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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
As far
back as 1850, five tons of ore had been taken from the Jackson mine to
Newcastle, Pa., by Mr. A. L. Crawford. He was the proprietor of large
iron works there, and he converted this ore into blooms and merchant bars
to test its qualities. In 1852, about seventy tons of Jackson ore were taken
to Sharon, and there made into pig iron, in the old clay furnace. These
experiments had been satisfactory. But the business was a new one; its
practicability was admitted only by a select few, and it had to make its
development by a slow process of experiment and conviction.
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