CHAPTER III. 

 THE FELCH MOUNTAIN RANGE. 



SECTION I. POSITIOI^J^, EXTENT, AND PREVIOUS WOKK. 



Our map (PL XLIX) of the Felcli Mountain range includes 12 sections 

 in the southern tier of T. 42 N., lis. 28, 29, and 30 W., beginning- with sec. 

 33, T. 42 N., R 28 W., on the east, and ending with sec. 34, T. 42 N., 

 R. 30 W., on the west. The range is known to extend beyond these Hmits 

 both to the east and to the west. Rominger states^ that it has been traced 

 4 miles east of our eastern boundary, and also west of our western boundary 

 to the Menominee River north of Badwater Village. From a hasty recon- 

 naissance of the country to the east it seemed probable that but few addi- 

 tional facts could be determined, because of the swamps and the extensive 

 cover of the Paleozoic sandstone, and these sections were therefore not 

 studied in detail. We were not able to continue the work to the west, on 

 account of the lateness of the season, but it is desirable that this should be 

 done at some future time. The sections surveyed include, however, that 

 portion of the range in which outcrops are most abundant and which has 

 been the principal seat of exploration for iron ore. 



The strong magnetic attractions in several of these sections and the 

 prominent outcrops of ferruginous jaspers at Felch Mountain in sec. 32, 

 T. 42 N., R 28 W., and in sec. 31, T. 42 N., R. 29 W., were early noticed 

 by the United States land surveyors and indicated on the township plats. 

 With the rapid development of the Marquette range after the close of the 

 civil war the attention of miners Avas quickly drawn to these as to other 

 outlying prospects, with the result that vigorous exploration was begun on 

 this range even earlier than on the Menominee range proper. 



'Geological report ou the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, by C. Rominger: Geol. Survey, Mich.,' 

 Vol. V, 1895, p. 35. 

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