Title: Ahmeek Mill Trestle
Photographer: Gazette Staff
Subject Headings: Railroads - Buildings and Structures, Transportation, Buildings - Dwellings - Housing, Single Family
Condition: Good
Description: The high trestle over M-26 at the Ahmeek mill on Torch Lake is fast achieving the reputation of being as signifcant a photographic prize as the much gabled Quincy shafthouse, No. 6. The diesel locomotives stop at different sides of the steel overpass depending upon which side the sun is holding reign. The Ahmeek mill is performing prodigious jobs these days. Its milling all Calumet and Heclas rock originating in the Copper Country. The trestle sees Caledonia as well as Ahmeek rock and it carries Ojibway ore as well as a sprinkling of Mohawkite. The photo shows No. 203 shunting mineral ore rock cars about in order to get the dumpings in the proper bins. [Image of the ore cars suspended above the highway with homes and automobiles below it.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Bob Skuggen
Date of Photo: July 25 1953
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 14 cm x 20.3 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-002-003-002
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
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