Narrative of the Tenth Annual Meeting. [Volume: 8, Issue: 5, 1889, pp. 274-289]

No. 5.]

CHARCOAL IRON WORKERS.

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a pitch of about 30 degrees. The largest of these bodies has a
horizontal length of 2500 feet, and a maximum width of 130 feet
in the middle, from which it gradually narrows to pointed ends.
To the east of this is another lens, which, in the sixth level, shows
a length of 550 feet, and a maximum width of 100 feet. Farther
east of this, in the belt of Jasper, the third ore lens occurs, and has
a pretty regular length of 100 feet, and averages 20 feet in width.
The mine is at present worked on the 'filling system.' The ore is
a soft blue hematite, containing about 63 per cent. of iron and
0.07 per cent. of phosphorus."*
The mine was first opened in 1880, and the shipments since then
have been as follows:
SHIPMENTS OF IRON-ORE FROM THE CHIAPIN MINE.
Tons.
1880,........... 34,556
1881,.......... 134,521
1882......... 247,506
1883,........... 265,830
1884,.......... 290,972
1885,........ 157,455
1886,........ 198,871
1887........... 336,128
1888,........ 272,278
Total,. 1,938,117
Returning to Milwaukee the party disbanded, gratified to have
formed pleasant acquaintances or cemented former friendships, enthused with the prosperity, energy and growth of the Northern
cities, surprised with the magnitude of the commerce of the great
lakes and its possibilities, and overwhelmed at the extent and importance of our Lake Superior mining interests as exhibited by
visits to six of the great ore producers.
THE.Iron Age gave a very full and detailed description of the
late meeting of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron
Workers, and liberal abstracts of papers presented, Mr. Geo. W.
Cope, associate editor, having given the matter personal attention.
* Vide Transactions American Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. xvi., page 119.
"The Chapin Iron-Mine, Lake Superior." By Per Larssen.