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The Cuyuna Range, which runs southwest from Aitkin was he third. High in manganese (an important ingredient in producing steel) range iron ore was critical to American industry during World War I and the leader in iron ore production was clearly the Mesabi Range. Ironically the Mesabi, which single-handedly turned Minnesota into the largest iron ore-producing state in the union—had been bypassed a number of times by explorers and scientists looking for the mother lode. Then came Leonidas Merritt. For twenty-five years he had been ridiculed by his peers as he searched for iron ore in the upper Mississippi wilderness. Merritt worked as a timber cruiser, and used a dip compass and a woodsman’s persistence to map the areas he believed held ore. In 1890, he took out 141 mining leases and put together exploring parties which he hoped would find enough iron ore samplings to prove his claim. In November, one of the parties struck ore four miles west of present day Virginia. The discovery rapidly led to the opening of the Mountain Iron mine one of the largest mines on the Mesabi Range. The following summer another Merritt explorer noticed how red the soil was around the roots of a fallen tree. This sharp observation led to the opening of the Biwabik Mine. When the word about the rich ore leaked out, the north country exploded. Towns such as Ironton, Hibbing. Eveleth, Chisholm, Virginia, and Babbitt sprang up overnight, and the population of St. Louis County more than quadrupled between 1880 and 1910. Many of the newcomers to northern Minnesota, often penniless and lacking in skills, were new to America as well. Arriving from Scandinavia, Yugoslavia, Italy, Poland, and Greece. they offered strong backs and at first, gratitude for the work that would give them a fresh start. For the miners and their families, life centered around the mines. Daily blasts of dynamite in the pits shook buildings, frightened children, and broke crockery. 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It was the first time miners had organized a strike in Minnesota. Backed by a spirited and vocal national union, 16,000 Mesabi miners demanded payment of wages by the day rather than by the amount of ore they mined. They also called for a pay increase safer work conditions and an eight-hour work day. Many Minnesotans worried that a long strike would hobble the state’s accelerating economy. As it turned out, the strike wasn’t violent nor long-lived. Through August, a few minor scuffles between the strikers and deputies ended in injuries but the Mining Company broke the labor action by calling in immigrant strike-breakers who understood neither the language nor the meaning of collective bargaining. Trainloads of imported laborers arrived daily in the mining towns. By October most of the miners had returned to work, their demands once again remaining only dreams. 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COTTON (continued): • When we think of cotton, most of us think of comfortable blue jeans, flannel shirts, underwear or the 800-thread-count soft sheets that we sleep on at night. Cotton provides all of that and a whole lot more. • Cotton is used more than any fiber, natural or manmade, in the world. It is a daily part of our lives and is still today one of the leading cash crops for farmers in the United States. Every part of a cotton plant is useful. • The most important part of the cotton plant is the fiber, or lint, which is used to make cloth. The fiber has to be separated from the seeds, which are quite sticky. This is why the cotton gin was so important. When the fiber and seeds had to be separated by hand, it took many laborious hours. • “Linters,” the short fuzz remaining on the seeds after separation of the lint, provide cellulose for making explosives, plastics and other products. They are also incorporated into high quality paper products and processed into batting for the padding used in mattresses and cushions for furniture and automobile seats. • The cottonseeds are a valuable byproduct as well. They are crushed and separated into three products: oil, hulls and meal. Cottonseed oil is used for salad dressing, cooking oil and shortening. Cottonseed oil has no cholesterol has little or no trans-fats, making it a good option for healthy cooking. • The meal and hulls are used for livestock, poultry and fish feed and also fertilizer. After all of these parts are taken away, the remaining leaves and stalks of the cotton plant are plowed under to enrich the soil.

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• For years, the “Cotton Row” district when Cotton Incorporated created a of Memphis, Tennessee, was the marketing initiative to recycle denim center of the worldwide cotton trade for insulation for housing. market. The Cotton Museum at the • The “Cotton. From Blue to Green. Cotton Exchange opened in 2006 in ®” denim drive was a studentthe building that was once the place run campaign on several college where cotton was inspected, bought campuses to educate students on the and sold, and shipped around the renewable and recyclable attributes of world. The museum has artifacts and denim. Blue jeans were donated and exhibits that tell the story of cotton, then given a “new life” as housing its history and its impact on the region insulation for houses. In the spring of and the world. 2007, 30 homes were built for families • Another museum dedicated to cotton by Habitat for Humanity of Greater is The Audie Murphy American Baton Rouge (Louisiana) who lost Cotton Museum in Greenville, their homes as a result of Hurricane Texas. This museum is dedicated to Katrina. Twelve of those homes were preserving the history of America’s insulated with UltraTouch™ Denim cotton industry. The museum includes Insulation. the oldest house in Greenville and an • A campaign by National Geographic actual cotton patch. Kids Magazine in 2009 asked readers • The states where cotton grows are to donate their old jeans with the sometimes referred to as the “Cotton goal being to set a Guinness World Belt.” These states are all across Record™ for the “most items of the southern edge of the United clothing collected for recycling.” The States. They are Virginia, North and record was announced in Washington, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, D.C. on August 12, 2009, with 33,088 Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, pieces of denim donated. These jeans Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, were given to the “Cotton. From Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Blue to Green.®” campaign for more Mexico, Arizona and California. The housing insulation projects. What a climate and soil conditions of these terrific way to help people, recycle and areas provide a great cotton-growing keep blue jeans out of our landfills! environment. • Cotton has been an important part of • Are you curious as to what can be our lives for many years and made from one bale of cotton? How will likely continue to be. As the about 4,321 socks, 3,085 diapers advertisements say, it is the “fabric (yes, the old fashioned cotton kind!), of our lives.” Cotton is now grown in 1,256 pillowcases, 690 bath towels, 70 countries, with China producing 409 skirts or 250 pairs of pants! the most at about 25 percent and the • Most people have heard of “hand- Unites States producing almost 20 me-downs” and probably have worn percent. China and India are the largest them. Blue jeans are especially producers of cotton, while the United known for this because of their States is the world’s largest exporter of durability. Hand-me-down blue jeans cotton. were taken to a new level in 2006

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