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Title
Bailer at the Hamilton Mine
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Mines and mineral resources -- Equipment and supplies

Item Number
AF01a146

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph of a bailer, with a capacity of 2, 560 gallons, at the No. 2 shaft of the Hamilton Mine. From June 19, 1893, to July 14, the bailers had raised 87,017,954 gallons of water from the Ludington and Hamilton mines.

Bailer at the Hamilton Mine

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