The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-03-13
RESUME
OPERATIONS
The Shagawa Mine Resumes
This Week

Shagawa mine at Sellwood this week
brightens the prospects of the Yer.
million range to considerable extent.
A staff writer in the Tribune gives
the following account, which Is IN
the main accurate and makes good
reading. The writer says:
"No renewed development of any
property on either the Mesaba or Yer.
million range has attracted as much
attention from mining men or has
caused as much discussion among per.
sons interested in the commercial and
mining progress of the two iron bear
ing fields as the resume of operations
at the Shagawa mine on the famous
Section 30' property which probably
has figured in the courts of the United
States more extensively than any
other mining ENHANCEMENT.
"Whcn operations were suspended
a little more than mouth ago by the
Shawaga Iron company the shaft had
reached a depth of nearly 700 feet.
Comparatively near the surface a
small body of ore was cut and it was
of sufficiently high grade to warrant
mining. The operators say that the
probable output from this body would
reimburse them and the owners for
the expense to which the parties in
dicaLed have been put in their efforts
10 develOpe the property.
1.-The formation will not be mined
at present. The operators will con-
Linue TO sink the shaft in the hopes of
reaching the main ore body which un-
derlies, in various extents, the so.
called Vermilion range. The new
contract calls for shaft depth oi
1000 feet aud the operators are
allowed two years in which to carry
out their part of the agreement.
After six months of mining IL is likel.
that the body of ore already tapped
will be mined if the main formation,
or fragmentof II, has net been inter
cepted by the shaft. Considerable
lateral work is outlined and tile OH
sLacles will be difficult 10 overcome
owing to the rock formations peculia,
to The Vermillion range.
About $500, 600 has been spent by
mining companies and individuals in
efforts to find high grade ore bod,
of workable extent on the Section 80
property, which is designated as Sec
zion 80, T. SO N. r. IL, Lake county
rhe Shagawa Iron company, the pres
ent operators, have expended about
$4,000 The estimated outlay of tn.
other explorers follows: A. M. Miller.
ST., $4,000; Minnesota Iron Co.. $780,
900; United States Steel corpor
alton. $4,000; Cleigue Syndicate.
s6OO00; George j. Lonstorf, $4,000;
Midland Steel company, $4,000. The
question of interest is: Will the pres
ent developers find sufficient ore OF
sufficient high grade to repay them
for their past expenditure and the
large sums which will be spent in the
future? The outcome of the present
and contemplated developments will
be watched with interest by many
mining men and Others who are famil-
lar with the Section 80 property
through the published reports of the
various legal vicissitudes through
which its owners have gone.
IA favorable Typographical feature
of the Section 3O' property, or the
Shagawa mine as it is designated by
the owners. is the exposure of iaspar
and iron bearing rock. These promi.
nent features on the Vermillion range
are few In number, and where they
occur developments have shown that
the iron bearing formation is extern
sive. However, the absence of these
exposures Of rock, associated with the
iron bearing series, does not always
preclude the existence of high grade
ore in bodies of workable extent. The
valuable iron deposits at Ely from the
Chandler mine on the west to the Sa.
4
voy on the east occur where the ex-
posures of jaspar are extremely and
remarkably few. The iron bearing
formation on the Vermilion range pre-
ponderates in several we'll known
localities where there are prominent
exposures of jaspar.
"This Is notably true near Tower
and Soudan, where Tower Hill, JAS
par peak and other Typographical fea-
lures are exposures Of THERON bear
ing series. These circumstances lend
encouragement to the operators of the
Shagawa mine who believe there is a
large body Of high grade shematitic
iron on their property as compare
lively indicated by the bodies of iron
bearing rock in the vlcinites of expos
ures of jaspar on other parts of the
range.
1.-The principal iron bearing rock Of