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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-19
Northwestern MlneS
NEW KIND OF SHAFT
Oliver Company Is Lining This One
With Steel Wire Cable.
MEsABA MINES CHANGING HANDS
MANY Accidents to u. s. Steel Cor
poration BOats-Helen Mine
Coming Shipper.

Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, April 19.-At one time
this week the United States Steel Cor
poration had six OF its ships on rocks,
either on Lake Superior or Michigan. The
corporation last year carried insurance
on those of its ships that had bonded
debt when taken into the concern, but
this year it started out with no insur-
ance on any of the 112 boats.
The oliver Iron Mining company has
been sinking a shaft Of new design at it's
Pioneer mine, and has been at work for
two years. The shaft is about into ore at
the depth of 800 feet. 1t is very large
three compartment shaft and is absolutely
unique in that it's lining is worn out steel
wire cable that had been used up in the
mines. The divisions between the COM
partments are steel rails, these also taken
from worn out tracks. The shaft is tim
bered with wood in the usual manner. 1t
is built in this way to avoid danger from
fire. The headworks will be of steel con-
struction throughout. The shaft will be
very costly. The company will try still
newer thing in the way of shafts by al
ternating the shaft lining of some new
property with wood and steel plates, in
order that no fire shall gain sufficient
Roadway to sweep the entire shaft.
deal for the sale of three properties
on the western Mesaba range, near Hib-
bling, is pending here. The consideration
for the entire tract is 100000 and there is
a royalty Of about 30 cents a ton in addi-
ton Eastern steel makers are the prob
able purchasers and the traffic of the
mines will be carried by the Great North
ern road.
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and extending some of the crosscuts. the
company is going to begin opening an
other large ore chute that crops out at
the surface several hundred yards from
the shaft.
The old Merritt. mine near Galena is
going to ship ore to the National smelter
at Rapid City when the plant blows in,
which will be some time this month. This
is one of the oldest and most prominent
properties in the Bear Butte mining dis
trict, and produced large amount Of
silver-lead ore for shipment in the early
days.
The. placer miners have commenced
work in the vicinity of Galena. The
snow is melting rapidly and the streams
are full. The frost is not all out of the
ground and the miners are still working
at disadvantage. Samuel Moll is one Of
the most extensive placer diggers in the
camp His ground is on Ruby gulcb, and
while he is not able to work steadily all
the season, by putting in dams and hoard
ing the water he works half the time and
takes out good pay. Other placer miners
in the camp are only able to work few
weeks in the spring.
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SATURDAY EVENING". APRIL 10, 1902

centage Of this amount has been paid
out in advanced prices for live stock.
Just how much of this $1Oo,0oO;000 is the
result of an arbitrary advance by the
packers is what the government inyestiga-t
ton, if started, will endeavor to disclose
Minneapolis retailers from their exper-
fence to date say that corn and supply
and demand will furnish an explanation OF
the increase in the local price list. Other
sections of the country charge the big
four" and their allies with taking advan-
tage of the prosperous condition OF the
country and the upward trend of prices to
put the screws on harder than natural
conditions warrant. New York is paying
far higher prices for meat than Mime
apolis. A large part of the supply comes
from the west ern packing houses. Freight
rates are to be considered. Then it is
shown that the eastern cities demand
their meat cut and trimmed In such shape
that the retailer is forced to charge a
proportionately higher price in order to get
even. This explains a portion OF the rela-
lively higher price paid in New York. The
rest of it may be in thumb screw work
by the big packers.
Beef Community of Interest.
What is popularity termed 'the beef
trust" is in reality a strict community
of interest between the various big pack
ing concerns. Armour Swift, Cudahy and
Morris constitute the "Big -Four.
