The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-10-15
MINERS IN DEMAND IN
MICHIGAN DISTRICTS
Supply of Men Said to Be
Wholly Unequal to the De
mand of Mines.
Despite the fact that Ore Ship
ments are Smallest in
Years.

| Iron Mountain. Mich, Oct. 13-De-
spite the fact that ore shipments are
not SO good this year as last, miners
are in good demand, and in some Sec
t1ons Of the older ranges the supply
OF men is far from meeting the de-
mand. The shortage is particularly
noticeable in the Crystal Falls neigh
borhood, and at some Of the mines on
the Marquette range more men would
be engaged if they were available.
Last fall and winter, when the shut
down Of the mines became SO general
the men went elsewhere, and with the
revival Of business have not come back
The copper country, the west, and
the southwest have taken many of the
| men. The Baraboo mines are seeking
in vain for men for the mines, and
| even the big companies feel the short
age.
Ore shipments from the Crystal Falls
| district have now reached an average
Of from 100 to 200 cars a day, and the
Iron Mountain mines are shipping out
! about 120 cars a day. A steam shovel
| is at work on the Pickand, Mather &
Co.'S property at Hemlock, Iron Coun-
| ty, and the stock piles will be removed
before snow flies.
The Cleveland Cliffs Company, COM
posed Of Cleveland and Pittsburg cap
italists, is building houses for employees
and making other preparations pre-
preliminary to the beginning Of min
ing operations at its Austin property
in the Swanzy range proper. This
ic ictr of
| mining men have much to learn of it's
characteristics. It is believed, how
| ever, that the ore bodies are Of smaller
extent than the residents Of the dis
trict suppose, and that the ore is gen.
orally not deep seated.
| The Princeton mine is the only 9TH
er mine in this district that is receiv-
| ing attention and for the first time is
| becoming a paying proposition, despite
| the fact the ore is Of on-Bessemer
grade and mining costs are high.
| The Oliver Company Is installing an
electric lighting system in the Blue
mine at Negaunee, the first mine Of
the range to be lighted by it's own in
dependent lighting plant. a complete
Esyst selectric lsshaas lso been n
Ealis
T1ie. occupants Of land at the Brett.
ung Hematite Conpany's mine at Ne
gaunee have been given notice to leave
because the ground beneneath is being
mined to an extent which makes the
residence locations dangerous The
ore in this mine is very soft.
| Loading ore from slopes with a
heavy steam shovel is an experiment
to be tried at the Steel Corporations
Moore mine on the Cascade range. The
| ore will be first broken by dynamite.
Negotiations for the sale Of the old
Kloman mine in the Republic district
are in progress, though the negotia-
| tions are not known. Mapes & Prim-
eau, the owners Of the fee, are trying
to take up all outstanding stock, in
cluding that of Andrew Carnegie.
At the present rate of shipments the
total output of the Gogebic mines will
be in excess of 2,OO0000 tons for the
month-an increase Of about 100000
tons over last year. The Michigan
Iron company's furnaces at Newberry,
Luce County, are expected to resume
operations about the first of the year;
having been closed some time ago as
the result of an agreement with other
| charcoal iron making plants to shut
down until the stocks were exhausted.