Expansion Period 1880-1900

<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> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The boom years 18441850"><U>The boom years 1844-1850</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id191.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postboom years 18511861"><U>Post-boom years 1851-1861</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id197.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Civil War years 18611865"><U>Civil War years 1861-1865</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id261.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postwar years 18651880"><U>Postwar years 1865-1880</U></A></div> <div> <B>Expansion Period 1880-1900</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id284.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Twentieth Century 19001967"><U>Twentieth Century 1900-1967</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Please note the gentleman standing on the left of the stairs;  this is the Copper Country photographer A.F. Isler in his older years.  Below is an earlier image.</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="7b5a2ee0.jpg" border=0 width="162" height="238" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> </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> back to  <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History"><U><B>History</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <div> <B><U>Expansion Period 1880-1900</U></B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="7860d4c0.jpg" border=0 width="525" height="588" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The 4,700 HP Superior Engine at Calumet & Hecla</div> <bR> <div> By this time in America, the effects of the 1873 depression were long gone.  Railroads were opening the western frontiers and finding their way into almost every city and village.  And technological advances, like electricity, were increasing the demand for copper every year.</div> <div> C&H was the largest producer of copper in America, thanks to machinery like the Superior engine (above) and the mines of Houghton County were soon dominating Michigan's copper production.  The mines of Keweenaw County were almost extinct, though some survived into the 20th century.  Here are some interesting companies and their history...</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id271.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Atlas Mining Company"><U>Atlas Mining Company</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id272.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Centennial"><U>Centennial</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id273.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Conglomerate"><U>Conglomerate</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id274.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Laurium"><U>Laurium</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id291.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quincy"><U>Quincy</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id275.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pewabic"><U>Pewabic</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id276.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tamarack"><U>Tamarack</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id277.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other mining companies..."><U>Other mining companies...</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>