The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
MINING NOTES.

The disposition to strike seems
: 10 be rampant on some Of the iron
: ana copper ranges and many are
: afraid that it will assume dangerous
: proportions. Dangerous in the sense
: that the strikes already inaugurated
: and those which may develop may
: interfere TO great extent in the out
: puts and consequently in the pros
: perity of the various ranges. That a
: strike at any time is profitable to
: anyone is OF course debatable ques-
tion: but that strikes i'm the iron dis
Jricts at this season. 1.-THE dawn of
: better times after a season of great
depression) will be conducive to the
: oetterment of the financial condition
or the employe, seems hardly tenable
The facts are that wages have reach
: ed point equal TO the scale of any
previous year and the great increase
In the demand for labor, especially
skilled labor gives the empioye an
opportunity to carry his labor To the
: highest market and the mining cor
poration paying the highest wages
Will secure the preference among
those who sell their labor, and at .rul-
ing prices every iron industry will
probably be crowded TO the limit of
: output. 1t may be said that the
great syndicates are in position 20
dictate, but this can be true only in a
measure. because of the vast capital
invested in railroads. furnaces. vessels
and mills which would suffer by a
. block in the head of the stream-the
production of raw material. The
Current is satisfied that no condition
can arise this year which cannot be
satisfactorily settled twixt employer
and employed. if cool and consider
ate discussion is resorted to- The
agitator may incorporate in his pray
er. ''give US this day our daily strike
but the man who shas wife, Children
and home to care for will not endorse
the sentiment.-Norway Curaent.
i Three mining leases running to
Pete Kimberley were filed Monday in
the office of the register of deeds, all
covering lands in section 31-58-I7.
The Spruce mine, on the old site of
the village of Eveleth, is included.
E. NJ Fowler, S. J. Murphy. g. d.
Robinson, E. FL. Finn, of Detroit,
and L. E. Dorr, of Saginaw, lease the
WI of the set Of section 81. providing
4 that a payment of $4,000 be made
: Jan l, 1902 The royalty is-te. be %
icents per ton up to Jan. /, 1901, and
30 cents per ton thereafter. The
minimum is to be 100000 tons this
year and 10000 thereafter. A SINH
liar lease by the same parties covers
i the sw1 of the section. the royalty
4 being 30 cents and the minimum to be
$4,000 tons this year and next, and
100000 tons thereafter. E. NJ Fowl
!! er leases Park lot, First addition to
I Eveleth, in the set Of sw4 of section
| 81, the royalty to be 80 cents sper ton
and no minimum named. Kimberley
assigns all the leases to the Spruce
Mining company. Another lease runs
to the Lake Superior Consolidated
Iron mines from the estate of George
A Pillsbury, owning one-sixth: from
Mary A. Pillsbury, Charles s. Pills
bury and John S. Pillsbury, Jr., own-
ing one-sixth: John S, Pillsbury, own
| Vt h..
fourth interest, and John NJ. Long
year, of Marquette. one-fourth. The
royalty is to be % cents per ton on
all ore assaYing 81 per cent iron re-
CARELESS of phosphorus. the ore to be
cleaned out as it goes. The minimum
royalty is to be SO, 600 per year.
There seems likelihood that some
work will be done this year in the ore
; fields of Minnesota that lie east of
the Mesaba and Vermilion ranges in
Lake and Cook counties. A few DAYS
ago party of men went to the old
Paulson mine, ton the international
boundary in Cook county, to reopen
it. This property was mined a trife
: some years ago, but no ore was ever
: taken out. There are conflicting
ideas as to its value The ore is a
hard high grade hematite. Any
: shipments will be made through Cam
ada to dock at Port Arthur. The
road to the mine is in Il ruinons con-
: dition and there are no ore docks
built. a shaft has been sunk and
some machinery is on the ground.
The property has recently been ac-
quired by the North American Iron
!: company, Chicago corporation.
Articles of Incorporation OF the
Hobart Iron company have been filled
: with the register tof deeds. The OBJ
iects of the company are those usually
: described in such articles. The CAPT.
: tai stock is $4,000 and the incorpor-
ators are d. II. Bacon, Duluth: C. p.
Coffin, L. L. Beecher. FL. L. G. Light