The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
BIG ORE SHIPMENTS
MOVEMENT FROM LAKE SUPERB
OR COUNTRY WILL AGGRE-
e GATE $4,000, COO TONS.
GREATEST YEAR OF ALL.
Mesaba Mine, Fee OF Which Is Owned
by State VIII Set New
Record for the
Season.

Duluth.-Shipments of iron ore from
the Lake Superior region are being
maintained at a volume that gives
every indication of a movement for
the season of better than 45,000,000
gross tons-the greatest outgo in the
history of the mines.
With approximately 100000 tons
forwarded to the first of September,
and with three months remaining of
the period of inter-lake navigation,
some observers see even prospects of
record falling but little under So
100000 tons. However, while some
ore carriers doubtless will continue in
commission until early in December,
the fact that the big open-pit mines
will begin suspending operations in
November will make for a steady
waning production few weeks prior
to the actual close of the season and
will scale down the present monthly
average materially.
The bulk Of the shipments, of
course, is being forwarded from the
Mesaba district. The outgo from the
older ranges is, however, running
close to the high-water mark estab-
lished in 1910-more ore, for instance,
having been sent from Marquette in
August than in any month in the
hosiery of the portland in general
stock piles will have been removed al
most to the point of disappearance by
the time that wintry conditions make
further lake forwardings impossible.
Mesaba Mines Making Record.
Already far ahead of the production
a year ago and considerably in adj
vance Of that of 1910, the shipments
from the Mesaba mines, the fee of
which is owned by the state of Min
nesota, will set a new record this sea-
son. One of the largest of these is
the Scranton property at Hibbing, OPP
Grated by Pickands, Mather & Co., Of
Cleveland. The Scranton has been
shipping from shaft and stock pile
at the rate of eighty cars daily. This
ore is going out over the United States
Steel corporations Duluth, Missabe &
Northern railroad, whereas early in
the season the Great Northern had the
business. The product is a non-Besse-
mer hematite.
At the Buffalo mine at Hibbing four
shovels are at work in the pit. AS
much as 800 carloads of ore daily are
being sent from the Shenango Furnace
company's Shenango property in the
Hibbing district, the outgo having re-
Gently been doubled owing to the de-
cision to operate at night as well as at
day. Additional train and switching
crews have been put on duty on the
Mesaba road. SD. .sau r.. ~
AS busy as is this line, however,
the Great Northern is buster. From
its assembling yards at Kelly lake the
Great Northern is moving to the docks
at Superior 1900 cars daily. More
than 500 steel cars, newly turned out
at the shops, have been added to the
rolling stock lately, Notwithstanding
which the road is hard pressed to
meet all the demands of shippers.
Complaints are unavoidable, but arise,
not SO much from the car situation as
from delay at the water front.
Spying Out More Ore.
On the western Menominee range,
there is no cessation of exploratory
work either in the Crystal Falls or the
Iron River district. Options on desir-
able tracts are in demand. Among the
most active explorers is the Steel cor
poration, the lands of the Michigan
Iron G Land company, held by it I'M
der option, receiving its particular at
tention.