Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-31
Tunnel Driftings.


light its coal mines at Crested Butte, Col
orado. with electric light.
Shipments of iron ore from the Vermillio
range, Minnesota, amount to 225,4S4 gros
tons nearly four times the output of 1884.
There are within mile Of the corporal
limits of Birmingham, Alabama, five of tn
finest and largest iron furnaces in America.
The Western Steel Company is getting it
works at Carondelet in good running order
When the works are In full blast, it is ex
pected the output will be between 200 ant
25o tons per day.
The old cIucible steel works at CLEVELAND
Ohio, have been leased by the Cuyahog;
Rolling Mill Company and will be put int
operation at once.
The November output of Lake superior
copper mines foots up 1868 tons.
All the mills and furnaces in Chattanooga
Tenn, are now in full operation.
The Oxford Iron Company at Oxford, n
D., has started its rolling mill and nail fac.
tory.
| A company has been organized in Mil.
waukee with capital of $250,O00 10 buIld g
blast furnace at Ashland, Wisconsin,.
Tests have proved that one pound of pow
| der in small blast will loosen about Az tons
| o. rock, and in large blasts about ~ tons.
Belgium has Withdrawn 81 100000 of sill
yer from the Bank of France, within the ten
! days ended Nov. Goth. ...
The first recorded discovery Of iron O, G
within the limits of the United States, was
made in North Carolina IN 15S5-e sactly
three hundred years ago-by the expedition
fitted out by Sir Walter Raleigh and COM
manded by Ralph Lane, which made in that
year, on Roanoke Island, the first attempt
to plant an English settlement on the ATTAIN
tic coast.
At the National copper mine, Michigan,
they are now working on very fine mass OF
deposit of copper. Some twenty tons have
already been cut off.
Mining has become to be science at this
place; hard knocking and hog luck Is thing
of the past.
Christmas passed off beautifully, and ev-
eryboGy is happy, even the Italians.
The Ore and Steel Company's cashier re.
ceived very nice Christmas p. resent at his
house on Christmas morning. 1t was big
boy.
Tonelli and Wiggensiein went to Freder-
icktown 10 spend Christmas.
Thomas Willoughby, who went to England
last summer, has returned TO the Knob.
The Knob band turned out CHI, istmas day
and treated US TO some of the fine music.
Come again, boys; we like to hear you.
The product of pig iron in Scotland dur.
ing 1885 amounts to ZOOS, 562 ions.
Little Dick is clerk in DR.. Farrar's drug
store at the Knob.
The Miners Arms has got splendid ale and
as gentlemanly pIop,leto as you will find
in any place in the country.
Another mine horror-tatal gas explosion
in the Delaware aod Tucson Colliery at
Mill Cree6, Pa, December 18th.
The United States is sending abroad about
100000 worth of locomotives per annum.
The more machinery the more on ore, you
know.
As the fence has become decayed and torn
down around the Pilot Knob Cemetery, and
nothing to protect those sacred mounds from
the hogs aud ca,,le, would it not be a good
plan to get together and Try some way of
having it fixed up.
After three days rest, Monday morning
finds The big wheel once more on the roll,
with everybody, even tie mule, at his post,
eager for the first pull.
The new elecir ic lamps came Monday for
the Shaft.