The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-02
me$aba Interests
Held by the clergue Interests
Contain Sufficient Ore TO-.
! Operate Its Plant .>. !: ::
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AT SAULT STE. MARIE FOR YEARS.

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At sAU1T STE. MARIE FOR YEARS.
F.H. CIergue, head of tile Clergue
syndicate, is authority for the state
mentthat his company owns and
controls Mesaba ore deposits sufhc-
lent to supply the company's mills
at the..Canadian Sault for ten years.
- In a. statement relativen to: these
| holdings and their value:to the syn
difate in the. Toronto .par rers, Mr.
CIergne is quoted as follows
"lhe Intercolonial railway, the
Michigan Central, the Canadian
Northern, the T., H. .-:&z4=B. railway
and the Algo,na Central all have
our rails laid and in use, and the
most OF our customers, including
the Canadia,, Northern, have asked
US TO tender for additional. require
lnents. The only reason why the
Canadian Northern did not give us
their order for 10000 tons. delivery
for 1903, was the plain business
rea SON that we wanted so for rails
at Port Arthur, while they could
buy equivalent rails at $3.50. The
Algoma Steel company disclain1
amy ground to complain against
Mackenzie, Mann & Co. The are en-
terpriSing people, and if they can
rail the Canadian Northern with
German rails Of a satisfactory oval
ity at a cost of S27.5O a ton against
AiGoina steel at &::2 per ton tlIey
were certainly justified III doing SO,
since this large direct saving is OF
much more value to them than TO
lave a rail mill run ling in Canad IA.
}'ut the people Of Canada who l,aVe
subsidized tile Canadian Northern
rail: :.Av are very much interested in
having established an industry e11s-
pl0y!nG from the mines to the fn-
iS;,' q rails several thousands Of
- Itnl'c,es ire ri iG;stsr S eeE UT.
pa1y are satisfied that the govern
nlect Will pay no subsidies to the
Canadian Northern on track laid
with German rails, :;old by German
manufacturers at a loss for the pur-
pose OF shutting down (, Carudian n
rail mill.
"Some public comment has been
made Of the fact that the 4Algonla
Steel com pany rec a pho
content higher than the present
recognized standard of 10 This
position Of the Algoma Steel com
p:ny may require an explanation
1t should at first be stated and I'm
dcrstood that the Algona Stee
company can procure material fof
making rails of 10 per cent phoy
phoru7 content more Cheaply thai
material of higher phosphorhs
content; 50 that the cnea pest rai
possible for the Algoma Steel CO m
pany to make would be the ordin
AIRY rail Of 10 phosphorus. This is
-- due to the fact that the ores con
trol'ed by the Alyona Steel com
pany, namely those Of the Heller
and Josephine mines, are Of phys
icu} quality SO much better than tn
low phtS Sphorus ores of the Mesa b.
range that it is more profitable t,
transport the Helen and Josephin
. ores to United States ports, pay tn
American duty and sell to the Anne,
. ican fu rnaces, than to use these ore
in rail making at the Sault. Tn
low phosphorus Mesaba ores are S
abundant, and the quartz of thi
ore, which can be used owing to it
physical characteristics so relative
ly small, that non-Bessemer Hele
ore is sold at Lake Erie ports of tn
United States from soto Is cents pc
ton more than Mesaba ores of a
equal iron content. So that the A
gonna Steel company can exchang
Helen ores for Mesaba ores alta sui
stantial profit.
: For this very reason the Algom
: Steel company has acquired owner
ship Of Bessemer iron ore deposit
on the Mesaba range, sufficient i
quartz, to operate its plant for tt,
- next ten years without using to
IR of ore from the Michipicoten rang,
1t should thus be distinctly ur
derstood that there is no financis
benefit whatever in the productio
by the Aigoma Steel company c
higher phosphorus rails"
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