The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-14
THE LAKE COPPER REGION.
Big Pump Installet-Increase of Miners
Employed.

Big Pump Installed-Increase of Miners
Employed.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Houghton, Mich, Nov. 10.--By reason of
the vast amount of large and expensive
machinery now going into place at the
mines stamp mills and smelters of the
copper district, but scant attention is
paid to the installation of machinery
which a few years ago would have cha1-
lenged the admiration of the entire
country.
Apropos of this observation, the new
pump of the Tamarack and Osceola mills
may be noted. This pump has a daily
capacity of forty millions of gallons,
which is raised to a height of 65 feet,
for the four mills which the Bigelow-
Lewisohn people will soon have running.
1t is the second largest pump in the
United States, being, exceeded in capac-
ity only by the pumping engine "Michi-
gam" of the Calumet C Hecla. located
two miles north of the Tamara ext sceola
monster, the michigan having ca
pacity of 6O000,G00 gallons daily. The
third largest pump in the country is in
the Paramount station of the Philadel-
phia waterworks. with a capacity of l.
OOO 900 gallons an hour, and 1t is still
religiously believed by every resident of
the Quaker City that their pump Is at
least three times as big as anything else
of the sort ever built or planned. The
average man fails to properly grasp fig
ures after they reach into the millions.
but if any gentleman wants to thorough
ly impress upon his mind and memory
just how much water 6O,CO0,o0o gallons
amounts to- it is suggested that he have
that amount of aqua pura played through
and inch and a quarter fire nozzle under
a fire pressure of 200 pounds to the square
inch, and have his meals sent to him on
the spot until the job is finished.
The new stamp mill Of the Osceola will
go into commission within a week or 10
days. The Osceola, which ranked as a
small property as late as two years ago.
is now one of the great mines of the
world, and is earning profits at the rate
of a million dollars per annum.
Among the old copper properties which
have recently been looked over with a
view to resumption Of work are the
Mendoza, carrying copper ore in ifs
sure vein the Clark, owned by French
capital, and the None Such in Ontonagon
county.
The owners of the Nonesuch have pat
erted a device for saving the fine cop
per, with which its rock is literally
charged. In the early days of stamp mill
practice this fine copper, almost akin to
-four gold in the communion Of its par
ticles, could not be saved but in view
of the success of modern mills, notably
that of the Atlantic, in saving tho finest
floating particles of metal. the Nonesuch
mineral could probably be secured by
ordinary milling processes.
The increase in the number of men
employed in the mines of Houghton
county was 25S2 between Oct !, 1898. and
Oct. /. 1899. according to the report of
Mine Inspector Josiah Hall. The increase
would have been much larger it the men
could have been secured. Ontonagon and
Keweenaw county mines are employing
about 500 men each, and would double
their forces Immediately if men were to
be had. One year ago there were perhaps
so men employed in mining in both these
counties.
James Russell, commissioner of min
eral statistics for the state of Michi-
gan, has appointed Horace j. Stevens of
Houghton as his assistant. Mr.. Stevens
will look more especially after the cop
per mining interests. The expansion of
the iron, copper and coal mining interests
of the state has been so rapid of late
| that one man can no longer do justice
| to the work of the department.
| The Norwich mine, in Ontonagon coun-
| ty, is meeting with a considerable mum.
| Der of small masses of copper in the
| sinking of its B shaft.
No. shaft of the Tamarack, begun
more than four years ago. Is now about
| $500 feet in depth or not quite three
quarters of it's estimated depth al COM
| pletion.
Experience in Prospecting.
From the Mining and Metallurgical Jour-
| nal.
The blind, aimless, unguided search for