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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
Among the privations of those days which did not involve actual suffering
was the great uncertainty and infrequency of the mails. During the earlier
years of the settlement of Lake Superior copper and iron regions, the
government provided no mail transportation except a monthly mail to such
military posts as Copper Harbor and Sault Ste. Marie. During the season
of navigation the steamers and sail vessels usually carried a mail to such
parts as they entered. But this was without compensation, and it was often
the case that the postmaster at Sault Ste. Marie forgot, or for some other
reason, failed to put it on; then great was the disappointment at all the lake
ports on the arrival of a mail-less craft.
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