Mill: Baltic Mill, Redridge, MI

Began → Baltic Mill → Became

From: 

Owned by: Baltic Mining Company, then Copper Range Company.

Produced: Copper Ore

Method: Stamping mill - 6 stamps with 4,000 ton daily capacity

Railroad connection: Atlantic & Lake Superior Railroad, Copper Range Railroad.

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Lifetime Production: 

Image info: A postcard view of the Baltic Mine Stamp Mill. A rock train is loading the mill from the top trestle.

Notes

Served the Baltic Mine near South Range.

The Baltic (Mine) Mill processed ore from the Baltic Mine. The mill was located in Redridge near Lake Superior.

This mill had two Nordberg compound steam stamps and two E.P. Allis stamps by mid-1902. [HAL]

The mill was on the west side of Redridge, built in 1901-1902 and had six heads. It had a train platform for passengers on the COPR. The mill closed in 1922.

The Baltic Mine had a 41' steel deck girder ballasted bridge here for use by the railroads. It was owned by the mine, and built in 1911.

There was also a framed trestle at Redridge, 100' long and built in 1915.

Time Line

1907. The Baltic mill holds two more Allis stamps, giving it a stamping capacity of 4,000 tons daily. [HAL]

1910. March 7. Baltic Mill boiler house burns. Arrangements were made today to stamp most of the Baltic mine rock at the Champion and Trimountain mills at Beacon Hill and Freda, so that the Baltic company will suffer no cessation of work from the destruction of its mill boiler house by fire Saturday evening. Two of the heads of the Champion mill and two at the Trimountain mill have been out of commission for some time and these will now be used for the Baltic rock. Two boilers at the Baltic mill are still in commission and it is thought that it will be but a short time when some of the heads of this mill will again go into commission. The fire was caused by the blowing out of a flue which scattered the fire from the furnace about the building and caused the woodwork to ignite. [CN-1910-0307]

1911. The Baltic Mine at Redridge had a 40 feet streel deck girder bridge, built in 1911.

1965. Reclamation plant continues in operation by Copper Range Co. [DMP]. Editor Note: This may have referred to the Baltic reclamation plant adjacent.