The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-04-15
MINES OUTPUT
is INCREASING
Shipments Are Nearly Normal
c. & n. Breaks Record

copper Range Consolidatcd's daily
tonnage has risen to tho nsur, OF
about 400 tons. That OF the Cham
pion Is nov over four-unns of the
normal An three mines will have al
increase very shortly as for the las,
weeks there has been a steady influx
If men from the outside at the rate
of twenty to thirty a day. \ few 81
them are those who have stayed here,
and some were those returning from
other camps TO which they had gone
at the earlier part of the strike The
remainder are new men who have
been brought here by the old employees
coming back, or th0S" attracted by
the favorable representations of those
already here Many of these are Il
humans. whose home was formerly a
part of Poland and now comprises 4
few provinces of western Russia. They
formed a colony at Painesddle, Of over
200 males prior TO the strike. and they
were among the first to return being
men whom they had induced to come
with them. There were over 200
working for the company by Dec. To-.
There are also quite 4 number of Ar
menians. As there are a good many
miners among these now being taken
On, the others can be put to work at
once as trammers, and as the most OF
them have relatives and friends here
there will be no difficulty of soon
training them properly. The March
production was S,S3i,OoO pounds %
mineral MS compared with 3,5lS,O0o ia
February, and that of April will show n
still greater gain.
The changes in the wash that are
effcctiug great savings have been cont
plcted with the exception of two out
Of six stamps at the Champion ana
two out of four at the Tyimountain.
The inactivity during the strike great
~ favored these repairs.
Calumet & Heela.
Calumet * Hccla had during March
nm average Of daily production that
has broken all previous records i'm the
history of the mine. il being $3.50 tons,
There are i'm operation lGS drills at the
conglomcrate and about 12i on the
Osceola amygdaloid.
Sinking was begun at No. Is shaft,
on the Osccola amygGaloid. the first
of the month from tho twenty sixth to
twenty-seventh levels. The amount of
new work being done ON this lode. all
ready about normal, has been incrcas-
ed by the opening of TWO drifts.
SUPERIOR.
Superior has been sinking its No. >
shaft for some time ana will reach
Che eighteenth level in about ten to
fifteen days. \ drift will be started Mt
once to meet that coming from No l..
This work will afford for tho first time
am opportunity to ascertain how far
the west vein extends southwark
When connection was made about a
year and a haf ago ON the thirteenth
level between the two shaft, Il was cN.
Dressly stipulated by the 81 Mary's
Mineral Land company through whose
property the Calumet Il HcCla had To
purchase the right To pass, that the
work must not be done on any lode, 50
no information was gathered concern
! ing the lode or its contents. The dis
! lance is 2,450 feet. Daily shipments
are running about $50 tons, the great
or part Of which is being taken from
| the west vein.
Hancock.
Hancock forwarded to the Ccntcn-
nial-AlloucZ mill last week its third
shipment since the strike. These are
made about every ten days and each
! shipment is little larger tram the
preceding. the first having been forty
! and the last fifty cars, or somewhat