The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-05
MINNESOTA
HUSTLING ORE TO
DOWN MAKE DOCKS
SHORTAGE EXISTS AT MANY OF
FL THE FURNACES.
Lee Has Hampered the Seasons Start
and No Record Shipping Has Been
Done-Labor Is Pacifed, the Strike
at Hibbing Proving a Fizzle-Canis-
teo Land Development. ,f.s-'.
Snecie1 to The Journal,

teO Lana DeVelOpAAoAt' -t ..' .
Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, May 5.-Iron ore shippers are
hustling down lakes as fast as posslDle,
for there indications that shortage exists
at furnaces and that the Lake Erie ports are
about dry of many grades. 1t IS saiu that
May 1 figures. when finally compiled. VIII snow
that there were only about 2'ooo,ooo tons %
lake ores on dock, which Is a smaller quantlty
than has ever been there, relatively TO the
amount consumed, and actually less tnan
for any year in the past five or six however
they may hustle, there is little chance OF max
ing anything of record for beginning. as
the ice has but now given way sufficiently
to permit the passage of ships with lows, anu
the amount of ore landed in the month by
boats running alone has been a mere 'bagatelle.
The indications are that labor troubles IN
Minnesota mines are over, tho labor is SO IN
constant that predictions should have string
to them. The strike Of two weeks ago IS over,
at all events has petered out completely ana
a more inglorous and weak hzzle has not neen
known in the annals Of the lake trade. the
strike was absolutely without leadership, tho
some Western Federation men seemed to Try TO
gain what reputation they could out OF 1t TIL
they quickly retired and disclaimed any connec-
~ Idle Mines Resuming.
| Mines that have been practically idle for
years are being reopened-that Is, steam snoVea
mines-and it is probable that the lesson rS 6a
! Oliver which has been mining only It's o'oOo-
| ton minimum for some time, Is now TO- De
| pushed AS it is a large property, 1t can MAKE
| a big record at low COST The Ohio. adjoining
| it. will also be mined this year and by shovel.
The Frantz mine Of NJ A. Hanna & Co.. Me-
| saba range, is to mine about $4,000 tons TINS
year. and already has nice stockp1le on sur
face 1t IS state lease and has been we'll
developed the past year. The same company
has the Yates, small state lease in section
II, township So. range 10. and Is to strip
| min ST. shovel Two ShOyelS or the
Bucyrus make, each seventy tons, were taken
into the mine this week.
| Three steam shovels will be worked this year
on the Stephens mine, In section rs, township
3d. range Is, the most easterly of all large
properties the Mesaba. Two OF these VIII
mine ore and the third will continue the strip
ping that was carried prior to last year,
and which has already resulted IN opening an
immense mine there This is near the new
village Of Aurora: indeed. the village limits
cover four square miles, shreWd move on the
part Of the incorporators to secure from the
mines about them the major amount levied In
taxation.
is now being moved to that place and the two
combined. In this town are the Miller mine
Of the La Belle Iron company, the Mohawk OF
Pickands Mather & Co.. the Stephens or the
Oliver Iron Mining company and a considerable
amount of other ores. The Miller is now work
ing about 200 men and the Mohawk is being
opened for underground mining on fairly lib
eral scale. The Mohawk shaft is now resting
at bottom and drifting in the ore is commend
ing.
Work on Canisteo Lands.
The Oliver Iron Mining company is working
200 men in its new operations the western
Mesaba in township So, range "a, where it has
recently purchased the Canisteo lands 1t Il
sinking one shaft, has another down 100 fee
and is pumping 1900 gallons minute there
FROM and at third which is down 145 feet
drifting is being pushed on the lower level
| Experiments have been made IN dressing thi
lore. and have been fairly satisfactory, enough
| IN no hat
trouble in taking Of the excess silica con
> tanned in ores from this part Of the Mesab'
| range.
b. Near the Canisteo work, in section 2s-56-24
e G. G. Hartley has six drills working tn
' Fletcher forty, and is said to be finding or
) there in some quantity Others are working or i
s. ton of the range is to the eastward Of thi
If township and in 1923. There the Oliver com
g pany. the Great Northern road and some ind
* viduals are at work drilling and getting int
- shape for development. Still further east, bu
~ west Of all prior work on the Mesabi. the fri
e. of Corrigan, Mckinney & Co. Is running sewers
ii drills on its st. Paul property in sections
as and %, and is preparing for sinking a workin
g shaft.
to The amount of exploration and deve1opmer
in progress the western Mesaba Is simile
W to what was going along the central part (
nd | the range fifteen years ago, and is promis1r
~ good results. tho nothing like what was the
ks been started in the southwest corner of 5e-2
and contains several hundred persons and
Id number of buildings.
to
or Two More Shippers.
as ..
an The two mines at Nashwauk, Hawkins Of tt
lg- International Harvester company and Larue
as JoSeDh SelwOOd, preparing, to ship. II
IN NAV get ont its first this wee
ce' the latter little later
or The Baltic mine at Iron River, Mich, W
or make an output this year Of about 200. 600 tor
Oh | 1t developed extensively in the winter Al
." is one Of the most important mines Of tn
district.
- Water is trying the patience of the oper
| tors at Stambaugh and vicinity. The Caspi
has been drowned out and the Dober Is maxi
very slow progress In unwatering.
There will be more mining Of lean silicio
ore in the Cascade and other old ranges Il
season. This is account Of the value
this ore as mixture for the low silicon Mes
v,s bas and for their own value as iron and bessem
- producers.