The progress of the United States of America, from the earliest periods, geographical, statistical, and historical . THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. mainly depend. Iron and copper are found in all the western and northern parts, from the Pictured Hocks andthe Kewenaw Toint to the Montreal River, the iron being chiefly a magnetic ore, equal in purity and quality to thatof Missouri, and the copper, often in native boulders, more plentiful than elsewhere occurring. The production ofthese minerals, however, has hitherto been small, on account of the distance and inaccessible nature of the country; butthe t
The progress of the United States of America, from the earliest periods, geographical, statistical, and historical . THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. mainly depend. Iron and copper are found in all the western and northern parts, from the Pictured Hocks andthe Kewenaw Toint to the Montreal River, the iron being chiefly a magnetic ore, equal in purity and quality to thatof Missouri, and the copper, often in native boulders, more plentiful than elsewhere occurring. The production ofthese minerals, however, has hitherto been small, on account of the distance and inaccessible nature of the country; butthe time has now arrived for Hie mines to be opened on an extensive scale, and such, indeed, has in a partial degree beenaccomplished; yet, until the difficulties opposing navigation to Lake Superior be overcome, the expense of transportationwill be too great to admit of a full development of the wealth of this region. It has been proposed to form this peninsulainto the State of North Michigan, and thus separate it from Michigan Proper politically, as it now is physically are many reasons that would i
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