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 . our hours the fires swept over an area ofnearly 400 square miles, and over 1,200 persons perished in the flames. The law of compensation is an universal one. Crushing disasters, whether personal,local, or national in their effect, are invaria
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 . our hours the fires swept over an area ofnearly 400 square miles, and over 1,200 persons perished in the flames. The law of compensation is an universal one. Crushing disasters, whether personal,local, or national in their effect, are invariably succeeded by a corresponding measure ofprosperit). An all-wise creator, in imposing misfortunes, seldom refrains from equalizingthe trouble, by subsequent and equivalent blessings. If the region I write of—I speaknot of the human sacrifice—had been compelled to surrender at loss the value of itsforests, was not the divulgement of its mineral wealth, which occurred about this time,a beneficent trade compensation. Hitherto divine command had denied access to themaster-key of Menominees greatness. The sesame, which for so long had remainedunspoken, was at last pronounced, and with the advent of the 70s, the bolts com-menced to be withdrawn which were to disclose the vast vaults that contained the trueferruginous treasury of the western CHAPTER II. Tl)e Menominee Iron Range. Discovery and Development. The mountain solitudes of the Menominee, as has ahead) been related, had up tothe year 1870, been disturbed only by the raids of the pine cruiser, the canzonet of thehalf-breed batteaux man, and the metallic clip of the woodmans axe, and the furtherwestern exploiting of these rude spirits had been barred solely by the cataracts createdby the precipices at Bequinnesec. Speculation without being rife, had yet existed in a passive form in the minds of themore thoughtful of the older settlers, as to the not improbable possibility, of the existenceof ore deposits similar to
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