Mining and Smelting Iron of Minnesota’s Mesabi Range in 1926
If this footage looks familiar, it might be because Perfect Duluth Day previously featured a condensed version of this film. The 16mm Time Machine YouTube channel offers the version above, which has an additional four minutes of content.
The footage might not be precisely from 1926; the YouTube description notes the following:
I believe the film dates to sometime between 1923-1929; as the William H. Warner ship of Fairport was launched in 1923 and film date code is 1929. So, 1926 is just my estimate. The specific title of the film and who produced it is unknown.
Features blast mining, train cars of the Great Northern Railway & E. J. E., a large freighter ship, some absolutely massive ore unloader shovels, and the operations of the blast furnace. On one of the shovels, Oliver Iron Mining can be read; they were a division of U.S. Steel.
Duluth scenes begin at the 2:40 mark.
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