The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-04
MINING NEWS AND STOCKS
WOLVERINES FOOT WALL WILL
PROlONG MINES LIFE4TO6 YEARS
Success OF Tests at South kear-
sarge Prompted Work From
Which Most Rock Is Produced


many places and has found all through
the old workings there are good val
ues. IL was the success at the Soutl
kearsarge of the Osceola Consolidated
the next mine To the south. that lee
20 this work. There the life OF the
mine has been prolonged for AT least
four 20 six years. as the values have
been good and constant and are sup
plying by far the greater portion of IN,
mines production. This rock is
bunchy in its naturalization and there
are sometimes stretches of fifty feet
that are barren, but the punches of the
metal run high in grade. so that the
average is very profitable This should
at least lengthen the life of the VOL
VERNE third. OF last years pro-
duction about one-third came from this
source. Two drifts supplied each l.
300 tons for one month. and that rate
could be kept up for a year.
The normal production is being
maintained, it running from forty To
forty eight cars, that is 1,1O0 to 1.320
tons daily but the average is around
forty three cars, or 1,2O0 tons. which
is about all the two stamps can take
care Of \ statement has been going
the rounds of the press that the daily
production was Loo tons, but that is
figured on the basis OF forty-ton cars,
The usual tonnage here, while the ca
pacity of the Mohawk and Wolverine
cars is 27.5 tons.
Copper Range.
Copper Range Consolidated is maxi
ing two improvements that will make
favorable showing on the cost sheets.
The regular diameter of the DIR n
steel or drill proper Of the Lcyncr-
lngersoll drilling machines is one and
one-eighth inches. \ test Of over a
year has given the result of an in.
crease Of safely L. per cent i'm the
footage, or number Of feet made by
the drills by Tie use Of steel one
quarter of an inch less i'm diameter
The seven eighths- inch steel" shows
no signs of losing its life or hecomr M
'fatigucd" as the miners say. Ofl
course the gain iu speed is made bv the
''''N'''' f'Ii..'ft|N ''4 Nhll ltlh y To- ne NUl
with the same amount Of power. The
Same amount Of ground Is being
broken down, as an explosive Of great
er power is used The second improve
ment, the using of the waste sand. ,rI
tailings, conveyed from the mills 1yI
the rock cars, which ordinarily return
empty and dropped through shafts or
pipes into the Slopes for filling i'm !
place of poor rock cut out from the
walls is a success as a cost-saycr and |
is hciug extended throughout the three |
mines. This method has not been long
enough IN use To obtain exact figures |
of the reduction i'm costs, but il is |
known to be quite considerable
amount.
Baltic.
The Baltic Is continuing it's disclos- |
IRE Of good copper at tle twenty |
seventh level Of shaft so. ON tho |
southern drift and has lust cut into
copper by the sinking OF the shaft "a,
the twenty-cighth level This is vcB
favorable as on the levels above the
shoots have not appeared at the shaft.
but at some little distance on either
side. Tho other shafts are kcepingI
up their good average
Houghton.
iloughton Copper has drifted ON the
tenth level which it has just reached
10y the Wine, about a. feet. nndingI
commercial copper ON both sides Of the
shaft. ono drill is being operated npI
each drift ana one u the northern
drift of the sixth level. whore bun
little copper is encountered 4 drif,I
ON the tenth level VIII bee cut over
west To find the famous West Superior ,
vein i'm "a short time.
Tamsrsck. f.,
Tamarack, it rs thought. will hc re- ,
opened very shortly the reason hrm.
given that there are many good men ,
among the strikers who have not been {
able to find work since the calling oir /
IF the strike. as most of the mines hal !
ny ihat time secured almost all ia, !
men that they needed
New Areadian. I
New Arcadian reached the lode on !
he Goo-foOt level at the distance of ,
lnly about l3j feet from the shaft 10 ,
css than at the ajO-foot level. The ,
'ork revealed It fair grade Of cope. ,
Drifting will bc begun right away I'm {
10Th directions ON the 550-foo level {
he northern drift is just now in {
ground that is not SO rich as for the :
'a-t two weeks but the southern. :
which vas Ia leancr ground, is now 5
N an excellent grade This sounds good ;
90 q Lake superior man familiar with ;
.ur good lodos. because although they Z
lI have their leaner stretches. II is !
ne average that is considered and this {
ode has averaged very high so far. [
The gaze OF the track has been wild Y
ned and the hosting changed over 60 \
he new engine. President Shields has \
eceiv"d many notes Of appreciation OF
us circular statements Of the mines s
ondition, that have been sent 10 the
tockholdcrs. Counting the unpaid as
cssments that have been arriving n
radually increasing numbers since the j
hnd' OF the new lode there is now t
1900 or hand enough to run the $
nine at the present rate Of expendI- .
ure for a year. T
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