ebbortz: taconite conveyor

north of hibbing minnesota 1977 poured into the pellet storage bins which led down to the railroad cars pointing toward the superior wisconsin iron ore depot to be loaded onto the iron ore boats for buffalo cleveland hamilton ontario and more but the end of the conveyor was also a beginning of the wilderness if you were looking north poplar tamarack white birch as far as you could see some far flung lakes also and if your eyes stayed steady at sunrise you might see grey wolf blue heron for sure black bear if you were lucky the pellets flowed continuously kicking up dust outside the conveyor shields a 66% iron composition like a fixed recipe for the steel mills to the south displacing natural ore deposits and thousands of hungry underground miners yet the conveyor spo ke like a shill the natural world did its best to cover its ears & if there was a bottom line you always knew you were the eternal witness & thus accountable --- e b bortz

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