Editing Ahmeek, Michigan (section)

===Later years===
[[File:Ahmeek Mining Company 1915.jpg|thumb|Share of the Ahmeek Mining Company, issued 8. July 1915]]
The Ahmeek Mining Company continued to work the Kearsarge lode through the Ahmeek Mine until the year 1923, when the mining company was incorporated into the [[Calumet and Hecla Mining Company]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":7" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":5" /> Operations of the site under the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company ceased in 1931 under effects of the [[Great Depression]]. After the Depression had concluded, the Ahmeek Mine reopened in the year 1936 and carried on until around 1966 when the mine closed permanently.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":3" /> On April 30, 1971, Gabriel J. Chopp, retired after thirty-nine years serving as Ahmeek's postmaster, thus making him the longest-serving postmaster of the village of Ahmeek, the only incorporated settlement in Keweenaw County.<ref name=":1" />