The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-06-07

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rSt Of four stamps OF twenty-five horse
l,ower each with u capacity 81 working
two hundred tons Of ore every twenty
four hours, though the estimated product
g. 100 tons. A portion 81 the machinery
Is now in place and the remainder on the
road; there Is one Buckeye engine Of one
hundred horse power and two forty
horse power horizontal boilers, together
with Wheeler & Teppin pump, which
will be used TO supply water for the
working of the ore. The concentrating
plant IL an ertilply new thing aud this
will be the first trial OF the process; L. l..
Crippin, n member OF the GroveIand Iron
Mining Co.. is the inventor and has UNI
bounded faith in the ultimate success OF
Ills machine. The iroveland mine now
has adcpth oi 223 feet, divided into three
levels and stump. Mining in a small way
has been carried ON all winter. 5000 tons
ui ore sent TO Chicago and Fond du Lac
furnaces and there are now 100, 900 tons
al ore ready to bc mined. The working
force now numbers about twenty miners
!. and SO soon as the concentrations ARE
completed the force will be largely I'M
creased and the ore rapidly sent TO
the suiface There is an abundance 81
ore at the Groveland, but IL is low in
metallic iron land CORRESPONDENCE low
in .phosphorus), hence the addition OF
the new plant. The vein has been opened
ON the length, east and west, 220 feet,
with NO indications Of it giving out; the
vein has been cross-cut 40 feet and Is
still in ore on the north. IL is earnestly
hoped Mr.. Crippin's invention will prove
q SUCCESS, there is no reason 60 think it
will rot. The mine is wrought in excel
lent shape under the able supervision OF
Snpt. ii. NJ. Lowry and Capt. Evans.
While in the Caledonia district We'd
nesdny, "a representa- tive of this journal
visited the Mansfield mine and found
everything progressing nicely. Hosting
from the old and new shafts continues
day and night. The new shaft Is Co be
supplied with shaft house very soon,
climbers being hewn for this purpose are
NOW about ready. This shaft was down.
at the time, a distance OF ~ feet; IL ism
very large one. dimensioned 7x16 feet.
and has two skir-roads and u ladder
way. II still continues in diorite but
they will strike the ore.in a short time.
the formation tending 10 pitch the shaft
from the river toward the west. Stopeing
- carried ON in the drift between the old
and new shafts and the ore which is min
ed IL hoisted out oi the former while the
.sliorite encountered near the latter is
hoisted out Of il. There are two
Knowles pumps at the west end, Nos.
and 9, and "A NJ. - Cameron pump is to
the east, near the river, hosting out OF "A
twelve foot stump. This shaft Is down
ninety-hve feet. which places il ON the
first level, md even with No. shaft
which Is 100 feet 10 the first level The
distance 81 the drift between both shafts
is in the neighborhood al some sixty feet,
abe greater part being in ore. No new
work * being done Ia the drift along the
ore vein north and south OF the shaft by
the river. The readers az these mining
columns win remember that the drift TO
the south OF the shaft Is over 200 feet
every City feet and that the drift TO the
north is over 100 feet, with two cross
cuts. There are probably sixty men n {
work there now; the force will be soon
irereased and in two weeks time, Supt.
Edwin Ball and Captain Louie Ashicman
wllI have things in such u rushing, run
ming order as to achieve the proposed
output.
Wagner mine; such Is The name oi n
property between this city and the Shat
cr mine. ON the left hand side oftheroad.
Geo. Wagner, OF Marquette, together
with several Negaunce mining men, com
nlenccd work here lust winter, ia .Innu-
nry month. Considerable tcst-pitting
was done and now have located o shaft
by tonight il will he down thirty-six
feet. A week ago the ledge was struck in
.tte shalt, (which, hy the way, isa square
one. .7x7 isrtl, when they were down
twentyflogr Icet. They hnve very lair
stuff at the bottom and the formation
insinnntcs that the ono viii bc Of a soft
nature aud dark ia color, altogether dil.
ferent from the Shalcr ore. The vein
runs east and west and dips south. An
euginc house has been erected; IL l.
17x25 feet and confirms a first class
boilcr and'an eightccninch drum. In
The shaft il a No. 4 Cameron pump; all