The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-02
So, 25O, 900 TO BE II
SPENT IN PIERS
ORE SHIPPING CAPACITY AT DU
LUTH WILL BE INCREASED.
Great Activity Displayed on Mesaba
Range and Output May Reach 6,ooo,-
900 Tons Season Mine Develop
ments Cause Roads to Extend Garry
ing Facilities.
Special to Tie journal.

Special to The journal.
Duluth, Mimi, Dec 2.-There are now under
contract ore shipping piers for use the coming
year that will cost So, $50, 900, five in ALL and of
total shipping capacity for at least e'ooo'ooo
tons a season.
This is pointer as to the expectations of the
ore roads of business in 1906. me latest OF
these new docks is for the Great Northern rail-
road a contract for which was let yesterday.
The Duluth, Missabe & Northern Is doing more
work for next year than any other Lake superior
road and Is spending III docks, double tracks,.
rolling stock, shops, new main line. etc., not
less than s4,5OO,OoO. This road will be able
in 1906 to move more than 100000 tons OF
with the utmost ease. =
The greatest activity on the Mesaba range is
near the village of Hibbing. from which more
| than 5000 OGO tons Of ore have been moved this
year. OF this vast amount the Steel corpora
| ton alone will ship about 5000000 tons. These
| mines are under the immediate direction of P.
| Mitchell as manager and w. j. West as assis-
| tant manager. and are divided into four groups,
| according to locations.
The largest shipper Of the corporation in the
| district is the Burt, which includes an ada
cent forty-acre tract belonging to the state
| school funds, and from there will be moved
| this year about 100000 gross tons. This
will make the mine the largest shipper In the
state aside from the Mountain, also Steel
corporation property, eighteen miles east
Burt's Active Operations.
The Burt was shipper In a small way from
underground workings up to three years ago. but
has since been stripped for open-cut mining.
Continued stripping for three years has now I'M
covered an ore body 1900 feet long and about
500 feet wide. More than 1000, COO cubic
feet Of earth and other oyerburden have been
removed during this period. Stripping Is still
in progress and will be continued thruout much
Of the winter. 1t is the intention that strip
ping shall be extended north, widening the area
for some time to come, and the Importance OF
the mine as producer is far from Its maxi
mum. ,- -.a j. ..-.f ~.
short distance east of the Burt is the Nor
| rs, also of the Steel corporation. This property
was mot shipper till late in the summer OF
1905, tho it had been partially developed BY
stripping the year before. It holds the world:
record for a new mine, and is proof of the IA
pidity with which Mesaba mine can be brough
s into operation. It's product this year will no
} be less than 1,O00,0O0 tons. 1t has been de
5 veloped along the lines of engineering adopte'
, by the Oliver company and the precise condition
i of it's ores and the tonnages of various grade
that could be produced at varying depths wer
all known before the first shovel was installer
at the pit. .-. F.. "s-... p.
First Shipment This Year. ~
: The third great property in the Hibbing dis
trct is the Monroe-Tener, which is making 1t
: first shipment this year. This is an enormou
foreground and milling mining. Its shipment
for the year should be about 900 TONS all G
u which has been coming out OF drifts and cross
;. cuts.
a For three years this mine has been in pros
e ress Of development, and another year will be RI
e quired to see the extensive plan carried OF
commensurate with its Importance. 1t Is sal
II that the development will cost not far frol
l. $4,000, 900. ',~' .,.
IS The Hull Rust mines, which cover a mile
u length and south of the MahOning ore d.
2 posts that have not been opened, are being d
yeloped open-cut mine, and all the pa
summer stripping has been under way on an e
tensive scale by the Oliver Iron Mining cor
pany direct, without the Intervention of co
,e tractors. =.
Will Use Steam Shovel.
ne Pillsbury mine, also belonging to the Ste
X corporation, was the original discovery at Hi
ee bling, and has been shipper since 1897. 1t
being changed from an underground to an ope
T. cut mine and Its production for 1900 will be
er steam shovel. For this year it has produc,
: about 100000 tons. ri IF. {. i
Glen, Clark, Sellers, Chisholm Myers and
Clair mines, all Of the Steel corporation, ha
last named, total Of about 1900, 600 ton
Myers is a new mine the rest of a few year
development. ...s s."
Other mines Of the Hibbing district inclu
the Mahoning, with average shipment
100000 tons; the Stevenson which will pr
. duce about 1850, 900 tons; the Leetonia G
press, Agnew Utica, Jordan and others, who
season shipments should make the total fro
Hibbing about 100000 tons. The district
served by the Duluth Missabe & Northern a.
Great Northern roads, the former handling nes
ly all the mines Of the Steel corporation, t
latter most Of those outside. 1t is asto
ishing fact that in the miles of the N
saba range, of which Hibbing Is the center, the
originates than one-fourth Of the emit
~ product Of Lake Superior's 120 mines.