Lake Superior Copper Company

<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>The Lake Superior Copper Company was the first mining enterprise in the Keweenaw.</B></div> <div> <B>The original estate comprised 40,000 acres, with mining operations beginning along the east bank of Eagle River.</B></div> <div> <B>The company had 15 men working above and below ground, and installed a stamp mill in 1845, the first in the region.  By the end of 1846, 550 tons of mineral was mined.</B></div> <div> <B>By 1849, the money was running out, and the operations were sold to a new company, the Phoenix Copper Company, and work resumed under that name for many years.</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> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>  </B><A HREF="id92.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Boston Mining Company"><U><B><IMG SRC="0410e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" 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><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The boom years 18441850"><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> Lake Superior Copper Company</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1cd210a0.jpg" border=0 width="545" height="522" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> </tr></table></body>