The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-06
LAKE STRIKE CUT
DOWN SHIPMENTS # N
ORE MOVEMENT SHOWS a FALL
w 15 orr OF 1920, 17ss TONS
November Was a Big Month, but Could
Not Overcome the losses of the
Spring = nnage of the Great Fayal
and Other operties of the Eveleth
Group Below 1908. Fl Hs

Special to The Journal. 3fz5k .r5s}ss:s.55
Two Harbors, Mnn., Dec. i6.~-Iron ore ship
come to end, only a few thousand tons being
scheduled to go forward In three Or four vessels.
The figures up to Dec. + show. that a total Of
O69 tons last year. For November alone the ship
ments were 1862, 119 tons, against SIT ,4S1 tons
last year. The total shipment of the three
ore CARRYING roads for the season to Dec. l isas
Rss!s a,: :::s ss:ss;ts
Great Northern :. 3,95093S 4,132, 004
T sss4sa:: for 1904 q ss tsns
In In November alone the shipments for the
roads were Tor the two years 1ans as foHMs
$$f$$ sss ss
An G increase for 1904 81 tons
The decrease for the season was caused by the
two months of inactivity last spring, owing to
the lake strike. The season this year commenced
in June, while last year April had a lake move
ment the last seventeen days of the month,
while to partly offset this the season last year
closed in November, while this year the boats
are still running. = - -: sa.5.,..s> : IL
FayaE's Decrease. ;4
From the Eveleth group Of mines the tonnage
lof the great Fayal mine fell or 1t being 975,-
41e tons, while last yearSit was close to the
100000 mark. The Adams mine: closed with
record for the seasons output Of 1888 SIG tons,
compared with 400, 100 tons :S1ast year. The
Spruce shipped $50, 60 tons, which is large
drop from last years record. tsEs5
: Total shipments from these three mines last
season were 3,157 ,5o4 tons while this seasons
shipments were but 2,497, 602 tons, loss of
| $50, 9O2 tons. =. - S.-h8 ".
! OF the mines on the yermill:cn range, the
Pioneer has sent out 505,432 tons, the Zenith
S6,OO5. Sibley 1872 7S3 Savoy 75OO2 and tile
Chandler 422, 900. The Minnesota has yet some
10000 tons to so forward before her shipment
closes. 4 ,
Finds Parents After Many Years.,
+ A personal history which equals in strangeness
the stories of fiction writer's came to light this
week when Oliver Fl: Pickett, yardnaster for the
/ for. his home at Sault Ste Marie. Before going
he told how he came into iInunication by let
tiers with his parents, brothers and sisters, whom
he had not seen or heard of since 1876, and Of his
intention to spend Christmas with them at Bal
timore, Md. -. -. "A t3%E:&5, Z &Sl3
+ One summer morning, Elelett, only 10 years
old. left the home Of his further in Baltimore and
trampeds his way as a runaway to Cumberland,
! Nd. He pushed on to- SPi ttsburg, where he
worked as a teamstef for several weeks, With a
little money in his pockets hestgayeled faster and
in twelve months reached Denver, then in its
infancy, where he began his railroad career.
1 Since that time he has been in almost every
branch of the service from work on the, section
Years passed by and Piskett did not write
home, and Ietters saddresseds to him lied to
reach him. He SPENT twos years 8at San Fran,
CISCO FIVE atSPortland, and one ats KANSAS City
assg h Ns9s Dc M s EsssEsa
in 1889 and four in 1898, and thereafter from
one; to two eaeh year, Some Of were
addressed to persons whom he supposed could
give him informal ionsaencer his parents. An
answer to one of these stated that his father
had moved to South Africa. This discouraged
him from going east. From letters 'Ereceived
recently he learned that is|parents were absent
from Baltimore three different times, once fol
lover ten years.
i > 4 Comes to minnesota.
Eleven $years ago Pickett came to northern
Minnesota and sought work in the iron mines.
He found employment at the Fayal the Sparta
and at the Biwabik mines. year later he was
, appointed yardmaster at Biwabik. The first
inkling he received of the whereabouts of his
relatives from a letter he received; ir
answer to he had written Aug. last, to the
POSTMASTER at substation in Baltimore. It was
from his mother. Letters followed thick an(
: fast, from father, mother, brothers and sisters
His identity established and Picket
!, answered that he would accept the invitation tt
be home at Christmas. :! l..
Enormous Catches ,of Herring.
Along the north and south shores of Lake Su
perior the herring run is now 1t is only a
this season Of the year that this variety of fish
is taken in great numbers. Some of the bes
catches being made by Booth Packing com
pany boats. It is said that trip the.
brought in twenty tons Of the fish.