The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-31
ORE SHIPMENTS.
Monday Morning Will Probably See Ship
ments Vol Under Way.

Monday Morning Will Probably See Ship
ments Vol Under Way.
The movement of iron ore from the
mines of st. Louis county will begin
with rush about Monday. That
) date will find the ore shipments from
: Duluth. Superior and Two HarbOrs
between 600, 900 and 100000 tons short
!. of what they were on the same date
: last year. AS it is expected that the
: aggregate shipments from the points
named will be greater this season than
last. and that the shipments from the
Lake Superior region will be greater
than in 1900, it is easy to see that the
season from June must be one of ex-
traordinary activity in order to ac-
complish the business in sight before
the close of navigation.
The aggregate shipments from the
head OF the lakes, including Two Har-
bors, will be ll.0O0.O0 gross tons. if
present plans do not miscarry. 1t
will be divided about as follows: Du-
luth & Iron Range road. from Two
Harbors, 5,000,0 900: Duluth. Missabe &
Northern from Duluth, 4.000,0 900, and
the Eastern Minnesota, from Allouez
Bay. 100000 tons. These figures, if
realized, would mean an increase of
nearly 100000 tons for the Iron
Range, nearly 500, 900 for the Eastern
Minnesota, and about pa. 900 tons for
the Missabe road. The last mention
ed road may experience much great
er increase.
There seems to be less detiniteness
as to the probable increase in the ore
shipments over the Missabe than the
other two lines. The Eastern. too,
may be somewhat disappointed in
the volume of its shipments as the
Commodore mine is shut down and
other contingencies may arise as Il
result of the changed conditions fol-
lowing the steel consolidation.
BY June it is expected that all Of
the steel consolidation fleet. the Pitts
burg Steamship company, will have
been swung regularly into line and
operating as fast as steam and modern
facilities for loading and unloading
can provide. Then it will be that the
ore roads will do some tall hustling.
A prominent ore transportation man
says that the aggregate number of
cars that will probably be delivering
ore daily ut the three shipping points
will befully $500. Last season the
Missabe road delivered at its docks in
Duluth from 900 to l, 500 cars day.
The Duluth & Iron Range road de-
livered from 800 to 1000 cars day at
season, however, the cars in use on
this road were double the size of the
standard ore cars in use on all the
other roads. The Iron Range has $50
steel ore cars of 80 gross tons capacity
each and these will be available for
the entire season this year. The
Eastern Minnesota last season deliver
ed about 300 cars of ore day at Al
louez during its busiest periods. This
season the road will deliver from 300
to 500 day. The Eastern has some
of the 50-ton steel ore cars. The
roads will find their increased dock
capacity and rolling stock very handy
this year in view of the limited sea-
son for operations.
The Pittsburg Steamship company,
which owns and operates 112 boats,
has chartered outside tonnage to the
amount Of about 100000 tons sea-
son capacity. The cOmpany's fleet in
an average season will deliver 10000
900 tons of ore, but owing to the late
ness of the season and the strike of
the marine engineers. it will not be
able to do that this year. It is es-
timated that the boats lost about two
round trips, which means nearly 1.OOO.-
600 tons of ore. The average carrying
capacity Of the boats in the fleet is
about 1000 tons.