The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-10
ORE SHIPMENTS
IL. FOR YEAR AT END
CLOSE TO 21,oo0,o00 TONS WE'RE
MOVED.
Traffic Was Far Heavier Than Ex-
pected, Except by Few Well-Posted
Men at Duluth-Cleveland Concerns
Are Talking Of 100000 Tons in
1905. -. r Il .@<..@ 5a--. ,E.E r. a.l5s 4
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Duluth. Mimi, Dec. 1O.-Iron ore shipments for
the year are and the total is about q ,0O0,-
900 tons. This is far above what has been ex-
pected by all but few well-posted men at the
head of the lakes and is from 6O0OO 600 to 7,00O,-
600 tons more than Cleveland interests stated as
the probability in the spring. These interests are
about as far off on probabilities for the coming j
year now as they were then for 1904. They talk
total for 1905 Of &c, DOC, 900 tons, which is at
least g. 600 900 too high. Il
It may be conservatively figured that the bust
of the coming year will vary from 26,O0O,-
600 to 81 900 900 gross tons. Mines can do more,
and railroads and ships for more, but
most of the men have gained some wisdom
by experience and are not willing to load up
receiving ports with greater tonnage than can
be we'll handled and they will so avoid the break
later that is to follow excessive movements.
Shipments for the year by various large inter-
ests have been rounded up The United States
Steel corporation sent from its Menominee range
mines 1O4O 900 tons; from its Gogebic range
mines 1854 600 tons; from its Vermillion mines
l, 100000 TONS from its Marquette mines 1l61,-
900 tons; from it's Mesaba mines 1925, 600 tons.
This corpora ton shipped a grand total of about
900, 900 gross tons, for few Of it's mines were
at work when these figures were gathered. In
addition the corporation has interests in such
mines as Pewabic. Biwabik, Mahoning, Union
and the like, that bring its receipts Of ore to
higher figure. -
The Corrigan- Mckinney shipments were $780,
900 tons; those of Pickands, Mather s: Co. were
,O42 900: Cleveland Cliffs We're about the same;
Mahoning 100000, Biwabik 100000 tons:
| various other concerns larger and smaller the
| remainder. - 49,
Buy More Rolling Stock.
| In addition to increasing dockroom and buying
81, 100, 900 worth of steel cars, the two railways
in this city owned by the Steel corporation have
! just contracted for ten large locomotives. These
| improvements amount to $2,OO0,OOO and will TT
out the roads for much heavier business than
! ever before. 1t is the intention Of the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern, which still has several
thousand wood ore cars, to replace them as fast
as possible probably most of them the follow
ing winter, with steel.
The charcoal furnace at Boyne City. Mich,
which is an old st. Ignace plant removed, re-
modelled and enlarged is to blow in in few
days. 1t now has capacity for fifty tons of
charcoal pig daily, and is supplied with fuel
by a chemical works that is a branch of num-
Der of timber and numbering concerns of that re-
gion. $685..
Good Fall for Ore Handling.
shipments of iron ore We're so large and the
demand so good clear to the close. as in this,
and there has not been any previous year IN
which weather has so assisted late shippers.
Often it has occurred that for weeks steaming OF
ore has been necessary before it could be thawed
sufficiently to run from cars to dock pockets
Or from pockets to ships. In either case the cost
of handling ore is multiplied many times and the
capacity Of docks is very much reduced There
has been none of this this fall.
, Shipments of many leading mines have been as
follows Stevenson, $50, 900 gross tons; Faya
975 600; Mahoning,z 707 600; Adams, 81 900
Spruce $4,000: Clark, 135O0O; Chisholm
, Sc, 900; Burtpool, Il ,150,o0o; Mountain Iron
1 100000; Sellers, 2Q7 900; Lincoln l34'Ooo
r go, $4,000 st. Clair, 27.oO0; Day. $4,000; Glen
| 10000; Hull so, 500; Higgins, $500; Rus, 211,
500; Minorca, $4,000; Corsica 3,oo0;~ Malta
Sparta Epn y, 4oa M Miba1S
25,O0O; Cary. $4,000; Hemlock, $4,000; Baltic
q 1852, 900; Jordan 100000.