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Painesdale Mine & Shaft, Inc Painesdale Mine & Shaft, Inc. Barbara Manninen President Trustees– (906) 231–5542 Catherine Lewis Vice President Sherri Brandt www.PainesdaleMineShaft.com Anton Pintar Treasurer Phyllis Lanctot [email protected] Sherri Lewis Secretary Janet Gregorich PO Box 332 Painesdale, MI 49955 Newsletter–Spring, 2018 Family Research By Barbara Manninen One of the main attractions of the Captain’s Office are the heavy payroll ledgers that we have on display on the tables in the office. Visitors are welcome to look through them to see if they can find the name of a relative, someone they know, or a friend of the family. We also have a supply of canceled payroll checks that we give out to relatives, free of charge. It may take a bit of time to search through the envelopes, but there is such joy if you are lucky and find your relative. Questions often come up, through correspondence, or perhaps while on a tour of the mineshaft, about relatives, possibly immigrants, that have lived in Painesdale and worked in the Champion mines in some capacity. Being an all-volunteer organization, we don’t have the time to do the research required, ourselves, but have compiled a short list of local sources to contact that may be of help, or provide leads to follow for further information. The Houghton County Court House: A close up of a page from one of the payroll ledgers. http://www.houghtoncounty.net/directory-clerk.php. Call (906) 482-1150 and set up an appointment to go through the ledgers for the years you are interested in re: deaths, The Finnish American Heritage Center: marriages, naturalizations, all public records, from 1867 http://www.finlandia.edu/fahc/archive/ If you to the present. Cost is $5.00. Birth records, however, are are interested in Finnish relatives, they have a not public records and are off limits (special instructions comprehensive collection of all things Finnish. Phone are given). No photos allowed of pages searched, number: (906) 487-7374. but you can write stuff down or request a copy of a certificate. Parish Registries (Metric Books): Records of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, deaths. Michigan Technological University Archives: Several churches have closed over the years in the Range http://www.mtu.edu/library/archives/visiting/ The Copper town areas, or have burned. For Catholic records of Range Mining Company records are stored here. To Sacred Heart of Painesdale; St. Mary’s of Donken; Holy actually see the records, you will have to make a trip to Family of South Range; and St. Mary “Star of the Sea” of the library on the MTU campus. Atlantic Mine, contact the St. Ignatious Loyola Church in Houghton, MI, phone# (906) 482-0212. For the Suomi The Houghton-Keweenaw County Genealogical society: Synod Finnish (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) http://www.hkcgs.org/ churches, now closed, of Painesdale, Baltic and Toivola, Copper Range Historical Museum: their records are kept at Grace Lutheran Church in https://www.pasty.com/crhm/ Phone#’s to call: (906) South Range, MI. Phone# (906) 482-2011. The records 482-3097 or (906) 487-9412. of the now closed Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church in Continued on page 2... Painesdale Mine & Shaft, Inc. Family Research Continued... Painesdale are in the archives of the Finnish American a regular subscription to ancestry.com is that you can’t Heritage Center, phone# (906) 487-7374. The Albert create your own family tree. However, you can search Paine United Methodist Church in Painesdale is an active other people’s family trees. For more information about church and has records. Call Ruth at (906) 482-1470 for the Library Edition: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/ further information. institution#library-edition. DNA testing is now available through several companies For additional sources on finding your family history and and are a good source for connecting with relatives. ancestors check out this website: https://www.usa.gov/ Testing through more than one company might increase genealogy. your chances of locating the persons you are looking for. We appreciate your interest in the family aspect of the The Portage Lake District Library in Houghton, MI., history of the Champion #4 and what it means to you phone# (906) 482-4570, has a free version of ancestry. who have a connection to it. We hope to be of help. com. You have to be at the library to access it, as it is a “Library Edition.” If you don’t live around here, it may be available at a library near you. The only difference from Industrial Archeology Research By Vince Kanthak Winters in the Copper County are long, dark and perfect Article #3 is a re-publication of a paper that was for doing internet research. A personal interest of mine