The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-20
BOOSTING THE
COPPER COUNTRY
Commercial Club Issues Booklet
on Districts Resources

| ~ IN iAflAAtn anu S'N VI al NtthH
the Copper Country Commercial club
has been established in the copper
country with its headquarters i'm
Houghton. Many people 10 not as
yet know the purposes of the organi-
l2ation and the benefits which il has al
ready brought and intends to bring to
the copper country
| Members of the local club have re-
Gently published an interesting book
let entitled, Where. What and Why
is the Copper Country" Copies of
this booklet have been distributed
throughout the different towns to give
the public a general idea of the work
| which the club has undertaken and
the benefits which it hopes to attain.
Following is the gist Of the edition:
The copper country is i'm the Ke-
| weenaw peninsula Of Michigan; the
heart of Lake Superior, the richest
| copper producing district in the world.
1t is situated 400 miles northwest of
Chicago; 300 miles north Of Milwau-
kee; 400 miles northwest of Detroit;
400 miles northeast of st. Paul and
Minneapolis $50 miles east of Duluth:
| TO miles southeast of Port Arthur and
Fort Williams.
The copper country is the home of
10000 people whose income per cap
tia is greater than that of any similar
community in the middle west 1t is
the home OF great industries employ
ing more than $4,000 people and pay
ing more than $4,000 600 in wages in
nually.
General Statistics.
The copper country mas one of the
busiest, largest and safest harbors on
the Great Lakes; thirty miles of
nayigable rivers, lakes and canals,
maintained by the federal government
and connecting at either end with
Lake Superior and through which
there passed in the las, decade COM
mercc valued at $1,235, O49,5g2.
The copper country has twenty
miles of deep water frontage suitable
for factory sites which will be pre-
scented free to substantial enterprises
neytions by water with every point on
the Great Lakes, and 10y water and
rail with every distributing center in
the middle west
The copper country has low freight
rates with which no inland town in
the middle west can compete. 1t is
also free from taxation and provides
free water for new industries.
The copper country has fifteen of
the strongest banks in the middle
west, with combined resources of $751;
$4,000. The strongest local building
and loan associations in the middle
west are contained within the limits
Of this district with resources Of So
0OO,O0O.
The copper country has an assessed
valuation of $l49,972,3S5, and an an
nual tax roll of $2S5,9G0
Millions of feet of the finest hard
ana soft timber. including the largest
nelt OF oak, birch and maple now
standing in Michigan are contained in
this one district, together with thou
sands Of acres of fertile farm lands
producing the finest crops in the mid
die west
The copper country has an annual
production of 22O,OOO,O0O pounds of the
worlds purest virgin copper ana also
the greatest iron range IN the world is
but 100 miles distant.
The copper country has the only de-
posit of molding sand I'm Michigan and
unlimited facilities for the manufac-
Wrc of charcoali within 200 miles is
'h" finest deposit of lmc.Uone for
smelling and blast furnace WORK to be
found i'm America Enormous deposits
# red sandstone, one of the best build
ms materials known, arc contained in
This district.
The copper country has cheap fuel
md unlimited electric power 4
ranch Of the largest wire rope fac
tory i'm the world; division Of the
largest manufactCry of explosives in
he world, and is the headquarters of
lac American Handle co.
The copper country has immense
machinery plants large steel, bras,
.'V I'l lbuluIltS, SllOt factories, l
,cN factories; glove factories, furni-
-ure and cabinet factories; macaron.
md candy factories and mammoth
lumber mills and smelters.
The finest schools, churches. librar-
cS. baths, recreation resorts, public |
places Of amusement in the state OF
Michigan are situated in the copper
country y half dozen Of the most
progressive, most attractive best gov
'rncd and most healthy cities in the
middle west are located in this sec
lion.
The copper country has the purest |
water, the most heautiful scenery and
he most agreeable climate. summer
md winter, TO be found in the middle |
vest.
What the Copper Country Wants.
The copper country wants more in |
dua'ries, industries of the right sort
and wants to help industries that can |
deliver the goods
It. wants wooden mills. hosiery mills |
textile works. tanning plants, copper |
and brass rolling mills, metal work |
ing plants of all kinds. chemical
plants, Hour mills, canning factories |
ana potato elevators. |