newer property are the evidences of a newer era, modern residencesand the less pretentious cottages of some of the mining population. Newly gradedstreets streak its fallow acres, and a school house and a church or two relieve the graygreens of its distant timber-scape which flanks the butte-like banks of the noisy Menom-inee, only two miles to its south. Upon your right and to the north is planted, as 1. The Current Block. say, the older town site, demonstrated in the blocks of red brick business houses whichrise above the more sober frame stores and which lend a metropolitan look to Norway,which Carl Wendel, when he platted the village in the spring of 1879, little dreamed of. A large portion of this original town site rested in a swamp, an unfilled but driedup portion of which, yet extends in a belt of about 100 yards from the depot alongsidethe railway embankment to the Harrison exploration, the sinking of which shaft underso many difficulties, I have referred to. From this embankment and between the pointsnamed, the plateau exten
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