The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1913-08-30
.JUDS0N MINING co.
is SINKING SHAFT
ALSO ERECTING MINING BUILDINGS
AND OTHER DWELLINGS
ALPHA HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE
Much Drill Work Going On In The
Msaodon Field-0ther Mining
Notes OF Interest

Under the management of Supt. NJ.
Il, Richards the Judson Mining COM
pany, in which J. Longyear of
Minneapolis and Joseph Selwood of
Duluth and their associates are the
moving spirits, is sinking the initial
shaft on its property in the Masto9on
field. west of this city, the scene of
the most notable OF the recent dis
coyeries OF iron ore in the Michigan
districts In addition. the company is
erecting mine buildings and group
of dwelling houses at Alpha, future
A second shaft IS contemplated and
shipments will begin next year, AS
the overburden is but 100 feet deep
and ore will be encountered soon after
ID is penetrated. The property will be
one Of the very largest on the range.
The Mastodon field is the scene OF
extensive drilling operations. as we'll
as of considerable work preliminary
to the opening Of mines. North of the
Judson and between the latter and the
town of Alpha, Pickands Mather a. Go.
of Cleveland of which Chas. X. Laur
ence is General Manager and w. j.
Perkins its superintendent, commen-
cod the development of the Balkan
tract, property that has been deter
,t,al 10. ,lrtlI;ry 20 10 of .traaf voI-
ne IL is planned TO make the mine
an open pit proposition. despite the
( fact that there is considerable over
burden, and a shaft now being sunk Is
for drainage purposes. North of Alpha
the Cleveland Cliffs Iron company and
the United States steel corporation
have control of extensive tracts that
are now being explored and a number
Of lesser concerns are drilling In the
surrounding territory.
Familiarly known two decades ago
as Micky Michael Ryan, -a-p4cneer
Of the Iron River district, was
millionaire several times over when he
died-but he did not know n. Meth
or did his children. Ryan died poor
man. Notwithstanding that 100 acres
of government land that he had home
steaded were underlsid with rich de-
post Of iron ore With the the passing
of tho homesteader, parts of the orr
gInal quarter section passed through
various hands What IL now known
as the Sherwood tract one of eighty
acres, finally became the property of
Myron j. Sherwood. attorney. of Mar.
quette Micheal II. Moriarty, attorney,
OF Crystal Falls, and John McGill;s OF
Iron River twenty other acres passed
70 p j. Aronson of Iron River, and
the remaining sixty acres 10 y. N.
Minkler, also of Iron River. The Re-
public Iron and Steel company finally
procured options TO explore all of the
l60 acres. Now it is said there is a
very large tonnage of ore in the lands,
equal, perhaps. IL is asserted in some
quarters, to the famous Mastodon find
OF the Longyear interests, whicn is re-
puted to approximate 10, 00O 600 tons.
Much exploratory work has been in
progress and il is known that ore has
been found Shonld the tonnage prove
az extensive as il is reported the dia.
mond drill work shows, the present
zoe owners will enjoy the millions
that il was not "Micky' Ryan's fate
to garner Neighboring properties
are the Virgil James. wsuseca.
Davidson and Forbes, all in course OF
development.