Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-27
HIBBING BUILT IN WRONG
 SITE
Ore Exists Under the Whole Town and t Will Soon Be Necessary To Move It To Another Location.
(Duluth HeraId.)

Duluth Herald)
 That the wrong site was chosen ol
 which to locate the village of Hibbinj on the Mesaba iron range, is a fac that is hecnnaino more annarent The
 there is ore under practically all of tn, town is not much question This or, wifi be mined some time, and whel that time comes it will be necessar,
 to remove the village bodily to landl i in which no mineral exists. The prob
 able site lies some distance to thu south.
 Doubtless it will be necessary tC take up the matter of removal fol
 years yet, but eventually the tasl must be grappled. Even at this early l date the Buffalo & Suspuehanna peo pie have definitely decided to mine their S0-acre propertly lying directly
 east of the residential portion of tho town. The work. it is understood, vii
 be taken up within the coming year This offers serious problem for tht Steel corporations Duluth, Missabet & Northern railroad, for the reason
 that with many mining properties
 closely punched in the field the only outlet from Hibbing is over this Buff falo & Susqpehanna tract.
 It is planned to take out the ore by the open pit method. Just what the railroad will do is still to be deter. mined. Possibly it will be decided the more economical procedure to buy the property. or at least acquire right of way sufficiently wide to prevent the roadbed from caving as mining opera
 ions are conducted on each side of it In either case the expenditure would run up high, as the ore body is of large extent and unusually thick. Some prospect is seen of a deal with the Buffalo & Suspuehanna company in- volving an exchange of ore lands.
 However, there is fear it may be de cided to abandon the present tracks through the village and from the Hull mine, at the west side, swing around south of town to the sorting yards at Mitchell, mile to the east. Tlfs would involve losses to the business interests and would cause much incon- venience to the people generally; 1t would as we'll occasion the railroad loss of passenger and general freight traffic and would give longer and a much more difficult haul from the Hull, something to be considered when it is stated the Hull contains the tremen- dous amount of 114,000,000 tons of ore.
 The Great Northern road is iater- ested in the solution of the problem because the tracks just east of Hib- ping, the loss of which is threatened, are used by it jointly with the Missa- be. If the Missabe is compelled to abandon its present routs into the Mitchell yards, the Great Northern will find it a hard proposition to get out ore from the Buffalo & Susque- hanna, Webb, Albany and other mines in that locality with which it has ship ping contracts. It is a problem with many annyoing angles and there is great interest in the outcome.
 Something like 3,0O0,000 tons of orc will be shipped from the Hull-Rust property this season. Next year this record will doubtless be much exceed ed The work of stripping the Hull portion of the tract will be taken up shortly. The new pit will be half a mile east of the present Rust work ings, and eventually it will be connect ed with them, the two forming the big gest open cut of its kind on the globe. 'sLDSS DGlliuu IliE f1uiiENuSL dS SulP pers this season will be the Morris and the Burt, each of which has recently been working four shoyels in ore, day and night. In addition, five shoyels are stripping at the Morris, and three are engaged in the same work at the Burt The latter pit is now close up to the Sellers property, north of town, which also is being stripped. The Sellers was formerly operated as an mine. Three shovels are in commission. The ore has been reached in the pit The stripping is well advanced at the Hartley and three shoyels are at work in ore. Two oth- CTS are still further enlarging the pit. Three shovels are stripping at the Monroe. At the Pillsbury shipments are proceeding with one shovel load ing cars. All of these properties are members of the Steel corporations Hibbing group, and the activity pre- sented Is truly remarkable. Important stripping operations are in progress also at the Mahoning Ore company's giant Mahoning mine in the same r. cality.
 Six miles west of Hibbing is Corri- gan, Mckinney & Co.'S big Stevenson mine, which during the six seasons the present year sent out T. 210 ,0o0 tons of ore. an average of l.. 200, 900 tons per season. It is both a steam shovel and an underground prop osition. The shipments this year will foot up in the neighborhood of 1,300,- GOO tons, or 35e,000 tons less than were forwarded in 1904, when it led Lake Superioras next largest producer, the Mountain Iron, by nearly half a million tons. The pit at the Stevenson is long, narrow and deep, and mining which the daily outputetaoinshr Thu is often quite difficult, because of which the daily output varies consider LOS ANGELES ADVERTISEMENT.