The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-17
MORE EMPLOYED;
. WAGES THE BEST
PROSPERITY WAVE MANDATES
UPPER MICHIGAN.
Advance in the Price of the Red Metal
Makes the Best Times Known-Cop-
per Range Properties Enter the Divi-
dend Glass and Will Likely Remain
There.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal.
Calumet, Mich, March 17.-Never in the his
tory of the Michigan copper mining industry has
there been many employed at the mines,
stamp mills and smelling plants, and wages are
now the highest known. The prosperity
caused by the advance In the price Of the red
metal is not alone beneiting the mining compa-
MES, but the workingmen are also sharing the
gains in better wages The action of the man
agement of the Copper Range Consolidated COM
pany in increasing the wage scale of its proper
ties affects $500 men and amounts virtually
to an advance of per cent. Announcement OF
the same raise has been made by the Atlantic
Mining company, which employs upwards OF
300
The declaration of an initial dividend amount
ing to 81 A share, and payable the first of next
month being quarterly one. marks successful
consumma ton Of of the biggest enterprises
in the annals Of Lake Superior copper mining.
Second only to the Calumet & Hecla, the Copper
Range is producing 35O0O00O pounds Of fine
copper each year. and in the next two decades
that output should be nearly doubled. The Cop
per Range company possesses all the advantages
enjoyed by young mines and great future lies
before the property. There is still remaining a
large portion Of the Baltic Trimountain and
Champion mines awaiting development providing
room for additional shafts, which mean larger
production and increased earnings. The quarterly
dividend of 81 share means the distribution
of 1856, 900 every three months, 81 $40 900 an
nually. That these payments can be continued
under any and all copper markets that are likely
to rule during the next few years is firmly be-
lieved.
Work at the Erie Ontario Development compa-
ny's property is advancing at a satisfactory
rate, and favorable showing of copper has been
uncovered The present operations being
carried forward what is probably the Isle
Royale amygdaloid lode but with the advent
of summer attention will be given to the southern
continuation of the Baltic amygdaloid lode, and
both formations will be explored thoroly.
Isle Royale Finds More Copper.
What little work has been done on the Isle
Royale amygdaloid discloses satisfactory
ornto IF n ~ Of
any extent. however, only the top Of the lode
being blasted at frequent intervals along its
outcrop, and it Is found that the formation is
considerably disturbed by the frequent intru-
sions of trap rock. The point Of attack on the
outcrop lies the base of the steep hill and in
the vicinity of swamp. The work is being
pushed, therefore, while the ground remains
s,.tff.yzen.
- Allen Edyvean of Hancock has been appointed
superintendent of the Adventure stamp mill at
Edgemere to succeed Robert P. Dunstan, re-
signed
Since sinking was resumed in the shaft Of the
Aliskwabik Development company in KeweenaW
county an encouraging improvement in the char
acter of the lode has been noticed. The explo
latory work so far has lacked the proper depth
to characterize the result with permanency. bu
it is the purpose Of the management to expedite
the sinking of the shaft until the condition.
are favorable for drifting There are still son1
who doubt that the lode In which the shat
is sinking is the Kearsarge formation, tho thu
weight of scientific evidence is not in their favor
In order establish the identity Of its cuprifer
Gus formation beyond the shadow of doubt, tn
company will open trench to the WOLVERINE
sandstone soon as the ground Is drained OF tn
water from the melting snow.
Improved facilities for the crushing and han
ding of poor rock at the Red Jacket shaft o
the Calumet & Hecla mine have been pro
vided recently in the large steel shaft roc
house.
Old Mesnard Mine.
Recent development at No. shaft Of th
Quincy mine demonstrates the value of that po,
ton of the property, formerly the old Mesnar
mine and indicates that it will become an in
portant producer in time. Sinking is now unde
way below the twenty-second level at dept
of upwards of 1850 feet.
Sinking has been resumed in the shaft tt
Challenge property of the st. Mary's Miners
Land company In section 22-5o-36, some nv
miles south of the Champion mine. The wor
will be continued as rapidly as the condition
hermit, and It is expected that the Baltic lOd
to test which the shaft was planned original;
will be intercepted at depth Of 245 feet.
AS the time for the annual meetings OF tt
Calumet & Arizona and allied companies draw
closer to hand the opinion gains ground th
the proposed consolidation will not carry, al
the matter may not be preached at all. 1t Won
be we'll to remember. however. that the men wi
suggested the consolidation are strong and r
sourceful, and that while the project may
dropped for the present. 1T scarcely is like
to be abandoned permanently. 81.
sAuLr STE. MARIE, M1oH.-Mrs. Thorn
Fl. Crnnian dropped dead at her home She h
not been i'll. Her husband is well-known bu
ness man Of the upper peninsula
WASHINGTON SPRINGS. $: DIFire was sd d
A box filled with excelsior had been tax
from a drug store near by. carried to the bas
ent under the real estate office Sd'ss and set EFT
in the floor. but the fire was eAtinguish
without serious damage.