The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-03-20
PRES. WILSON'S FOREIGN POLICY
IS BEING EMULATED HERE
NO ORE SALES YET REPORTED
Stripping Soon to be Resumed at
Balkan and CrystaIFaIls Mine
Property to be Explored


tiy ia this community has caught It
and is suffering from It very much.
Ask any Of our mining men what the
prospects are and they will tell you
thtt they don't know; they're waiting
and watching to see what's going TO
turn up.
The NJ. A. Hanna Company is OPP
Grating on a hopeful basis at the Car
penter The taking on Of more work
men depends upon the turn that bust
ness takes after the shipping season
opens.
The Carpenter is turning out to be
an excellent property in every way
and, should conditions warrant, the
force could be about doubled by the ad-
dition OF night shift. Under the pres
ent arrangement, one shift only is
producing and that at reduced basis.
The disappointments that were ex-
perienced at the Carpenter when the
drifting to the ore body was first in
stituted have all disappeared and the
ore body is proving up to be all that
the diamond drill work indicated. The
ore is OF an excellent quality and with
a good season in the iron business the
Carpenter ought to make a very cred
liable output.
The Wilkinson
The development at the Carpenter is
showing up the worth OF the Wilkinson
forty to the west This piece OF pro-
perty is owned one-half by the
Pickands-M -Mather people and one-half
by the Wilkinson heis. The assess
ment on the forty has been $4,000 for
several years. The property line seems
to lie almost in the heart Of the ore
body so that a breast OF ore 14O feet
long has been shown up along the VII
kinson property line.
The ore Is OF an excellent quality
and the property is without doubt
valuable one. There Is 40 disposition
on the part OF the Pickands Mather
people to open up this piece OF ore. II
has been practically certain for many
years that the forty contained an ore
deposit but the company preferred to
take other lands and open up leased
deposits rather than turn their atten-
tion to the development of their own
holdings
ha IfpnAafft,s, Of hn XUfI1gtnart.
heirs is not known but It IS quite
likely that working agreement exists
between the two fee owners so that
when the Piokands-Mather people get
ready TO open up they will have no
difficulty in getting in the other inter
ests.
The Bristol Exploration
The Bristol company keeps pegging
along with churn drills on It's holdings
between this city and Fortune Lake.
Some deep holes have been run down
for churn drill work
The policy OF the Bristol people is
TO mark out well the promising area
before doing any diamond drill work
and they figure that by lot Of COM
paratively inexpensive churn drill
work they can get an accurate idea of
vfhe surrounding conditions both for
subsequent diamond drill work and for
any shaft sinking that they may decide
10 do.
II Is not probable that any deep work
will be done until the roads dry up so
that operations can be carried ON 70
advantage.
To Drill Crystal Falls
Some few weeks ago we mentioned
the fact that Detroit people were con-
s.dering the advisibiiity Of entering
the district and either purchasing some
operating property OF exploring for an
ore deposit.
The available working properties
were all considered carefully and the
decision TO explore instead OF operate
arrived at Az their flrst venture We
understand that they will take an
option upon the old Crystal Falls
mine and give the portion Of the pros
pcrty to the north OF the old workings
q thorough probing
we learn that the papers arc now
being made ont and that drill work VIII
ho started just as soon as an the de-
folis REGARDING the option are fixed ap
lcontinus4 nt paee