Industry: Eureka Iron and Steel Works, Wyandotte, MI

1854. Offices in Detroit.

Located in Wyandotte, MI this iron works used 30,000 tons of ore in 1880. Unlike other iron works in Detroit, the Eureka works converts iron ore into pig iron, and that into plates and bars. This gives employment to about 650 men.[DFP-1880-0226]

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1883. The Lake Superior Iron Works has received the contract for building 184 iron jiggers, which are to replace the wooden washers in the Calumet and Hecla stamp mills. The Eureka Iron Works also received a contract for furnishing a number of Evans' slime tables, ten heads of small "cam" stamps to crush course sand and some other iron work required for the enlargement and betterment of the C&H's dressing works. [DFP-1883-0925]