The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-01-17

Under the new order ~ things, the
Shafer work is going on at it's usual Jog
No estimate has as yet been placed on
the '9l output, but IL will be ms large as
IL IL possible to make IL. Thomas II.
Biggefs is now stationed at the mine. in
the capacity OF agent for the company.
Shafts Nos. and are each 200 feet
deep. while No. 3 is l4O, and going to
even with the Others. This gives large
block of ore So command. Should IL be
found necessary so 70 do, all shafts viii
be lowered another level. Numerous inn
provements ARE in hand, which, when
completed. will greatly augment work.
The Shafer made handsome, even re-
markable record, its work al former
years taken into consideration, but IL
seems 10 be the aim TO do much better
this year. The idea that the Shnfer is "A
small mine was lost sight al entirely
about the middle OF last summer. IL is
now looked upon as one oil the largest
mines in the district, and the pretty part
OF il in that il is holding up 20 IL. There
il no doubt in the mind Of the writer but
that the output Of 81 viii go In two
lots; the larger n Bessemer. IL certainly
looks that way now.
The Norway Current has this to say Of
one III the leading mines OF the Crystal
Falls district: 1.-THE wintsf's work at
the Paint River has fairly begun. 'B'
shalt is being sunk, and is now sixty feet
below the bottom level, and in ore, and
the sinking * being pushed as hast as
time and skill will do IL Ore is
being hoisted from both A and b
shafts, from the upper levels, the ore be-
ing taken from the pillars. THESE pillars
will be so FAR taken out by spring AZ to
allow the surface drift and sand to reach
the present bottom level. The new
21x42 engine will bc i'm place by March
LIST, and the new Rand compressor il ex-
pected daily. This will increase the out
put 81 '9i, should the market warrant
IL. Some exploring il being done, with
favorable results. The Paint River Is no
longer one OF the little ones."
There is probability that the South
Mastodon mine will be leased Ia Capt. e.
Il. Roberts and Others, proposition 10
that effect having been made by Edward
Blake aud the other owners OF the
property, and IN now under consider,i-
ton. The South Mastodon IN situa ted
ON the north half OF the southeast quar-
ter OF section thirteen, 42-33, and with
In "A stones throw OF the Mastodon
mine. During the past season the
property has been quite extensively de-
yeloped, and never WIS In better shape
than IL IL to-day, and withCapt. Roberts
in charge, IL will make "A big showing
Should the property be leased, "A larger
plant Of machinery will be added, and
several other important additions made.
The Republic Iron Company, working
la the Michigamme district, three miles
south 81 the Mansfield mine, is showing
up a big thing The company have ex-
plorcc quite extensively here, aud have
now shown up "a grade 81 ore entirely
different from any mined hcreabouts,
which is the genuine Republic quality,
and runs Bessemer In iron. working
shalt 6xS feet encountered the ore when
IL had been sunk nine feet, and now they
ARE down into over twenty-four feet OF
the mineral. Capt. Alex. Lenshek has
charge of the work. which is now being
done with nine men.
The electric-lighting plant mt the Dunn
mine IL completed, the test Co sa tisfac-
ton having been made Yesterday. The
plant consists OF 100 incandescent
lights, operated by acknowledgements
Westinghouse Junior engine The lamps
are only used ON the surface. The plant
WIS placed by Frank A. Gisch, ,5f
-Lkcago.
All &.the employees Of the Yo6lS Iron
fo,nnany Dunn mime Yks5nid off
"wednesday. here h2iS been K" trouble
at this or any ~ The other schIesingcr
mines In this district, but the arrival OF
the cash makes better feelings.
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