The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-03-14
FROM THE MINES.
NOTES FROM THIS AND OTHER
MINING DISTRICTS.
NEW AND IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS AT
THE sHREnIDAN-Two yEISs-rHE ORE
REsEMBLEs THE MANsFIELD--A ZIG
STOCK PILE AT THE DUNN
THE OPEN PIT-THEsHAFER
DOING GOOD woRK--iS
OTHER IRON FIELDS

The owners OF the Sheridan mine, In the
Iron River district, being Messrs. John
Christee, M. l.. Main. Paul Kelley, Geo.
w. Sessions and other Escanaba gentle
men, are jnbilant over recent develop
lnents at their property. The shaft,
which is "A well made affair, is located in
the hanging wall side Of the vein. About
two months ago n eross-cut WIS started
i'm To get the ore in the second level; nc
cording 20 measurements taken from the
level above the body SHOULD have been
cut at less than fifty feet, but the work
went on and no ore was in sight at 100
feet Twenty feet more and some ore OF
"A marketable nature WAS found. but en-
tirely out of place. In the cross-cut
about forty feet from the. shaft small
seam OF ore less than two feet wide was
cut. Capt Gulgren started "A DRIFT seven
feet wide, south ut the point and at ten
feet the ore had widened out OF the drift
Work is now confined to that point. II
would seem that the ore body shown in
the level above had pushed to the west
instead OF north as was expected and
that the ore encountered at the north is
another vein or body. So soon ms the
body now in is cut out for work the north
end will be given thorough examina-
ton. The ore from the new find runs up
10 sixty-fve per cent. IN metallic iron
and is about even with the BeSsemer
limit i'm phosphorus, an ore that will
find market II one is to be had. The
ore tx very similar in appearance to the
product oi the Mansfield. the wonderful
Bessemer producer OF this district. H. IN
understood that "A block Of several thou
sand tons 81 Sheridan ore has been sold
10 the new furnace az Manistique. The
Sheridan is all right.
At the bottom OF No 3 shaft. Il the
Dunn mine. drifting east and west was
commenced early in this month. OF the
100 men employed, sixty Ave OF them
are laboring in stripping work at No. 2
shaft this work Is moving along well and
by the first Of May hosting from the new
open pit will be in progress. The work
ing force will be increased IN IA very short
time. By tonight the stock docks will
be holding precious burden OF $1,000
tons.
The shaft at the NIononRahela proper
~. near the Shafer, had attained depth
Of fity-eight feet Thursday afternoon.
No ledge WAS then in sight but the bot
,,,,, x,aa ha rflcniny
At the Tobin mine, OF which James
Piper is captain, the work is progressing
nicely.
The branch office Of the Barr Pumping
Engine Company is now located at Mar
quette.
The Shaier has over II 900 tons Of ore
in stock at present.
c. s. Osborn, Of Sault Ste Marie, Mt
one time the editor 81 the Florence Min.
ing News, and who is now making tour
through the south, writes az follows Of
the two leading iron cities IN Dixie land:
Chattanooga aud Birmingham seem
very lively, but are q"icter than usual ON
account of the wet blanket ON the iron
mnrket Interest to the visitor az Chat
tnnooga and Missionary Ridge Look
out Mountain, 2 200 feet high, is ascend
cd by an incline railway. From the sum
init is one ~ the grandcst views in the
world All IL iron at Birmingham. TAX
ing the Ensley dummy and day, one
cnn visit the perfect Thomas plant and
the great plants 81 the Tennessee Coal,
Iron & Railroad Co. i he latter is the
third largest producer ~ iron Ia the
United states, with the Joliet Steel com
pany first aud Carnegie Bros. second.
AZ Pratt Mines are the oonl mines ~ the
company and at Ensley il u plant Of
four furnaces with capacity of6OO tons
uf pig iron daily, while all the furnaces oi
the company have a grand total cnpa-
city az 100 tons daily Supt. Barnes.
81 the Enslcy plant, who has just resign
ed 20 90 60 either Washington or Japan
ns he chouses, told me the cost az pro-
ducing pig iron in their furnaces ranged
from So 80 To So 30 a ton, with an aver
nee cost Of something less than nine dol
lars. AT the Ensley furnace yards ! 600
tons were IN stock last week The ore,
conl aud lime stone are all obtained
within a radius Of twenty miles The ore
runs from thirty 60 tIty-siX per cent. IN
metallic iron, with the average at from
forty 20 forty-six per cent. The product
can only be used for castings OF "a wide
range and cnmpetcr only with the Lake
Superior non-bessemer pig.
THE WEEK IN IRON CIRCLES.