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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-11-12
A Runaway Bicycle

Terminated with an ugly cut on the
leg Of j. B. OrDer. Franklin Grove, III.
II developed a stubborn ulcer unyield-
ing TO doctors and remedies for four
years. Then BuckleL's Arnics Salye
cured. Itsjust as good for Burns. .Scalds
Skin Eruptions and Piles 25e, at Rein.
hart's Pharmacy.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-11-12

NJEST VIRGINIA POULTRY
w FOOD and Egg Producer. A
J.. penny's worth day for dozen
~ TguS Will pay five times its cost in eggs.
4.ey are high now. Try it. % cents
Package. Sent by mail on receipt OF
price Agents wanted.
J. S. FLEMING,
Shepherdstown, w. va.
Oct. Is, 1903
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-11-12
Hardware Department,

Bar Iron Nails, Horse Shoes, Large
Iron Wash Kettles, Brass, Copper
and Porcelain Kettles, Skillets,
Waffle Irons, Trace, Butt, Cow and
Halter Chains, Farm Bells, Screen
Doors and Windows, American
Fence Wire, Barbed Wire, Saws,
Black Hawk Corn Shelters, Lawn
Mowers, Files, All Sizes Bolts,
Loaded Shells, Powder and Shot.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
FOREMOST MINING DISTRICT
Lake Superior Region Of 1845 Con-
trasted With Conditions Pre-
vailing To-day.

It is a far cry in all but years from the
bateaux of the traders to the ships plow
ing Americas inland lakes to-day; from
furs and fish Of a few summers ago to
the product Of iron and copper miner,
from the canoe of the savage and the
tiny bark Of the white man to the 10000
ton steel steam vessel of 1908. The coun-
Gil fire Of the Indian has given place to tho
fercer heat of the smelter, the sound Of
the hunters rifle is followed by the ham
mer OF the prospector and the muffled
roar Of high explosives deep underground
The track not long ago marked by the
with steel upon which mighty traffic
continuously pours.
From discovery far beyond the bounds
Of civilization in 1876, in the time of men
now living, the Lake Superior district has
become the foremost mining district on
the face of the globe; foremost In the
enormous tonnage It produces. in the
value and Importance Of its output, in It's
methods OF mining and its equipment for
production, and In the vast accumulation
OF capital invested in It's mines and tho
transportation Of its minerals
Development Of Transportation.
During the late fifties the ore product
Of Lake Superior was hauled over mule
tram road with wooden rails to the village
Of Marquette. Now the Duluth. South
Shore & Atlantic. the Chicago & North
Western, Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
MinnesOta's Great Iron Ranges.

ton by lake and by rail, he developed ma,
chinery for handling large masses Of ore
unborn metal In these hills could be trans
ported q thousand miles or more. and
when transformed by coal in Pennsylvania
and Ohio into steel, could compete with
And the judgment of the promoters of
this ore industry was surely discerning, !
for the product of these mines, year after
year, has maintained its quality and the
nation its supremacy. The product of
Lake Superior has not enriched alone the
mining communities around The lake, and
the great states in which they are stu
ated. 1t has influenced the history of
ine WORE. wrapped into cables 1t has
been strung across the seas, and flashed
messages OF peace and good will. Trans
formed into rails, it has opened up the
wilderness. carrying civiiza ton and the
development of commerce in it's reach
Manufactured into plates and beams, it
has carried the commerce generated, and
assembled at tide water by those rails,
TO every country on the globe and blessed
the inhabitants thereof And forged into
armor which sheaths our mighty battle
ships, and into ordnance it has protected
that commerce on the high seas, and has
upheld the dignity and potentiality of
American citizenship.
Truly can it be said,' continued Mr..
Gayley in closing, that iron Is the back
bone Of the mountain--not only with ref
erence to the hills that circumscribe the
broad expanse of Lake Superior and form,
the peaks, Of the great Appalachian range,
but of that greater mountain now reared
aloft and ever raising its peaks higher
and higher, which typifies our nations in
dustries and our national prosperity"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

