The Ely Miner (Ely, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,520 issues from 1895 to 1943, published in Ely, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1865, gold found on Lake Vermilion in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, spawned a gold rush to the region. Although the amount of gold found proved insignificant, miners discovered an abundance of iron ore, leading to the development of the iron mining industry in north central Minnesota. The Vermilion Iron Range, spanning Tower, Minnesota to Ely, Minnesota, was developed in the 1880s, and the Mesabi Range, spanning Babbitt, Minnesota to Grand Rapids, Minnesota, followed in the 1890s. Before the development of these ranges, the Ojibwe people occupied this land; “Mesabi” is an Ojibwe word meaning “giant mountain.” The iron mining and lumber industries attracted unskilled workers and immigrants from Scandinavia, Canada, Ireland, Finland, Slovenia, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Wales, Croatia, Austria, and Italy to this area.
The Ely Miner debuted on July 24, 1895. Founded by Peter Schaefer, it was published in Ely, Minnesota, a town located in northeastern Saint Louis County. Ely became an iron and lumber shipping point through the Duluth, Mesabi and Iron Range Railway. Schaefer had previously worked for the Vermillion Iron Journal and The Ely Iron Home, and his leadership in the newspaper field made him known as the “nestor of the journalistic fraternity of the Minnesota ranges.” Schaefer operated the Miner as an eight-page, politically Republican newspaper, published weekly on Wednesdays. Itaimed to print “all the mining, local, land office, lumbering and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ely, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress