The Virginia enterprise., 1903-01-02
II aba SIS 5
Held cler g Ilnt|efssts
Contain Suffi fieiert Or
I Operate Is s Plant

Operate rs Plant
Al klJIT STE. MARIE u FQRYEsA1R's: 4 4
So Clergue, head of the 81 1leTgae
lsyndEa8e Isl a nth ori 8 for the state.
lmentfhat his com par owns and
pls Mesaba ore, deposit snffc-
lent tf0 supply the conpa nlills2
Lat ttheCanadi ian Sauit ffo1s ttensy rs. !
yIn staten ent B ese
hold and their value e tlle
EEdicats in the oTolt paper 8.
ICl1rgne IS quot lo.Wss:e
h a.rhes Intercolo MIA IA j lWass
Michigan Central canAdH
Northern, the p: railway
and the Algoiin1 al al have
our rails laid and. lllse, "a ne
most .:pf our sioiners includh s.
the Cana dian NpTfflls sked;s
US to tend er foI "a req;,ii
III ents. The orli 4 son .sv b VT &
Canad an Northe enn q ia ii not give us
their order f 600 1tons, deliver
for 1903, was s5tt HE lis l ain businfSs
reason that we wanted $$as2 ors}.rails
at Port Arthur, while they. could
buy equivalent rails at $27,5O. Z The
Algoma Steel company disclairlls
tany ground to complain against
Mackenzie, Mann & Co. The are etls: "
terprising people, and if they ga a$$ q
rail the Canadian Northern S9i til
German rails of satisfactory qYaals a
! ity at a cost of $27.50 top a against
Aigo,,la steel at $32 per ton s:tHey
were Certainly justified in dol ng So:
since this large direct saving 5ispf
much more value to them thanato
have a rail mill run ling IN Canadh.
But the people of Canada vii shalASsse5
subsidized the Canadian; Northefn.
railway are. very much interestedsi in
j having esta blished an ind dastry ,gt1s-
! ploying from the mines tothea6pT
istle,de raj Is Iseveraa housand dsd,f
i sssssss
pany are satisfied that the: govern;
!. n,ent.will pay no subsidies to the
JECal,adian Northern on track laid
I with, German rails, sold by German
manufacturers at loss for the pur-
pose OF shutting down Il Canadian
Trail mill. i
Some public comment has been
made of the fact that the Algonla
Steel company recomtnendeda phos.
content higher than the present
recognized standard of 10. This
position of the Algoma Steel COM
pany may require an explanation.
1t should at first be stated and uni
derstood that the Algona Steel
company can procure material for
making rails of 10 per cent phoy-
phorus content more cheaply than
a material of higher phosphorp ps
content; SO that the cheapest rail
possible for the Algoma Steel com
pany to make would be the ordin-
.ary rail of 10 phosphorus. This is
due to the fact that the ores CON
trolIed Ny the A1goma Steel d om-
pany, ramel those Of the He ellen
and Joshphine mines, are of a phys
icai quality soSmuch better than the
low phdsphorus ores of the Mesaba
range that tsis more prohta ble5to
transp the Helen and Josephine
ores to- ynited States ports, pay the
Amerieandu duty and sellto the Amer:
ican furnaces, than o.use these ores
in rail making at the Sault. The
low phosphorus Mesa ba ores are So
abunda Ant, and the quartz Of this
ore, which can be used owing to its
physical characteristics 50 relative:
ly smalI,that nom Bessenler Helen
ore is aid 40 Lake Erie ports Of the
UnitedIState from soto Is cents pei
ton more desaba ores Of al
equal Ixon content. So that the All
gonna Ste com mpany can exchange
Helen Nxes forH Mesab bas ores TIA cub
stantil lprl prof
= Il = sss"Fo1 thissvery reasonst the Alg onla
Steel Conn pany has acqnired owner
ship df Bessemer iron ore deposits
on thk Mesaba 1 range, sufficie ntsin
quarh, to operate its plant for the
; next ten years without using ton
!, Of ORE from the Mic chip coten range
i should thus be distinct tly u,1:
lderstood that there is no financial
benefit whatever il the produc ction
BY the Algonaa Steel company q
higher phospho horus rails.'
& & n e .sHADY DEA "a
JanesaH .sIy q hi ley, J, thro his al;
4 torney,' p. Edison, has begun silij
s in district court q against ohm
a Crosby 81 srecover ,e4o, claineds
j os a. aas I'm on. aI Be !5aa .ass jI|