The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04
IRON ORE SHIPMENTS
All Lake Superior Ports Are Doing
Tremendous BUSINESS.

All Lake Superior Ports Are Doing
Tremendous Business.
DULUTH, MINN.-Iron Gre is now going
forward at a tremendous pace, not only from
Minnesota mines but from all Lake Superior
ports. including Mchipicoten. There is less
delay than at any time this year and the tie
up In anthracite coal is helping out car de-
liveries from lower lake receiving ports to
such an extent that they are not now a clog
in the wheel Figures for June do not reflect
this increase, for there were some annoyine
delays and drawbacks during the early part
of the month. . ..sy4.5ss. 49,. :.
A train of ore cars hauled down the Duluth
Iron Range road a few days ago is of in
terest. 1t consisted Of twenty-nine f1fty-ton
steel cars and ffty-sx Of the older twenty
seven-ton wood cars, and the load was 1000
gross tons. Up to a year ago 100 tons of ore
constituted a large load. The use of pusher
locomotives and of the steel cars, with their
smaller dead weight a ton of live load, have
made the difference. .4.a.~. -..-..~
By reason Of higher labor costs, which arc
not expected to be cut for some years. at
least, and because OF the growing scarcity Of
cheap mining timber, the thickness Of sur
face that can be stripped is increasing and
several mines are now having depth of
| overburden taken from them that would have
been regarded as suicidal in former years
At the Croxton, in 13-5S-2o. for instance, they
are stripping sixty feet of overburden. At the
Kinney, in 14-5S-1s, the Republic Iron and
Steel company let contract for removing
1,000,0 900 yards of overburden; to the Wallace
Contracting company. The location is still
thick woods and swamp, but in a month
steam shovels, locomotives and dinkeys will
all be busy.
A stripping contract amounting to soc, 900
yards has been let by Pickands Mather &
Co. to the Buffalo Steel company's new Al
bany mine a mile southwest Of Hibbing Sew
eral other new mines are developing in the
immediate vicinity. The mining payroll at
Hibbing amounts to about 100000 monthly.
At the Dearing Harvester company's two mines
at that end Of the range the shaft at the
Aenew Is in ore and that at the Hawkins is so
far down that drifting is well under way in
the ore body.
Ore has been found under the village. of Nc
Kinley, and it is probable that the town will
be moved to an adjoining forty. though this
is not vet assured. This ore find is not new
one, but has recently received attention. The
same is true of find close by on what is
called the ''Sherdan forty" and where a
shaft is to be sunk this year by men In the
employ Of the Republic Iron and Steel COM
pany. Mckinley belongs to Petit & Robin
son Of Minneapolis. .>-= -. 49,
! Section 81 mine of the Lake Superior Iron
company, now United States Steel property,
is becoming one Of the corporations big mines
and Is developing rapidly. In the old Felch
Mountain district which, has been idle for
many years, G. A. st. Clair OF Duluth, who
has been working for some time, has CON-
menced hoisting ore at the Northwestern
mine. whose last activity was in 1884, up to
which time II, 900 tons had been shipped. Mr..
St. Clair has also the adjoining Metropolitan,
Calumet and Hecla mines.