The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-28

It has many men in it's service today
who have been with it without inter-
ruption from the beginning, 1t has
paid it's just dues promptly and with
cut complaint or evasiolL What all
his means, anly those who have had
like problems to solve, can realize or
understand.
The oliver Mining company was the
irst to enter the Nesaba range and
still operates mines that it began ten
years ago, when the range was first
opened. 1t, too, has beer without Ia
Dor troubles or disputes with the COM
nunit1es in which it was operating.
1t has been foremost in assistance toi
worthy public interests; it has been no
company it has always been reacy 10
assist the proper authorities in arrlv-
ing at information and in fixing va
ues. 1t has pulled with the communl-
ties in which it has been located and
has built up a public sentiment very
unlike the hostile feeling by which so
many mining corporations elsewhere
are surrounded.
The oliver Mining company now ope-
rates mines in every district on Lake
Superior, and has many of the best
mines in each. 1t is the largest produ-
Ger of iron ore the world has ever seen
and it is constantly increasing it's out
put.
The highest mining skill THAI can be
secured is at the head of these COM
panies, and is needed there, for the
saving of few cents ton means con-
siderable when the product runs into
the millions of tons annually, and the
saving of a few cents over what has
always been deemed best practice is
no small undertaking. In the operation
of mines problems rise that are more
difficult of solution than in any other
class of business; so many unknown
factors enter into the questions that it
is only men of ample experience and
great skill who can grapple with them
safely. Mr.. Thos. F. Cole, who is re-
cognized today as the foremost mining
man in America, and whose success i'll
his profession has been almost phe-
nomenal is president of these two COM
| panies; DR.. Nelson P. Hulst, whose
knowledge of the formation and geo
! logy of iron ores excels that of any
| man living, is vice president; Mr.. VIM.
| J. Olcott, whose wide experience in
| mining makes him of especial value,
| is manager of mines for the two COM
panies, both in Minnesota and Mfcn,'
| gan and Wisconsin, and Mr. l.. w.
| Powell whose long experience as the
manager of difficult mines and as
agent at Duluth for the Oliver COM
pany have given him a deep ins1gn,
and close knowledge Of the mining
| business from the ground up, is as
sistant to President Cole. The respon-
| sibilities in the hands of these four
| men, assisting Mr.. Jas. Gayley, who is
| in general supervision of mining OF
these two companies, both as regards
present day mining operations and as
conservators of a large portion of the
| future iron ore supplies of the United
States, make them leaders among the
great captains of industry of the time
Once mined the ore of the Minnesota
ranges must be brought to the head
of the lake for shipment to furnaces
for unhappily there is as yet no z.rge
consumption of these ores in Mime
sofa. To perform this work three rail-
roads are required, two of them double
tracked. These two are the Duluth
Missabe & Northern and the Duluth &
L
Mesaba range only, the latter thai
range and the Vermillion. These twe
roads are noted among railway men
as having the most dense traffic, thai
is the largest traffic per mile of road
| of any road in America. Their loaded
ore trains thunder down from the
mines to Duluth and Two Harbors al
the rate of thirty and forty per day
| During the whole tWenty-four hours
of the day there are long periods wha.
trains pass any given point every 81
minutes. These roads use locomotives
of the largest size, weighing 100000
pounds, cars that carry fifty tons each
are equipped with airbrakes for al
freight trains, and are of the heaviest
| construction throughout. Their great
| terminal ore docks are of immense size
and cost and the expense of operating
their system is, on account of peculiar
tiles inherent to ore traffic, an enor-
nous sum. They are managed or
| broad-guage ideas and with the most
modern system.
Mr.. Frank E. House, who was TO,
years general manager of the famous
Carnegie road from Lake Erie to Pitts
!
duction of rates to interior furnaces
from all Lake Erie ports and thus
saved the future of Pittsburg as a man.
ufacturing city, is president and gener.
al manager of the D. & 1. r. road
succeeding Mr.. J. L. Greatsinger, who
resigned to become president of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit road. Mr.
House has maintained the high stand.
ard OF efficiency of the road and has
introduced many changes that have re.
suited in reduction of the train mile
cost and increased the efficiency of the
line. Mr. w. J. Olcott has been unit
recently both president and genera
manager Of the Duluth, Missabe &
Northern road, but he has been forced
by other duties to give up active man.
agement, and this has devolved upor
Mr.. VIM. A. McGonagle, formerly as.
slstant chief engineer of the Dulath e
IRON Range road. Mr.. McGonagle has
brought to his new task an experren,.
OF long years of service and study I'M.
on one of the best roads in the world
made so largely by his own work, an(
he has already shown himself a mar
OF great value for his new place.