Mine: Baker Mine, Stambaugh, MI

Began → Baker Mine → Became

Operated for 6 years.

From: 1909

Location: S 1/2-SW and W 1/2-SE Sec. 31 of T43N-R34W

Owned by: Corrigan McKinney & Co.; later by Hanna Iron Ore Co.

Produced: Iron Ore, soft, red, high phosphorus. Crushed.

Method: Underground.

Railroad connection: C&NW to Escanaba dock.

Until: 1915

Lifetime Production: 267,107 tons from 1909-1915.

Source: [LSIO-1950]

Notes

Baker Mine was located in Stambaugh, Michigan in Iron County.

Time Line

1910. April. Orders were received her to start two of the Corrigan-McKinney shovels, one at the Dunn mine and the other at the Baker mine at Stambaugh. The Mansfield also got orders to start loading its stockpile and there was a bustle about the railroad yards to get engines and cars to handle the output. [DD-1910-0430]