Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-18
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.


An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant DoIngs of Our Neig ghbOrs--Wed-
dings and Deaths = Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
MINING MATTERS.
The heavy shipments of iron ore from
the four great ranges continue, and there
is now no doubt that the output of the
present season will be as great or even
greater than last year. Shipping opened
sluggishly in the spring, but for the last
ten weeks mine owners have been strain
ing every nerve to get all the ore that could
possibly be produced to lower lake ports.
July l shipments were several hundred
thousand tons less than at the same date
in 1887, but since then ore has been going
forward at such a rapid rate that the
shortage is now only l29, l27 tons. Over
3,500,O00 tons have been shipped to
date this year, and nearly 1000, 900
tons more will follow. The sea-
son, which promised poorly at its open
ing, is proving one of the best that the
mine owners have had for years. Wages
of miners, mechanics and laborers are
slightly lower than last year; ore is selling
nt little better price, and lake transpor-
tation charges are lower than last year.
Charters for vessels from Two Harbors
and Ashland to Cleveland are given at
$l.65, and from Escanaba at $l.35. Non
Bessemer hematites, for which there was
no market at $3.50 in tho spring, are sell
ing freely now at $4.5 on the dock at
Cleveland Nine e-owners have no diff
Guilty in making sales, but the furnace
men find trouble in getting enough ore.
The directors of the Cleveland Iron
Mining Company have called a
special meeting, at which the adj
visibility of bonding the mines of
the company for $4O0, 900 will be consid-
cred. There is little doubt that it will be
done and jhe money so raised will be
used in building fleet Of powerful steam
ers, with barges for INnsorts, aud this
feet will carry the ore from tho company's
mines to Cleveland and other Lake Erie
ports. There is no question that this will
be money-making operation for the
company. Owners of lake vessels have
made great profits for the last two years,
and the Cleveland company can effect
saving of nearly 80 per cent. on the pres
ent co of placing their ore at Cleveland.
The new shaft of the Michigan Gold
Mine is still going down as fast as three
miners can sink it lowing to legal compli-
cations only four men can be kept at work
on the property. and sugar quartz carry
ing gold in quantities varying in value
from $40, 200 to 500, 900 per ton is being
taken out daily. Some days only
small amount of this valuable
rock is taken out; at other
times several hundred pounds of it
| glittering with pure gold are thrown out
by single blast of dynamite. This rich
rock is being kept at the mine and in the
vaults of the Cleveland Iron Mining Com
pany, and large quantity has been sent
to Cleveland, where the headquarters of
the Michigan Gold Company are. A fort
une of respectable proportions has already
been taken from this shaft, only twenty
feet deep, and the chimney of highly
minerlized quartz holds as strong ut the
bottom of the shaft as when it was first
encountered at the surface of the vein.
The September product of the Ropes Mine
lacked only few dollars of amounting to
a round $1,000. To get this amount of
gold and silver nearly 2, 1000 tons of quartz
| were crushed and treated. The ninth level
of the mine is now being opened, and the
ore body is gaining in width and richness.
The mill owners on Menominee River
have decided to make the cut of logs the
coming winter only the full capacity of
the mills, and by so doing it is expected
to cuitail the input sufficient to clear the
river of the old material
The University of Michigan has now
enrolled l,649 students. This is the
largest number that have ever entered at
this time of the year. After this time last
year 227 students matriculated. If as
many more enter this year the total will
be 1916, or the largest number attending
any American college. Three hundred
and fifty-six freshmen have entered the
literary department.
Hugh G. Perkins, who murdered his
neighbor, Hugh Meadows, at Neilsville
Wisconsin, in May, 1884, and escaped
from Jail while awaiting trial in Novem-
Der of the same yea, in company with
three other prisoners, was recently arrested
at Windsor, Ont. He waived extraditior
papers, and was ken across the rivel
and locked up. Perkins has been living
under the name of Corbett, and was em.
ployed az fireman on the Michigan Cen.
trail Railroad
Mrs. A. Farling, of the Soo went tC
her back door one night recently to empty
some ashes. As she stepped out she was
attacked by some unknown wretch, who
stabbed her three times seriously but no
fatally.
DIR. Dakin, of Detroit, to the jury il
the case of the death of George v
Brockie, said whisky pneumonia" killed
him-a sudden cold taken when the lungi
were overheated by intoxication.
The jackson Citizen thinks cannin,
factory would be good thing there.
The S-year-old daughter Of August Ret
met with fatal accident while going will
her parents to attend an evening party a
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