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Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's

These early developments in Marquette county were never stimulated or encouraged, by any return upon any capital invested, in any single instance until 1863. It was all a work of faith and perseverance, founded upon intuitions which were sound and sure, but which it took twenty years to realize. Meanwhile man after man and company after - company cast all he had into the gulf which time only could fill. Those days were days of hardships to the early settlers.
 
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