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...were originally scooped, as all followers of legend know, to provide suitable shoes for Babe, Bunyan's Big Blue Ox. In recent years, another Bunyan, or another Babe, seemed needed to save Minnesota's fading mining industry. After a century of use, the 110-mile, Z-shaped Mesabi Range (Chippewa Indian for "sleeping giant") began running out of the rich ore that once was the base for 60% of all U.S. iron and steel production. The grey taconite rock in which the remaining ore was pocketed appeared too hard and the ore of too low a grade...
...plentiful but expensive to refine, that their taxes will be increased no more than taxes on other industries over the next 25 years. With such enticements, the state hopes to attract new mining operations to spur revival of the sagging economy of northeastern Minnesota and the once flourishing Mesabi Range...
Nearness to the huge Mesabi iron-ore range and Midwestern grain fields has made Duluth, the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway, one of the busiest ports in the U.S. But Duluth (pop. 106,-800) has another asset, which is making its own unique contribution to the growth of the thriving city: four big scholarship funds, including two in operation for the first time this year. They have raised the educational level of its high school system, and will support 286 Minnesota students on college scholarships this year, of whom all but 72 are graduates of Duluth high schools...
...Symphony, the Twin Cities' main longhair radio station, a theater, a natural history museum. From the university's labs have come hardier hogs, wheat and strawberries. By developing a way to extract iron ore from low-grade taconite. the university helped save northern Minnesota's depleted Mesabi Range...
...black dot on the map called Chicago. It is altogether different to teach him the basics of social and economic geography-and then give him a map with physical features but no place names. He may locate Chicago at the junction of the three lakes, near the Mesabi range or on the rich soil of Iowa. But he has given thought to the matter...