The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-09
IRON COUNTY MINES
THE HARDEST HIT
TWO THIRDS or THE MINES or THE
COUNTY HAVE BEEN CLOSED
EXPLORATORY WORK CURIAlLtD
Very Little New Work Is Being Done and
All unpromisins Options Are Being
Dropped

The slump in mining has struck Iron
County the hardest OF any county in
the Lake Superior district for out OF a
total OF twenty seven mines all but
nine are closed down and the nine that
are being worked are operated with
greatly reduced forces
Not alone have the producing mines
been closed but exploratory work has
been curtailed until il is mere shadow
of what was being done before the
slump occurred. This is especially true
of the west side of the county, an the
Iron River and Stambaugh districts
where options have been dumped on an
unprecedented score of late Every ex-
ploration that is not exceedingly prom
ising has been let go of and no one
wants anything that is not very prom
Using.
Beginning at the exterme west end.
in the Atkinson district. the Pickands-
Mather people are doing some work a.
bout a mile from the ola village and
have much encouragement but they
are hot pushing the work as they would
be were the conditions the same as they
were year ago.
The next in order Riverwards is
what Is known as the Morrison Greek
district This locality had some work
done in it early In 1907 but the result
were not what they were expected TO
have been. The Corrigan- Mckinney
people did a lot of drilling and. while
the results close 20 surface showed mp
fairly encouraging, work at oepth
was so disappointing that the options
were surrendered early in the fall.
Next in line is the Hecter on Section
1895 where the Buffalo & Susquehanna
people had an option on the north west
quarter OF the section and spent con-
siderable money in shaft work up to-
wards the northwest corner OF the
property. The results went to pros
pecting with a churn drill towards the
south end. They met with much en-
couIagement when the orders came TO
retrench and they surrendered the pro-
perty.
Next south Of the Hector Is the Bar
nette quarter section held under option
by the Huron people. They commeno-
cd at the south line of the property aud
put down row Of holes across IL to the
north and up near the Hector line they
met with fair encouragement when
orders came for them TO retrench and
they too stopped work but still hold
the option.
To the southwest OF this property is
the James This mire is being
worked by the Mineral Mining company
but in very slow way and with
reduced forces.
Adjoining the James on the south Is
the Sherwood and to the southwest the
Konwinsky, both of these properties
held by the Mineral Mining company
and 10th practically but retained by
the Mineral people.
The territory between these proper
ties and the Nanaimo is mostly under
option TO the Mineral and one drill Is
being operated.
The Nanaimo. owned by the Mineral
people, is idle and the Bucholts to the
west is being explored by the Pickands-
Mather people but the outlook is not
very promising.
There is one other exploration in the
Iron River district, the Hall property
east of Ice lake tnat.is being explored
by the Florence Iron company with
diamond drill.
The Chatham shafts OF the OgIebay-
Norton interests are the first ones met
south OF the old Riverton mine. the
latter being idle The chatham pro-
perties along with the other four semi
mines OF this company in the STAN
bauGh Valley are idle.
A number of options on outlying and
intervening lands were also surrendered
which leaves the Ogleby Norton people
practically idle in this section.
The Hiawatha mine OF the Buffalo
and Susquehanna company IL Also idle
and next west OF this mine is the Dober
the Oliver mining company which has
been worked right along with reduced
force The McGiuis property OF the
same concern has been closed down for
= number Of years
OF to the northwest from the Dober
is the Baker property Of Corrlgan
Mckinney and company. This property
Il being worked In small way, prin..
cipalIy upon equipment work. Adioin-