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- General Remarks from Annual Report to the Commissioner of
Railroads, 1875: Locomotives are housed in the Calumet & Hecla
Mining Company's Machine Shops. The depot buildings and shops
necessary to the working of the Railroad are furnished by the Calumet &
Hecla Mining Company. This road operates an incline 7/8th of one
mile in length, and in connection uses a tug and scows furnished by the
C&H Mining Company. Said company also pays the expenses incurred by
operating said Railroad, when said expenses are in excess of receipts, for
the privilege of transporting its copper rock to its Stamp Mills situated
at Torch Lake. [MCR-75]
- 1875: Railroad 4 miles in length with one branch line (Calumet
branch 1/2 mile long). Railroad crosses the Mineral Range RR at
Calumet at grade. 2 stations, no passenger cars, 4 box cars, 132 ore
cars, 3 timber cars and 15 flat cars. No locomotives are equipped
with train brakes. No accidents in 1875. [MCR-75]
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