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger are a power
full factor in the meat trade. Hammond
is another The big killing plants Of
these concerns are located at various
points in the west as near as possible to
the sources of supply. Chicago, Kansas
City, st. Joseph Sioux City, Omaha and
South St. Paul are the principal markets.
| M11n1 Of act troH ic q
from the western houses, particularly
from those at Chicago. For the more
particula trade, however, killing plants
have been erected in the east the largest
| being at Boston, New York, and Balti-
more. These eastern plants usually kill
nothing but the best grade of beef. East
ern towns as q rule are given the better
grade of cattle and the west takes what
is left.
| traliZed at a more rapid rate than tn,
meat industry. During the past ten year
the village slaughter house has almos
disappeared and the small packing hous
has practically been wiped out Of exis
tence. The number Of old-line butcher
who learned the trade in the good oil
way is rapidly decreasing and their place
in the meat market are being taken b.
men who would do a clumsy job at kill
Ing a steer, put KNOW uOW 10 cut guar
ter of beef to advantages The old-lin
butcher has turned cattle buyer in man
cases and is better satisfied with result
just now than if the rapid centralizatio
of the meat industry had not deprive
him of his old job. In ten years the in
terests represented in the big meat con
Germs have grown from a modest capital
ization to about 15O,0O0,0 900, on swhic
dividends are regularly paid. There
still competition among the big packer!
but this competition does not extend t
situation in prices that will give tn
retailer a chance to "dicker.'' He ca
take the meat at the figure named {
. leave it alone.
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HEcLA STAMP MILL ADDITION
First Head Will. BE in Commission
Next Month.


Next Month.
Special to The Journal.
Calumet, Mich, April 19.-The work on
the equipment of the addition to the
Hecla stamp mill of the Calumet & Hecla
mine at Lake. Linden is being pushed with
all possible speed, and it is expected the
first head will be ready to go into COM
mission about the first of May. The adj
dition will contain six Leavitt heads Of
an improved pattern and will have a
capacity Of about 2,400 tons OF rock a
day.
The Michigan mine, in Ontonagon
county, recently shipped twenty one tons
Of mass and barrel copper to the smelters
at Portage Lake. oWrk at the property
is progressing well and uniform good
| showing is noted in all the workings.
The large mass of copper recently en-
| countered, supposed to weigh over fifty
| tons, is still in the drift and will not be
| removed for some time, Il
| The Mohawk Mining company has
| levied an assessment of SO a share. The
money will be used to complete the mill
and properly develop the mine. This week
| 100 tons of Mohawkite, a compound ar
senide Of copper, were shipped to the
smelter at Hackensack Meadows, N. j
The snelter was recently constructed by
M. Guggenheim Sons, and the income from
] the Mohawkite ores will be large this
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ARIZONA COPPER MINES
Calument and Duluth Investors Have
Good Thing.

i Z
Calument ana Duluth Investors Have
Good Thing.
Special to The Journal.
Houghton Mich, April 49, Reports
from southern Arizona, from the mine OF
the Calumet and Arizona Copper company,
are most encouraging. On the So0-toot
level southeast, they have run into vein
OF ore running for about forty feet to
IL per cent copper, and for the next 100
feet averaging 20 per cent copper.
crosscuts forty feet wide have failed to
find the walls, and the drift is still in the
ore. This was an unexpected find and is
of immense value. The company's5 stock
is now selling at $40 share. 1t is CAPT
talized at $2000,Q0O, par $40, making the
present market value $S,000,00O The
stock is very closely held among Calumet,
Duluth and Pittsburg people, almost all
Of them being important employees of the
Calumet and Hecla or United States Steel
corporation. There are eight mineral
claims in the property and all develop
ment yet done has been on one. 1t was
on March Is, 1901, that the company was
organized.
These same people have formed the
Calumet and Pittsburg company that is
developing copper claim adjoining the
Calumet and Arizona. They are rapidly
sinking a shaft and are in the same
| ground as was the other at the same
depth Though this development COM
pany was organized but four months ago
the shares are selling at about three
! times par.
on April % the stockholders of the
South Bisbee Townsite and Development
| company. holding $50 acres of mineral
| land adjoining Calumet and Arizona and
Calumet and Pittsburg, will vote on 8
proposition to sell their lands for $1,000
| 900 to the same people who are in the
other concerns. Directors Of the South
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; ORE PINCHED OUT
But in Four Days 1t Yielded $4,000
in Fine Gold.

But in Four Days 1T Yielded 200
in Fine Gold.
Special to The Journal.
Colorado Springs, Col, April ia
freak of nature was discovered a week
ago in the Vindicator mine in running
an upraise between the 900 and S00-foot
levels. four-inch streak Of ore was
opened that yielded values running from
$1,000 to $4,000 ton. In four days the
company took out seven ffty-pound sacks
of rock that yielded $4,000. The seam
then pinched out. The ore was like fine
sand and was scooped out of crevice
of the rock with common miners spoon.
