Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0417Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a steam shovel loading train cars with iron ore. Above the image "82" is printed, below the image "V23277 - Digging Iron OreWith Steam Shovel and Dumpinf on Train. Open-pit Iron Mine, Minn." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V23277
OPEN-PIT IRON MINE, MINNESOTA
Lat. 48 (Degrees) N.; Long. 93 (Degrees) W.
Iron is the most useful and most abundant of all metals. It is seldom found in its perfect natural state. It is usually combined th oxygen and other elements and found as constituent or rocks.
Because of its iron ore, Minnesota holds an important place among the mining states of the Union. In some places the mineral is found here in almost a pure state. This picture is taken near Hibbing, in the northern part of Minnesota. It is in what is called the Lake Superior mining region, probably the largest iron producing section of the world.
Ore was first taken from in in 1884. In less than fifty years the total output of the Lake Superior mines was 192,008,000 long tones. A single mine in Minnestoa has prodcued 1,681,000 long tons of ore in a year. The deposit is near the surface, so that mining can be carried on here on a very large scale. Sometimes the ore is dug out by steam shovels and loaded directly on the cars, as shown in this picture. A single one of these steam shovels can lad two hundred cars a day, doing the work which formerly required two hundred men. Most of the ore i shipped by rail to ports on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan great quantities going to the manufacturing centers of Pennsylvania.
Copyright by THe Keystone View CompanyCollection
Photograph Collection