Word: mesaba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imported from Newfoundland and the U. S. It was therefore news last week when the Northern Miner (Toronto) reported that Canadian iron would soon be coming up from a big ore body beneath M-shaped Steep Rock Lake, located about 100 miles north of Minnesota's great Mesaba Range...
...where one Carl Eric Wickman, Swedish immigrant, was working in the mines in 1912. That year the town was moved three or four miles away, and Wickman bought a seven-passenger used Hupmobile, started transporting workers, made $2.25 the first trip. He slowly expanded his service, in 1914 incorporated Mesaba Transportation Co., operated a line from Hibbing to Duluth. In 1924 he joined his lines and some others to form Northland Transportation Co. which a year later was given an exclusive franchise by the Minnesota legislature and then purchased by Great Northern Ry., which paid over...
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