The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-09-29

feet deeper, when the workmcn found "A
great cavity, "vug," in ore. They have
gone down thirty feet now, January 10.
and are all the way in clean ore, ore
crystallized into form of kidney and grape
ore, etc. In quality IL corresponds with
the Mastodon and is. probably, another
lense underlying Co the north AZ the
time ! saw they were only sinking. The
description is the northeast quarter of
the southwest quarter of sec tion twenty
four, 42-33. Work has been vigorously
prosecuted at the Manhatten during the
has developed Nearly 1000 tons Of ore
has been forwarded.l The Crystal Falls
east range explorations are very promis-
ing. Recent developments have given a
good deal Of interest TO the work in this
quarter especially in township and range
1892 II is in a locality OF fine hard
wood timber and levelland whore are few.
II any, out-crops. so that there is not
much TO guide one in exploring. Last
year described the Blancy, whichis now
called the Wauneta. in the north half of
the southeast quarter of section twenty
seven, 13-32 Some additional work has
been done and about 500 tons of ore
taken out Those interested call il a fair
property There is one shaft 10 feet
deep, with a cross-cut eighteen feet in ore
and drift with the formation ninety
feet long that is in ore. Mr.. II. B. Swain
"A reliable explorer and mining man, has
charge ofthework. Healso superinteuds
the work az the Lee Peck mine, which is
( in the Southwest quarter of the north
east quarterof section twenty-siX. 1882.
I This mine * in the center of the forty,
that runs north and south, and marks
the line of the ore belt through this range.
Mr.. Swain commenced at the dioritc aud
made line of test pits west until hecame
10 the ore. At the time went down in
the shaft. January 10, it was seventy
eight feet deep At fty-six feet down
drift east cut thigteen feet Of ore, one
west also found twenty feet of it, but the
ore gives way to lean ore again. The
formation Is mixed ore and rock, and
il does not seem that they hayc yet cut
"a large body ofmcwhantable one. What
gives interest Co the mineSin this range is
tic quality of the orc, which is very near
Besseiner None of il is better than *
found at the Lee Peek There is no
machinery ou the location Other work
has been done, but the above has the
main showing of ore. considerable work
was done at this mine later than thecom-
missioner's visit and the developments
made wcle 81 u very nattcling nature,
indeed Mr. s. -. lIollister, OF Crystal
Falls, has secured options ON the west
half and the southeast quarter OF the
southwest quarter 81 section thirteen
and the southeast quarter of the north
east quarter and south halfuft the south.
east quarter of section fourteen, 1892
lie has explored for distance north and
south Of 2,4O0 feet along the center Of
the west half Of section thirteen. This
line is about 10 PAGES east Of the west
line of the section and extends POO feet
north OF the east and west quarter line.
In the north pit is hard ore, which nnaly-
zes sixty-iive per cent. in iron Ol3 per
cent. in phosphorous. South Of the
quarter line seventy PAGES is a pit forty |
feet deep which is twelve feet in depth in /
ore; another pit southeast of this is |
twenty-eight feet ia ore, and fifty feet in
depth one hundred PAGES south OF the
quarter line are three pits. all in ore, and /
in the south pit Of all, eighty rods from
the quarter line, | found them raising
ore. Among theanalyzes Of the ore from |
these pits are the following 1.-Iron, /
G4.1O per cent. phosphorous, .033 sill
len, 3.5S; manganese, 2.lS; sulphur, /
.055. 2.-Iron, 63.65; pbosphorous,
03G. 3.-Iron, 59.45; phosphorous,
CPS; silica, l.10. Analyses made 10y &. 1
r. Wright, in January, 1883. Work at
the Hollistcr property has been carried
ON without intermission since Mr.. Law
toms visit and many changes have taken
places until now the property bids iair
20 in the aear future rank as one Of the
leading ore producers ON the Menomlnee
range. They have AN apparently in-
exhaustable supply Of ore, which will not
take long in making favorable impress
sion for itself in the iron market from
the fact that IL Is Bessemer.l The
Angus Smith mine IL as yet the largest
find Of ore that has been shownup IN this
east range. II IL In the east hall of the