A few weeks ago there was celebrated
Mt the little mining city Of Ishpeming, on
the south shore Of Lake Superior, the fl
tiett anniversary Of the commencement OF
Iron company. This company Is still
very large and prosperous concern, and
has to- day more ore In sight In its mines |
than it has had in past years, and i'm
mensely more than it had at the beginning |
Of mining, fifty years ago. It's celebra-
ton meant far more than merely fifty
years of mining work by a single COM
pany. interesting that even alone may
be. 1t was recognized as more by the
Lake Superior Iron company, which car
ried out a program f1ttingly commemor-
ating the occurrence.
The celebration was In reality one of
80 years Of progress. not alone in ore, but
also In iron and steel and in all that these
materials imply, and in the great manu-
featuring development Of our country. In
the course Of an address before the thou
sands Of people gathered at this eventful
celebration James Gayley. first vice presi-
dent Of the greatest industrial organiza
ton the world has ever seen, said:
Accomplishments OF Fifty Years.
''Those who have been privileged to live
In the past fifty years have witnessed
development along all lines bordering on
the marvellous; each year has marked
progress In every phase Of our national
life and In the lives Of the people. AS a
nation we have become great because the
- individual has developed dormant sources
OF wealth thru the initiative of climate
and free institutions, and he has likewise
himself become strong and self-reliant.
'It Is not easy to speak Of a develop
has been witnessed in the iron trade Of
the United States since fifty years ago.
Then this country was making one-sixth
the pig iron that Great Britain manufac-
tured, while last year we produced twice
as much as they. Then the total produc-
ton Of pig iron In the United States was
about $4,000 tons. or about as much as
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

demands, was set up in 1880. Now single,
compound, triple and condensing engines
Of large power are found thruout the
iron ranges. The striking hammer has
electric motors compressed air and rope
haulage are common above and below
ground. Steam shovels and locomotives
have taken the places Of hand shovels
and carts. Every known system has been
or is in use. Many mines have presented
difficulties which would in the early days
have been considered insurmountable, but
each has been overcome. Only by look
vances. Nitroglycerin and power drills
have done more to reduce cost than any
driven at the Cleveland mine at a cost Of
$500 per foot Now the cost would not
exceed SIC.
The discovery and quick development
Of the Mesaba profoundly affected the iron
and steel industry Of this country In every
branch, and the effect may extend beyond
our shores. The opening Of the Mesaba
did not mean idleness on other ranges,
but did mean economies everywhere,
cheaper ore and, as a consequence, in
creased outputs. These, reacting on costs,
further reduced them, and thus again in
creased the limit in which iron could be
used to supplant other materials or in
fields altogether new and untried.
First Discoveries.
| The iron ore mines Of Lake Superior
have won from the ground in the past
fifty years 2so.oooooo gross tons of iron.
OF this, so great has been the accelera-
ton of the pace of the steel industry,
that half has been mined in the last seven
years and quarter in less than three.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

