The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-31
SOME DELAY IN
ORE MOVEMENT
EXAGGERATED ESTIMATES ARE
6 BEING REDUCED.
Standard Ore Is Well Sold Out and the
Seasons Shipments Are Certain to
Be Heavy-New Method of Strip
ping to Be Employed on the Grant
by Jones & Laughlins. ~# H..
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Duluth, Mimi, March 31.-The commencement
several roads will put on partial schedule
April /. There. has been no change in upper
lake ice conditions for the week, tho the weather
has been warm. Little OF no additional charter
Ing has been done, and it may be considered that
nothing more will be done in that line until
late in the season, when wild chartering
will be in order. t. -: : , -. ~~%r
Indications still point toward a record break
Ing movements, but some of the eXaggera ted
estimates are being reduced, as there seems to
be little less steam on than there was at
one time when the market appeared to be
running away with itself -
Inquiries from ore consumers seem to elicit
the unpleasant information that about every thing
on Lake SUPERIOR in the way of standard ore, is
sold up, at least as high as most miningmen care
to sell yet, and that there is almost nothing to
be had but some silicious and other ''of'' ores.
More of these ores will be mined
s hha in and Gns Time and
that have been idle are being reopened. There
is talk of the opening Of still more and the dis
trcts that have been especially hard hit for past
years are beginning to wheel into line.
The Interstate Iron company, Mesaba rangs
corporation of Jones & Laughlins, is preparing
TO strip Its Grant mine. state property, near
per cent non-bessemer ore, similar to the Sharon
OF the Oliver company. The company is to carry
On its own work. without contract tors, and has de-
cided to install a complete Hoover & Mason clam
to strip with this.
This will be the first attempt in the lake re-
glon to move large amount of overburden by
anything other than the time honored steam
shovel. Permanent towers will be erected out
| side the area to be stripped, cables will be
strung and grab buckets operated by electricity
Will operate on these cables, removing the mate
| rial and placing it in waste bank. This Grant
| job is expected to last long time for there is
| a full forty-acr tract to be stripped and the
| oyerburden is very deep.
| The purchace Of lands on the far-western
Mesaba continues. The little village Of Bovey
| started two years ago by Messrs Longyear and
Hartley--is developing into town Of some i'm
portance, and soon as the Oliver company
lands will become center for much business. 1t
| is about seven miles the Mississippi river
In township S. range "A, and in the center of a
| good tonnage OF ore.
Contract work large stripping jobs that
have been closed down since last year has com
as possible will be working soon The chief trou-
! BILE this year in the iron regions will be the
scarcity of experienced underground miners.
Work was so quiet last year and the outlook for
the winter was so poor that many miners left for
Europe or elsewhere. There has been no such
loss In common labor, and it is to be had at all
| the mining towns, but 1t Is of little utility
in anything but railroad work and surface mines,
and the latter do not employ much of it.
An island in Lake Vermilion, near the Soudan
mines. that shows wide and strong outcrop of
rather lean slaty hematit is to be explored this
year. 1t is expected by the owners that a large
depth. Efforts are being made to interest capital
once more in the eastern Mesaba and there is a
possibility of some work thru township 80,
range Il and east Of there. ,