The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09

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4 The annual meeting of the Con-
: solldated Mines and the Duluth
y Missabe & Northern road, are In
process in Duluth.
Tile average wages of miners on the
the Vermilion range are higher than
finany other part of the country for
the same class of work
Estimates on Minnesota ore ship
} mehts for 1900 are placed at 1000
! 900 tons, two-tllirds of which is esti-
MATED will come from the Mesaba
range.
u The Carnegie company has secured
The Sampson mine near Humboldt.
Mich, and the property will be re-
opened with astmng force.
1 Posters have been distributed
throughout the Minnesota mining
district by the Sandon Miners Union
J warning laboring men to keep away
from British Columbia.
The Oliver company has purchased
the Taylor iron mine, located seven
miles east OF L'Ause. Michigan. The
mine has produced $3.50 tons of ore
and has been idle for seventeen
! Years.
i Work on the Pioneers new shaft
house has been raised and sinking is
IN order. The shaft will be three
compap nent incline shaft. No tim
Il Der Z 90 be used all the framing in
the shaft to be OF steel.
j Cole & Mcdonald have removed
/ their drill outfit from section %, 60
,ji6 to I6, 62-l3 where they will ex-
plore the Maloning company. Moth
ing has been learned as to the find OIL
%.
u Mr.. Underwood has resumed the
4 explorations at Robinson lake after
an idleness Of several months. We
are Informed the property is showing
up we'll.
Section 25, where the Minnesota
!! people will conduct explorations, is
fthe property upon which the Lake
Angeline Iron company worked a
Il drill last summer under the super
vision Of III. w. Kidder.
The old rumor of the Eastern
Minnesota extension to Beaver Bay
SssSs.s again beeff revived. We sinceres
ly hope this may prove true. The
latest report has it that the right of
way has been secured and that work
will begin early in the spring.
/ Some of the Duluth papers do get
Things twisted in their mining items.
A recent one credited the Drake &
StrattOn company with a stripping
contract at the Auburn of 5000, 900.
The same article brought the START
ling information that under the strip
was located body of ore three hum
dred feet deep or enough to furnish
furnaces for CENTURIES
The Pioneer is working the large G.
h ton cars on the tramway to the stock
pile. The cars are equipped with tile
patent trip and now run on IL three
foot gauge instead of two-foot as here
tofore. Much dead work is being
done in the mine from which the BEN
etits will be reaped next summer, but
Notwithstanding all this the Pioneer
has now on stock over 1l5, 900 tons.
The Minnesota Iron company have
this week begun the preliminary
work towards the thorough eXplora-
ton of section %, adjoining the Savoy
property on the east and upon which
they have recently secured an option.
The explorations will be conducted by
J means of diamond drills, of which
three will be put at work immediate
ly An addition has been built to
the Philips house on 80 and the crews
will make btlis their home.
! The Manila Iron company is the
J name of a new corporation that will
be of interest to all mining men of
/ pLO AhNC oupCilOl lCSIO duu
especially those of Minnesota aud
Northern Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Manila Iron company will take
title to that part Of the Minnesota
Iron comdany's properties that lie in
the state of Michigan. The Mime
} sofa Iron company, as is well known,
is a constituent company of the Fed
eral Steel company, and the organiza-
tion Of the Manila Iron company is ir
line with its policy to divide the i,
terests of its subsidiary companies
according to state lines.
III Send Him to the PHILIPPINES.
D John Madison is d Finn who out
ragged the law in good shape Friday
} night while the majority of tile
! people were at the City hall enjoying
themselves John claims JOS. Mantel
of Sletten's store owed him a bill,
which Joe claims lie has long age
paid. On the evening in question
: Mattson proceeded to the home oil