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Dossier MRPOO EO RL eeee 77 50 Chandler Iron Company..........eeeeeeees 25 00 38 50 40 00 Chicago and Minnesota Ore Company...... 10000 2 kaseeeees 100 00 deckpon ME CO MIIUTY «cose 00. vopesnaonnass BN res csgenay 110 00 ke Superior Iron Company..............0. ry 8 acsees. oa SoueayaNs Minnesota Iron Company...... séésideccescesee 100 GO 80 00 83 00 Pittsnure | Lake Angeline Iron:Co.ii... 9 25:00) ile) cease ae POM MORIIATIY. oko ieccivecces css sss 25 00 25 00 27 00 MUNIN rea che Forde cnn sss 64 oo) 6iseuseies cnaascnes “EAS Chg mt ema hea Tr eae ame ey epee we Bae ROE Og 25 9 og SO Wee ei: siginiess Eiht ESA NS SSB a ae a ag 25 00 2 00 2 50 HALL OF MINING, WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. - _ Next to the transportation building, which will contain the marine exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition, will be lo- cated the hall of mines and mining, the steel work of which will be constructed by the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Com- pany of Cleveland. On account of the great mining interests of Lake Superior, the exhibit of this department will be of special interest to the lake marine with which it is so closely connected. The cantilever system as applied to the roofs has never been used on as large a _ scale as that planned for this great structure, which will cost $350,000. The style of architecture of the build- ing is classic, and its dimensions are 700 by 350 feet. The ee tet =a —t —— Mines and Mining Building, view taxen trom Nortn-west height to the main cornice is 65 feet. There is an entrance on each side of the building, the grand entrances being at the north and south ends., These are 110 feet high and 32 feet wide, each opening into a vestibule, 88 feet high and elaborately decorated. At each corner of the building there is a pavilion, 68 feet square and go feet high, surmounted by a dome. A balcony 60 feet wide and 25 feet high, encircles the building, and leading to it are eight stairways. The roofis of glass, 100 feet from the floor. The great interior space is one story high, 630 feet long and 230 feet wide, with an extreme height of 100 feet at center and 47 feet at sides, and is spanned by steel cantilever roof trusses supported on steel columns placed 65 feet apart longitudinally and 115 feet and 57 feet 6 inches transversely, thus leaving clear space in center of building 630 feet long and 115 wide, with two side divisions, each 57 feet 6 inches wide and 630 feet long, leav- ing the central space encumbered with only 16 supporting steel posts. The cantilevers are of pin connection to facilitate erec- tion. The inner aud higher ends of the cantilevers are 46 feet apart and the space between them is spanned by riveted steel trusses with an elliptical chord. These trusses are designed so as to form a clear story 12 feet high, with vertical sash extending the entire length of central space—630 feet ; this space terminat- ing at each end with a great glass gable setting back 60 feet from front ends of the building. The wide spacings of the cantilever necessitated an extensiye system of longitudinal perlines of the riveted lattice type, 7 rere) ONS [} emergent TM 8" ml ge With no announcement of dividends and little in the iron market to attract attention, the trade in mining shares is very dull. We hear ofone sale of too shares of Chandler at $39. The price is low and is one result of shareholders getting tired of waiting for a dividend from a company that has paid nothing ina full year,although its business is supposed to be in excellent con- dition and it is expected that there is at least $15 a share in the treasury. The call for the meeting of stockholders of the Lake Superior Company on Dec. 23 says that the directors deem it for the best interest of the company to organize their terminal track, equipment, rights of way and buildings into a separate organiza- tion to be owned by the Lake Superior Iron Company, and to purchase any additional equipment necessary. Also to open the section 21 and control dock space at Lake Erie ports to handle the company’s ores as expeditiously and economically as possible. The shareholders will vote on a new issue of stock at par to fur- nish funds for the building of the two new boats under contract and for these additional undertakings. Shipments of the Gogebic range mines from Ashland on Oct. 21 (these mines are also shipping from Escanaba and by rail) were as follows: Ashland 229,755 tons, Aurora 77,269, Tilden, No. 2, 5,221, Tilden 23,194, Montreal, south vein 55,- 054, Palms 30,687, Section 33, Bessemer, 36,738, Carey 87,040, Trezona 15,759, Germania 22,382, Iron Belt 1,506, Mount Hope 91,701, Norrie 237,896, East Norrie 104,270, Comet 8,050, Fed- eral 929, Eureka 12,752, Pabst 83,061, Ruby 913, Sunday Lake 52,225, total 1,164,694 tons. Onthe same date the Ludington mine had shipped from Gladstone 119,743 tons and the Hamilton fw id i- 50,585 tons. ‘The output of the Vermillion range, also com- puted to the 21st inst., included 454,043 tons from the Minne- sota mine, and 332,555 tons from the Chandler. “Ihe Messembria, better known among local mining men as the South range, is receiving considerable attention of late,” says one of the Ashland papers, “and the prospects are that the coming season will find the Wisconsin Central syndicate and many others conducting exploratory work in the vicinity of Butternut, Wis., about 20 miles south of Mellen Junction. Mr. Wm. C. Butler, assistant manager, and N. O. Lawton, mining engineer of the Central syndicate, have made several visits to the Butternut district lately, and it is understood they were well pleased with the indications at the explorations being conducted by the Michigan and Washtena companies.”’ The Schlesinger mines at Negaunee—Buffalo, South Buffa- lo, Queen and Prince of Wales—are expected to show shipments of 500,000 tons during the present season. Work at these mines has probably been more active than at any point in the Lake Superior district, and still the quantity of ore in sight seems greater than at the beginning of the shipping season. The East New York mine is a Marquette range property that has made a very good showing during the present season, its shipments of the first grade of ore footing up to the present time about 40,000 tons,