The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
MINNESOTA
NINETY TONS EACH
Monster Steam Shovels Ordered Tor
80 Northern Iron Ranges.
Monster

Monster Steam shoveIs Ordered for
Northern Iron Ranges.
DULUTH, MINN.-The Minnesota Iron
company has ordered Of the Marion Steam
Shovel company of Marion, Ohio. eight OF
Its Model steam shovels for mining work.
These are one of the large models, the
machines weighing about ninety tons
each They will be delivered in the
spring and distributed on the Mesaba and
verr,1illion ranges. Some will take the
place of the old or smaller shoVels at
stripping and stockpile loading. H.
The Deering Harvester company has let
g. contract to the Chicago firm Of Near
thur Brothers for the removal Of stripping
at the Hawkins mine, the contract to be
carried out this year and next. Inc
original estimates for 1,250,OOO yards OF
stripping were cut down to 100000 yards.
and the contract Is on that basis: The
mine will be a milling property and will
ship largely another year.
Some manganese ore has been found In
the southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter of section Is. township IS. range
49, where the Great Northern road is eX-
ploring.
Ore is being found in section IL, town
ship S. range IS, where exploration has
been under way for some time The
grade is fairly good.
p Explorations are to begin in township
80, range H. shortly, and drills will be put
close to the village of Mesaba. both on the
east and west of the toWnsite.
About 100000 tons Of ore has been
found in section 4. township 5S, range 10,
on lands Of the Longyear Mesaba Iron
COMPANY and is now being sold to an
operating company. 1t is not OF high
grade.
, 1t is reported that railroad will be
put throu hgto Ely from a point on the
eastern Mesaba range shortening the
distance and giving additional track IA
cilities.
! An important discovery Of ore has been
made at the old Colby mine, Gogebic
range, which for years had been thought
to be a played-out property. The
operators decided to test under the cross
dyke and have found the ore similar to
other properties Of the same range. There
is much similarity between the Colby and
IronWood deposits. The Colby was the
most important early mine OF the GO
geb1c, and steam shovel proposition
back in 1886 and later. Joseph sellWood
was prominent in it's early history ana
made phenomenal output for some time.
After three years of steam shovel mining
underground work had to be undertaken
and later with the separation Of the Tilden
tract, the old mine was regarded as prac-
tically valueless.
Pewabic mine at Iron Mountain will
ship this year about 900 tons, larger
$50 900 tons in 1899. Most of its ore at
present is of a leaner grade than it's
earlier fancy ores. The company's Wal
pole mine Is down to 900 feet and is Sc
curing a 0per cent Bessemer ore in some
quantity.
The old Quinnesec deposit of high
grade ore seems to have been found once
more a tunnel having cut a tense four
teen feet thick. averaging Cd per cent and
I ola per cent phos. 1t is rather
expected that the tense will make into a
lower level The mine is $50 feet and
another 100 feet will be added at once.
Florence mine will be equipped with a.
pneumatic system of underground haul
a age, and extensive change will be
made, both underground in mining and on
surface in methods.
Duluth men have taken the old Ma
naimo mine at Iron River, and will pump
it out and resume explorations. The
lands of the Breitung estate, both in Dick
inson and Iron counties, will be thorough
~ explored. Several drills are now work
ing on these lands on the Marquette
range.
The Great Northern road. which handles
a large amount of iron ore from the west
.ern Mesaba range, is about to add a third
dock to it's terminal facilities at Alloue2
bay, Lake Superior. 1t will also extend
its double track road toward the range
as far this season as Stony Brook. The
road handles an immense wheat and grain
traffic and there Is serious congestion al
Stony Brook much of the time, where the
grain and ore trains come together. II
will also add large number of steel cars
and locomotives for next year. The roaC
will haul about 4,0OO0 900 tons this season
closing about Nov. Is.
The Duluth & Iron Range road which
Is has been experimenting with seventy-ca1
trains Of ore this summer, has abandoned
its experiments for the year and gone
back to forty-sX and forty-eight-ca1
trains. No more seventycar trains will
be hauled till the road has a majority o.
its rolling stock in steel cars.
AT the Stevenson mine, Mesaba range
the other day, more than $4,000 tons of ore
were loaded into cars in one day, two 105
ton shovels working in the ore against tho
e.. face Of high bank.