But these, and a hundred other places located along the Atlantic coast, could not have produced ore in quantities sufficient to satisfy the yawning jaws of the Bessemer converters.

As this new method poured out the liquid in thousands of tons, and as the commercial demand extended in a dozen different directions, the cry went up from the furnace's for more ore.

And again Nature, which has favored America in so many directions, came to her assistance.

Manufacturers in the steel regions began to recall strange stories which had been floating down for many years from the wilderness surrounding Lake Superior.

The recollection of a famous voyage made in this region by Philo M.Everett, as far back as 1845, now laid siege to the imagination of the new generation of ironmasters.