BESSEMER, a city near the north-west corner of the upper peninsula of Michigan, U.S.A., about 15m. from Lake Superior; the county-seat of Gogebic county, and the centre of important mining and lumbering operations. There are 12 iron mines in the immediate vicinity. It is on Federal highway 2, and is served by the Chicago and North Western, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic, and the Soo railroads. The population in 1920 was in 1930 it was