Show OUR GREAT IRON DEPOSITS certain of united states that contain important and very rich stores generally ing though not al was iron has ben found in rocky mountainous places and often at a con s demable distance below the surface of the glomd requiring the dr hing dig ging and blasting uli jl sw abed v ath mining the ore as mind is ally a big lump that ichols lito lit o a rusty stane Is the character of the oie basw S harwood in lacI erneth nation in st nicholas that cames for instance from pennsylvania mis ard alabama in certain regions of the united state there have been discovered coi apara lively recently deposits of inn in n ore so utterly unlike this and so unusual in every way that particular to them may be of special interest the most important of the deposits are located in northup michigan and minne eota in what aret as the messana and vermillion ranges it Is not a par ticul arly mountainous country there la nothing about the place to suggest the presence of iron ore indeed nobody suspected stat there was until one day an uprooted tree repealed the ore be neath it yet benith those woods Is mineral wealth the vastness and vali of which are as yet unknown 25 barg or more prospectors been investigating yet how broad and deep and tar it goes cannot with certain be told this find has been one of the most momentous events in the bistor of iron and steel making and in con lection with ether will ably fx for generations the center of the industry in this land and important as these deposits are the linsted state Is not oe pendent upon them aside from the mines of the middle states those ol 01 the tar aest alabama and even alaska hold possibilities only beginning to be known |