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2. Michigan Smelter - Wikipedia

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   The smelter was created in 1903-4 as a joint effort between the Copper Range Company and Stanton group of mines. An Atlantic dam on the site was reused by the smelter as a water source. [1] In 1905, the smelter broke a world record by casting 292,000 pounds of fine copper in seven hours with a single furnace and only ten men. [1]

3. Copper Range Company - Wikipedia

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   Size 6.6 x 3.8 x 3.2 cm. Copper Range railroad boxcar, 1973. The Copper Range Company was a major copper-mining company in the Copper Country of Michigan, United States. It began as the Copper Range Company in the late 19th century as a holding company specializing in shares in the copper mines south of Houghton, Michigan. The company was ...

4. File:Copper Range - 29 steam locomotive (2-8-0) & tender.jpg

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   This 2-8-0 steam locomotive was built in 1907 by the American Locomotive Company for use by the Copper Range Railroad in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP). The engine hauled freight for the UP's copper mining industry and was also used in passenger trains.

5. Copper Range Railroad - Wikipedia

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   Copper Range #29, a 1907 ALCO steam locomotive (2-8-0), on display at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. Boxcars of the Copper Range Railroad in 1972. The Copper Range Railroad (reporting marks CR, COPR) was a former U.S. Class I railroad that operated from 1899 to 1972 in the western Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan.

6. Copper Range 29 - Wikipedia

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   Copper Range Railroad No. 29 is the sole survivor of the C-2 class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotives.Built by ALCO in 1907, No. 29 was primarily used to pull loaded copper trains out of copper mines in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, as well as occasional passenger trains between Houghton and McKeever, until it was removed from service in 1953.

7. Copper Country strike of 1913–1914 - Wikipedia

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   The mines of the Copper Country were unionized several decades following the strike. The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW-CIO), a successor of the WFM, unionized the Copper Range Company mines in 1939. A combination of low copper prices, depleted mines, competition from newer and richer mines, and continuing labor ...