The diamond drill., 1911-07-22
MESABA'S POSITION
HELPS OLD RANGES
BIG ORE RANGE LIMITS HAVE BEEN
DEFINITELY FIXED
ORE USERS ARE LOOKING AHEAD
More Exploring Will be Done on the Old
Ranges From This Out is The
Prophecy.

II expect to see constantly increas-
ing volume Of exploratory work on the
old ranges said prominent mining
and diamond drill operator 10 the
writer one day this week my rea-
son for this belief Is that the Mesaba
range ore measures are about as we'll
defined as a sack of -four and the ore
users who have millions invested in
furnaces and finishing plants are look
ing years into the future
BY saying the Mesaba is a sack OK
Hour / do not mean that all the ore mas
been developed up there that more ore
will not be found or that the Mesaba
has reached It's zenith in the amount
OF ore that it can produce in any one
season What mean is that rs limits
have been well established and that
discovery of mines capable OF making
million-ton outputs season have
ceased Any considerable addition TO
the known ore reserves in the Lake su-
perioI district must come from the
other ranges,
The Crystal Falls and Iron River
districts are the most promising for
entirely new ora finds at the. present
time owing to the fact that in the
days gone 10y the ore produced in this
locality had but "A limited market.
Now any ore about 5O-per cent iron
aud containing no deterrent ingredients
IS in demand and the iron men are
looking for such ore.
II doubt that the exploratory move
ment will be as brisk fhe balance of
this year ami next year az some of the
optimists claim for the reason that the
iron business is dgll and it is my ex
perience that the iron companies will
spend the money in the, years they are
making money, Notwithstanding that
they can. get much more. in return tor
their expenditure in the slack years. =
The reference to the Mesaba range
but hears out statements made by
others who have gwen the subject
much thought II is noticeable fact
that some Of the big producers OF the
Mesaba range have reached their maxi
mum They are still in the million
ton class but they are there only from
extra efforts and soon they will begin
10 slip back.
The result OF this condition on the
Mesaba has been that more ore Is being
discovered on the old ranges now than
was ever dreamed existed
This is particularly true of the Go
gebic range where mammoth bodies
have been revealed beneath the dikes
in mines that were supposed TO have
been exhausted
The latest report from that range Is
that the Schlesinger people have met
deposit Of ore in the Anvil that pro.
lnises to rival the big find at the New
port. which IL said TO be the largest
underground mine in the world.
These finds indicate that new lease
of life is in store for all Of the Gogebic !
properties
In the Crystal Falls district the old |
mines, without exception. have more
developed reserves than they ever had |
in their history. The operators have
learned that depth is what shows up
the ore and they are not backward
hese days In going down
= During the week the NJ. A, Hanna
people have filed two lessee. one on the |
lands in section ~. i3-82. included In
the Ravenna aud the lands in section
So 43-33 known as the Monongahela.
At the Ravenna the shaft is down
and drifting is in progress to develop
:he ore shown mp In the diamond drill
WORK ..,.,t,t
The plans for the Monongahela have
not been developed yet as they will be
influenced u great deal by wnat is 10
be the program on the lands on section
81. 43-32 which adjoins the Monon-
gahela on thcAohthwest.
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