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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
The realization of the ship canal project at
the Sault transformed the existing dream of a railroad from Marquette to
the iron mountains into a certainty. In August, 1852, Congress passed an
act granting to the State of Michigan 750,000 acres of land, to be located
within the State, for the purpose of aiding in the construction and comple-
tion of a ship canal around the falls of Ste. Marie. This was largely due to
the persevering efforts of Mr. John Burt, of Detroit. At this juncture Mr.
Charles T. Harvey rendered valuable service in inducing the right men to
go in and furnish the capital to carry out what was universally considered
to be a work of enormous magnitude, surrounded by unfavorable circum-
stances, and in the way of whose successful termination and inauguration
almost insuperable obstacles lay.
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