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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
This line made still
another outlet for Lake Superior iron ore, and constituted a railroad con
nection between the two peninsulas of Michigan.
Upon the completion of the facilities for transportation, the Jackson Iron
Company and the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, who were the successors
of the unfortunate corporations which built the Jackson and Marquette
forge, began to develop their iron location and to ship their iron ore to fur-
naces in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In this they were immediately followed
by the Lake Superior Iron Company, which had been organized by the late
Heman B. Ely and his brothers, and Mr. John Burt and his brothers, to
develop the iron location immediately west of the Cleveland mine.
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