The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1913-03-22
THAT IS THE RuMoR THAT is ClRcu.
IATING ABOUT THE CITY
MEANS MUGa FOR US If TRUE
Property is the Largest on the Msnomnse
Range And VIII Give Employment,
to Many Miners.

The Longyear property is going TO be
opened. That is the story that has
been given currency about Crystal Pals
in the last few days and IL seems a.
oUme from pretty reliable sources.
The report is that the Nevada Land
Co. will open up the property and enter
the mining field The Nevada Land
Go. is Il very strong concern financially
and contains such prominent mining
men and fnanciers az t. j. Longyear,
Joseph Selwood r. T. Bennettsand G.G.
Hartley, all men who are worth lots
Of money and have had practical min
ing experiences on the Mesabi range
where most Of them made their big
money
The rumOr further says that the su-
perintendent has been appointed and
his name is Earl Richards not our own
William J. but another Earl Richards
from the Mesabi range
The Longyear property has been un
der exploration for two years and over
q year ago there was body of ore
known 10 exist upon the property that
contained g. GOO, 600 tons Much new
ore has been added to the property by
exploration on adjoining lands since
that time Only a week ago the Long
year people ordered in four more drills
10 be operated upon the property rails
! Ia l,r -.
this last rushing Of drills TO the pro
perty TO mean the final investigation
preparatory TO the sinking of a shaft
The North Western railroad serves
the property already the mine being
reached from the old Mastodon branch
while the Alph mine branch runs right
down through the heart Of the mine
location.
The ST. Paul has been Keeping it's
eyes peeled for developments down in
that quarter and has gang of survey
ors at work now on an extension of the
Dunn mine branch of that system to
the Longyear IL is said that for this
purpose the Sawyer Goodman logging
road will be utilized as that company
has graded right Of way from the
Dunn mine right down 10 the Long
year property The grade will have to
be rebuilt in many places in order 10
make railroad out OF IL but the mn
cleus Of a railroad ~ there and IL will
save the ST. Paul people lot of mon
| ey. The Sawyer Goodman company
will finish up it's work in that section
this year and the road woGld then be
"A dead letter u them
II is not known il the reported open
! ing Of tha Longyear means the opening
OF the Amasa Porter property also
This property IL located about four
miles south Of Amasa on che county
road and while il ia comparatively
small one. yet the ore contained in u
rs of a very desirable grade some OF II
being inside of the Bessemer limit
The AInasa Porter has million tons OF
ore shown np and there ia no telling
how much more will be- shown 10 exist
upon the property when the operators
get busy showing mp what IL there.
The owners Of the Nevada propsrties
have been holding their ore bodies nj !,
very high figure of royalty and also r..
quirIng mining conditions that alr
very exacting IL Is said that 70,
atty Of 65-cents per ton was asked on
bonus OF &s5. 600 tor the Lougyeul
property alone. this bonus 10 be in tts
line of paying back the money that wl
spent in exploratory work on the ~
perty by the Nevada people. In adj
tion IL il said that the mining cobc
tions for the removal Of all ore Of
per cent and above and MANY mini
completes thought that the royai
asked did not warrant asking snch !
grade stuff being mined