The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-01-23
CRYSTAL FALLS
FIELD ENLARGING
DEVELOPMENT TO THE WEST AND
NORTH ADDING INTEREST
SURVEYING BRISTOL HOLDINGS
Drilling North Of Paint River Still
In Progress -RumOrS of Work
TO the West

The eyes OF tile outside iron world
have been turned very decidedly to the
crystal Fails section by the recent
large and rich developments The sec
tion TO the south. wherein lie the big
Judson. Balkan. Oliver and Cleveland
4. cliffs deposits has become ancient his
tory and not so much interest is being
given that section KS formerly az
though the possibilities out there are
many It's the territory to tho west
+ and north OF the city that Is just now
in evidence and which will undoubted-
+ ly be the scene Of much exploratory
work as soon ats tie commercial skies
clear and more dedniteness is giycn
1.-THE iron industry Of the country
Bristol Subdiyiding section
Tie cause ot Tie interest iii tie
lands west Of the city is tile work be
ing done there by the Bristol Mining
Company on the lands IN the north
half Of sections 20 and 26, 43 S2
The lands which this concern have
under option embrace the holdings of
the Pfister Land Co OF Milwaukee In
section 25. the lands OF the Carpenter
interests in tile north half OF section
26 and the lands Of the Longyear in
terests adjoining these sectionS to the
north on section 20 and on section 28
especially
The Bristol company and the Car
pcnter interests have body Of engine.
ers subdiyiding the lands in which it
is interested aud incidentally the lands
OF the other interests adjoining The
Bristol people arc represented by Ed
win Edyyean, engineer for the com
pany. and the Carpenter interests by
George Rollin, city engineer OF Crystal
Falls and a man who has had lot o.
experience in the engineering and eX-
ploratory field Mr. Rolln was for
merly in charge Of the r. J Longyear
work in this section and is thoroughly
conversant and familiar with condi-
tions in the iron section of this yicin-
ity
Ii is understood that the lanlsunder
option to the Bristol people include
three ownerships and this preliminary
division is being made before any de-
velopment work starts 80 as to thor
oughly settle any boundary dispute
that may arise later on from tho inter
secting Of deposits
The Bristol people have not changed
their method Of exploring yet and no
indication Is given Of when they viii
do so The churn drill Is being usea
IN continuation Of an effort to Thor
oughly mark out 1he iron formation
before any expensive work is rcsorted
TO such as deep diamond drilling Or
shaft sinking
The Bristol people don't admit that
they have any ore deposit shown up
set They claim that they have a for
nation and nothing more Those ac-
quainted with The work out there say
that all doubt about their having big
body OF ore has been set aside Ions
ago The only thing left for them 70
do Is to locate the enrichment in the
big formation they have shown up aud
prove the character OF the ore
North of the Paint River
The drill OF the L. j Longyear peo.
pie Is IN formation north OF the old
Paint river mine. The work Of test
ing out the run OF the formation Is
now in progress. the drill being moved
along on the strike OF the formation
Several years ago the Corrigan
Mckinney people drilled the forty just
east or the one on which the Lougyea-
people are at work and showed up d
rich and vide formation in the vicinity
Of the North Western section house
section q. 43 49, II Is thought -lha,
tile formation encountered BY the
Longycar people Is q continuation d
thc one worked on 81 the Corrigan
Mckinney people Neither interest
claims That they have anything *
cepting some Indications chat ore q
near on their lands
On the sheldon Lands
The Cole & Mcdonald people con
tnne drilling the sntf MES section |
se. i3 50 although thcy state frankly |
luartheg have be4 litaehopg of fna
I&g anything pf value thereon
THE drilling done oa't1is iaMd tf