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Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
The first mining superintendent in the iron region was Captain Henry
Merry, who opened the Jackson mine, and has ever since remained in
charge of it. These old companies have not been prone to change their
superintendents. Captain F. P. Mills remained in charge of the Cleveland
mine for twenty-two years, and Captain G. D. Johnson, who opened the
Lake Superior mine, remained in charge of it for eighteen years. All the
three were men of unusual energy and capacity, and made their mark in the
successful development of a kind of mining in which there was no former
experience. If the time at our command and the proper restrictions of an
occasion devoted to strictly pioneer history admitted, it would be interesting
to trace in detail the subsequent large development of iron mining on Lake
Superior.
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