History of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Early History Of The UP
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EARLY EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERY OF IRON ORE ON LAKE SUPERIOR BY PHILO M, EVERETT In 1844 the copper interest of Lake Superior got to fever heat, especially in Boston, by the reports of Professor Jackson, of Boston. A friend of his in Detroit, whom I was then doing business with, gave me [...]
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Now we think of a clerk as one sitting in an easy chair in a warm office, writing at a desk; but a fur company’s clerk is quite a different thing. He must be able to write a fair hand, be a good accountant, and be able to take a ninety pound pack on his [...]
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He had a lovely family—his girls were like roses in a wilderness. He told me much of his labors with the Indians; he thought he had done them much good, and I had no doubt of it. He had taught them to read and write, and from my long acquaintance with the Indians in Oneida [...]
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He threw out his line and a big trout took it before the hook was twenty feet from the stern of the boat, and I saw several others after it. He took in several fine ones in a few minutes and went to winding up his line. I asked him to let me take it [...]
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But when I parted with him in the fall he said he had thought much about that iron, and believed I had better take care of it; the time might come when it would be worth something. We made explorations in various directions, locating several permits about Houghton, but never paid any attention to them [...]
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He gave one to the family opposite our fire and the woman dressed it, cut it up and put into their camp kettle, boiled it a short time, and-then the two, with the boy, ate the whole goose. Our ducks were so fat we could not eat them without roasting out the fat before the [...]
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This was in the spring of 1848. Robert Graveraet, Samuel Moody and Mann arrived there before me, and went on up to the mines, and, in the absence of the man in charge of the Cleveland location, burned the building the Cleveland company had built, and built one of their own, and gave out that [...]
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When he returned to Jackson he began buying up the Jackson stock, and got enough to elect himself president of the company. The Republic mine lay subject to entry for quite a number of years, because it was a long way off, with a very rough country to traverse to get to it, and without [...]
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