The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-21
Coz D YEA FOR THE
IRl N OR J INDUSTRY
25,4s4,ooo TONS MOVED OUT or
MINNESOTA.
Average Cargoes Of Lake Boats Were
the Largest Known Labor Situation
Cleverly Handled by the Men in
Charge Of the Destinies of the Ranges
Plans for Next Year.
Special to Tho journal.

moved almost precisely the allotment Of II, 20O,-
| 600 which was made at the opening of navigation
last April. This is remarkable fact. Great
| Northern shipments were 6,OS3, 900 tons, and
! would have been higher If the road had received
car orders 1t made early in the season, for 1t
| has been lack of rolling stock that has kept
1t down. This makes 25,4s4 900 tons out of Min
nesota this year. Y
In no past year have the average cargoes of
lake ore ships been as great as during 1905;
| the record Of the Duluth & Iron Range road
show the average load, net tons, to have been
6,576 tons. This road handled thru its docks
every day for the season Of navigation an aver
age OF 1.i30 carloads OF ore and loaded an
| average OF Ill ships month. III. II
december navigation on Lake Superior closed
only yesterday. 1t is dangerous matter and
shippers object to it more and more each year.
| 1t Is only by chance that there have not been
some severe losses the past two weeks .s@>-t
Burden Thrown on Mesaba.
The old ranges have not been able to increase
ana 1t Will De the same next year-the addition
| al tonnage must come off the Mesaha Donht1os.
J such condition will prevail for MANY wears
| throwing the burden of the growing American
| steel trade upon the Mesaba range, and thus d.
Minlshlns It's reserves faster than would other
| wise be the case. = ~ = 49,.
| one Wel[known authority, Joseph Sellwood
ol Dulutn' says the Mesaba range Is good for
only twenty years at the probable rate of in
| crease but this view must be considered ex-
| IRENE Forty years is probably much nearer tho
fact and large additional deposits. both in Min.
nesota and Michigan, remain to be discovered or
opened. If James J. Hill is correct and few
iron ore men are disposed to consider him an
| snorlty, the total is very much larger than anv
| figures ever made '" "A' MY
| 1t is astonishing that labor matters have
| moved all season on the iron ranges with such
| eese ana smoothness, and they could not have
done so but that knowledge and skill was mont
tested In the government Of the situation nv
| potn employers and employed. The eastern iron
liathet owes good deal more than it appre.
| nort1rr ohya
| lrol the destinfes Of the Lake SUPERIOR RANGES
especially OF the Mesaba, from which comes 'not
only the bulk OF the product but tho annnoi
.neiease. Inc prevention Of labor difficulties and
| tEe manning OF mines with sufficient force tn
| nahole the enormous tonnage produced Is hit
one and scarcely one of the chief lines IN 1vbch
tne agility OF these men is frequently shown. IN
olcations are that labor will be fully as n1antv
possibly more so, another season thon peI ns
been the past. '1an ~ mas
Sales for Next Year. r. Il
sales OF iron ore for next years delivery.
4 ia oeen made Of late without much regard
TO the prices announced as standarS .osa atu
season. For instance some 500 600 tons 'n ne
mesaDa have been closed at TIT to SO nnit
w WIZ % these guarantees: bessemer guaranteed
non, Dessemers running from 80 to "a * NJ
urad iron at TT and 7.s cents unit.
1nese are large and important sales and
We sa up tne mines from which they are made.
NE producers have recently made sales for
enis 1aiis delivery, and have so delivered a.
prices 1nly as high and in some few cases
nosit, aooIe these figures If they had been in
position during the past two or three waet .s
TO increase these deliveries, they might ha1e
secured even better price, but thew con1d ,,ot
rv me delivery and it is well they did not
| wy TOT the closing of navigation has baan
snort and without much warming. Oe'n
| =, Inc ROADS are now preparing to handle oro
me me coming year basis similar to thst os
ooo a ooo 19 ta Duluth, Missabe & Northern
pooo
IONS, and Great Northern 1000, 600 IONS ~ .
! 5o saa ooo out Of Minnesota (Which. above
ore of % so 9oo on on the Vermion is all Mesaba
mat these roads will not handle the amo,,nt
VI ore 1or which they are prepared but # "a
W Worthsr or note that the Duluth Missabe &
IN Isoo, set its mark last spring at ii .OOo 0oo
Ions IONS 1or this year, and slightly exceeded tat
Individual Mine Records. Il
shipments out Of some of the more important
mines mines OF the district have been as fpIIo %n.
Burt 3n r SSssl1a Norris
20; Mahoning, 1920, 900; Stevenson. 1o1s co..
o Chapin 947 $50; Norrie, 725, as1: Arseon IsN ;
uort tee ear Cliffs company 1925 New
poit, 4ooS9S; Aurora, $780, O64; Cary o. S51. ToIo
angellne, 266, 633. %These are but few ~ al
larger mines on all ranges. The only Canad;an
st 81 was 125,o0o tons from the Helen mine
At the Empire mine, Cascade ranoe 49,
1ates crusher Is being installed and tho $50
puI IN readiness for the shipment of eno 600
ii TONS next year. This is q lean s,1io,os o'ooo
Wh1ch is Of the kind that used 70 ha oa,,as =
nMesaDas Friend" But, owing to the ranid
ores o. u late In silica content of Mesaha
mns+ ston IS NOT IN such demand as mix. and
inuSt stand more on its own merits 49, "DN
1he Empire will be q cheap nronertu- - o..
&C as there is but thin sand CANNING avar
.ne ore and when this is removed the nro,ort
tan DC mined by the well-known mil,ino pps s,.
tell' WINE ore will be hoisted to The o1,st ~ -
cr"sh urawn directly by belt conveyors from tho
Oliver Company Not Selling
tho a'a nr nave been current the past week r.
We me enect that the Oliver Iron Mining connon,,
was to sell its Michigan mine Mennmi,oa nlIcy
~ flckands, Mather & Co., and wac =" a t
o oW perhaps all its properties in IRON ao,4
1 alcn.' TO the same buyer. It is dec;dodiu 10y
uaiy 10 the Oliver policy to sell Mines III ~.
cn ,n nulo. IS without foundation The DIVA
them. E,II.-s7-~-' ~ ouy mlnes than sell
Inc hrm of Pickands Mather & n &c oaa,.
10 us holdings all the time and T. - 49, auu =
% % tnilss on the Gogebic range noos+ ~ ia, as
a. tne sunday Lake end Of the District - m1
Irtuae tne Sunday Lake and Brotherton n a.
MiAano; Gary and Windsor, and now bas 4, uie
1na., m an extension of the Brotherton nra
iiIss ms has been small shtpper hit " j.,
liable to develop into mine Of SON. Dut IS
'"t NE uHoer strong management t1i1tl'ol
view YORK State Steel comnanv ,,h,o,
las peea Dusty engaged in picking mn noi
th,,s ne Mesapa ZOE some months has taran . =
r nnu property one Of the Congdon Hart,.s :.
group containing medium tonnapa ~ anu
good structure. - soNn1ase of ore OF