The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-16
NOPthyVeS PnMIneS
OPENING TWO MINES
Deering Company Dubs Them the
Hawkins and Agnew.
RAILWAY BUILDING TO FORMER
Pickands, Muther s. Company Will
Open IL New Property Adjoin-
ing MnhOning No. z.
Special to The Journal

Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi. May 16.--Contracts for
railroad to the Deering Harvester COM
apany's new mine in section 81, TOWNSHIP
81, range %, have been let to A. Guthrie,
d we'll known railroad builder, who is to
have the work done in August. The mine
is to se named the ''Hawkins,' after one
of the discoverers. 1t will be opened for
the milling process Of mining, but no ore
will be taken from the open pit this year.
Work commences Immediately IN SINKING
a shaft and some ore will be taken from
underground this season. After the road
10 in the shovels will be set at work and
a milling pit eXcavated, ana next year
business will be large.
The Deering company also has the
northeast quarter of the northeast quar-
ter Of section II, township 81 range Il,
and the north one-half of the northwest
quarter, 120 acres in all, that it bought for
$780, from Messrs. Alworth, Agnew,
Washburn and w. H. Cole. The lease
carries % per cent royalty to Alworth,
Hull & Boeing and the minimum is 100,-
900 tons a year. This will also be opened
soon, as an underground mine under the
supervision, as in the case of he Hawkins,
of Joseph Sellwood of Duluth. 1t contains
SO far as known, about 3,500,00O tons OF
good ore, running above so per cent, and
largely low PHOSPHORUS. 1t will be named
the Agnew.
Pickands, Mather & Co. have closed a
deal for the purchase Of sixty acres ad
joining the Agnew property on the west,
and the Mahoning No. on the south,
containing about 100000 tons of ore,
some of it under very shallow surface
of earth and boulders. This part will be
stripped and mining is expected to COM
mence there within the year. The firm is
extending its Mesaba opera tions material
he with he
Buffalo Steel company for ore for the
latter. 1t is generally conceded that the
new Buffalo concern will get it's western
ores from mines that are now in the name
of Pfchands, Mather & Co.
The Minnesota Iron company, at its
Burt mine at Hibbing, is employing 200
men in the stripping and shovels are
working day and night In order to reach
the Burt a cut had to be made through
the Day, out of which $4,000 yards of earth
are to be moved Half of this is now done
ihe engine house and other buildings
are going in at the new Jordan mine A
compressor and other machinery from an
old mine on the Menominee range have
been shipped and will be installed imme-
diately, and a steam shovel is uncoverine
the ore for a milling pit. An incline
smart is going down and railroad is
building in from the main line of the
Eastern Minnesota road The mine will
pc shipping late in the summer At the
ray Exploration company's mines one
shaft Is down 1l5 feet, twenty-five feet in
ore. The second is down forty-fve feet
and is troubled by water. At the new
sellWood property at Hibbing they have
sunk their main shaft to 100 feet havine
having been in ore since sixty feet from
the surface.
The Minnesota Iron company will make
new grade this year at its Soudan mine
mat OF soudan silicious." The mine vii
ship this year 100000 tons more than Ia
year.