This company declared the regular quar-
terly dividend Of cents share and an
extra of cents share, making 5 cents
in all, at the monthly directors meeting.
The dividend amounts to $4,000, and
makes $4,000 paid out in dividends IN
three years.
The management of the Isabella Gold
Mining company announced this week
that this celebrated mine is again in a
position to earn money after having lost
heavily on mining operations the past few
months. Some new ore bodies have been
opened in the fifth level, south of the
Lee shaft, in the vicinity of the bonanza
ore chute opened two years ago.
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Question of Methods.
Better facilities and improvement in
methods have given the big packers their
prestige. Ten years ago, when large
percentage of beef eaten in the west was
killed by local butchers, the modern
methods Of the packing houses began to
tell In many cases the local butcher
would put meat ION the block" twelve
hours after it had been killed. The pack
ing houses made it a point to give the
meat plenty OF time to cool and season
Their experienced hands turned out a
better beef all around than the average
local butcher. Hotels began to advertise
Westinghouse beef as an attraction.
Other institutions bought their meats OF
the big concerns. Finally the butcher
was forced to add line Of the imported
beef and from that time on it was all
over with the old methods.
The Way War Is Waged.
Ten years ago there were many small
packing houses through the west making
money and in operation most of the year
To-day few Of them are doing any bust
ness to speak of. Now and then they
get an opportunity to cut into the mar
ket when the big packers are extracting
| long margins on their products, but, as
soon as the big ones turn on their bat
teries the small fellow quits the feld
until another openings occurs. ANY
buyer is at liberty to go into the big mar
ket centers and buy cattle, but, as ir
selling the meat, the packing houses car
make it hot for the small buyer by out
bidding him whenever they choose.
AS the biz institutions have grown tc
| themselves in various Wavs. Economical
| mot n nj q
traffic have come into use. The small
packer could not keep up the race. He
could not afford to invest in new equip.
n erG with the future Of the meat trade sc
uncertain. His killing nlant is not III
to date. He has not The facilities sol
selling goods enjoyed by the big folr;s
While his products were paving tariff
rate on the railroads the big concerns
were securing rebates that finally BULL
for them refrigerator car lines as power:
full auxiliaries to tbcir business.
Proftnble.5s.s ide Lines"
In getting firm grip on the dresse
meat traffic OF the country the auxiliar
lines OF goods, which the big packers ar
now manufacturing at big profit, hav
been of much assistance. The packer
have built up big traffic in canned meats
soaps, oils and other commodities, som
of which are made from material Whic
the cld-line butcher ard small packin
house usually threw away. < A conglonler
! ate mixture of raw material is forwarded
by the various ebranch killing houses t
| someS central point and made into soap
Armour, Swift and Cudahy are now Wag
ing a big campaign on their varlou
brands Of soap The head and feet OF tn
hog which under old methods were throWl
| away are now utilized. Fancy kits Q
picked pigs feet which can be seen. IN an,
market or grocery store tell a part
the story. The army OF statesmen VIZ
pound" the country for TRACE pay
aond profit on their work by selling thes'
various auxiliary lines and when tn
small packer or the butcher is ready 7
compete on dressed meat he usually hnd
the biz packer so strongly fortified tina
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The old American and Dexter mines OF
the central Marquette range are to be
pumped out and re-opened. The Amerl-
can has been idle for twelve years: It
was producer Of specular bessemer ore
and there is said to be ore OF the same
character in the bottom of the old Work
ings. The Dexter has been idle since
1896, when it was reopened for snort
time 1t produces a low grade magan1-
ferrous ore Much exploration will prob
ably take place in that part OF the Mar
uuette range near these mines.
The sum of $125, 1000 is" being paid this
week for large ore property on tlne
Mesaba range in section q, township 90,
range 20, that is bought by the Great
Northern road for an independent steel
making concern Of the east. Several mil
lion tons of ore are shown there ana the
expectations are for much more.
Ore has been found in the northeast
quarter of section II, township 58,range 10,
Mesaba range, close to where in section
! Is local men are at work with two drills
| This is state lease and the royalty TO
! the state is rs cents a ton on all ore
| mined.
