The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-13
MIN|NCN0TES
Notes on Iron and Gold and Their
Production Cleaned From
Various Sources.

Various Sources.
Attic Franklin group, approximate
" the same force is kept, the pay roll
containing about 500 names and some
$500 tons of ore is being mined daily.
Shipments from shaft at the Franklin
and Bessemer are being made, and at
No. stockpile Franklin, the Giant
Vulcan shovel is employed in loading,
the total daily shipments from the
properties being about 300 tons. The
D.. D. s \. company is engaged in
q new spur track to the pocket at the
Victoria, and lively shipments from
this property viii bring up the aver
age of ore shipped daily from the
group for the season. AT the Frank
lin proper the timbers for the new
No. , shaft house are being prepared,
and this shaft will be in working or
der ere long. On Wednesday
morning the auburn as closed down,
throwing about one nundred men out
of employment. This move came very
unexpectedly, and the cause is I'M
known. The Auburn has some $4,000
tons in steckpile and has been put in
shape for q good seasons work. Win
ston Bros. continue their stripping on
the property, and within the past ten
days have furnished employment TO
an equal or greater number of men
than were let out by the closing down
OF mining operations.-Enterprise.
Confirmation has been obtained Of
the reported sale of the Belle, Lewis
s. Yates coal lands to the Richlsnd
Iron company. The properties in
clude 12.GOO acres in Jefferson and
Clearfield counties, Pennsylvania,
with mines of capacity Of 1000 tons
Of coal day, 100 coke ovens, 80 miles
Of railroad and its equipment, four
stores and several hundred miners
houses. Four-ffths Of the land is
owned in fee simple, while the re-
mainder is controlled under lease in
perpetuity. The purchasing corpora
tion assumes possession on May 10.
While the price paid is not definitely
known. it is believed that it is not
far from So, coo. 600.
For the past six months the Adams
Exploration company have done con-
siderable exploring upon the townsite
in an endeavor to find out if ore in
paying quantities existed. The Star
is now authorized to speak officially
and declare in the negative. There
is not ore in sufficiently paying quanti-
t es to further continue the work OF
ploration. For the past few weeks
Cole & Mcdonald have had adiamond
drill upon the southeast side OF the
town. They have gone depth of x
feet, the last 10 feet of which is rock.
This will consequently end further ex-
plorations here.-Eyeleth Star.
Operations have been resumed at
the Burt mine here, and shipping will
be commenced next week in earnest.
At present the ore will be loaded
direct from the shaft instead Of the
stockpiles. 4 -Four steam shoyels
are now in operation at the Mahoning
in stripping and mining. The two
Cotton Bucyrus shovels are placed at
opposite ends OF the pit and are work
ed alternately in courses on either
side of the pit. But it is not the in
tention of the management TO work
both at once. SiXty-six cars were
loaded before dinner last Saturday.
Hibbing News.
Mesaba Range: The Duluth, Missabe
& Northern railway has crew of
engineers at work laying out a spur
from Mckinley to the Petit property
adjoining the old Mckinley mine.
This is the property upon which an
option was given to Eastern furnace
men last winter, but the option has
expired and Capt. Harry Roberts has
decided to work the property himself.
He will begin active operations as
soon as the spur is completed. Elk
plorations during the winter have
shown up quite large body of ore of
good quality.
The "Codfish" Aristocrzcy.