The first discoveries were made near
Marquette, Mich, near where the Lake
Superior Iron company celebrated Its
semicentennial. These finds were at
what is now the Jackson mine. a prop
erty that is still a producer and consid-
cradle one. These discoveries and the sub
sequent selection of the ground We're
made before the government had sur
veSed that part of the northern PENN
sua. In 1916 four men from the town Of
Jackson went to the mine and carried
back 200 pounds of ore which they made
into the first iron ever sn1elted from Lake
Superior ores. Two years later ores were
smelted at forge near the mine. but the
industry never prospered and was dis
continued in a few years. Soon after the
land and Lake Superior were discovered
and opened, and these three continued to
be the leading mines of the Marquette
range and among the largest of the entirs
Lake Superior Region. "
The Marquette range had been ship
per for twenty-five years before any other
district came to share the fortunes of the
trade
MenomInee and Other Ranges.
In 1877 the Menominee, lying parallel
with the Marquette and about twenty
miles south. made its first shipments,
and since has been most important
factor. Ten years after its discovery it
shipped million tons in a single sea-
i'd development then on record, but which
has since been far surpassed, success
lively. and on greater scale each time.
by the Gogebic and Mesaba ranges.
The first ore was shipped from the Co
gebic in 1884, and in it's third season
the range won 1,s22,o tons, quarter Of
all the ore mined in the entire lake dis
trict.
! Closely following. and making its first
shipment but month after the first from
| the Gogebic, came the vermilion range
in Minnesota.
The latest addition to the ranks Of
iron producers Of the lake region was the
marvellous Mesaba. whose discovery
caused so much excitement in 1892. and
whose first shipments were made in the
following year.
The mines Of the Lake Superior region
are furnished with most modern appli-
ances and machinery. Some of them are
fitted turnout underground with electric
lighting: others have electric haulage
plants that do away with the labor of the
human beasts Of burden OF the mining
camps in tramming the ore from rooms
where it is mined to shafts, where 1t 10
Il raised hundredS OF 1eeC 10 tle Sufidcs'
These electric haulage plants do their
work at the expense of about cents
ton. At many mines the diamond drill
has penetrated far into the earth and has
disclosed deposits that have been fol-
lowed by shafts and miners. Drills have
reached great depths, proving stores OF ore
, that could have been found in no other
way. Many times these drills have shown
, the presence of rich deposits in shafts
i that were about to be abandoned or were
left as Of no value.
4 All about the milling grounds of these
companies the drills have punctured the
earth till it's depths are no more hidden
from the engineers than if they were
. transparent The ''cores" brought up by
the diamond are so exact an index of the
material thru which they are passing that
there can be no error in the calculation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

pounds a year, and last year it was about
500 pounds. No other people has grown
SO vastly in its annual consumption of
metal. And we are still increasing. This
very large increase in consumption per
capita expresses in concrete form the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

loading of which required two days, the
unloading being seldom accomplished in
that time. Now the cargoes reach 10000
tons. the loading requiring less than three
hours and the unloading ten hours. In
1871 the largest ore barge carried 1000
tons and made twelve trips per season.
The annual shipments have grown from
a few thousand to $4,000, 900 tons and the
ability of the mines to produce is not
taxed Lake freights are one-eighth of
early prices and rail freights quar-
ter.
The deeper waterways commodious
locks and large ships of to-day are in a
greater measure due to the movement of
ore than to any other cause.
The northwestern farmer, whose wheat
goes 1000 miles from Duluth to Buffalo
for one seventh of what it costs to bring
1t the $50 miles from Fargo to Duluth,
may not know to whom or what Is due
this tremendous contrast in costs Of
transportation. But it Is the traffic In
Iron ore and the great companies engaged
in mining and lake transportation. II it
were not for economies introduced by or
thru these agencies his wheat would be
worth far less on the farm than it is.
Great savings have been introduced all
along the line.
or Mining Methods.
Beginning with q, few grades, the Lake
Superior mines now offer ores from the.
purest and best to those that will not bear
transportation, and within these limits
can be found the varieties needed for gem
eral and special products, and in quantity
equal to any demand.
| AS viewed from this distance, early
| mine methods were very crude. Horses
FURNISHED the power and they were worked
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

in every possible way, and often appar-
emily in almost impossible places. Fhe
little machinery then in use was poor
and often but Ill adapted to the work.
The first hoisting plant Of large size.
economical design and equal to future
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

Wisconsin & Michigan, Great Northern.
Wisconsin Central, Duluth Missabe g.
Northern, Duluth & Iron Range and the
Lake Superior & Ishpe1ning railroads
serve the shippers Up to nearly 1870 a
70o-ton ship was an enormous craft the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
By DqOight E.. Woodb,7dge.

Sweden makes to-day; last year the Lake
Superior region alone supplied ore for
about twenty five times as great a guam
tty.
I'm 1853 the consumption Of iron by each
individual In this country was about sixty
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

could be profitably used In the castor it
was far from Pennsylvania to Lake su-
perior. But the engineer, to whom we
must give greatest praise to-day, bent his
energies to this problem. He improved
the appliances and methods of transporta-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

varied and extended uses to which iron
and steel have been put in this country
in a generation or so.
Ore Shipments Extended.
'At that time it was thought absolutely
Incredible that ore from this district
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Power from Duluth.

