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Stephanie Ukkola
BREITUNG- The Breitung Board called for bids on sewer work throughout Soudan at their June 24 meeting. The project consists of replacement and repair of over 20 manholes and work on larger sections of sewer on South Street and on 4th Street between Jasper and Gordon streets. Residents on these streets will be notified, their sewer lines checked by camera, and will be given the opportunity to replace their own sewer lines while the contractor is available.
JPJ Engineering estimated the project will cost $580,000. The township has received grants from IRRRB for $145,000 with a match requirement and from CDBG for $100,000. The township plans to do some of the simpler work themselves as an in-kind match for the IRRRB funding. Bids will be opened at a special meeting on Tuesday, July 13 at 12:30 p.m.
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As Minnesota’s first iron ore mine, the Soudan Mine opened in 1884 and produced high grade, extremely hard ore until it closed in 1962. The next year, the United States Steel Corporation donated 1,200 acres including the mine to Minnesota for a state park, and in 2010, the state bought 2,848 more acres from U.S. Steel to protect the Vermillion Lake shoreline. In 2014, the Lake Vermillion State Park and Soudan Mine State Park were merged into the Lake Vermillion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park.
Today visitors can visit the underground mine by riding in a cage suspended on a cable down to the lowest level where miners worked. It takes three minutes to descend to Level 27, some 2,341 feet, half a mile, below the surface. There, guides take visitors to see the rooms carved out of stone by the miners as they worked to remove the iron ore.