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IRON MOUNTAIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IRON See also:MOUNTAIN , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Dickinson county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., about 50 in. W. by N. of See also:Escanaba, in the S.W. See also:part of the Upper See also:Peninsula. Pop. (1900) 9242, of whom 4376 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1904) 8585; (1910) 9216. It is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North Western and the Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & See also:Saint See also:Paul See also:railways. The city is situated about 116o ft. above See also:sea-level in an iron-See also:mining See also:district, and the mining of iron ore (especially at the See also:Great Chapin Iron Mine) is its See also:principal See also:industry. Iron Mountain was settled in 1879, and was chartered in 1889.

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