Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — How a Hog Rooted Up a City. [ARTICLE]

How a Hog Rooted Up a City.

I have just returned from the shores of Lake Superior, where I spent some time visiting the copper regions,. .said to be the greatest in the world. Throughout the rocky, barren Keweenaw peninsula, good for nothing as farming lands,, the immense copper deposits have caused large towns to spring up, and they now give employment to tens of thousands of men. About eighteen years ago a pig strayed from the drove to which it belonged and fell into a pit on a spot where the city of Calumet now stands. It rooted about until it uncovered a mass of native copper, and showed to the world the location of the greatest copper mine ever known. As a result of that pig’s rooting humanity is $35,000,000 Richer in the use of the copper there discovered, and the stockholders who, aided by the pig, have helped the world to this wealth, have received about $25,000,000 for their

I •■ - trouble. A town of 6,000 inhabitants has gathered around the pig’s hole, and nearly 2,000 men (are employed in operating the mines beneath.—Cleveland Leader.