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summer of that year. They located a War Department permit on section
1, town 47 N., range 27 W., which they subsequently purchased of the
United States government. This was the first iron location to be developed,
and it became an exceedingly valuable and productive mine. The following
extract of a letter from Mr. Everett, written after his return to Jackson in
the autumn of 1845, may be of interest:
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