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Ontonagon 



Is still innocent of a railroad. There are several pointed that way, 

 but it is not for us to say when they will arrive. Visitors must now 

 travel by steamboat from some one of the other lake towns. 



Black, Presque Isle and Iron Rivers are all noted streams, enter- 

 ing Lake Superior east of the Montreal and west of the Ontonagon 

 Rivers. Copper Harbor and Eagle River are to the north-eastward of 

 Ontonagon, and upon the western shore of Keweenaw Peninsula. 



Honghton and Hancock. 



The twin cities of Lake Superior are situated on opposite sides of 

 Portage Lake, and together are locally called " The Portage." This 

 is really the head center of the original copper mining district. 

 CALUMET, a few miles to the north, is also a fine city of 5,000 

 inhabitants, made and supported by the copper interest alone. 



L'Anse 



Is a small, ancient town, located at the head of Keweenaw Bay, 

 and was the site of one of the early Jesuit Missions. It is, on 

 account of its primitiveness, a first rate place for hunting head- 

 quarters. To the south and west are some of the wildest districts 

 in the State of Michigan. 



Islipemins/ and Negaunee 



Are both "iron mining" towns of several thousand inhabitants. 

 They are in the heart of a wonderfully interesting part of the Lake 

 Superior country, the metropolis of which is 



Mctrquetfe. 



By all odds the best built and wealthiest city on Lake Superior: " a 

 city peerless in her native lov( liness, with a veritable Bay of 

 Naples, glistening at her feet." Its population is about 6,000, and 

 for a city of its size it has exceptional advantages. Its streets aie 

 broad, well paved, lighted, and are usually bordered with great 

 slabs of serpentine marble or red sandstone, as clean and bright as 

 the finest boulevards in America. Its business blocks are fine, large 

 and substantial. Its residences are grand and palatial upon " The 

 Highlands;" white and comfortable elsewhere. Its people well 



