THE CRYSTAL FALLS IRON-BEARmG DISTRICT 

 OF MICHIGAN. 



PART I. THE WESTERN PART OF THE DISTRICT. 



By J. Morgan Clements. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The present report is an account of a portion of the Crystal Falls dis- 

 trict of Michigan, so called from the most important town, Crystal Falls, 

 the county seat of Iron County. The iron-bearing- district along the Paint 

 River, near the site of the town of Crystal Falls, was first called in literature 

 the Paint River district by Brooks.^ As soon as the town was begun, about 

 1880, the name of the town was applied to the district.^ It is situated 

 on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, adjoining the northeastern border of 

 Wisconsin, and serves as a link connecting the two well-known iron-ore- 

 producing districts of Michigan, the Marquette, and the Menominee. The 

 Crystal Falls district is of itself of considerable economic importance, as 

 will be seen, though not deserving to be ranked with either of the two 

 above-mentioned iron districts. Since the geological relations of the rocks 



' The iron-lDeariixg rocks (economic), by T. B. Brooks: Geol. Survey of Michigan, Vol. I, Part I, 

 1873, p. 182. 



2 Kept. Com. Miu. Statistics Mich, for 1881, p. 222. 



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