The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-29
MINNESOTA
FOUR NEW ORE PIERS
Two Millions and Hall to Be Spent Oh
T.. - the Lake This Winter,


Two Millions and a Hall to Be Spent on
g.. the Lake This Winter. -.
DULUTH. MINN.--The large ore pier
Of the Wisconsin Central railway at Ash
and. burned last week. is to be rebuilt
at once. 1t was 1908 feet long but was
antiquated and was to be enlarged at
ueavy expense had it not burned. Its
capacity was 10000 tons and the new
dock will be more. The Milwaukee is
said to be about to build new ore pier.
making the fourth to be put up alonss
the upper lakes this winter. The -four, will
cost in the neighborhood Of $2.5Q0,O0O
Estimates of the amount Of ore held In
the Lake Superior region by the newly
combined Union Steel company of Pitts
burg are various. On the Mesaba range
tho two companies, now combined, are
owners of perhaps 60.000,000 tons. Of ore,
most Of which is medium grade non
Bessemer. The Sharon Steel companys
portion of this is practically all nonBes
semer On old ranges they have very
large tonnage Of low grade Bessemer anu
silicious ores, estimated by some as high
as $4,000 900 tons. This is on what Is
known as the Cascade range. part OF the
Marquette district. This is all owned by
the old Union Steel company Of Donora.
which is one Of the parties to the new
combina ton The Sharon Steel company
carries into the combination an agreement
with the United States Steel corporation
for several hundred thousand tons a year
of high grade Bessemer ore from the
mines of the latter upon the MeSaba
range. which is a very interesting fact OF
the situa ton it now exists.
Both the Mahoning and Sharon steel
companies have recently put drills at
work on the Vermillon range, one near
Ely and the other at Tower All these
drills. strange to say, are working on
lands that have been explored and dropped
by the old Minnesota Iron company.
Other drills are being put at work on the
Vermillion and probably not less than
twenty diamond drill outfits will be work.
ing there this winter, larger number
than for many years.
The Oliver Iron Mining company will
start the steam shovel method Of mining
on the Marquette range. and is at work
stripping the Moore mine for such mining.
Several mining companies. including a
furnace concern at Milwaukee, are eN-
ploring near the Mansfield mine Menom-
inee range, for BeSsemer ore. led to the
work by what is considered the trend of
the Mansfield formation and the TACT that
Bessemer formation there is exceedingly
strong. The Mansfield is the only Besse-
mer mine in the Crystal Falls district.
and belongs to the United States Steel
corporation.
Old Kimball mine. near Crystal Falls.
WHICH was unwatered last spring ana
taken under lease by a Cleveland concern.
will be opened and explored this winter.
1t is expected that mining will be COM
menced there before another shipping sea-
son. The mine was opened in 1888, but
was never a shipper of any ore.
The Stevenson mine Mesaba range.
will be striped very largely this winter.
The owners figure now on letting con-
tracts for 900 yards and themselves
taking off 900 more. This work will
last several years. Stripping has been
going on there ever since last fall. day
and night most Of the time. and the mine
has made a phenomenal output this year,
closing the season second only to the
Fayal.
Several new shafts will be sunk at Lake
Superior mines this winter. on all ranges,
In anticipation Of far larger output next
season than ever before. Several new
mines will be opened on the Mesaba and
perhaps elsewhere
The number of new mines on old ranges
IS very small. On the Menominee. for all
the immense amount Of work that has
been done in explorations the past three
or four years there is now really but one
property that can be called a mine; the
rest are far merely explorations OF
more or less promise. Scarcely a prop
erty has been opened Oh the Marquette
range except the deep Hartford, which
was found 800 feet below the surface by the
Oliver companys drills. On the Gogebic
no new mines have been found, the only
extension being the deepening of old
properties and the resuscitat1on Of mines
that were thought to be worked out and
were about to be abandoned. On the Yer
million not a mine has been opened or
found since 1884, except the extensions Of
the Chandler leads. so that new mines in
the lake region are very few and far be-
tween.
With the enormous annual volume of
ore taken from these mines. estimated this
year at from 5000. 000 to q. 900 tons,
this fact of the scarcity of new finds is
important and somewhat alarming. Hal
II not been for the Mesaba, already there
would have commenced the working over
Of old wagon roadWays along the mining
districts. and the shipment to furnaces
of the ballast deposited a few years ago
"a waste.
HUTCHINSON, MINN.-John Peter
son's photograph gallery was destroyed by
fire early yesterday. The insurance is
$500, which does not cover the loss. {. G.
Oduuist's law office and F. Henke's tailor
shop were badly scorched.-J. q. Tate OF
Denver and F. o. Van Glider, editor of
the Modern Woodman, will address Hutch
inson Woodmen on ''Readjustment,' Dec.
3.-The Hutchinson high school was
beaten at foot ball by the alumni, rs to o.
Rooge & Co., the Minneapolis grain men
who opened a bucket shop in Hutchinson
have abandoned the enterprise owing to a
lack Of the speculative element here.-The
Sutherland Fence company of Hutchinson
Is operating three new improved machines
which manufacture about four miles of
woven wire fence a day.-Mrs. Wilhelmina
hlbrecht, widow of Charles Albrecht, who
was killed in a runaway accident two
months ago. Is dead, aged g. pears. They
were we'll known pionecrs.-Rev. E. L.
Brooks. pastor Of the Hutchinson Congre-
gational church. has taken homestead in
Oliver county, N. D.
FERGUS FALLS, MINN.-Louis GLAND
who was arrested on the charge Of selling
liquor to minors, was found guilty and
sentenced to pay a fine Of $50 and costs,