June 1, 1882 – “The first work at the Soudan [Minn.] mine was begun. The crew consisted of three men, together with a horse and cart. They had a few picks and shovels, a piece of steel driven in a stump served for an anvil, and they burned their own charcoal to heat the steel.”
Duluth News-Tribune; Leading the World in Iron Mining; Duluth, Minn.; September 11, 1911.
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