The mines of the vermillion range, all
of them owned by the United States Steel
corporation, are working steam shovels
in ore piles, and are shipping heavily.
A. new shaft is being sunk at the Sibley,
one of the easterly mines of the range,
and it is said that another shaft will soon
| be nut down still further east
Eighteen ore ships have been chartered
for the season to carry ore from the
Helen mine in Canada, most Of which viii
90 to the south side Of the international
line Predictions of 100000 tons from
there this year have been made in mining
circles, but it is not likely that more thar
half as much will actually be landed al
lower lake ports.
The great shaft the Cleveland Cliffs
company is sinking at it's Mas mine a
Negaunee is going down at the rate O.
about six inches day. This will be the
/ most noteworthy shaft ever sunk upon thu
Marquette range in that it was known
a great thickness of quicksand would b.
met and more ella borate preparations were
made to overcome it than had ever beer
planned in the lake district. The shat
now occasionally meets material tina
boils up and stops all work, but the enor
nous pumps take out the sand and waite
faster than it can come in. The shat
is going down as solid piece of construc
ton, timbers being added at the top a.
fast as depth is gained. The base is shoe
with steel and weighted by great piles 0
iron and by the big pumps.
The McComber shaft on the central Yer
million. that has been full of water 70
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uary / to March Is this year were 6O4,515
cattle weighing a total of 6O9, PATTI
pounds. In the same period last year the
receipts were 554, 1904 cattle weighing $685.
GAP, OO7 pounds. The receipts this year
were $4,000 head of cattle greater but the
weight is 30,000,000 pounds less and the
supply of beef suffers to that extent. The
same diminished weight is noticeable in
hog receipts
All Meats Affected.
For twenty-five years. the average price
q hundred of native cattle has been $40.
On April 1 Chicago paid $40. For heavy
| hogs the average for the same period vas
S4.S5. 1t is now over ST. If at any time
| there is "a scarcity ard consequently a
| high price in one kind of meat and p]eu-
tiful supply of all Others, the market is
affected but little. The consumer equal
ICES matters by eating the lower priced
products. But the scarcity of feed mas
| lamb and veal. The people are prosper
GUS and are buying largely of the better
cuts which las an effect oil the price of
the better grades Of all meats.
Patrick Cudahy the Dig meat packer,
predicts higher prices than the present
and names July as the date when the
changed conditions will be felt. He says
| tVdl, do ldl 10 uull.DtlS 80. LIE ltEelDlS
of hogs for this year. at all markets look
large, but these have included large
number OF small weight which have been
rushed into the market without feeding
because the farmer had not the feed and
could not afford to carry them along.
This will affect the receipts beginning
about July 1 and Mr.. Cudahy predicts a
big mere ase in the consumption at that
time He says that with the present
IF ho mt nv "a
~ consumption is naturally big and the west
has but half a supply of foodstuffs to
meet il. ...
q, There has been a steady advance in the
price of live stock in the past two months
On Jan. Is the highest price paid for the
best grades was about $4.S5. In steady
: advances the price on the best grades has
gone to $3.50 and better, and the marke
, is firm Along with these advances ha!
, come the advance in the price Of beef b,
small iumns The retailers of the eas1
are u, in arms. They claim to have {
special grievances. The retailers Of Kan
sas City are protesting. The retailers o
, Minneapolis say that they are not Eelns
: charged for dressed meat much if any NOR
! than the advance in live stock warrants
| The minneapolis Market.
5 In the wholesale meat trade, Mime
apolis has the reputation Of being an I'm
satisfactory market. The demand here i
big and the retailers generally purchas
the better GRADES of beef. But for som
reason the big packers have never bee
J. able to control things in Minneapolis a
we'll as in other centcrs. They are max
: ing better progress along that line nov
= but in discipline" Minneapolis does no
9 vet get the credit mark for percentage G
:, profit" that other cities do. This prob
= ably is one explanation why the roar o
u u the beef trust is so loud in the east an
= not so strong among the buyers in Min
~ neapolis. One of the most experience
men il the retail meat trade in Mime
n apolis says: T. q A.
