Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the Directors of the Copper Falls Mining Company, 1852: With the Report of Samuel W. Hill, Superintendent of the Mine, and the Charter and by-Laws of the Company The Directors of the Copper Falls Mining Company submit to the Stockholders their third annual report, for the year ending April lst, 1852. As none of the previous reports of the Company have been printed, and as many of the present Stockholders have become such within the past year, the Directors deem it proper to give a brief review of the history of the Company. The Copper Falls Company, to whose rights and property this Corporation succeeded, was formed October l6th, 1845, under articles of association, for the purpose of prosecuting mining operations on the lands embraced in Lease N o. 9, granted by the War Department to Hon. David Henshaw. Some prepara tory work was done by this Company in 1845, but active mining was not commenced till 1846. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Isle Royale and the counties that line the northwest coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are called Copper Country because of the rich deposits of native copper there. In the nineteenth century, explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in this region. They used those “ancient diggings” as a guide to establishing their own, much larger mines, and in the process, destroyed the archaeological record left by the prehistoric miners. Using mining reports, newspaper accounts, personal letters, and other sources, this book reconstructs what these nineteenth-century discoverers found, how they interpreted the material remains of prehistoric activity, and what they did with the stone, wood, and copper tools they found at the prehistoric sites. “This volume represents an exhaustive compilation of the early written and published accounts of mines and mining in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It will prove a valuable resource to current and future scholars. Through these early historic accounts of prospectors and miners, Halsey provides a vivid picture of what once could be seen.” —John M. O’Shea, curator of Great Lakes Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

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