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 . pulsion could be produced by dynamos driven by 300,000 men?Crystal Falls offers the capitalist, contemplating starting a saw-mill or any kind of wood The Menominee Iron Range. 139 working establishment, or blast furnace, the benefit of free p
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 . pulsion could be produced by dynamos driven by 300,000 men?Crystal Falls offers the capitalist, contemplating starting a saw-mill or any kind of wood The Menominee Iron Range. 139 working establishment, or blast furnace, the benefit of free power equivalent to one-halfof the available united manual labor of all the working men of the city of Chicago !Who will come? At the present time—upon the authority of Mr. Parkes—about125,000,000 feet of lumber are cut on the Paint and its tributaries. Who will locallyconvert a portion of this into the staple articles of necessity? Crystal Falls, as has been previously reiterated, has the greatest number of shippingmines surrounding it than has any other district on the range, and the ores produced areof a very superior quality. Proof positive of this is the purchase of recent date, byMr. Ferdinand Schlesinger of Milwaukee, and his associates, of the Dunn $100,000,the Armenia $40,000, the Youngstown $125,000, and the Iron River $250,000. Their. Mining Made Easy by a Rand Rock Drill. purchase of the Florence for $350,000 and the Chapin for $2,000,000, I have alreadynoted. Next year the Lincoln, Hope, Lee Peck and Inter Range will be added to thelist of Crystal Fall shippers, whilst out of the newly developing explorations, such asthe Glidden, Gibson, Lottie, Monongahela, Wagner, Bohemia, May, Parks and Tobin,Atlas, Chicagon, Lake and Gt. Eastern, some, it is confidently expected will have pur-chasable stock-piles. Whilst the Dunn is the greatest shipper in the district, the Mans-field explored by Mr. W. S. Calhoun, shows the richest product, analyses of samplesyielding 65 pe
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