= On the prices charged US for dressed be-
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STAMP MILL REMoDEL1NG
Important Changes in the Gustin.
Minerva-Hills Placer Mining.

Important Changes in the Gustin-
Minerva-Hills Placer Mining.
Special to The Journal.
Deadwood, S. D., April 19.-Titus Cork
hill, ex-state mine inspector, is super
vising the remodeling of the Gustin- Min
erva stamp mill in Blacktail gulch, which
belongs to the Boston-South Dakota Gold
Mining company. The mill is to be
started as combination amalgamation
and cyanide plant and with increased ca
pacity Twenty new stamps are being put
in. The ore will first be subjected to
amalgamation, and the tailings will then
be conveyed in pipe to the cyanide an
mex, after passing through conical sep
arator to eliminate as much as possible
+ of the waste.
A big mining deal is being engineered
on what is known as the Blacktail divide,
between Blacktafl gulch and Garden City.
The property involved is the Nelson
ground and several adjoining groups, and
the bond is held by Charles Waite, form
erly Of ,Deadwood, now of Chicago, who is
said to represent strong eastern syndl-
cate.
Fritz Weber is in charge of the work
recently begun on the Golden Crest min
ing property, at the head of Two Bit
gulch. He was the original locator and
for years the owner of the property, and
is at present one of the heaviest stock
holders The machinery at the hoist Is
being overhauled and necessary repairs
made In addition to continuing the shaft
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EsNR@0)ING corn is the big factor, IN
H wSSM| the advance in beef prices, using
|H A Wi the Minneapolis price list as the

TEs1@1]ING corn is the big factor In
WHSMl the advance in beef prices, using
W the Minneapolis price list as the
ia ~ standard. Other sections OF
the country where the advance
has been proportionately greater, charge
the big meat packers with eXactlng more
of an advance than can be leglt1mately
credited to the increased prices OF live
stock. Kansas City, one of the big pack
ing house centers OF the west is loudest
in it's protests. The eastern retail butch-
ers are talking organization to fight the
packers Meat prices in Minneapolis nave
advanced two and three cents per pound
in the past two months. Retailers at
tribute this directly to the increased price
of cattle.
The spring months usually see an ad-
vance in the price of beef. The supply OF
grass fed cattle ceases and the packers
and butchers must rely principally on the
shipments of corn fed cattle.
The custom has grown in the develop
ment of the cattle industry for farmers
and all cattle growers in the corn belt to
go into the market in the fall and buy
"stockers'' and feeders cattle sold be-
fore maturity, and fatten them for the
market. The dry weather shortened the
corn crop last year, stopped the buying
of cattle to feed, threw them back ON lands
also drouth snitten with the inevitable
result of shortening of the supply OF
beef cattle. The result is an advance in
price by the owners of the marketable
stock, one to which the packers have beer
forced to accede, and sensational: ad-
&~
Prices on the Hoof.
The price of the best grades of cattle
sets the pace for the inferior grades. Thu
price of the best grades yesterday ranged
from S.. rs to $3.50 hundred live weight
One year ago the price ranged from $4.3
20 $3.50 per hundred with slight variation
from those figures in 1901. Buyers il
thu South ST. Paul market say that tn
price paid for beef ION the hoof'' thi
spring will easily average $3.50 per hun
dred more than last spring. Experts sa
that the dressed beef carcass will averag
from so to SIS per cent of the live weight
An advance of $3.50 hundred in the liv
weight therefore means an advance Q
about twice that or in the neighborhoo
of three cents per. pound in the dresse
beef. The retailers say they are rayin
the packers from 21a to 3A cents pc
pound more TOT dfeSSed peel imam a yea
ago. Average prices to the consume
have been advanced in proportion Wher
the retailers principal demand is on tn
better grades of meat he has been forced
he says, to make sharp advance in thos
grades in order to cover the loss he ex
periences on the inferior parts of a quar-
ter Of beef. This Is one reason why tt
people in eastern cities have felt the &C
vance in beef so keenly A large pr
centage of this trade is porterhouse ar
sirloin steaks and rib roasts. InclusiN
of round steak, these cuts constitute b.
rs per cent Of the beef.
The shortage in feed is shown by tt
discrepancy in weight of cattle receive
at Chicago. The receipts there from Jal