The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1892-01-02
GOGEBIC RANGE.
Current Mining Matters Reported BY the Int
Statc News Record.


! Current Mining Matters Reported BY the Intel
Stase Ncws-Record
Some weeks ago the Ncws-R Record told
az the diamond drill work that was pro.
/, posed n { the Minnewawa option, located
within the townste az Hurley. The d1l
: WAS started on November z, shout six ~
: feet from Silver street and 100 feet wcri
Of the Montreal river. The driving O.
I the drill has Progressed ut such RAPID
? rate that depth Ot $50 ieet had beer
4 secured Wednesday when News-Recor
/ reporter visited the workings. AZ TIM
! time The drill had passed through states
4 mixed ore and quartzite, and two dykes
4 and best of all iorty-two icet ofore. lh'
i ore was found below the dykes. Th'
; driving of the drill will he continued unit
4 a depth al twelve and possibly tiitcsr
hundred feet has been attained, whcl
: drill work will cease. and u large workin
! shaft will be sunk, the location of which
!, has not vet been decided upon. TIL
Z drill explorations at the Minnewawa ar
. being watched with intense interest b
mining men on this range. Active opei
ations on the property mean much L
= Ironwood and Hurley.
y This property which joins the oil
George Washington on the west ~ locate
about Il mile east OF the Comet mine
n that promising property oil the Icnoke
Gogebic Development Company, en-
!, anWalseleld. The option = hcld ny -
o. rralthen feeding a l. -. -, ,S,,.l, mi.
ean give ha.s = IL. .m,,,
which has crew OF Men Aaw much YOU g..
Capt Harvey Diamond. ~ dmraip
drill is being operated a short distante,..
north oil the old workings, and Thursday
morning n depth Of l63 feet had been 80.
M, t.,,,.Iy n
the drill for the greater part Of the dis.
lance passing through the hardest kind
IL hard jasper Several scans of o,
have been gone through, hut they were
limited in extent. They do not expect
to show mp much ore until depth al
about 400 feet is reached when Can't
Diamond believes there will he "son,
thing 81 value i'm sight" The drill is ia
charge Of Ed Barnaby, who drove tho
lcep hole at the Norrie.
Commenting ON the report that the
Iron Belt mine has disposed 81 itS entir,
02 output, the Cleveland Iron Trade
Review OF last wcel, SAYS: The rumored
sales OF the entire output, for '93. OF the
Iron Belt mine, stated at 100000 tons,
may be true. but the news has not
reached, at this writing, either the own I
,ls OF the mine or the sales agents in
iNN'lNHNs ! I've llDli ptil ITOuuCtu M
ore in 81. Conservative ore men will
make no figures until they can tell how
much they will have to pay for lake
reights, and that will not be known ioi
two or three months.
Capt Taylor informs the News Record
hat the two bits, set with twenty black
which were stolen from tho
Ashland mine recently, have not vet
Dccn recovered. He will give 500 'fnr :
he return OF the bits or for information
lint will lend TO the conviction OF the
'obbers. The bits ARE valued ut 81, 900. J
The Gogebic iron range mines shipped
l23, 6O7 tons Of ore from the port OF
sscanaba this season., The shipping
mines, with the amount for each, are az
oIlows: Brotherton, 80 ,6l4; Cary, o.
Az; Norrie, 1885, SOS; Pabst, Al ,507
Newport, ,527.
The Colby mine IL giving employment
% about 400 men ut the present time.