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but they were preceded by Victor Lauhala, John Beck and Matti Boriin, with the first Finnish woman on the scene being Sofia Braski. Jacob Mukari is said to have arrived in 1894, and the first Swedish Finns are said to have been Herman Aura and John Munter.

It is impossible to describe individually each Hibbing mine where Finns have worked. The list which follows, however, lists those in which the Finns played important roles:

 

Mine:

Opened:

Production by 19-76 (in tons):

Agnew

................................

1902

6,961,123

 

Agnew

No. 2    

 

1,450,511

 

Albany

..............................

1903

14,726,139

 

Burt    

1895

16,118,075

(exhausted)

Cyprus    

1903

1,962,577

 

Day    

1893

8,473,119

 

Hull-Rust (Hull)    

1896

110,617,044

 

Hull-Rust (Rust)    

1896

85,006,682

 

Laura    

1901

4,482,183

(exhausted)

Lamberton    

1915

1,467,253

 

Langdon & Warren

1916

93,929

 

Leetonia    

1902

8,626,842

(operations ended)

Longyear    

1902

8,112,418

 

Mahoning    

1893

101,569,726

 

Mahoning Group 3

 

1,123,879

 

Mahoning Group 4

 

9,800,964

 

Mahoning Group 6

 

101,602

 

Morris    

1905

45,139,765

 

Morton    

1912

1,431,151

 

Nassau    

1907

71,563

(operations ended)

Penobscot    

1897

18,837,380

 

Pillsbury    

1898

7,434,214

 

Scranton    

1904

22,563,380

 

Sellers    

1895

89,584,218

 

South Agnew    

1920

7,635,136

 

South Longyear    

 

3,136,634

 

South Rust    

 

8,249,083

 

So. Uno (GN)    

1911

1,720,824

(exhausted)

So. Uno (NP)    

1911

3,384,331

(exhausted)

Stevenson (OP & UG)

1900

15,407,212

 

Stevenson (OP)    

 

1,317,118

(exhausted)

Susquehanna    

1906

28,953,011

 

Sweeney    

1908

1,414,707

(operations ended)

Utica    

1902

7,250,989

(operations ended)

Warren    

1917

2,766,148

 

Webb    

1905

16,538,260

 

Probably few Hibbing Finns starting off to their daily shift in the mines stopped to consider the national importance of the mines in which they labored or the ultimate uses to which the ore they dug out was put. They were aware, however, that there was so much ore under Hibbing that there was work enough, if not for a century, at least for their lifetime. The evocative paragraph which appeared in the special Hibbing issue of the Päivälehti (25 August 1915) indicated to the rest of the Finns of Minnesota the role of their brethren in Hibbing : "Are you one

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