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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
 Tw* Ccpies Received 
 
 FEB 5 1904 
 
 • Copyright Entry 
 CLASS Co )6(c. No. 
 ' COPY B 
 
HE simple beauty of the Copper Country of Michigan, the vastncss 
 
 of its enterprises and the activity of its marts are impressive in their 
 
 I very nature. Their pictures are more pleasing when left unmarred 
 
 by wordy descriptions. Scenes may be absorbed and grasped by the 
 
 eye which no language can describe. 
 
 This book is a simple collection of pictures, characteristic of scenes which 
 are familiar to those acquainted with the Copper Country. The effort has been 
 put forth to make it as comprehensive as possible. 
 
 The winning of the copper from the earth constitutes the dominant industry 
 of the district, and is deserving of first place in a representation of the Copper 
 Country. All features of the industry are shown — in the depths of the mine; 
 "\ on the surface, where the world's most massive machinery furnishes power to 
 actuate the air drills and operate the hoisting cables; in the mills and smelters, 
 where the metal is refined into copper bullion; along the wharves, where ships 
 are laden with the product, to carry it to lower lake ports, whence it is distributed 
 throughout the world. 
 
 Historic points of interest are given. There is a picture of the old Cliff 
 Mining Camp, one of the earliest, and, in its day, one of the most populous and 
 prosperous communities in the Upper Peninsula. To-day almost every house 
 that was ever erected there is standing, most of them dating back nearly half a 
 century, but the place is deserted — hundreds of houses with bare walls staring 
 out through bleak windows, and scarcely a dozen souls to inhabit them. The 
 old mine workings are abandoned for more profitable deposits of mineral. 
 
 Pictures are given which show the natural beauty of the Copper Country. 
 Pleasing views are so bountifully bestowed by nature that it is a difficult task 
 to choose the most impressive. But enough are given to create a taste for 
 more — a taste that can be gratified to its fullest only by rambling among the 
 vales and hills, through the forests and along the banks of the quiet streams and 
 the shores of the mighty Unsalted Sea. 
 
 The new South Range is thoroughly pictured. This is the young giant 
 which in the last five years has forged forward and wrought from the ground 
 which was the rooting place for an unbroken forest a group of copper mining 
 camps that stand to-day close rivals to the older camps which ha\e been half a 
 centurv in the making. 
 
 Such pictures constitute within themselves a story of beauty, power and 
 pathos which no words can enhance. Those responsible for the book have 
 drawn from its preparation a wealth of pleasure. Courtesies ha\e been extended 
 from all sources, in recompense for which the sincerest expression of appreciation 
 is now extended. May those into whose hands the book shall come glean from 
 it all the subtle meaning and all the stirring thoughts which its pictures are 
 capable of inspiring. It will then be an epic, indeed — a poem, a song, a burst 
 of harmony beyond the power of words to utter. 
 
 B. E. Tyler, 
 
 Publisher, 
 
 C.py,.gh..l903. b, D. E T„e,. Ilough.on, Micb HoUghtOH , Mlch. 
 
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