Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Find. Geologists first stumbled on traces of iron around Steep Rock Lake, 40 miles north of the Minnesota border, in 1891. In the early 1900s, Harvard Geologist H. L. Smyth decided the main deposit might be under the lake itself. In 1930, Julian G. Cross, an Ontario prospector, poked around the site, came away sure he had something...
...around to finding a backer for seven years. Then the late Joseph Errington, a Toronto engineer, listened for five minutes, took a chance. For $2,400 he and Cross bought up a lot of old claims. They drilled under the M-shaped lake, ultimately found at least three big ore bodies. Finding the ore was one thing, getting it out was another...
Chief problem: to drain Steep Rock Lake, which is fed by the Seine River. It was first necessary to lower the level of nearby Finlayson Lake 57 ft., then divert the Seine into it. Dams were built, canals and tunnels cut. Once the Seine was diverted, 14 mammoth barge-mounted pumps began sucking 125 billion gallons of water out of Steep Rock Lake itself...
...Newcomers George Schneiter, of Salt Lake City, and Charles Congdon, Tacoma aircraft plant inspector. They bowed to Hamilton and Nelson in the semifinals...
...tied the shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim is a three-hump serpent). And then Slim developed his periscope neck by nostalgically trying to peer back over the hills toward the scenes of his childhood...