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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
We carried out all the
specimens we could conveniently. Hon. J. N. Mellen, of Romeo, Michigan,
who was one of the party, has still in his possession one of the specimens
found that day.".
These ores to-day make nearly one-third of all the iron produced in the
"United States. This was eleven years before the building of the first canal
at Sault Ste. Marie. The transportation of the iron ore to the coal fields of
Ohio and Pennsylvania would then have been impracticable, and had not
yet occurred to anybody.
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