The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-05
MINING NOTES.

accompany known as the Pioneer
Iron company will explore lands near
Negaunee. The Pioneer is an inde-
pendent company but is identical in
ownership with the Cleveland-C Cliffs
company. The company also have
control OF the Carp river charcoal
furnace.
exploratory work has been begun
onslands near Virginia owned by John
Williams of Duluth. 1t is said Capt
, Jas. Bale will have charge of the work
IRON Mountain Lake near Ishpem-
ing Is said to lie over an immense body
} OF ore AS soon as the ice is thick
enough Laughlin & Co. will explore
the bottom for iron.
To-day the limonite ores in the west
ern7 end of Marquette county have a
value. Heretofore they have been
considered worthless. Now they will
be needed, There are large tonnages
of this class of ores and properties
which produce them are being re-op-
ened. Exploration is more general
now than it has been In many years.
There are many undiscovered mines
on the Marquette range as is the case
on every other range,
The Mckinney interests of Cleve-
land have taken the Ropes gold mine
at Ishpeming from the Rand Drill
Co. and will work the same. The
Rand company recently acquired the
Ropes a5 a sheriff's sale for $500.
The mine has produced $3.50, 900 worth
of gold.
Black diamonds have again adj
vanced in price. The recent advance
was about SO a carat.
The Minnesota Iron company is
opening up the Brotherton mine near
Swanzy which has been abandoned for
over twenty years. The company is
also doing considerable exploratory
work in Michigan.
Gulbranson Bros. have begun their
Stripping operations at the Sparta
mine Where they viii remove 300, 900
yards OF earth. They are employing
$50 men.
The Commodore mine at Virginia
has already about 5000 tons in stock
and is adding at the rate of 1000 tons
day.
Supt. Richard Sellwood, who dur
ing the past year has had charge of
the operations at the Hale and Kan
ahwa mines, Biwabik, has been pro-
NOTED to the position eff secretary and
treasurer of the Colonial Mining COM
pany with headquarters in the Ex-
change building, Duluth. Mr., Sell
wood is superseded at the mines by
Capt. William White, of Mckinley,
while Capt. Chas. Bale has been
placed in local charge thereof -Vir-
ginia Enterprise.
The Elba mine on the Mesaba over
which Capt. M. Mccarthy presides,
has the water supply under control.
Heretofore much trouble was exper-
fenced with the water
The Chandler and Pioneer stock
piles are rapidly growing. The stocks
at the Savoy and Zenith are also on
the rapid increase.
Capt. Chas. Mitchell, familiar fig
ure in the mining circles in the Lake
Superior country, was found dead in
bed at the st. Louis Hotel at Duluth,
Friday morning. Death was due to
fatty degeneration of the heart. He
was about 4S years of age and leaves
a wife and family.
The Duluth, Missabe & Northern
road has awarded a contract to Bar
nett & Record for the construction of
a third ore dock in Duluth. The dock
will be situated Immediately west Of
the Missabe dock No and will be
one-half the length of the dock. The
new dock will have 1872 pockets. This
new ore dock will give Duluth the dis
tinction of having the biggest ore
dock plant on the lake. No. 2 Mis-
sabe dock is the largest ore shipping
dock on the lakes if not in the world.
Its capacity is SO, 120 tons. The new
dock will increase the season shipping