Mine: Mikado Mine, Wakefield, MI

Began → Mikado Mine → Became

Operated for:

From: 1895

Located: Section 7 and 8 of T47N-R45W

Owned by: Syracuse Mining Co., then Palms Ore Company, then Corrigan-McKinney & Co.

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: 

Railroad connection: C&NW to Ashland.

Until: 1919. Shipments from 1919 to 1952 under the Plymourh mine name.

Lifetime Production: Over one million tons by 1917.

Notes

The Mikado Mine was located north of the Plymouth Mine near Wakefield in Gogebic County. It was owned by the Syracuse Mining Company in Section 7 and Section 18 of T47N-R45W.

Mine was northwest of the Plymouth mine pit at the Verona Location.

Time Line

Time Line

October 5, 1895. The Northwestern spur track from the main line to the Mikado mine was completed on Monday and on Tuesday cars were being loaded from the stockpile. This mine is one of the Corrigan-McKnney & Co. group and a few weeks will no doubt see mining operations being carried on there. The Mikado is situated between Ramsay and Wakefield and was purchased from the Palms Ore Company by the present owners, and is the only mine between Bessemer and Wakefield which is not hoisting ore at the present time. [BHN]