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Michigan's UP ISLE ROYAL
ANCIENT MINING AT ISLE ROYALE, LAKE SUPERIOR
In the year 1872 some of the most remarkable of the ancient works yet encountered were brought to light by a party of explorers on Isle Royale. Some idea of their extent may be arrived at from the statement of a gentleman well known in mining interests, who is at present engaged in developing the mineral resources of the place, and who calculated that at one point alone, on three sections of land toward the north side of the island, the amount of labor performed by those ancient workmen far exceeds that of one of our oldest copper mines on the south shore of lake Superior, a mine which has now been constantly worked with a large force for over twenty years. This may well appear almost incredible when we take into account the disadvantages under which, these primitive miners must have labored, and all the advantages comprehended by our present civilization, including the various improvements in mining appliances and the vast resources of modern science.
Upper Penisula
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