Officials and engineers of the Great
Northern Power company are visiting
the mines Of this and the Mesaba
range in connection with plan to
furnish them electrical power when
the company has developed its plant
on the st. Louis river. The party IN
cludes President G. A. Duncan, Chief
Engineer E. A. Cokefair, M. H. Gerry
consulting engineer. of Butte; E. G.
Bacot, chief electrical engineer; Geo.
D. Swift Of the mining division of
the Steel corporation. and number
of out-of-town engineers.
The visit will be of special interest
and prospective Importance. for if the
company is to transmit power from
Duluth for the operation of mines it
will be great innovation. The dis
lance is no barrier, as it is far within
the limit to which electrical energy
may be transmitted with economical
and successful results.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24

|day evenings and a full house on each
'Of these evenings was the result.
The Vinton company is by long odds
the best repertoire company. that
comes this way. They present a
neat. clean entertainment and their
plays are Of the betteE~-class. No
presents are given and no lewd pict-
ures are produced as u drawing card
for an after performance or concert.
The company is composed Of ladies
and gentlemen throughout and their
conduct is the same both off and on
the stage. Monday evening 1.-The
Elmwood Mystery" was the bill;
Tuesday "The Inside Track" and
Wednesday Dads Girl" I'm all of
these Miss Vinton is the central at
traction supported by an excellent
company.
Since writing the above, we learn
that the Myrtle Vinton company will
play return engagement here next
week, viz: Thursday, Friday and
evenings, April 80 and
MAY and 2.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Fireman's Tournament.

The tournament time is approach
ing and if Ely is to do the honors
this year, it is about time to begin
agitating and securing the necessary
funds'to carry out the project. Hib.
bling raised about $4,000 for tourna.
ment purposes, Virginia over S200f
and it now deyolves upon Ely to dc
the same. Whether this can be sue.
cessfully accomplished here is q
question which the fire boys purpose
to test within the next few weeks.
Nothing is so conducive to good ad.
vertising for town as the fireman's
tournament and we sincerely hope
Ely may not lag behind in their
share. When the committee calls on
you, do your best.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Witnesses Must Go.

Radical departure from the rule
which has governed witnesses in
land cases, is made in written in
structions which have just been re-
ceived by the Duluth land office.
Under the old arrangement, it had
been impossible to secure the attend
ance of witnesses at land hearings.
unless they desire to come, but an
act of congress, passed few months
ago makes their presence imperative,
when they have been served by the
proper form of subpoena.
The difficulty in securing the at
tendance of witnesses at hearings, in
which the title of the government
land was in question, has been a
serious drawback, not only in the
Duluth Office, but in all of the offices
of the United States. Where the
witnesses were interested in the out
come Of controversy, they would
obey the summons to attend the hear
ing, but in other cases, they declined
to put in an appearance.
Congress took up the matter during
the last session, at the solicitation of
land officials, with the result that on
Jan. 81 of the present year an act
was passed fixing penalty for non
attendance at such hearings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Titanic Ore smelted Successfully

| An experiment. that may revolu-
| tioniZe the iron and steel industry OF
the country was successfully made at
st. Paul Monday at the plant of the
! Valley Iron Works. Titanic iron ore,
of which there are billions of tons in
this northern part of the state. was
smelted in an ordinary cupola, and
turned out pig iron which polished
uplike steel. and which according to
those interested in the experiment,
| is better than the finest Bessemer
steel.
Frank Johnson, of st. Paul, claims
to have discovered such process, and
Inst he presence of a delegation Of
Duluth men interested in mining,
Mr., Johnson on Monday conducted a
successful demonstration of his dis
coyery. A prominent chemist and
| assayer who was present stated that
in his opinion, this ore could now be
smelted as cheaply as hematite. Aside
| from the solving of the question of
how to smelt this refractory ore, it is
said that it produces u steel better
than Bessemer. because with one
third the weight the same tensile
| strength is secured. The superior
quality of the product is ascribed to
the presence in the ore of vanadium
and chrome, ingredients that are
said to give it extraordinary strength
ndtoughness.
Propositions looking toward the
construction of large smelling works
at duluth have been hinging on the
result of this test. and it is expected
now that success has been attained,
| that these projects will be rapidly
pushed. There are incredible guam
Titles of this ore in this country and
it isto be sincerely hoped that the
expectations as stated above may be
fullyrealized,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Married at Winton.

