They are thrifty and industrious - Finns in Copper Country

The last place on Earth for many Finns has been Copper Country, Michigan. There they found their living after immigration. This "The Last Place on Earth" you will find three miles north of Calumet, in Phillipsville, at US Highway 41.

I found this short article about Copper Country Finns in the Ironwood News Record. It was published on August 1, 1896. I retyped this, a little bit blurry text, with some comments:

A Industrious People

Twenty years ago there were not over 100 Finnish residents in Houghton County [1]. Today there are estimated to be over 7 000, or more than any other nationality other than Americans. The largest immigration of Finns was between the years of 1885 and 1886. The great majority of those coming to this country belong to the peasant class, very few coming from the cities of their native land. The chief occupation of the Finns in the Copper Country is mining, but quite a number have taken up farming on a small scale. They are also fast becoming a prominent factor in business circles; and they compare favorably in sobriety with any other nationality. The American News (Amerikan Uutiset)[2], published in Calumet, has the largest circulation of any Finnish weekly paper published in America. The Suomi Society, a Finnish fraternal organization, has the largest membership of any society in Calumet. There is also a Woman’s league, which devotes itself to philanthropic and educational purposes. In religion, the Finnish people are Lutherans, divided into two sects – the Apostolic Lutheran and the Evangelical Lutheran. In politics, they are mostly Republican, with a scattering of Prohibitionists. Most of the Finns own the houses they live in, and are considered as a rule to be thrifty and industrious. The population of the farming towns of New York Mills and Cokato, Minn., principally comprises Finns who formerly lived in in Houghton County, where they sayed the means with which tp purchase their farms. The immigration of Finns to Houghton is now on the average ten per day.

[1] Actually the Finnish immigration started ten years earlier, at first from Northern Norway.

[2] Amerikan Uutiset was started in Minneapolis with the name Työmies. When in Calumet published Amerikan Suomalainen Lehti ceased publication, Työmies was moved to Calumet in 1894 and it's name was changed to Amerikan Uutiset.

Information of newly arrived Finnish Immigrants in Copper Country /Tieto Kuparisaarelle vastasaapuneista siirtolaisista

Last Friday arrivced from Norway: Henrik Hurula,
Johan Abr, Tapio,Abram Ruopsa, Herman Umari,
Karl Kostamo, Petter Tervola, Esaias Pekkala, Erik
Kostamo, all from Kemijärvi; Matti Rantti
from Terveola; Pekka Hiltunen from Sodankylä; Johan Nampa from
Rovaniemi. - Last Sunday arrived
Johan Heikel and Alex Rantala from Raahe.
Source: Amerikan Suomalainen Lehti 05/21/1880

English version

A Finnish newspaper called American Finnish Paper was published in Calumet, Michigan between 1879 and 1894.
There was a list of immigrants who had newly arrived to0 Copper Country in almost every issue.  Some of them arrived through Norway, and could have lived there even for decades. Of today’s point of view it's nothing new to migrate with your family or as an individual from a country to another. But in the 1870s and 1880s, it was an important one. With the help of news published in the paper the information of one's arrival spread widely among Finns all the way to the Pacific shores. This way immigrants spread thousands of miles away from each other learned of their relatives and former neighbors arrival. Most American Finnish Paper volumes are spared. They can be read on microfilm either at the National Library of Finland in Helsinki or at the Archives of the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock, Michigan. Here (above and below) are a couple of examples 

Last Sunday arrived safely from Finland the following immigrants:
Johan Solkela, Jaako Jukkara, Tuomas Talonen, Johan Talonen, Mikko Waltari,
Mikko Karra, Simon Wallin, Jaako Myntti, and Mikko Myntti from Vähäkyrö,
Johan Wähäaho from Jalasjärvi, Jaako Kaisanlahti with his wife from Kemijärvi
and Jaako Walkki from Kuusamo. Source: Amerikan Suomalainen Lehti 06/25/1880.

I've picked up.

Finnish version

Vuosina 1879 – 1894 Calumetissa, Michiganissa kerran viikossa ilmestyneessä Amerikan Suomalaisessa Lehdessä oli lähes joka numerossa lista Kuparisaarelle juuri saapuneista siirtolaisista. Osa heistä saapui Norjan kautta ja saattoi olla jopa vuosikymmeniä siellä asuneita suomalaisia.  Tämän päivän näkökulmasta ei jonkun perheen tai yksilön muuttaminen maasta toiseen olisi uutiskynnystä ylittävä tietoa. Mutta 1870- ja 1880-luvulla se oli ja vielä tärkeä sellainen Lehtiuutisen kautta levisi tieto saapumisesta laajalle suomalaisten siirtolaisten keskuuteen aina Tyynen meren rannoille saakka. Näin tuhansien mailien päähän toisistaan levittäytyneet siirtolaiset saivat tietoa sukulaisten ja entisten naapureiden saapumisesta. Amerikan Suomalaisen Lehden vuosikerrat ovat suurimmalta osalta säästyneet. Niitä voi lukea mikrofilmeiltä joko kansalliskirjastossa Helsingissä tai Finnish American Heritage Centerissa Hancockissa, Michiganissa. Tässä ylhäällä pari poimimaani esimerkkiä-