Mines: Iron River, MI - Area Mines

This page covers mines in Iron River, Mineral Hills, Stambaugh, Caspian, Gaastra and Chicagon.

To view individual mine pages, go to History → Mines and Mining → Iron Mines → Iron County.

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Time Line

1919. April. When it comes to splitting up the west side ore, the officials of the two systems don't agree. The North Western people claim to have the inside figure on all ore over there and to offset them it is reported that the St. Paul intends putting a number of the big Mallet type engines to service so as to be able to handle as many cars out of Iron River as the North Western does. The result of this experiment, if it actually comes to trial, will be watched with interest.

It is the tendency to run "turn-around" runs on both roads so that it is not probable that the mining towns will catch many of the road crews this coming summer. the switch crews will be stationed in the yards at the different laces as usual. [DD-1919-0419]