The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-07

-. l.. MINNESOTA
SHIPMENTS WELL ALONG
Season Contracts Are Expiring and Yes
seImen Want More Money.
DULUTH. MINN.-Season contracts on
tonnage are expiring, and vessel owners
are asking more money on ore and grain.
They are getting anaadvance on what lit
tie Is chartered. but the large shippers are
out of the market. Shipments are pretty
we'll up for this date. There is every IN
dication that the fall will be long one,
and conditions are now such that vessels
can: ply the upper lakes practically as
long as there is stuff for them to move.
sMenominee range mines have produced
as follows in the past twelve months:
Dickinson County Iron County
Chaplin group. g. 5.643
Pewahic .4I9,S36 Crystal Falls 200 0o0
Aragou &c.,. $50, 6ss Bristol 800. lie 900
Cundy ........ .19o,S15 Baltic ........ o. sse
Penn Ir NJ Co2s1 500 Armenia '...... IS 0 0o9
Tradsrs ........ aa.alS Doner .....: saa aaS
SSsirnsses sna sos3 HSsFsGR
Wan ......... 400 Tobin ......... 6pOOO
Millie ..... % 400 Mansfield ..... IS. 100
Gropeland 500. 1900 Michigan =. ~, $50
Curry .......... 1880 Lamont 23.0fln
Northwestern loo 90" Hope .......... +'2af
So
Several eXplOratlols are under way In
each county, and numerous shafts are
being sunk. The Steel Corpora ton owns
the Cha pin. half the Pewabic and Walpole,
the Aragon and Cundy. the Columbia, Do
Der, Riverton, Mansfield. Michigan and
Hope. In Iron county 'Corrigan, Mckinney
& Co. are the largest operators with the
Crystal Falls. Armenia and Lamont. They
also have the Quinnesec and Groveland in
Dickinson county. Pickands, Mather &
Co. have the Hemlock, Baltic, Verona and
Vivian.
Shipments from Escanaba.
1t is expected that fully SO 1000. 900 tons
will be shipped from Escanaba this year,
possibly putting the port once more in
the lead. The Chicago & North Western
road has shipped 100000 tons to date
and the Milwaukee road 300, 900 tons. The
North Western is now moving $4,000 tons
daily. The biggest ore train ever hauled
into Escanaba was last week. when one
locomotive of the Escanaba, & Lake Su-
perior road, new line, pulled eightyf1
loaded 100, 000-lb cars. The revenue load
was $3.50 tons. and maximum drawbar
pull of $4,000 tons was exerted. The train
moved at an average speed of twelve miles
an hour.
The Oliver Iron Mining company has
valuable ore lands lying adjoining the
Great Western mine, that are likely to be
,ceded that these lands contain a very large
deposit Of ore and may make the biggest
mine ever opened in Crystal Falls.
A steam shovel has been put into the
Hartford mine for the first time and sew
eral thousand tons are being sent out. The
Cleveland lake mine will be operating
through a new shaft some time next year
All the ground on which buildings around
the present shaft are located is over ore
and it Is for this that the new one is being
sunk. 1t will be four compartments OF
large size. The immense stock piles al
this shaft and at the Lake Superior lake
shaft are about gone and will be cleaned
UP this year, for the first time in many
seasons.
More Ore Found.
The Cleveland Cliffs Iron company
which has several Mesa ba tracts under
option, thirty of them in a bunch In the
southwest corner Of 57-22, has located
some ore there, but does not yet know
the Importance Of it's find. Ore was found
on this property when the company tool
its option. but more has been located
since then.
state lease in section 24-57-22, north
of the new Little mine purchase Of the
Charlton Steel company, has been taker
by local parties on an option FOR SIO0 00(
for the lease and will be vigorously ex
lplored at once.
The Wills, a new mine. in which off
GERS Of the Republic Iron and Steel com
pany is interested, has been shipping an(
will send out about $4,000 tons this fall
1t Is an underground property, and Is t
be developed for a considerable shipmen
another year.
Grant mine, a state lease belonging t.
Zones & Laughlins, linn, has closed TO
the year, having shipped its expecte'
amount-52,ooo tons 1t contains YER
large deposit. perha ps 10000. 900 tons o
non Bessemer silicious ore. A large shat
will be sunk this winter and much NOR
ore will be sent forward next season.
At the Kinney mine stripping a nigh
crew has been put on and the mine WI
TO the Republic Iron and Steel compan!
1t will be operated on the milling system
Sharon mine Of the Sharon Steel com
pany, has been able to make far bette
shipment this year than was thought an
will probably reach the 100000 ton
drifts will be reopened and the mine mad
ready for a large business A large amour
of stripping has been done this year an
she mill pit Is now quite large. In al
935 men have been employed this season
The mine is now known to be very larg
property, continued explora ton having de
veloped an immense body of ore on a
sides of the original location.
Trouble has been caused at Two Hal
bors by the shifting and sliding OF OF
dock No. 4. which was rebuilt ana raise
last winter It IS now dock Of 81. 0C
TONS cana city and Of sufficient height fc
the largest ships. It will not be used Il
the rest OF this season and will be rebui
again the coming winter.
The 3oo-ton smelter Of the Calume
&, Arizona company has blown IN an
copper is being produced to small es
tent.
Duluth parties have sold the famoc
zinc and lead mine at, Black Bay, LAX
Superior, to eastern and Duluth men, an
some 500 900 will be spent in developmer
and exploration the present season.
stripping contract has been let Il
the new Cypress mine near Hibbing, an
It will be opened this winter.