Mill: Arcadian Mill, Dollar Bay, MI

Began → Arcadian Mill → Became

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Owned by: Centennial Copper Company

Produced: Copper Ore

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Stamp Mill/Smelter:

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Southeast of Dollar Bay at Grosse Point. This mill supported the Centenial Mine.

Interesting website: Copper Country Explorer website

Notes

Time Line

1901. At the mill site selected on Grosse Pointe, Portage Lake, one mile wast of the new Franklin mill, a magnificent stamp mill equipped with the best and costliest machinery was built in a marvelously short time. At the height of activity, no less than 1,100 men were carried on the pay rolls of the Arcadian, in addition to about 500 more employed by the various contractors and sub-contractors that were building the mill, dwellings and mine structures of different sorts. As a result, the Arcadian has an equipment exceeded by that of only a few mines on the globe - the number could be counted on the fingers perhaps. All this work cost a vast amount of money - just how much is known to the management only. $2 million would probably be a conservative estimate. [CHBK]

1902. January. The Trimountain Mining Company begins shipping copper rock to the Arcadian Stamp Mill southeast of Dollar Bay at Point Mills, via the COPR and Hancock & Calumet railroads. This continued until the Trimountain's own mill was completed in 1903. The first train consisted of around 13 cars hauling 500 tons of rock. [MIS-2022-W]