The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-02
| MICHIGAN
MICHIGAN s:."~. .
SHELTER BUILDING
Preliminary Work on the Michigan
Smelling Company's Plant
Well Under Way. ,,..-
New Works Will Handle the Min.
eral From Nine Peninsula
Copper Mines. -.
Special to The Journal.

Houghton, Mich. Oct. 2.-Grading and exca-
waiting for the site Of the works of the Mtcht-
nearly completed, and the erection Of the super
structure Is soon to begin. The buildings will
be of steel and stone, planned according to
modern requirements; and fitted with every ap-
pliance for economical work upon large scale.
The new plant is distinctly a Stanton Paine
proposition, and Is designed to handle the min
eral Of the Wolverine, Mohawk, Atlantic Baltic.
Trimountain, Champion, Winona, Michigan and
Phoenix mines The Phoenix, by the way, is to
put its new one-stamp mill In commission at
once. and the Michigan is merely awaiting the
completion of branch railroad track, which
may be finished in two three weeks to start
production with one leased head at the Mass
mill. -: 49, T.. .7..-~y ~, = q.
The Phoenix and Michigan will. probably be the
only new producers Of the year in the lake dis
trict,> ofsetting the Arcadian, which stopped
stamping last spring. The Arcadian has laid
up the diamond drill which was kept in COM
mission after mining and milling was stopped,
and may be considered a dead cock in the pit.
Nothing remains but the holes in the ground,
from which everything Of value has been pulled
the foundations for massive shops and shaft
houses that have been torn down and moved
| to more prosperous Mines the dwellings at the
mine and mill site, and the stamp MILL Con-
| tractors are now figuring moving all of the
houses at the mine. The mill is not so readily
salable' but being well located, will probably
| find purchaser in" the Centennial or, some
other among the new mines Of the district that
are not vet supplied with milling facilities
The Arcadian is another of the gigantic mis-.
takes with which the singularly successful his.
| tory Of the lake district is illuminated by way
| OF contrast and warning. That 1t: Is not to be
the last Of its sort is painfully apparent. Such
errors will probably be made every: time there
Is boom IN lake mining, and snch boom periods
have come with considerable regularity in: the
sixty years since copper first produced along
| the southern shores OF the great inland sea.
! Arnold Not to Resume. 80:
Rumors that the Arnold is. to resume art
utterly unfounded: In fact, the. last of the roll
| Ing stock of the Arnold & Eagle Harbor rail
road the little line connecting the Arnold mine
and the mill. was removed only ten days ago
There Is nothing Of promise for the future Of
| the Arnold, Ashbed or Humboldt properties. al
opened on the ashbed amy gdaliod. It is eviden
that the future Of mining In Keweenaw count,
rests upon developments on the Kearsarge lode
and upon the reopening of f1ssure-vein mines
thus revertng to the earliest opera TONS con
Quoted more than half century ago.
= Several changes, have been made in the 1oca
star OF the Baltic. Trimountain and Champion
mines, owing to the recent absorption of tn
Trimountain by the Copper Range company
The men who have been let out are all eeapabl
executives, and there is no fault with their work
but the new people at the head naturally wan
their Ell own W1 tried assistants in charge.
tlonal electric locomotives for the underground
haulage system. which Is being extended to al
parts OF the mine that are fitted to receive it
Large skips are now in commission at all shafts
and a variety Of minor economics are bein
effected. =. IL - :.
| - Percentages from the Mines.
There has recently been some discussion re
garding the percentage Of copper now being Sc
cured from the Champion and Trimountai
mines 1t is a fact that neither property /
giving anything like the percentage first secured
while the Baltic, opened at the northern end 0
the lode, is doing little better every year
Notwithstanding the increase in the Baltic cor
per- and decrease in that Of the Champion. til
Champion or southern end. is the best of tn
mine, the changes in production q ton of roc
stamped being due more to mining and millin
methods than to any particular change in th
copper contents of the lode. ~
The Baltic amygdaloid is the widest copper be
now being mined In the lake district, rangin
from twenty to thirty feet in width, with a
average Of about thirty feet for the three mines
The exceptional width of the bed has made ii
mining q problem somewhat different from an
presented in the district, and this has bee
solved. at the Baltic, by a system Of under
ground dry-walling. >.2aa n
The Wolverine is doing a little work on Ii
ttwest vein.'' cupriferous amygdaloid lyin
about seventy-fve feet west of and parallel wit
the Kearsarge lode. little good stopping groun
has been met with. but the management, viii
considering the lode worth exploring, is NJ
bastng any extravagant hopes upon its becomin
another Kearsarge.