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Michigan Crystal Falls
J. C. Bowers's dwelling place was the first on the town site.
Dr. H. C. Kimball erected the first frame building in the vicinity of the Falls.
And don't forget, this is the first paper published exclusively for the benefit of Crystal Falls.
CRYSTAL FALLS-A CHAPTER ON ITS IMMENSE DEPOSITS OF IRON ORE.
The existence of iron ore in the immediate vicinity of Crystal Falls had been known long before any active explorations were commenced, and as far back as the Government survey, begins the knowledge of an iron belt almost entirely across township 43, range 32, and having a trend northeast and southwest. This being noticed in the field notes of the surveyor, probably added somewhat to the notice taken of the township above mentioned. On the west bank of Paint River, and just at the foot of the falls, rich hematite, somewhat mixed with disintegrated quartz, and lying close to a wall of argillaceous slate, had long been known to many, but its extreme distance from railroad communications, and the fact that no interest had as yet been taken in this district by prominent iron capitalists, perhaps caused, in a degree, the inattention to it.
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