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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
Your narrator has a vivid recollection of that
boiler, which he took a contract to fill, after it was placed, for a dollar and
a half. It required nearly four days' hard work with two "pails and a yoke.
This was the first steam boiler introduced into Marquette county. During
the ensuing winter and spring (of 1850) the original Jackson Company had
exhausted both its capital and credit, the Marquette Company's forge was
now finished, and the Marquette Company entered upon the process of
exhausting theirs. Their forge was burned early in 1853.
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