Mr.. Ernest Bergleen and Miss Nell
Newton, will be united in holy bonds
OF matrimony tomorrow morning at
tile residence of the brides parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. III. Miller at Winton.
Both of the young people are resi-
dents of Winton wheIe they have
resided for several years and have
hosts of friends there and in this CITY
who wish them success. They leave
on the afternoon strain for brief
wedding trip to Duluth. after which
they will be at home at Winton to
their numerous friends.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Prof. Chester Dead.

Word has been received of the sud-
den death of Prof. Alfred Hunting
ton Chester at Brunswick, n. j.
Prof. Chester held the chair of min
eralogy, chemistry and metallurgy in
Rutgers college and who will be re-
membered by mining men as having
visited Minnesota nearly a quarter of
a century ago, when he examined the
ore on the Vermilion range and made
a favorable report. It was on the
strength of this report that explora-
tions were begun on this range fol-
lowed by the construction of the rail
road
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
The New State Laws

With this issue we present our
readers with complete text of the
laws passed by the last session of the
legislature. The supplement con-
sists of "a pages of seven columns
each and contains much that is of
interest to the readers. Considering
the fact that the lawmaking body
adjourned only the fore part of the
week, the work of preparing this large
amonnt Of matter was certainly a
heavy undertaking. Read the vari.
Gus measures over carefully and thus
keep posted on the laws of the COM
monwealth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Swamp Land Ruling.

As a result of decision of the sec
retaly of the interior, copy of which
has been received at the Duluth land
office, some fifty contests which are
now pending before the register and
receiver at Duluth will be dismissed.
Tie decision reads as follows: "All
controversies hereafter begun respect
ing the swapping or non-swamping
character of lands in Minnesota,
whether heretofore or hereafter sur
syeyed, must be determined by the
field notes of the survey
In future, therefore, oral testimony
by witnesses as to the character of
lands will not be entertained in a
contest against state swamp lands.
If the field notes show that the land
is swamp land no amount of testi-
mony on the part of witnesses will
suffice to prove the contrary.
Up to the present time contests
have been allowed and they have been
very numerous. Witnesses would be
brought to swear that the land was
not swampy Ia character, and it was
then incumbent upon the state to
prove the contrary or the land could
be homesteaded. Mnch of the state
swamp land has been granted to rail-
roads and their title has thus also
been imperfect.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24

Mr.. W. J. Knight, formerly of
Butte City, Mont, has arrived in the
city and accepted position as cor
netist with Wagner's orchestra. He
will give instructions on all brass in
struments to those desiring. He has
been solo cornetist with some of the
best organizations in the northwest.
Terms will be made reasonable. Adj
dress Box 391, Ely, MINI.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Killed at the Zenith.

Elias Kunnari an employe of the
Zenith mine fell down chute Tues
day and was instantly killed. The
funeral occurred Wednesday from the
Finnish church, the Finnish band
and benevolent society escorting the
remains to the cemetery. He was
a married man % years of age and
leaves a widow.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Died at the Hospital.

Thos. Keefe, well known by many
in this vicinity having followed the
occupation of lumberman for many
years, died at the Shipman hospital
Saturday of complication of
diseases. The remains were shipped
to Stevens Point, Wis, for interment
a brother of deceased having come up
to escort the body to the Wisconsin
city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Odd Fellows Attention.

Ely Lodge No. 220, 1. o. o. f., will
attend the M. E. church next Sun
day morning in body when Rev.
Logan will deliver a sermon on Odd
Fellowship. All members and visit
ing brothers are cordially invited to
be at tie hall at 9:30 o'clock sharp, to
go to the church.