In the early days of steam powered mines, between ash heap and huge coal pile chimneys belched sooty smoke out over the landscape. When I was one, the home my family lived in was moved from the mining location of Monroe to Chisholm. My mother still lives in that house in Chisholm. And today the great Mesabi Range of Minnesota with the Marquette Range in Michigan produces more than half of America,s iron. How we live depends on how we use this important earth,s resource .
Gold is for the mistress, silver for the maid.
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