History

<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>In this section, I would like to talk about some of the many different mining companies that were chartered by the Michigan Legislature to mine copper in the Upper Peninsula.</B></div> <div> <B>Unfortunately, there are very few artifacts that exist today that  can be directly attributed to a particular company, except stock certificates.</B></div> <div> <B>Stock certificates can tell the story of the progress made to tap the great resources of the Copper Country, and they are also like time capsules. They capture the financial goals and failures of a particular investor, and in some cases, contain the signatures of great American financiers.</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="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="New"><U>New</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photos"><U>Photos</U></A>   |   <B>History</B>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</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> <I>History</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="9e314820.jpg" border=0 width="532" height="386" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The Baltic Mine c.1905</B></div> <bR> <div> To help show the progress of copper mining in the U.P., I have broken the history of the Copper Country into these categories:</div> <div> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The boom years 18441850"><U><IMG SRC="1860c0c0.gif" border=0 width="12" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The boom years 18441850"><U><B>The early boom years 1844 -1850</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id191.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postboom years 18511861"><U><IMG SRC="1860c0c0.gif" border=0 width="12" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </U></A><A HREF="id191.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postboom years 18511861"><U><B>Post-boom years 1851 -1861</B></U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1860c0c0.gif" border=0 width="12" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <A HREF="id197.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Civil War years 18611865"><U><B>Civil War 1861 -1865</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id261.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postwar years 18651880"><U><IMG SRC="1860c0c0.gif" border=0 width="12" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </U></A><A HREF="id261.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postwar years 18651880"><U><B>Postwar years 1865 -1880</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id269.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Expansion Period 18801900"><U><IMG SRC="1860c0c0.gif" border=0 width="12" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A><A HREF="id269.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Expansion Period 18801900"><U><B> Expansion period 1880-1900</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id284.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Twentieth Century 19001967"><U><IMG SRC="1860c0c0.gif" border=0 width="12" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </U></A><A HREF="id284.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Twentieth Century 19001967"><U><B>Twentieth Century 1900-1967</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Note: If you are doing additional research into any of the various 400+ mining companies that had operations in the Copper Country from </B></div> <div> <B>1844-1967, don't forget to review my "</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF3300" FACE="Georgia Ref" ><A HREF="id355.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Illustrated Bibliography"><U><B>Illustrated Bibliography</B></U></A></FONT><B>" section.  You'll find additional material to help in your work.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>