The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-26
MINNESOTA
BOOM TIMES
COMING AGAIN
PLANS OF PICKANDS AND MATE-
Err ON THE MEsABA.
Options and Leases Taken In the Vlcln-
ity of Biwabik and Many Drills to
Prove Ore Put in Operation-Ore
Bodies at the Duluth Being Stripped.

Special to The Journal.
Eyeleth, Mimi, Dec. 26.--Portions OF the Me-
saba iron range seem about to experience a re-
yiyaI of the boom times Of 1898 and again of
1898, if the preparations being mace TO "orh
certain mines next season are not Dalkeu ns Soe %
unforeseen circumstance connected with the IRON
trade In the vicinity of B1wab1k, the town
where iron was discovered on the Mesapa
range the company that is expected TO put ne"
life into this section is not the Unlted STATES
Steel corporation, but Pickands, Manner q TO-
OF Cleveland.
Beginning at Eveleth eSnd going eastward along
fhe range, Pickands g. Mather have the ITO!
mine developed and ready to put out ore when
ever they want it. They are working the Malta
mine as heavily the size of the PIT ana open.
jnos will hermit. With George st. Clair or
duluth. they are planning to sink their shafts
adjacent to and continuous with the Malta.
This is on the Sparta mine 81; 1 Eia1r oi1es' hs
and pet property Two DIAMOND dtiis ita sxtsr+
They are drilling with two drllls on the!r
Corsica property adjacent to the Elba. which
is their best-equipped and heaviest WORKED hlne
on this end of the range.
In the last three months they have taken op.
tions on two iron ore properties IN township %
north. range Is west fourth princlpad mesiaan ,n.
and in the same township have leased one mine
on which they have begun to sink shaft 200
feet deep. >,
OF these options one is on lots and g, In
section G. owned by George st. Clair and proved
in the last few months by him. Cole q NC
Donald Of Virginia are operating hve drills
there now in order to verify Mr. ST. Clalr
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the drills in ore, and there seems to De
every reason for believing that the others are
now or soon will be, 1t remains only a question
of time before the final papers are signed, as
they were in the of the Syracuse n1ne
The other option is on the two forties in sec
tion L. township 50, range 10. adjoining the
Miller mine the west. Coe McDonaid nave
three drills there also. and the result Will prop
ably be the same in the other propositions
that Pickands s. Mather have taken up.
Archie McDougall identified with Roberts S
niue at Mckinley and the Longyear mine at
Hibbing. has returned from the Arizona copper
district to become superintendent of the SYRIA
cuse The captain is Sam HOar. an experienced
man. 1t is difficult to make any prediction In
regard to the time when will be reached
and mining commenced, but from the way in
which things being pushed 1t would seem
that the company is bent on being ready for the
LAOS season.
Great activity Is also at the Duluth
mine, owned by the United States Steel corpora
tion. The point was reached in the mines man.
agement last fall where 1t became absolutely
necessary to uncover the remainder of the ore
body if further mining to be carried on by
the milling system. 1t was decided to do the
necessary stripping this winter, and to aban-
don the old shafts and sink two new ones. This
work Is being carried