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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
With their stone hammers they beat out pieces of copper for
arrow heads and knives from the rocky veins, which they softened by build
ing fires over or against them, but the iron ores were no more interesting or
valuable to them than any of the other rocks of the country. Thus it hap-
pened that there was no antecedent knowledge of the iron deposits of the
tipper peninsula derived from Indian tradition or the observation of early
travelers. The first knowledge of them was obtained from the U. S. gov-
ernment surveyors in 1844, In the summer of that year the late Dr.
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