The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-02
MANSFIELD MINE
FREED OF WATER
SEVERAL TIMES, IT
WILL NOW BE OPERATED.
Good Producer for the oliver Company
Until the Shaft Caved and Water
Rushed In to Depth of 725 Feet.
Lease Of the Crystal Falls Will Prob
ably Be Renewed. ~

Special to The Journal.
{ Duluth, MINI, June 2.-For sixty days the
oliver Iron Mining company has been working
to free the Mansfield mine from the water that
had accumulated in the mines period OF idle
ness. This has been done and the mine
will resume operation soon. Mansfield has had
interesting history, and has been abandoned
several times, once from calamitous f0od,
and later because the, ore was supposed to be
exhausted. Careful examination, however, led
the Oliver company to reopen it, and the mine
was doing good business when the shaft cayed
and the water filed to the depth OF 725 feet.
At the Crystal Falls mine the 4OO0Oton
stockpile Of last year mas been shipped. Moth
ing is going on about the mine on account OF
pending negotiations for renewal Of the lease
under whica corrisan, Mckinney q Co. nave nave
lease will probably be renewed and the former
operators continue in charge. '.
The same concern is exploring the st. Paul
property on the western Mesaba in section
24-67-22. 1t has six or more drills there and
has drilled the entire tract The location 1t
had selected for the shaft was found to be
covered with ore which there was no rock
Gaping, SO the site abandoned and new
one sought. This has not yet been found, and
there Is no probability that the property can
become a shipper this year
Just across the county road from. the 81
Paul is the old Lackawanna mine one OF the
early state leases Of the Mesaba range, and
which In the boom days Of 1sa2-1So3 WAS cap
TALKED for $4,000, 900 after the payment of the
state Of S25 as lease fee. The company
taking 1T grew tired and dropped the property,
when OF the StOcknOlOerS tOoh II up anu
have carried it to this time. Now the Great
Northern road has option for. a purchase
of the lease for 100000, and is likely to
take 1t. There about 1000, 600 tons OF ore
shown I'D of reasonably good grade. 1t Is prob
able the Great Northern is holding this for
Corrigan and associates, who have been close
TO it for some time
These two mines and the Forest, which is be-
ing developed in a larger way than last year,
and which lies a mile north of the st. Paul,
are the only developed properties between the
Stevenson and the Nashwauk district, dis
lance of some ten miles. 1t is more than
probable that mines will be found somewhere
in the intervening distance. and 1t may be
that this part of the range Will be strung
with properties as thickly as most Of the rest.
The old Mailman mine in section 12-59-14
which has been banded about for fifteen years.
and was the first property on the Mesaba to
receive attention., has been leased to the Duluth
& Mesaba Iron company, which has taken
many options In that vicinity. At some of its
others workings the company has cut good In
dicatons and some ore, tho nothing Is known
Of its thickness.
: The manag cement Of the new Syracuse mine
eastern Mesaba, has found it impossible to sinh
the shaft it started Tho it had made prepare
lions for difficult undertaking, and had ex
pected trouble from both quic1sand and water
it was not prepared to find the drift above tho
ore a mass Of granite ,boulders closely packed
amid the sand. The combination of Quicksand
granite boulders that to have been in thu
bed of large stream and water from
logging dam that has been closed to raise thu
water for log driving purposes, was too mucl
for the company, and it has abandoned the shat
and is to sink another short distance away
out of the old stream bed, it hopes and higl
up the hillside.
An outfit of stripping machinery has BEEF
taken from Iron Mountain to the STANDARD
mine. that John II. Jones is opening tn
Cascade range and the property will be worke,
in q small way this year