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Title: The Menominee Iron Range : its cities, their industries and resources, being a sketch of the discovery and development of the great iron ore beds of the North, situated within portions of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin south of Lake Superior : submitted as a hand-book for the information of those seeking a profitable field for labor and investment
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Nursey, Walter R., 1847-1927
Subjects: Iron mines and mining Iron mines and mining
Publisher: Milwaukee : Swain & Tate Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ity states that in The Menominee Iron Range. 49 1889 there were 516,000,000 of these on our railways. The average life of an oak tiewhilst about eight years in the Northwest, is but three years in the Southern states. Asiron must sooner or later supplant the use of wood—I mention this to encourage myVirginia friends—their phosphoric pig may after all, find its level in ties. On theshores of the Pacific coast I have seen wooden piles rendered useless in six months fromthe fanatic zeal of the teredo worm, the submerged columns perforated, like a tinstrainer. Already iron piles have been subjected to a process which enables them toresist the rust of salt water. Ten years from now in certain localities nothing else willbe used. The iron fever will become practicably endemic. Whilst beef, extract of hema-tite, and wine may not enable you to resist all the ills that flesh is heir to, the steel shellwhich sooner or—I trust—later may envelope your remains, will doubtless preserve your
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The Dunn Mine.—Crystal Falls District. inanimate ashes until the last trump. All is steel. From the electric dispatch whichoverthrows dynasties to the brads in your boots; from the babys safety-pin to the Kruppgun; from the blade which drips in conquest over your landladys beefsteak, to the bladewhich propels the cruisers of destruction, or shears your cheek; from the locomotivewhich waltzes off with the amazed bride, or bears the argosys of wealth from remotespheres—to the flexible corsets which embrace the sweetest women in the world, all areof steel. In its multifarious uses, steel can be compared on grounds of adaptability to anelephants trunk. About 1,500 tons of iron wire is yearly manufactured into pins in England. TheNewhall works in Birmingham make 10,000,000 pins per day. A bar of iron one footlong and one inch square, cast from Menominee ore will bear 5,781 pounds strain withoutbreaking. A cubic foot of wrought iron weighs 486%! pounds. The specific gravity ofmaleable i

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