Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-10
MID BoTHERs MINERS
9e1 AngelIne at Ishpeming 60
Get at Iron Ore.

| Mich. Sept 4.-lSpeclalI
=, m,aroland- Cliffs company mas =
H., on it's hands in it's Lake Pn %.
pio :, tho southern part OF thls 60.
h'in las never before troupieo -
ing men. 1t is propieitI+ a y, toward
ing. and refuses al
solution. ,,x,s of Ishpeming there
III Tue sa,,t;ful body of water Aho" &c
"a1 40 Angeline in the sou1hG!n Pc n,;na
as ha ah,s,n oATh The Lake Angellne n atnst
e enn as the mine making the i, the
tits nor ton of output OF any ~, n.me
lake Superior district, tooh naar which
from this sheet OF Ma wa some fifteen
IT'S SHIFTS ao diamond drill was place.
yealiS eur, aaen ice during the winter iellu 4o'.
Oh l., ,hS ms bored through ice, Witt
urn ilJ oarth with the result l,lal :.
a ,,1as found a large body or Vaiuaur r,lora-
, Nd the lake. Similar eA d 10
t;onS conducted OH the Iahe Glove-
hanks by the Lake superb tho ey-
!anu - 81 an enormous body OF ore MANY
,;I;ons of tons in extent, underly ny
almost the entire lake. NaIioue 80 40
aii 4l' % oct at this ore safely were sus
enst 6ut tbe ever-present danger u
$500 ~ ss,Iot hoav of water breaking through
Tho MINER levels of the mines uet t ~"
extensive exploration OF lhe sIn;n1
lenses. After several years VI pi' ,,.,dnr
the three mines ownlis ~ 100 tho cost
of cumming out the water ana heepln7
tho DEPRESSION permanently unWateleu;;
A. +ha lake covered severai hunuIeu
ocres and was seventy rect ueep' t
underta king was an expensive Anu 'e 81
ous one. Something over Dlilion ST.
Ions of water were pulhpeu 49, 40
tho nnmns are still required to keep Tue
'iie pu,ap 20 w.ter from springs and sur
face drainage. o,,+ tho
The initial problem of pumping OUT me
voter nroyed to be. however, a slluple
matter compared with the queStloh tna.
followed it. After the water hau peen
forced out by the great centrifugal pump,
throwing 10000 gallons a minute II Mas
found that a big patch of mud NJ covered
tbe former bed of the lake. This deposit
of mud. while thin at the edges OF lhe
lake bed speedily became OF conslderaple
thickness. All attempts to handle IL nave
so far been a failure. 1t is more tnaI
four years since the lake was pumped
out. yet the mud is still there. I oftlcuS
of the lake bed have been filled in with
waste rock from the mines, and at the
edges the mud has dried out, where 1t
was originally but two or three feet deep.
In the area covering the central portion
of the bed of the former lake TINS muo
still remains 1t is too thick to be
pumped out and TOO thin to be shoveled
out. Through a comparatively small
opening in the mines underneath it will
force its way rapidly and frequent delay
and expense is caused by its breaking
through the walls into the mine.
At the beginning of this week the
hanging wall of jasper, which cverlies
the ore and was left as protection
against the mud, was broken through
in the Lake Shaft mine of the Cleve-
land Cliffs company and through an
opening of some six feet in diameter The
mud has forced it's way into several
chambers of the first level 1t will be
allowed to partially harden. through
the absorption of its water by the sur
rounding walls of ore and by the air.
until the hole can be stuffed up, after
which the mud will be scrapedxss.% and
taken to the surface. There - eyer
twenty feet of this mud above the mine,
at points, and eternal vigilance is the
price of even the partial immunity en-
joyed from its efforts to find the center
of gravity. Some of the best engineers
in the country have tackled the problem.
and all have met with complete failure.