The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-01
SERIOUS LOSSES
TO LAKE VESSELS
FIVE BIG SHIPS PUT OUT OF COM
MISSION BY COLLISIONS.
Iron Ore Shipments Going at Good
Rate and Development Work Shows
No Abatement Third Attempt Will
Be Made to Open the Syracuse Ore
Body.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, July Five of the
big ships Of the upper lakes, including |
some OF the very largest, have been
put out of commission by collision in (
the past week. The first of these was
the steel ship Etruria, sunk by Amasa
Stone, with a loss of about $275,000.
The vessel is in 400 feet of water and
cannot be salved. A day or two earlier
the big Sylvania rammed Sir Henry
Bessemer and had the latter not been
light she. would have gone down. Both
ships are in dock for two or three
months. Then City Of Rome and Lin
den, both wood freighters of the largest
class OF woodships, sheered into each
other and went down They will be
raised, as they are not in deep water.
There is no change in lake freights,
some chartering of wild ships is being
done at the rates that have applied all
season, and ore is going down at good
speed, probably nearly 100000 tons
for this month
Several electrical hoists and under
ground tramming plants are in contem-
plation on the old ranges of Lake SUI
| perior. There will doubtless be several
! put in soon at and near Ishpeming, by
both the Cleveland Cliffs and Oliver
| Iron Mining companies. Two or three
large plants are under consideration for
| wy 1MCuoliIluSt IduSo, anu Ou0 VI Gucm
will be at the cost Of more than $780,
600, including large waterpower de-
velopment for generating the cleo
tricity. Several will doubtless go in on
the Gogebic, for plans are now in con-
sideration and are about settled upon.
The Lake Superior corporation is i'm
proving river and will drive it's Helen
portant changes are on the way and the
| power situation around Lake Superior
will be materially changed in the COM
| ing two years if good prices for ore and
a large demand are not checked by some
unexpected cause.
There are now sixty-fve operating
shafts on the Mesaba range, and these
are mining an enormous quantity of ore.
None of these mines is more than fifty
or sixty miles from ample power gen.
Grafton at Duluth.
The Hobart Ore company Of Cleve-
land has bought the lease of the SEX
of the NWA of section 25,. township
So, range II, for 100000. There are
100000 tons Of ore in this property,
averaging about 81 per cent iron.
| A third attempt is to be made to open
Embarras lake by driving tunnel into
the ore at the lake level. Boulders and
quicksands have nullifed two trials at
shaft sinking. It is hoped that tun-
mel will be beneath bouldeSs and that
a shaft can be sunk from it to the ore.
The Cleveland Cliffs company is COM
pleting ten dwellings at it's Princeton
mine, and starts twenty more at MIMI
sing, where it is making extensive inn
provements.
| Many iron-ore leases are being taken
of the state on lands twenty-five t.
fifty miles west and southwest of the
Mesaba formation. These are all in
q region of swamps, drift and glacial
moraines, and there are no rock out
crops anywhere in the vicinity.