Mine Shafts - Meier Collection

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <B>Paul recently sent these great images of some of the mine shafts in the Keweenaw.  He was the photographer of the Allouez-Douglas and the Iroquois, taken in the 1960's.  </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" ><B>Copper Country Reflections</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copper Country Reflections"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id327.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meier contd"><U><B><IMG SRC="0420e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>       </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>   </B><A HREF="id320.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paul Meier Collection"><U><B><IMG SRC="0440e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Click arrows to go through series.  Use the UP arrow to go back to main page.</B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>Mine Shafts - Meier Collection</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="adffb900.jpg" border=0 width="507" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Ahmeek 3&4</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="ae11e5f0.jpg" border=0 width="542" height="351" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Allouez-Douglas Shaft</B></div> <bR> <div> Here are 3 photos of a couple of C&H WWII-era mines, the Allouez-Douglas and the Iroquois.  Both were opened during the war with incentives to mine copper.  Both were operated into the 1960's.  The Allouez-Douglas was unique in that it worked two lodes - an amygdaloid and a conglomerate.  It was also owned by Copper Range; C&H paid them a royalty to mine it.  The shaft houses look older than they were since wood was used in their construction due to the wartime restrictions on steel.  The Allouez-Douglas was northwest of New Allouez back toward the Ahmeek school.  The Iroquois was located northeast of Mohawk off the "Old" road (south of Cliff Drive; my Grandparents called it the Old Road or the Military Road.  It was also east of Seneca Lake.)  C&H used part of the Keweenaw Central right-of-way to reach it.  It was a minor lode with sporadic mineralization.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="ae207fd0.jpg" border=0 width="519" height="765" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Allouez-Douglas Shaft</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="ae3ec920.jpg" border=0 width="492" height="402" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Iroquois Shaft</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="ae517850.jpg" border=0 width="535" height="389" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A colorized photo of the Red Jacket shaft taken in the '20's, photographer unknown.  We bought it from a bar in Calumet in the early 60's.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>