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THE HEMATITE 1953 LUTHER L. WRIGHT HIGH SCHOOL I It 0IIIV OOO MICHIGAN
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Foreword At various times in recent years students have asked why our school annual is called the Hematite. -Originally the word hematite was used in a school yell, and then later it was applied to the yearbook. The following explanation was written by Mr. J. B. Patrick, principal of our high school at one time. H-E-M-A-T-I-T-E Rah’ Rah.’ Rah Good. Good’ Good! hematite: hematite: ironwood: When the Ironwood High School yell was chosen several years ago, the selection was most appropriate, for it contains the name of the element which is particularly typical of this mining community, an element which forms the very nucleus of our existence, that which contributes essentially to our prosperty, the rich product of our rugged hills in whose depths it lay hidden for ages--HEMATITE. Hematite is the most valuable ore of iron. The ores mined in Ironwood and on the Gogebic Range are a soft, red hematite containing hydrated and some blue steel hematite. There is apparently no limit to the supply of this ore, for in recent years the problem of deep iron mining has been mastered, mining methods have steadily advanced, powerful modern machinery has supplanted obsolete types, and vast bodies of the richest and purest ores in the world have been discovered. The name HEMATITE is from the Greek word HAIMA meaning “blood”, and was given to the mineral by the ancients from its fanciful resemblance to coagulated blood. It crystallizes in grapelike and globular masses with beautiful radiating fibrous structures and is of a deep brownish red to which is applied the name Red Hematite. First discovered in Britain it appeared today in vast quantities in various parts of the United States, notably in Northern Minnesota, Gogebic County, and tne Marquette District in Michigan and in Northern Wisconsin. Indications of the “Bloodstone”, as red hematite is sometimes called, are everywhere in evidence in our locality: the very soil is teeming with it; its deep red color lends a picturesque element to our landscape; it is sufficiently spectacular to attract the attention of our visitors, who comment with admiration on the “red dirt”, and if those visitors were to arrive upon a rainy day they would be impressed with the blood-red rivulets and the glory pools that are everywhere conspicuous. The Ironwood High School color was selected to perpetuate our native color—not cardinal, not maroon, not the common red, but that color of magnificent lustre, which has an individuality of its own and which is peculiar to Red Hematite alone. Symbolizing, as it does, wealth, because of its great intrinsic value; beauty, because of its rare color; health, because of its fancied resemblance to rich red, warm heart-blood pulsating with life; harmony, because of its natural blending with the native soil of which it is a component part; it is but fitting that our Annual Publication--THE HEMATITE--should bear the name of this important mineral which so lavishly contributes to our welfare.
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