The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-12-28


a ssrso P IN w wh a1s @ % g o aa @ him
beautiful purpose His contribution
from Marquette the mail
reach Detroit until the subscription
subscribed When Whites
noting plant
year upon the grave ana 20 TINS purpose the money pledged One
priced treasures in Peter Whites collection photograph
Of lis sturdy old physician,
When sufficiently prem again
obta ned employment clerk the Freeman Bros Jefferson
Mackinasv nt e ~ reached akrar STAND NY snd that
tb which h a@ rst bS h er, ~ , KY T. ~,
time with Capt Garfield the light
waugosnaun erkship
the Edward Kat school
Of
beautiful world Of
has pebble beach guarded
cesn Peter White spent two wears mon b island and now ~ a
dent of the Maac island park commission look back with
collector AIakinac island In
such small com@nn where population only household there much
hopes and his ambitions and when Robert Graverat appeared the
island in Of develop the iron
making
man OF remarkable foresight and who clearly saw the advantages such youth
would have
Peter eighteen ola offered MS services Graaet
his LIES work There followed eempstuous the worthless little
side wheeler recmush repa had but few miles from Ncknac
Of
sent Captain Pratt eurns back to the harr again The next day the boat
started with than could it
met with such solid ice that she had to 20 back ont again Il took the boat
supply
food had become exhausted and ncpn bread This
qued however by the boat actually sinking to her deck furnishing
excitement that temporarily aned hunger There ON board old
proved the ships salvation Tor his trade was that OF ship carpenter de found
Then followed the trip the Manau barge Indian Town which has
previously noted aud the march the hills where Peter the
dropped at the Cleveland mine which was then known to the little party a.
Mooiys location The had been The
Jagged broken and
brush with bazd there by the Indians
in the far west which frequently affords level stretches for the traveller
grade which wearies the lungs
wa" samo o T %o ns a% John ni G ann who Ind spent the pv. winter and
summer the location came out Of little log shany to welcome raaraet
auste and lost time getting bed but Peter btm the
morning He found Captain Moody already stirring
Come help ms dig some potatoes boy he said What exclaimed
plant potatoes, dig
help dig potatoes repeated Moody and siezng
ing About half an acre on is pinnacle had been partially cleared and
fill his pail with splendid potatoes +
wen
in great abundance before the eyes the Ieechess Peter
This method keep
tables sound and sweet winter and not Peter thought for the the
extraordinary peryersty of nature
men shipments which have since unn the apsI th world %
ue Of Iron and steel west Of the Aeanies II i needless - saw that
Petre could not frsee result his handiwok
making history He cleared brush
black flies by day and ms1utos by night The activity these
csan that the in the Lake
pucksAn masks over ei lace" whi running the lines AS masks speedily
became gmmy with dirt the sight of the uninited
temporarily suspended
and rv and his party went down the shore Of the lake TO welcome
Harlow lie
this time with the machinery the They little the
and what interesting all Of the
excited
rible All seized founding
Let fell the first cried Peter giving thought
He at the of lake
Mr. tiarows native With the that fd they the
construction Of dock that arrival
another with
thus
sand and the the week the dock
both substantial solid The
he
surprised entirely dap-
Not