A REMARKABLE CITY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 48.

A REMARKABLE CITY.

CALUMET, Mich., according to a writer in the Pulpit of the Cross, is a place of 25,000 people. It is situated on the top of a bleak plateau, 600 feet above Lake Superior. As early as the 19th of October (the date of writing) a snow-storm was in progress, and to all appearance winter had set in after the most approved fashion. The sole industry of the place is mining. Here are located the famous Calumet and Hecla mines, the largest copper mines in the world. Some of the shafts sink to a distance of a mile underground and it is very wierd to see a "skip" load of miners shoot down into the bowels of the earth and to watch the fading glimmer of their lamps until a bend in the shaft loses them to sight. The machinery of the company has cost millions of dollars, and all of it is built on a gigantic scale. The output from the mines here controls the copper market of the world.

To the credit of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Co. be it said that they never have had a strike, and their employees are probably the best paid and housed class of miners in the United States. Furthermore, to the credit of the miners be it said that they are very religious and well behaved. Calumet boasts, it is said, of only one policeman and a constable, and neither of them is overworked.