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Lake Superior
Our Ontonagon people were industrious, prosperous, and somewhat proud, if not boastful, of their preeminence. Their prosperity continued for several years, but the final giving out of the mineral in their great mines checked growth and enterprise indeed, caused a woful depression in business, with much poverty and distress. Many of the people, in fact, were compelled to seek more inviting fields, abandoning their cherished homes and cherished associations. But such is life in mining regions. The business being largely speculative, and the mines liable to. impoverishment, there is always an element of uncertainty in it. The farm of broad acres, if properly cultivated and fed, will last for ages.
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