The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-06-12
HAVE TAKEN A CONTRACT TO TAKE
OUT 100000 TONS OF BALKAN
WILL SHIP BUT 100000 TONS
Shipments From Stockpiles Con.
tinue About Here But West Side
is Slower in Forwarding Ore

news In this locality for the week Is
the announcement that the Winston
Bros. will mine 100000 tons of ore for
the Balkan Mining Co. out Of the open
! pit. This deal has been hanging fire
for long time and was but recently
closed up.
The ore will be mined by the open
pit method and hauled out over the
same tracks and with the same equip
Iment that the Winston people have
Iemployed in removing the over bur
den.
The stripping work is getting down
to depth now where the ore is being
neared. The work OF equipping the
Balkan property is not far enough ad-
lvanced to allow OF immediate mining
and even II II was the fact that the
| stripping is still carried on would
undoubtedly interfere with the work.
| The Winston Bros. have had a
couple OF small churn drills at work
In the pit for the past two months
drilling the hard clay overburden for
blasting. These drills will be con-
tlnued in use for the breaking up Of
the hard ledge and the ore will be
loaded with the drag line Just as the
over burden has been.
The company is using 4-yard cars
on SO inch gague and the use Of
these cars will be continued in the
mining OF the ore The broken ore
will be hauled to the surface over the
spiral tracks and dumped In cars;
that is 100000 tons OF II will be SO
dumped The other 100000 tons will
be put In stock pile.
There is but one drawback to this
method OF mining and that is the lack
OF crushing facilities and the Balkan
ore is liable to be quite lumpy. To
overcome this the ore must be sledg-
ed and broken as fine as possible by
that method.
Shovels still Working
The steam shovels are working yet
especially the shovels OF the Corrigan-
Mckinney Co The small pile OF No
2 ore at the Tobin was attacked on
Monday and much of It loaded The
No. pile is small one and IL the
shovel had been kept upon IL con
tinuously Il would soon have been
cleaned up. However. the shovel is
needed at the Dunn and so II works
intermittently at each Of these two
properties
The Ravenna and Bristol shovels
work only part OF the time each week
as ore is required TO meet the boat de-
mand The Corrigan- Mckinney people
expect TO clean Mp every pound OF ore
in their stockpiles this year with the
possible exception Of some G eat
Western ore
Stocking on West Side
A mining man from the west side
In discussing the work over there says
that things are not at all encouraging
and that the Chatham mine is stilE
dumping ore on the stockpile The
Chatham started in February IN
anticipation Of an increase In the de-
mand for ore aad 10 have It's or
ganIzation ready 10 take advantage
OF the demand.
SO far the demand has not appeared
and no ore has been shipped from
tho property.
The conditions are somewhat better
about the other mines but there il no
rush TO ret away ore. The Tully IL
depended upon for good sized out
put the coming year owing TO the east
side mines OF tho Corrigan- Mckinney
people being full OF water. The Tully
has been in the course Of development
for five years and ought 70 give good
account Of herself
The rickands- -Mather people are
not rushing things at the Caspian
and the usual tonnage Of about 300
oootons Il all that IL looked for. II Il
not likely that much ore viii be ship
ped from the other mines Of This COM
pany unless the demand increases.
The RoGers-rr0wn people are max.
ing che biggest stir on the west side
and have been shipping c0n6ldereblc
from the chlcoran Tbcy are n posl-
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