The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-08

BIG TONNAGE SURE.
Baraboo, Wis, Iron District Is Show
ing Stronger With Every
Days Development.
Oliver Mining Company Will Call
OFF Its Drill Explorations on
the Menominee.
Special to The Journal.

Duluth, Mimi, Aug. 3.--Iron ore ex-
ploration in the new district near Bara-
boo, Wis, is increasing as fast as drills
can be secured, and drilling firms here are
constantly in receipt Of inquiries for ma
chimes. The work is conducted in diff
ferent manner from that on either the
Mesaba or Vermillion ranges, on account
of the sandstone Gaping prevalent there.
A machine something like the walking
beam drill used commonly in oil and well
drilling, has been adopted for sinking
thru the sandstone, which frequently con-
tain pockets of loose sand that would per-
manently clog the rods Of either dia-s
mond or common churn drill, such as is
used In the lake region.
This walking-b beam engine will sink a
finch hole very rapidly thru sand and to
ledge, but it is baffled by heavy surface.
The hole is caSed and "a churn or diamond
drill rod inserted for deeper sinking. One
hole was sunk there last month that cut
662 feet in twenty-five working days of
which 225 feet We're surface, $50 feet rock
and the remainder more or less clean ORE
Drilling is inexpensive, but a good deal
of it is required "
Ore has now been traced for a length
Of more than nine miles and the forma-
ton is very apparent for more than If
teen miles. New people are going in and
there is every reason to expect that the
district will show up a large tonnage.
Eight drills are working in that district
for the Deering Harvester company,
others are for the Chicago, Milwaukee &
| st. Paul road, for Chicago Duluth and
Milwaukee capital, and few for Others g
Quits the Menomlnee.
| The Oliver Iron Mining company has
| practically decided to suspend drill oper-
| ations on the Menominee range, and con-
! sequently all drills have been stopped ex-
cept one working to extend the Dober
ore body for immediate mining. Some OF
| the explorations were supposed to be in
good ground and making excellent show
ings.
Old Breen mine at Waucedah, which has
been idle since 1880, is to be unwatered
and reopened for exploration. It pro.
duced a silicious ore and is supposed tt
still contain deposits. Emmett, an adj
joining and also idle property, belongs tc
the Steel corporation.
| Fourth Shaft on the FayaI.
At Fayal, Mesaba range, they are sink
| ing a fourth shaft and will soon drift into
ore Of which there are many million tons
adjacent to the shaft. This is the only
shaft on the property in rock, and others
may gradually be abandoned. Besides the
daily output from these three shafts, two
shovels are loading in the open pit anc
one at the stock pile, while two more
shovels are stripping in the pit The
mine will produce something like 1,750,O Ot
tons this year.
4 An interesting fact Is the revival Of tn,
cid Taylor property near L'Anse, the mos
! westerly property on the Marquette range
and abandoned for thirty-flve years.
/ Restoration Of old Lucy mine is progress
sing satisfactorily in No. 3 shaft an,
attention will soon be turned to No. 5
which is deeper than No 3. There is
complete machinery outfit on the groun'
and fifty men are working , Is,
At Moore mine of the Steel corpora
ton, stripping is to be completed an
arrangements made for shipments thi
fall, but no ore can be shipped until tn
great crushing plant at Escanaba is read
and that will not be until 1904s season.
Three hundred Of the 5000 exeursionist
twho arrived over the Great Northern yes
terday from points in iowa. South Dakot
and southwestern Minnesota intend to in
vest money in farms in this locality.