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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
We there divided—one
party was left to keep possession of the location and another went farther up
the lake to use the remaining permits, while I returned to the Sault with
the ore. On arriving at Jackson we endeavored on two occasions to smelt
the ore which I had brought down, in our common cupola furnaces, but failed
entirely. In August of the same year Mr. Olds of Coo Cush Prairie, who
owned a forge, succeeded in making a fine bar of iron from our ore in a
blacksmith's fire—the first iron ever made from Lake Superior ore.
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