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Mine: Lillie Mine, Ishpeming/Negaunee, MI
Bessemer Mine → Lilly Mine → Cambria-Jackson Mine.
From: 1875
Location: SW-SE Sec 35 of T48N-R27W.
Owned by: Republic Iron and Steel Company in 1908, then Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. (1943)
Produced: Iron Ore, hard, brown, no-bessemer.
Method: Underground by stoping. Depth was 1,000 feet.
Railroad connection: DSS&A to Marquette dock; C&NW to Escanaba dock.
Until: 1912 - then Cambria-Jackson mine.
Lifetime Production: 1875-1912 shipped 1,869,003 tons (included in Cambria-Jackson Mine)
Also known as the Llly Mine.