The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-09
SEASONS WORK DER
u. S. Steel and Other Extensive
Owners Are Closing Down Their
Properties.
All the Large Steel Makers Seem to
Expect a Good Season
in 1904.
snsnia1 To The i, nlrnal.

Special to The ,ournal.
Duluth. Mimi, Nov 9.-Hull and Rust
mines of the United States Steel have
been closed down, after shipments this,
year of 6O0OO0 tons, their biggest product
since they We're opened, and with stock
of 175, 900 left for next year. 'rhe Steel
Corporation has also stopped shipments
from it's Clark and Chisholm mines In the
same district. with a product of 100000
tons this year and 10000 tons left in
stock.
The Corporation is to commence OPEN
ing at once q second of its late Chemung
pure hases, in the Niles, and crew
of men is clearing the ground and prepar-
ing for shaft. The Corporation Will have
three large new mines in the Hbbing
district next year, the Norris Monroe and
Niles.
.Mahnonng and Stevenson mines, two of
the biggest in the lake region. nave closed
for the season, after shipments or ABOUT
1000, 900 tons each.
Others Close.
The Interna tional Harvester company s
two Mesabi mines have closed shipments.
after producing 100000 tons between
them. One is to be very heavily stripped
this winter. the plans calling for the re-
moval of nearly 100000 yards of earth
and rock, exposing for the milling system
more than 5,000.0G0 tons of ore. This
work will take several years and will be
done by the company without intervention
of contractors. "--.
Mines on the Mesa ba and Gogehic ranges
managed by Joseph Selwood of Duluth,
are closing for the year, after shipments
aggregating more than 900 tons. -Four
of them were shippers this year for the
first time and most Of the rest were new
in 1902.
Steam shovels are very active in the
stockpiles of Chaplin and other larger
mines Of Iron Mountain, Mich, in the
effort to get as much of the product for
ward this year. Chaplin will produce
somewhat under the 1000, 900 tons at one
time expected. ....
Mines in and Immediately surrounding
the village of Hibbng have this year pro
duced more than 100000 tons of ore {
record that no other place in the entire
world can approximate.
Wages Holding Up.
There have been no wage reductions il
the entire Lake Superior iron mining dis
trlct, except at Iron River, Menomine'
range, where pay for two years has beer
slightly higher than at surrounding cen
ters, and where it Is now equalized There
have been no reductions in the lake coppe
region, except at Trimountatn. Houghton
where a cut of 10 per cent has gone int
effect. Others may be made later pos
sibly. .... b. F.e-
Jones & laughing, who have neve
mined more than 200. 900 tons from the
Lincoln and not much until this year, arr
planning to produce the coming yea
not less than 500, 900 tons. This is not al
indication that this firm looks for dull
times in steel z r
1904 to Be a Good Year. ,..."
The fact is that none of the large stee
makers, including the United States cor
poration, are arranging for the winter il
such a way as to indicate any cXpecta
ton of q quiet year In 1904 They will
all mine as much ore as this year, an
some of them more. Reductions Of MINING
forces that most of them have made ar
simply establishments from the excessiv
calculations of a year ago, when it locke
as tho the production of 1908 would b