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Lake Superior
This new element had a conservative influence in the community; checking lawlessness. The church and the school-house, everywhere seen, had their proper influence too.
Soon after the war began it became apparent that there would be a dearth of miners. It came, and the demand for mining men could not be supplied. Wages ran up in consequence to an unheard of price common miners, who had been receiving thirty or forty dollars per month, now thought one hundred dollars too little. To meet requirements as to labor, the mining com-. panies joined hands and raised a fund of $90,000 and sent paid agents to-Sweden and Norway to procure miners.
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