1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

546 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
paiiy, which corporation has controlled the pronerty since 1905. In
the fall of 19C8 a shaft was sunk, and at that time an incline slope
was also in operation. An electric hoist was installed, and the Leetonia
was the first Mesabi mine at which that method of mining
was instituted. E. S. Tillinghast has been the superintendent at the
Leetonia since 1905. The total quantity mined to the end of 1919 was
6,924.545 tons, and there is still a deposit of about two million tons
available.
Longyear Mine.—The Longyear is another of the Mesabi properties
of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, and Mr. Tillinghast
is superintendent of that mine also. It was discovered in 1901 by
E. J. Longyear. The lease was assigned by him to the Columbia
Mining Company, who transferred it to the Williams Ore Company,
and that company sold it to the Inter-State Iron Company, present
operators. It was developed as an underground mine, and the first
shipment was made in 1902, when 22,788 tons were mined. From 1905
the mine has been dormant, with the exception of the year 1913, when
11,799 tons were shipped. The total cjuantity mined to the present
is only 133.190 tons, but it is a good property, having about 5,218,420
tons available. The Longyear Reserve Mine, from which nothing
has yet been mined, also has about 2,000,000 tons available.
Morris Mine.—There are three Morris Mines. They all belong
to the Oliver Iron Mining Company, and all are in sections 31 and 32
of township 58-20. The Morris ]\Iine was discovered by Duluth mining
men in 1902, and soon afterwards leased to the Oliver Company.
From the outset, the ]\Iorris was destined to be one of the big mines
of the Mesabi. Its first year's shipment was the record for an opening
year, being 1,070,937 tons in 1905. The next two years averaged
almost two million tons, and altogether, the Morris Mines have
yielded, to the end of 1919, 14,949,021 tons, and the available quantity
is still about 20,000.000 tons. There was very little stripping necessary
at that mine.
Nassau Mine.—The Nassau Mine was discovered by E. J. Longyear.
It was leased to the Rhodes ^Mining Company, and later to the
Nassau Ore Company, a subsidiary of the Pittsburg Iron Ore Company,
which was organized in 1905. Capt. Alfred Martin was the
superintendent. A shaft was sunk, and shipments began in 1907.
The mine, however, only yielded 71,563 tons to the end of 1919, though
there is a deposit of more than 3,300.000 tons proved. The property
has passed to the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
Pillsbury.—The discovery of the Pillsbury Mine was one of the
first E. J. Longyear made, on behalf of J. S. Pillsbury. The mine
came info the shipping list in 1898. Eventually it passed to the Oliver
Iron Mining Company. It had yielded 206.178 tons by 1900, and to
the end of 1908. 1.640.265 tons. Since that year it has been idle.
Scranton Mine.—The Scranton Mine is one of the large mining
properties of the Hibbing District, although, up to the present, it has
only yielded 520.673 tons of its deposit of more than eighteen million
tons. It was discovered in 1902, by A. M. Chisholm and associates,
and as an underground mine was at first known as the Elizabeth.
It was disposed of to the Lackawanna Steel Companv, under which
company the first shipment was made in 1904, 1,168 tons, the ore
being hauled in wagons to Hibbing and there shipped in that year,
"in order to complv with conditions of state lease." The mine has
remained in the control of the Pickands Mather interests ever since,
although nothing was mined between the years 1904 and 1910, and
nothing has come from it since 1915.