The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-05-31
FROM THE MINES


HE fOADALL
A representative of this paper visited
the Foxdale mine at Humboldt last
Monday la company with Mr.. M. S.
Sanders. general manager of the Bird
Iron Company now operating the
Foxdale. and was very agreeably sur
prised at the progress made in the ex-
ploration Of the property and the
excellent showing underground for the
opening Of a mine of large proportion.
Intact, the showing underground
places the property alreay within the
pale of the lit of mines.
The Foxdale has had very checker
ed career 1t has'passed from the hands
of one exploring company to the other
and was kicked around on the market
for several years lntil secnred by the
present operators, who set TO work NJ
once 10 explore it in a systematic man
ner.
The Foxdale lies in the hard ore
formation Of the Marquette range
The Humboldt district Of the Marquette
range The Humboldt district is one
Of the oldest districts of the range and
was explored and mined in the days
when exploration and the winning Of
ore VAS confined to the deposits that
outcropped and when an ore measure
pinched. the mine was abandoned
instead of a search for ore being made.
The numerous incursioes Of the sur
roundings rocks cuts the ore deposits Of
this region into small lenses and for
that reason the Humboldt district has
come TO be known as region OF small
deposits and Mining men have stee'ed
4clear of the disfyict as result
The work at the Foxdale so far, goes
to show that it simply needs persistent
and sytematic exploration to how mp
enough of the leneses TO make large
whole and tor that reason all interest
ed in that part of the Marquette
range will watch with interets for re-
suits at this property
The Foxdale is a hard ore property
and adjoins the old Barron mine on
the south. The lease covers the two
forties living along the Barron line ON
the south and on the run OF the
formation. The shaft is sunk about
100 feet south of the Barron line. mp
against the side of the large bluff that
stands ont TO the south of the railroad
track
There IA a surface OF about 80 feet OF
sand then the hSft which is down
wright at this poiut penetrate small
tense Of ore and passed through 1T.
The ore dips at an angle of go degrees
and TO follow it down. CAPTAIN Thomas
Bnzzo. Sr, changed the shaft to an
underlay pitch at this point and con
tinued il to depth of 100 feet. a
drift was run off TO catch the ore but a
new tense was met with and the
operators were coNtent 70 work on
what ore they hg3 This ore lense
was worked on fos q length q 80 feet
and a width Of about teet the foot
side showing soap rock aud the hang
ing green rock which swung across
the breast cutting out the ore tense @lt
completely The company then operat-
ing the property surrendered the lease
but in 1880 il was opened by "A new
concern that sank lit Of 100 feet in
the shaft and worked On the back II
the old stope carrying it mp until i
was unsafe to 90 further for feai q
cutting through TO the sand ahg
was in the work ia the blcl. q, theie
Slope that the frs vgtfr was met with.
The Victoria ron Company which
WAS the name Of he new concern turned
the property over to the Bird Iron 60.
in the fall 81 1901 and the new owners
Immediately started to equip the pro.
perty with an outfit Of machinery sufii.
cient 10 handle the work. Tive
medium sized bodies were installed
and Il new. twelve machine Sullivan
Compressor put in place This com
pressor is of the latest type and was
the second one Turned out Of the shop.
Mr.. Sanders speaks highly Of it and say
that he finds that it does every
thing the Sullivan people said IL would
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