The line was owned by the Conglomerate Mining Company and ran between a stamp mill at Lac La Belle and the Delaware copper mine from 1883 to 1888, when poor economic conditions forced the line's closure.
[2] They converted the line to standard gauge and changed the railroad's name to the Keweenaw Central.
[3] This company failed in 1917, and the former Lac La Belle and Calumet tracks were removed in 1918, along with the Keweenaw Central Trackage at Phoenix, north to Mandan.
At Lac La Belle the Delaware Mine in the 1880s had built a narrow-gauge railroad and a stamp mill.
The railroad was a six-mile line connecting Calumet and Lake Linden that originally belonged to the Copper Range, who had abandoned it.