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Just when the demand for more and more ... prospectors discovered huge new deposits
steel developed, prospectors discovered huge new of iron ore in the Mesabi Range, a 120-mile-
deposits of iron ore in the Mesabi Range, a 120- long region in Minnesota near Lake Superior
mile-long region in Minnesota near Lake Superior.
The Mesabi deposits were so near the surface that Paragraph 4, Main Idea : Transport of Iron Ore
they could be mined with steam' shovels.
Supporting Detail 1 :
Barges and steamers carried the iron ore
Barges and steamers carried the iron ore
through Lake Superior to depots or: the southern
shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. With through Lake Superior to depots or: the
dizzying speed Gary, Indiana, and Toledo, southern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake
Youngstown, and Cleveland, Chic, became major Erie. With dizzying speed Gary, Indiana
steel-manufacturing centers Pittsburgh was the
Paragraph 5, Main Idea : Production & Uses of
greatest steel city of all.
Steel
Steel was the basic building material of the
industrial age. Production skyrocketed from Supporting Detail 1 :
seventy-seven thousand tons in 1870 to over eleven
Steel was the basic building material of the
million tons in 1900.
industrial age. Production skyrocketed from
seventy-seven thousand tons in 1870 to over
eleven million tons in 1900.