Comments on: A Mine at Boston

By: Roc

Roc — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:57:30 +0000

Wasn’t there a train robbery at the Peninsula and is this the same area?

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:34:36 +0000

Oh okay, cool, I can’t wait to see that series!

By: ccexplorer

ccexplorer — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:45:37 +0000

There’s one at the Michigan Mine – a double hoist I mean. I’ll feature it probably this winter.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:06:08 +0000

Hmm, okay, I guess I’ll have to go check those out next time I get up there. All I know is that the older hoist at the #2 conglomerate was replaced with a newer, double-drum version. I peeked at your book and indeed saw two hoist houses; oh well, I guess this is a mystery I’ll have to solve on the ground… what I’m getting at is that I’m just trying to find a foundation of a double-drum hoist to study, haha

By: ccexplorer

ccexplorer — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:55:51 +0000

It’s the No.2 Conglomerate. But the concrete hoist seen here is a later replacement I believe. There are ruins to the west of these, but I didn’t take any pictures of those.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:05:39 +0000

Hmm, I guess I’m a little late in saying this, but I have a question: was this shaft the #2 Allouez Conglomerate or #2 Pewabic Amygdaloid shaft?

I figured it was #2 on the Conglomerate lode, but that brings up another question: was the drum pit really as small as the panoramic photo shows? Issues of the Copper Handbook following 1909 tell of a double-drum hoist, capable of hoisting down 3,000 feet being in operation at the #2 Conglomerate shaft. The issue is this: that drum pit is far too narrow for even a single drum, let alone two. Is the shaft identified wrong? Or does the photo just distort the size of the drum pit? Or were there really two drums squeezed in that little space?

By: Franklin Jr. Revisited

Franklin Jr. Revisited — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:01:53 +0000

[...] been here before, multiple times in fact. The first visit resulted in the discovery of the old Albany and Boston Stamp mill, as well as a more contemporary [...]

By: Guest Post: The Franklin Jr No.2

Guest Post: The Franklin Jr No.2 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:16:06 +0000

[...] Before wrapping this post up I thought I’d throw in a look at the site as drawn in the Calumet Sanborn. The No.2 was served by a MR rail spur coming up from Boston Pond. From here it made its way out to the No.2 Boiler complex, the stack of which is still visible above the trees. As for the hoist building, I had previously featured it HERE. [...]

By: explorer

explorer — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:04:42 +0000

Excellent Gordy… that helps out a lot. I was thinking it might of been a similar situation to the Calumet PO vs Red Jacket type of thing. I guess you can just name PO’s whatever you want and they don’t have to correspond to an actual town name.

I’ll have to look that book up….

By: Gordy Schmitt

Gordy Schmitt — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:47:30 +0000

I did a search for the Demmon Post Office, in Google Books a book called Michigan Place Names showed up.
Showed Boston as being a station on the Mineral Range Railroad.

Jemima White was the first Postmaster on Jan 26, 1900, on April 2, 1906, the office was renamed Demmon for Daniel L Demmon, Secretary and Treasurer of the Franklin Mining Company. Post office was closed on Nov 30, 1933, but Boston remains.
So it looks like to me, the Post Office was renamed and stayed right where it was, the town was still Boston, and was probably why the railroad never showed it as being Demmon.
Daniel L Demmons was 76 years old and passed away on Feb 19, 1908, he also showed being treasurer of the Tecumseh Mining Co formed in 1880.