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IRON MOUNTAIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IRON MOUNTAIN  , a city and the county-seat of Dickinson county, Michigan, U.S.A., about 50 in . W. by N. of
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Escanaba, in the S.W.
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part of the Upper Peninsula . Pop . (1900) 9242, of whom 4376 were
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foreign-born; (1904) 8585; (1910) 9216 . It is served by the Chicago & North Western and the Chicago,
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Milwaukee & Saint Paul
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railways . The city is situated about 116o ft. above sea-level in an iron-
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mining
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district, and the mining of iron ore (especially at the
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Great Chapin Iron Mine) is its
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principal industry . Iron Mountain was settled in 1879, and was chartered in 1889 .

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