The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-15
GOES TO THE U. S.
SUPREME COURT.
THE CLEVELAND CLIFFS CASE
AGAINST THE BREITUNGS.
Mary Charlotte and Certain Valuable
! Hcmatite Mines Are Involyed-Old
Lease Granted the Pioneer Com
pany the Basis Of the Suits-rWhat
They Mean to Marquette and Adj
jacent Territory.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Duluth Mimi, Jan. 15.-The case OF
the Pioneer Iron company against the
Breitung estate, which has been decided
against the latter, has been appealed to
the United States supreme court by the
Cleveland Cliffs Iron company. Which Is
the successor to the Pioneer company.
This Is to settle the validity of ninety
nine-year lease given fifty years ago by
the Breitungs to the Pioneer company,
and for which there was to be no royalty
on any ore smelted in Marquette county.
Nothing was done toward carrying out
the provisions of the lease until the Clere-
land Cliffs company put up an immense
charcoal furnace, costing about $l.OOO.OO0,
and began to explore these lands. 1t
found iron in quantity. THE Bre1tungs
then brought suit to annul the leases on
the ground that the Cleveland Cliffs was
simply a successor and that the rights OF
the original company did not descend.
They We're successful. and Immediately
took over the exploration and have opened
| the Mary Charlotte and Breitung hema-
| tite mines. If the Cleveland Cliffs COM
pany wins, it will regain these mines and
| develop large iron manufacturing indus
! tries at and near Marquette.
| Labor Well Satisfied.
| There is not a sign of labor trouble
in the Lake Superior region the coming
|
that very limited number. The steam
| shovel cranesmen are FESTIVE and do not
! like a probable reduction of pay to So
a day.
! At Crystal Falls Menominee range, four
mines are working, two Of them heavier
| than usual The rest Of the mines there
are idle. These include six mines Of more
or less prominence. Tobin mine Of this
| district Is becoming large property, and
was the only mine there that cleaned its
stockpile last fall. Bristol is also making
| a big property. At Dunn they are sink
ing deep shaft. Columbia, which was a
| large mine. is permanently abandoned.
The Williams iron prospect, near Loon
Jake. forty miles north of Sault" Ste.
Marie, in Algoma, Is to be explored at
! once. -..-.
| Underground workings Of the Day mine,
at Hibbing, caught fire few days ago.
but the blaze was extinguished without
much loss.
/ Large amounts of mine timber have
been bought by the Oliver and other com
panies, and the former has several log
ging camps in operation this winter.
Mines Of the International Harvested
company at Nashwauk will reopen or
Feb. Is. '..FE
4, - LackaWanna FortIfies Itself
The Lackawanna Steel company, which
is erecting the largest steel works in the
world at Buffalo, has secured half In
terest in the lease Of the big Tegaunee
mine at Negaunee, for which lit PAID
$780, 900. 1t has large part Of the stocks
of the Verona, Odanah, Scranton, Hobart
and Corsica mining companies, owning
several medium sized mines on the Me
nominee, Gogebic and Mesaba ranges, ant
contracts with the Stevenson mine ant
with Cleveland Cliffs Iron company TO-
ore for long term Of years
The once great Tilden mine. whose rates
S,~tx, f1xr ton
year, Is almost gone, and unless tn
i shaft now going down thru the big dyk
e strikes ore below it the future of tn
J mine Is settled. e."