Michigan

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Michigans Natural Resources
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Mining

• Soo Locks built 1853-55
• June 18, 1855 Illinois first boat through locks
• Federal Gov. gave MI 750,000 acres for locks
• They by passed St. Mary River rapids
• Lots of debate from other states
• Locks important to American Industrial Revolution
• Extremely important to Copper and Iron Ore mining
• Copper
• Keweenaw Peninsula loaded
• 1847-1887 copper rush
• MI produced more copper than any other state
• Thousands fled to U.P. to strike it rich
• Last mine closed in 1995

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Copper worth 4200
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• Iron Ore
• Found in 1844 near Marquette
• Jackson Mining Company
• 3 main iron ore ranges (Marquette, Menominee,
  Gogebic)
• Mining continues today in Marquette supplying 25
  of Iron ore
• Other things Mined
• 1st mineral mining near Jackson for coal
• Salt mining began in 1850
• Dow Chemical
• Gypsum, gravel, sandstone, and limestone
• Gold Silver as well

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Logging
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• Logging began in 1840
• 1880 MI sawmills produced 25 of nations lumber
• Brought a lot of people and money to MI
• White pine most popular
• Cut trees in winter and shipped them in spring
• 1870s railroads changed logging
• Over cutting caused horrible forest fires
• Extensive reforestation program in 1930s
• Still very big industry in MI
• Maple Syrup
• 6th in nation in production
• Avg. 90,000 gallons a year
• 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon syrup
• Logging Camp
• Bunkhouse, kitchen, store
• Meant to be temporary
• Competition who could stack the highest

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• How did they get the big logs around?
• Too big heavy to drag (most 16 ft. long)
• Made ice roads slid them on sleds
• Taken to river banks and stacked
• When river thawed pushed in to flow downstream
• New technology helped (Big Wheel and trains)
• Grand Jam of 1883
• Grand river flooded
• Created massive back up with logs
• Destroyed many things in Grand Rapids

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Grand Jam of 1883 Advertisement

• Read the newspaper article about the log jam in
  Grand Rapids during the summer of 1883.
• Create a 3-fold brochure advertising the event.
  Make sure to use all three sections of brochure!
• You must have a GOOD amount of facts about the
  event. (I should be able to get the idea of the
  story without reading it)