Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-01-08
1917 BIG ORE YEAR
IRON OUTPUT! rom NORTH
u LllkE E y TO suRPAss iTH & IL
1919; REC CORD.
4 100000 TONS ]! { n 1912.
General Tendency Seems to ee to In
Increase the PRODUCTION In .
Every Possible Way tor
:. 81 Is :..s .s Next Year. ] I


Every Possible Way tor
+, Next Year. 81
Duluth.-As large as were the ship
ments of iron ore from the Lake
Superior region this year-in round
numbers, 1880, 0O0 tons---the outgo
In 1913 will be bigger still, Judging
from the preparations being made by
the mining companies. The general.
tendency is to increase production,
either by reopening idle properties or
increasing working forces. On the old
ranges, at least, the United States
Steel corporation Is not operating this
winter as briskly as are some of the
other concerns. This does not, how
ever, indicate that the big company
Will not Increase Its shipments from
the region as whole; on the con-
trary, it is expected it will send out
materially more ore than this year.
This increase villa come from the Me-
saba range; more particularly, from
the Great Northern properties. The
lease to these holdings will be sur
rendered Jan. /, 1915, in accordance
with notice given months ago, and for.
this reason it is intended to operate
with vigor the Hill mines already de-
veloped. No especial effort to enlarge
production at other properties of the
Steel corporation is : therefore re-
Quired. -,
Forces are no,,hIAd 5> &c. : -
On the Marquette range, the Cleve-
land Cliffs Iron company, the bigger
operator in the district, has doubled
It's forces at the Cleveland Lake mine
II 1shpeming, now working that
property both night and day, and it is
bteadlly adding names to the payrolls
1T the Megaunee and Mas mines at
Neeaunee. Previously, the Chase and
the Princeton No. 2 had been restored
to the active list. The Smith prop
erty at Gwinn and the Imperial at
M5chigamme, both also of the Glove
land Cliffs company and idle for
months, are being made ready for
mining. The Imperial produces
imonite ore of non-Bessemer grade
which Is In demand only in prosper
ous periods. Its neighboring property,
the Ohio, closed for months, yields
product of similar description. 1t will
resume operations in the spring, it Is
reported. The Ohio, is under lease
to the RogersBrown interests.
Many New Mines.
On the Menomonie range, eight or
ten new mines are being made ready
tor production, the most Of these in
the Iron River district, with the Crys-
tai Falls district also represented, as
we'll as the Commonwealth field, in
Wisconsin. In the Gogebic country,
the Newport Mining company of the
Schlesinger interests of Milwaukee is
especially active. It has shafts sink
Ing at the Palms and Anvil to open
| pre- bodies and it is operating it's big
Newport ON vigorous scale, needing
! additions to it's already big working
| forces there. Probably two properties,
and perhaps others, will be added to
! the list of Vermillion range shippers
next season. The new Guyana dis
trict will have several additions to it's
producers, among those the Hanna
company's Barrows mine and the
Adams property near Deerwood. Pro-
1uction on the Mesaba will break all
previous records in 1913. 49,.
Dissatisfaction among the $50 men
employed at the Brehung company's
Mary Charlotte mine at Negaunee has
been removed by the concession of a
minimum wage scale for the contract
miners.
! Business for Crushing Plants.
While the Breitung interests are
doing the most of their mining in the
Negaunee field, they are operating the
; Baron mine at Humboldt, Marquette
range. The Baron produces a non
Bessemer ore of the hard variety. A
crushing plant has been erected and
put through it. Nearly all the hard
pres produced in the Marquette coun.
try are crushed before being shipped
to the furnaces. The Cleveland Cliffs
company has a fine new plant at it's
Cliffs Shafts mine at Ishpeming. The
Lake Superior Iron company, sub.
q sidiary of the Steel corporation, has
crusher at the Section Sixteen prop.
erty at 1shpeming and a similar plant
Of larger capacity at Escanaba, this
4 latter also treating the product Of the
= Dober mine, Menominee range: Al
! Negaunee the Cleveland Cliffs com
. pany has crusher at its South Jack
6 son property, at which the product Of
:, both that mine and the Moro property
, 1t 1shpeming is handled. NJ. A
: Hanna & Co.'s Richmond mine, in the
:. Cascade district, has one crusher and
:. Is to install second In order that
:. ore crushed still finer may be sent
;. put. - <5z s:>:: II: !.
:. Bank Officials Swindled.
:. Officers of the First M
. :ional bank of Ceylon, this county, say
:. they have been swindled out Of $4,000
II by smooth stranger calling himself
: !, ! John Carr of Fairbanks, Alaska, in !,
= manner creditable to a j. Rufus Wall
: IDgford. The man came here a month