Word: mesabi
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...with Manhattan's James Butler Grocery Co., which last week offered to sell its 483 stores to their 483 managers, or with St. Paul's Butler Brothers, one of the few remaining independent iron mining companies in the U. S. Operating in Minnesota's ore-laden Mesabi and Guyana Ranges, this Butler Brothers was founded by five sons of an Irish immigrant father. The sixth son is U. S. Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler...
...when buying the company to found U. S. Steel. Mellon and Frick lost $1,170,000, the price they had paid Carnegie for the option. Angered, they started Union Steel Co. which promptly began to expand, bought or built blast furnaces, bar, wire, tube, plate mills; went to Mesabi for ore. Mellon provided customers for Union Steel: he started New York Shipbuilding Co. (see p. 41) at Camden and Standard Steel Car. He backed two young men and took a 60% interest in McClintic-Marshall Construction Co. Meantime U. S. Steel had been formed. When Union Steel announced plans...
Geological Conference. Papers: Geology of Sequatchee Valley, Tenn., Mr. R. E. Dodge; Review of Blow's "The Geology and Ore-Deposits of Iron Hill, Leadville, Colo.," Mr. J. E. Woodman; Review of Spurr's "The Mesabi Iron-Bearing Rocks," Mr. H. L. Smyth. Geological Laboratory...