Excerpt from The Honourable Peter White: A Biographical Sketch of the Lake Superior Iron Country

This book is unlike any other in that it is really a romance though it deals with facts. There is no statement in it that is not result Of patient re search. It has seemed best to write it while it was yet possible, for the in formation which it contains has been secured at first hand. The industrial supremacy of the United States among nations is due wholly to the purity, abundance, cheapness Of mining and low rate of transportation of Lake Su perior ores. There are living chronicles today Of the early development Of this region - men, who as boys went into that country to develop it, then an unbroken wilderness - and from their lips the story has been secured.' Oh viously if not written now it could not, in a little while, be written at all. SO vast indeed has been the progress since that it seems incredible that it should have occurred within the lifetime of one man. Yet Lake Superior, in a com mercial sense, is only fifty years Old. The beginnings, therefore, of this great iron industry are historically important and are Of interest to every citizen in the United States, for there is not a man or woman today living who has not been, directly or indirectly, benefited by the great mineral wealth Of the Lake Superior country and the labor Of Winning it and working it into the arts.

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