Rosentretter 10 Presentation 10: (31 slides) Title: Copper Slide 1: Copper image: a chunk of copper ore Slide 2: Native American uses for copper (as early as 5,000 BC) image: display at the Michigan Technological University Archives of Native American copper tools and utensils Slide 3: Douglas Houghton Born in New York in 1808. Arrived in Michigan in 1830. First state geologist in 1837. Father of Copper Mining in the USA . Died 1845 off Eagle River. image: portrait of Houghton Slide 4: We need a lecturer to prevent our frisky old bachelors and gay young belles, puny young beaux and prim old maids from suffering so much ennui [boredom] as to cut their throats during the long [winter] season. (Detroit newspaper) Slide 5: Henry Schoolcraft image: portrait of Schoolcraft Slide 6: A Report on the Existence of Copper in the Geological Basin of Lake Superior by Douglas Houghton Slide 7: Finding the Source of the Mississippi River, Henry Schoolcraft and Douglas Houghton image: painting of Native Americans and voyageurs at the source Slide 8: the perfect nonchalance with which the voyageur took his pipe from the rectum and placed it in his mouth was beyond conception. (Douglas Houghton) Slide 9: Michigan State Geologist quote one of the most important jobs in state government. unquote quote There can scarcely be a shadow of a doubt that the western Upper Peninsula will eventually prove of great value to our citizens and to the nation. unquote (Houghton) Slide 10: Ontonagon Boulder 3,708 pound famous rock image: photograph of the Ontonagon Boulder Slide 11: Keweenaw Copper Boom 1843-46 The value of the copper taken from Michigan mines greatly exceeded the value of California gold AND contributed more to the growth of the USA. Slide 12: KEWEENAW PENINSULA quote It was a common saying that there was no Sunday west of the Sault. unquote image: map of Michigan Copper Country Slide 13: Fort Wilkins (Copper Harbor) image 1: Civil War dressed staff or reenactors standing next to a canon image 2: aerial photograph of Fort Wilkins Slide 14: Cliff Mine (first successful copper mine in the Western Hemisphere) image: illustration of the Cliff Mine Slide 15: big strikes are as one in a million. (Horace Greeley) image: photograph of Horace Greeley Slide 16: CLIFF MINE No other mine rivaled its richness during the early copper mining days, but the boom ended. image 1: photograph of mine workers image 2: photograph of log cabin workers' homes Slide 17: Calumet and Hecla (C & H) Mining Company (produced 50 percent of the nation s copper in the 1870s). Slide 18: 1860: 12 million pounds . 1872: 25 million pounds. 1885: 72 million pounds. 1890: 100 million pounds. 1900: 200 million pounds. 1905-1923: plus 200 pounds EACH year Slide 19: 1847-1887 Michigan produced more copper than any other state. Eventually, mines in Minnesota and Arizona pass us. Slide 20: Copper Range towns Red Jacket, South Range, Atlantic Mine, Central Mine, Laurium and Calumet images: photographs of Calumet Opera House, outside and inside. Slide 21: quote I regard my employees as I do a machine to be used to my advantage, and when they are old and of no further use, I cast them into the street. unquote Slide 22: Industrial Revolution s double standard: When a corporation pooled its money to control an entire industry, it was a skillful business move. But when workers tried to combine their numbers into a union, it was considered a conspiracy. Slide 23: One-man Drill (Widow-maker) image: photograph of a mine worker operating a one-man drill Slide 24: quote In all these years that I have been working for this company, we have been treated more and more like slaves. . . . The company drives us like mules. unquote (C&H miner, early 20th century) Slide 25: UNITY --pasty (adopted by all ethnic groups) . --Parades to celebrate holidays (joined by all) . --Western Federation of Miners . Sli...