EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.

30 years ago

ISHPEMING — The Ropes Gold Mine remained closed this morning as federal and mine officials prepared for an afternoon meeting to discuss whether it can be reopened safely. The underground mine has been idle since Dec. 31 when a portion of an east access road collapsed into an abandoned mine shaft injuring a Marquette man who was delivering supplies.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — The last trip of the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railroad Co.’s Budd car from Marquette Jan. 11, bringing to an end passenger transportation by rail out of this city, recalls many facts about the first accommodations for the traveling public to the east. The building of what was called the Iron Mountain Railroad, from Marquette to Negaunee and Ishpeming a century ago, primarily to haul iron ore, and its later connection with the Chicago & North Western Railroad, which had completed its line Negaunee to Escanaba in 1864, provided communication to the south (except during midwinter).