The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-13

at all OF the newer properties would require
several columns. hence only one win be
Taken, tho xrcadlan.. This property g Sc.
q any Of the newer mines and work there |.
being pushed with almost ineopceivable rapid
ity. though no detail Is slighted In n striving
Tor haste, One. year ago an option ~ the
Arcadlan and adioining mines was seeu1d SSy
ff sta sn +; Leo Z istri 81 S shd az a E estiI be n 4 Sss
10 its possibilities. He had already brought
about the consolidation. Of the Huron. Grand
isiee' RSyai enc Sc6lssiseolidatssdf. Tie IIuTcsdis n had
been worked In a primitive fashion on several
profit. though conceded by al mining men %
be very rich In copper, simply because II this
Il is impossible to make a mine pay, no
matter how rich, when there is no money
to furnish sdeaunte mscrm,neryi :, no STAN nhiiI
Mr. Leopold obtained his options last Novem-
the old shafts and getting things, in shape for
resumption on n large scale. On June OF tho
ployed, but the Arcadian was practically un-
known outside OF Houghton county, where a
lanFgid sort Of interest was taken IN the mine;
Mates a good fellow, and we hope he gets
fSere' and ths wien HE he d' drew yet sls seinS
dist t.N' Last June, i i was a snHSSrinsS that
over the AreadiSn and adjoining properties.
vi several Wtll-kHOWn lullllTu VII IlfUs
1t was feared by some people interested in the
district that the Arcadian. was merely q stock-
ard Oil would lead investors, 70 buy a pig in a
poke or eventually be left with the bag to hold.
That such was not the case was pIainly demon
working capital OF nearly half "a million dollars
in the treasury, work was begun on a nam
pany owns Owns 2.s45 acres. or almost i've square
miles ot,minsral land, underlying which are the
per.bearing lodes which have returned fortunes
e the Inorthward and southwark q the Area.
dian. To secure this, property required nearly
fifty transfers of lands, the tracts being owned
by many different parties, The property car,
the, pitch Of the lode, ,55s. the deepest shaft
could be sunk two miles. or twice as deer as
the conpany's boundary line. As soon as the
organization was perfected, which was late in
s ~ ,sart every cry man man who COY could "a be p,aced T Wi;S sGt
four months 800 men were employed. and
during October $50 names we're carried on the
ever grown to EMPLOY so large a force until
several years after its opening.
difficult to decide where to begin. at the work.
me old shafts were t3o small for a modern
them Of any denf3. The plant Of machinery iyS was as
archaic to an extreme: the buildings consisted
OF less than a dozen houses and mine struc-
miles to the Boston dam, whence water is OBJ
ulilNN tIIOuSu u lOuI- lncl lll olntT UlCH
were set chopping trees and hacking down I'M
derbrush: more men followed them. build
ing roads. Carpenters built a house in
q single day for fifty men to sleep in.
1t was crude. to be sure. but the work
men earned the bis wages paid them
and slept soundly in the place. Machinery
was ordered. three new shafts were begun and
the two old shafts were cut down from surface
to bottom to double their former size. Prof.
Edgar Kidwell OF the Michigan College OF
Mines was placed in charge OF the WORK. as
agent. and tho old hands who poked, mild fun
at the college professor and predicted all sorts
OF dire ,contretomps from his ineXperience
ceased chafiinR very sool. and those who came
to scon remained to wonder and admire.
Almost by magic the mining location changed
from desolation to life and hustle: new
streets were opened. new houses finished
9 few weeks after the first sod was turned
for their foundation, Machinery was or
dered,, by the hundreds OF thousands
Of dollars worth. tall shaft houses b gan to !
draw a line across the landscape along the out
crop of the lode. and where cows cropped sweet
grasses in May q city appeared in July. Every
man who asked, for work got it. Some lasted
halt, n day. a few but half an hour. Those who
worked are there still. and men who started at
the bottom are already q few rounds up the
OF promotion. The feverish activity
about the mine afforded a crucial test for all,
and the men. who could took the start of
their slower fellows. Just as they do every
but in this case their progress was more
than usually speedy.