The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-09


On July Is the Crystal Falls
Mining Co., was organized under
the general mining laws of Mich.
igan, the officers being George
Tod, president; II. II. STAN
baugh, secretary and treasurer;
both of Youngstown, Ohio. Ne
gotiations were at once opened
with the owners of the promising
new property on section twenty
one, 1882, and on Tuesday the
deal was consummated and the
property christened the Crystal
Falls mine. Early last spring
Byron N. White and others of
this city began exploring for iron
ore on lands belonging to the
Sheldon estate and Messrs. Luke
WEIGH, L'Anse and Thos. l..
Chadbourne, Houghton-being
the east one-half of the north
east one-quarter of section TWEEN
ty-one, about east and not more
than half mile from the Great
Western mine. A line of test
pits was carried across the for
nation and showed some ore but
more quartz, which shortly clean
ed up as white as snow and
twenty feet of it was penetrated,
when q change came which was
an iron ore of excellent grade.
A shaft was carried down sixty
feet. twenty of which was in the
ore; prosecuting and drifting at
the bottom gave surprising re-
suits. When the spring breakup
came, water made into the shaft
faster than il could be taken out,
therefore underground work was
suspended and further test pitt
ing commenced. The result of
that line of work was something
hardly counted on--a vein of ore
one hundred feet wide and a
known length of $50 feet, the ore
assaying nearly sixty four per
cent. metallic iron. The quartz
eat in the shaft comes TO the sur
face near the middle of the vein,
us is shown by the fact that it
does not appear in any of the pits
on the east side, where there is
but five or six feet of surface
resting on the clean ore. This
is certainly one of the finest
showings for large mine ever
opened in this district and If it
does not prove heavy producer
it will be a surprise to all who
have taken the pains to observe
the progress of operations. The
new company is strong one and
did not buy the property for
speculation but for what there is
in it. The vein will be stripped,
the contract has been let, and the
mine will be worked open cut.
BY the time the stripping is well
under way full plant of mining
machinery will be in place and a
considerable output made the
present season. The property |
is located but 1000 feet from the |
Armenia spur track and the G. Il |
NV R'y Co., has already award
ed the contract for the track. |
The ground is on a side hill, a
"A most beautiful location TO- n
mine. More than two months
ago a mining man in conversa-
ton with the writer, remarked |
that, for the time spent and |
amount of work done, it was the
best showing he had ever seen
and that in readiness an output
of 20, 900 tons or better could cas-
lily be made this season. There
is big mine in sight and the
Crystal Falls Mining Co.. is for
tunate in securing SO promising
a property with which TO com
mence its operations in the Crys-
tai Falls district. Mr.. Walter
Newberry, late of Stambaugh.
has been engaged to take charge |
of the books and for a time will |
superintend the mining work.
The Justified Exploring Co., !
being A. Justified, of this city
and several Cleveland. Ohio, gen.
tlemen of means, was organized |
this week and commenced explor-
atory operations on lot No. ?,
section twenty, 1882. The land
lies between the Youngstown
and Monitor mines which makes