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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
Among many other well-known mines, the Chapin has become conspicu
ous as a very large producer. I do not intend to burden you with statistics,
but it may interest you to compare the shipments of the three " old mines "
in 1858, which were 25,067 tons, with the total shipments in 1884, of both
the Marquette and the Menominee iron ranges, from the ports of Marquette,
Escanaba, L'Anse and St. Ignace. Seventy-two mines on the Marquette
range had shipped 19,502,069 tons, and twelve mines on the Menominee
range had shipped 3,452,174 tons, making a total of 22,954,243 tons.
But I must not detain you longer. Time fails us to relate the hardships
and privations of those early days, while we were contending with stubborn
nature in a wilderness which was all unbroken and slowly gaining houses,
roads, churches, schools, an organized society and a developed industry.
These beginnings were arduous and uncertain.
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