originally from the Lake Superior Mining Institute’s Ninth is Industrial Archeology - particularly as it relates to the Annual Meeting in 1903. Unfortunately this document Copper Range Company. My research this past winter is not currently available in digital form. However, it produced a real motherlode of articles published more was republished (with editing) in February 1913 in the than a hundred years ago in the professional journals Journal of Engineering and Contracting. A single copper of the time. Google, in it effort to digitize the world, mill required around 20 million gallons of water daily has been working with libraries to digitize their out-of- to operate. The mills located in Redridge had access copyright holdings. These documents are now available to the water from the Redridge steel dam. The Baltic, through Google Books. As a result of my research I found Trimountain and Champion mills used Lake Superior. four articles that relate to the Copper Range Company: Not a big deal until you want the water in the middle of winter. This is the story of how the workers in Freda and Article #1 is an in-depth review of the underground Beacon Hill built the water intakes so that they could practices in the Champion, Baltic and Trimountain provide a steady water supply year round. Some of the mines published in 1922 by the Lake Superior Mining work was incredibly dangerous. Imagine “swimming” in Institute. This is fascinating reading for those who want an old fashioned diver’s suit up a 900’ intake pipe that is to know the details of mine operations in the Copper only 36” in diameter. Range Company. If you are familiar with the size of the poor rock piles around the Champion Mine you might be Article #4 Mines run on compressed air. This article surprised to learn that this is only a fraction of the rock is a description of the air compressor used at the that was blasted. Much of the poor rock stayed down in Champion mine. It was published by the Lake Superior the mine and never saw the light of day. You can learn Mining Institute in 1906. It is kind of technical but what happened to it in this article. quite interesting. You can see where this pump was located in the Hoist House at the Champion #4 mine. Article #2 is actually a series of four articles published in Sadly, the pump was removed when the mine was the Engineering and Mining Journal in 1915. While much decommissioned. Members who are interested getting of these articles discuss the operations at the Quincy copies these documents can contact me via email Mine’s Rockhouse, there is discussion of the practices ([email protected]). I can provide a link to digital used at the Champion Mine’s Rockhouse also. copies or I can provide a limited number of paper copies for a modest donation to Painesdale Mine and Shaft, Inc. 2 Painesdale Mine & Shaft, Inc. Restoration Update By Vince Kanthak Summer 2018 is going to be a busy time around the PM&S grounds. We have a big lineup of projects to maintain our structures as well as to make them more viewable for our visitors. The biggest project will be repairing the steel siding and roof in order to secure the shaft/ rockhouse from the weather. Sadly some of the timbering inside the shafthouse has been damaged over the years due to leaking water. PM&S has received a Keweenaw Heritage Grant to help cover approximately 50% of the cost. The remaining cost will be covered by a generous donation from the estate of Thomas Roberts. Robert E Johnson Contracting will be handling this job. Dale Johns Construction will be working on several projects on site. Reroofing the Captain’s A missing piece of siding can be seen on the top of the Office is a high priority due to the deteriorated shafthouse. condition of the shingles. They will also be helping us enhance the interior of the shafthouse to give The PM&S match will come from the Joseph Putrich Memorial visitors better access to the ground level and repair Fund and from a Leuthold Family Foundation Grant. We will the broken windows. Molpus Woodlands Group also be building an outside stairs that will give easier and more (the current manager of the remaining poor rock direct access to the lower level of the site where the rockhouse pile at Champion #4) has generously offered to and hoisthouse are located. These projects are made possible provide poor rock gravel for leveling the floor. by the generous support provided by the many individual and This project is completion of the 2017 Keweenaw family donors who have contributed over the past years. Heritage Grant of $3,550. Mining Moose Fundraiser Morris the Mining Moose is still available to come home with you! He is 9 inches tall and is wearing one of our navy hoodies printed with our logo, and is also ready for work in the mine with his hardhat with headlamp.
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