The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-11
MINING NOTES.

new and desirable properties. Every
day. almost, the announcement is
made that some man has accepted a
position with the Oliver mining COM
pany and if person takes the pains
to look the men over he will find that,
on an ayearge, they constitute the
pick OF the land in the mining world,
OF course there are many excellent
mining men that are without fold of
the Oliver company but, speaking in
general terms. the young men that
are being attracted to that corporat-
ion are almost all of promising kind
and if the corps that is being develop
ed now remains together it will be
but few years before their body of
men will be the best in the land. a
good man is as necessary as d good
mine. Anticipated fossils are not be-
ing sought after by the Oliver people.
They are picking up young men of
promise. Mr.. Coles judgment of
mining men has always been looked
upon as one OF the best His faculty
of gathering about him good mining
men has contributed as much TO his
success as has his own for sight and
energy. With the stability of posit-
ion and the immense opportunities
for advancement offered by the Oliver
people that company has little diff
Guilty in attractieg the best men with
out bidding over the heads Or others
and it will be interesting to note the
development of the men that are be-
ing aligned into the Oliver mining
corps.-Crystal Falls Diamond Drill.
The Mahoning Iron company is re-
ported 20 have made an extensive find
of hard ore of good quality in section
4-61-15. The land is located about a
mile south of the Minnesota mines at
Soudan and according to reliable in
formation it is learned that the vein
is more than 100 feet wide, and to a
known depth of 800 feet. As this for
nation like all others on the Yer
million range stands vertical. there is
no way Of estimating how deep it may
go. 1t is expected that the Mahon
ing company will sink a working
shaft this season and begin the
Development of the mine, as they are
known to be anxious to get hard ore
mine in order to have the necessary
mixture for their soft ore on the
Mesaba range. The Oliver Mining
company it is expected will encounter
the same vein as that struck by the
Mahoning people if they have not al
ready done so. They have had Il
diamond drill working Immediately
west of the Mahoning find for some
time. 1t is difficult to get reliable
information of drill work, and for
obvious reasons.
a suit has been filed in district
court by Wellington r. Burt, of
Michigan. against the Lake Superior
Consolidated Iron mines. for the can
collation. of lease given by the plain
tiff in December, 1891, to Frank Hib-
bling. for large quantity of lands in
township IS, range 20. The case is IL
most important one in mining an
nuals, but stripped of all the language
used in the complaint which is of a
nature calculated to create the i'm
preston that the whole action of the
defendant has been gigantic scheme
to create "trust" for the purpose of
crushing out the smaller mine own
ers, the main question resolves itself
into a very simple one of law, as to
whether the defendant complied with
the terms of the lease or not.
At the workings at Mesaba, ten
holes have been sunk through forty
feet Of swamp and gravel surface,
and into as high as sixty-fiye feet of
ore. This ore is of a character entire
| " new TO the Mesaba What has
4 UCCh up bhiOdSh NhS "a
holes is a hard hematite. much like
the fractured hematite of the Chand-
Ter mine, though smaller. What is
shown is in loose pebbles about the
size of grain of corn, and quite regu.
lar, running up to 63 per cent iron
and very low in phosphorus. The ore
looks as if it might be physically OF
splendid character for furnace work.
The John d. Rockefeller interests
are organizing several companies in
addition to the dozen or two they now
control, for the mining business at
Duluth, These new concerns are de-
signed to take over lands bought by
the Rockefeller interests at an early
day, lands that have not publicly
passed into their hands yet, but have
been .bought and paid for.
1t is said that a valuable find of ore
has been made on section 81, $500 on
lands controlled by Archie Chisholm
and DR.. Rood. The property is locat.
ed about two miles northeast of Hib
| bing and report says large quantities
of ore exist there. The MANY friend: