The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-03-27
LUCKY ACCIDENT
AT MANSFIELD
y Xop SECTION or SHAFT HOUSE put.
LED orr BYgskIps
DUE TO WEAK CONSTRUCTION
Diamond Drill Placed on KimbslI Lands
North Of City-Mins Shipments
For 1908.

A very lucky accident occurred at the
Mansfield mine last Wednesday morn
ing about 300 o'clock m The top
bent OF the shaft house gave way I'M
der the weight Of two skips and top
peled over. one of the big sheav wheels
falling to the ground and the other
being caught by the timber work and
held after leaving the blocks.
The shaft is OF wood construction
and erected in sections. the top section
being about 40 feet from the ground
This section supports the two ten'foot
S11&sstss over which the cable runs and
the immedat6 weight of the ropes and
skips. The skips are hung in balance
and the brakeman got the signal to
move the bottom skip from the lower
level 10 che one above. He was very
careful in the execution OF the move
ment and when the top skip had been
lowered about 40 feet the timbers gave
way with a crash The weight of the
rope and skips both were empty
seemed 10 have been too much to bear
longer as not jar or hard pull was
made by the engineer.
all OF the men on the night shift
were under ground and as soon as
word could be got to them they began
to climb the ladders to the surface, a
distance Of |, 200 feet,
Luckily no one was hurt none Of
the steam pipes broken and thus no in
terruption TO the pumping plant oc-
cured
The work OF clearing the debris and
rebuilding the crushed section Of the
shaft house was commenced at once.
/, II is thought that the mine will be out
of commission about month and 100
men will be in enforced idleness during
that time
Raw Kimball had diamond drill
placed upon mis- homestead, Lot. ., sec
tion 20 1888. last Wednesday. Mr..
Kimba!l intends TO have this property
thoroughly tested for iron ore.
The property lies mp against the big
diorits outcropping to the north OF the
city. Mr.. Kimball expects 10 find a
vein of ore between the states, which
lie to the south Of the diorite and the
latter rock.
Several years ago John Hooper, pro-
ceeding on the same theory held by
Mr.. Kimball sought TO prove up his
contention along the contact TO the east
of Kimball's property.
He had drill placed upon the pro-
perry and couple Of holes were driven
from the states towards tile underlying
rock. A small vein OF ore was cut bul
not enough TO be OF any value. Mr..
Kimball expects that with depth this
ore will show mp more Of volume
The drill work being prosecuted by
4 the NJ. A. Hanna company in sections
2s and "a, 1888 will bc watched with 1
great deal OF interest by explorers anC
land owners in the county. This Il
the same territory that Mr.. Whitesid'
OF Duluth explored last year but th'
present explorers Intend doing mucl
more work than Whiteside did
Contracts have been let 10 Cole 4
Mcdonald for lot OF drill WORK AN,
two drills are now on the lands Th
same camps that whiteside used ar
being used by the present explorers
m. ,,,s,.. shtnYnonts For tha Ta.r
Superior region were issued during tn
week blythe Iron Trade Review Tn
1908 shipments from Crystal Fall
mines were rs follows
Bristol 100 300, Crystal Falls 29d
Dunn >. $40. Gibson 45is, Great West
ern i2l. 240 Hemlock 81. s3i, Holliste
io.67i, Mansfield 1888. Michigan sos
Tohln i6i 64e.