MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



poor man's game, however, putting down deep 

 drill holes. Carbons, for the diamond drilling 

 are nearly as expensive as the brilliants, and it 

 will cost many thousands of dollars to get a 

 single hole to a satisfactory depth. Often the 

 ores occur in low lanas where water is trouble- 

 some .and needing money to care for. It needs 

 combined capital to find mines and to develop 

 them after they are located, but it pays those 

 who can raise the money and who can get the 

 ore. 



The Cascade range of Marquette county af- 

 fords a rare field fur intelligent prospecting 

 with the drill. The formations here are quite 

 regular and it seems reasonable that there 

 should be ores at depth. The rocks are right, 

 and they are strong. The diamond drill has 

 been employed here to a very, limited degree, 

 and not long enough to give the country any 

 thing like a fair testing. 



Like many other places, there are lean ores 

 outcropping, and this should be looked upon 

 a> one of the very best indications for better 

 ores at greater depths. In such places it 

 -reins that money could be well employed in 

 putting down holes to disclose the formations 

 at depth. The search should be continued un- 

 til the iron ore bearing rocks give out, or until 

 the holes are bottomed on formations known 

 to underlie the ore. In Ishpeming we know 

 the diorite forms the bottom of the ore-holding 

 troughs and that it is useless to look for ore 

 below this poin,. 



In the Gogebic range it was once thought 

 that the dykes cut out the ore and that there 

 could be no ore below them. This has proved 

 fallacious. There have often been found a suc- 

 cession of dykes, and ore has been found under 

 what is known as the principal dyke of that 

 district. There are breaks in the dyke through 

 which the ore was deposit in solution. In- 

 stances of splendid discoveries of ore have 

 been made in such places. The Newport has 

 found rich ores at depth and other mines close 

 by have added materially in reserves of ores 

 from levels recently opened. 



The Vermillion, Minn., iron ore range is an- 

 other that has proved important deposits at 

 more than the ordinary depth. At the Savoy 

 and adjoining nroperties deep shafts are being 

 operated to mine the hard ores found with tke 



drill. 



At the 'Champion mine, of the Marquette 

 range, the ore makes to great depth, this being 

 the deepest mine in the iron ore districts. The 

 Champion is made up of a succession of lenses 

 that pitch to the west, and the ore makes 

 deeper as they follow it in that direction. The 

 diamond drill was very useful in this property, 

 The developments at 'he Champion suggest 

 that there is a possibility for the finding of ore 

 still further west and it may prove that large 

 and valuable lenses will be discovered. 



At the old Humboldt and Washington prop- 

 erties there is a chance that the ore will be 

 found downward a long distance further than 

 anv work yet done in the mine has reached, 

 and it may result that the quality will improve 

 as it has in the Iron River district. 



The miners are \vaking up to the importance 

 oi dee]) drilling and there will be a lot of work 

 done along this line in all the ranges where the 

 rocks lie at angles common to our Marquette 

 field. Ispheming Iron Ore. 



Starting Seedling Collections on Their Way After Packing. 

 (Courtesy Conservation, formerly Forestry and Irrigation.) 



STANDING TIMBER ESCAPES. 



Fred A. Diggins. \V. L. Saunders and Joseph 

 Murphy, of Cadillac, took a 55-mile automo- 

 bile ride into Selma, Boon and Antioch town- 

 ships, Wexford county, to ascertain to what 

 extent forest fires are doin"' damage to stand- 

 ing timber, owned by their companies. They 

 found that stories of fires throughout the 

 county are not overdrawn, that the fires are 

 doing much damage, but not to standing tim- 

 ber. The gentlemen found evidences of some 

 homes having been burned, and of a large 

 quantity of bark and wood being destroyed, 

 but they do not think that any good timber 

 will go, for the reason that it is green, and 

 because all the lumbermen have had their men 

 cease cutting timber and go to fighting fire. 



In a few places in Boon township fire got into 

 Cummer-Biggins' timber, but a large enough 

 force of men were on hand to check the flames 

 quickly. Until a heavy rain comes it will be 

 necessary to keep men fighting fire. 



LOGGING OPERATORS PLANNING. 



One of the prominent Lake Superior lumber 

 contractors, speaking of the prospect for the 

 coming season, says that in about two or three 

 weeks' time the crews for the coming winter will 

 be organized and work will start. Of course the 

 active lumbering will not commence until the 

 snow arrives, but the contractors will begin to 

 prepare their roads and railways as early as 

 possible. 



When asked as to the prospect for a heavy cut, 

 he said that the present indications are that the 

 cut will be small. Although the timber is still 

 standing and it would be possible to cut as much 

 this year as in any other, the prospect is for a 

 small cut. Most of the large mining companies 

 and large consumers have already secured a 

 stock of timber which will last them for sev- 

 eral years and the demand will not be large 

 enough this year to warrant operations as ex- 

 tensive as those in former years. 



Men will be plentiful this year, but not as 

 easy to get as they were last year. The men 

 available are not the trained woodsmen of the 

 past generation, but with the advantages of 

 modern ingenuity they will be able to do the 

 work in a satisfactory manner. The skilled 

 lumberjack of years gone by is rapidly disap- 

 pearing. 



MILL TO BE REBUILT. 



The Northern Cooperage & Lumber Com- 

 pany's mill, recently destroyed by fire at Glad- 

 stone, is to be rebuilt. It will be equipped 

 with more modern machinery and will have 

 increased capacity. The work of construction 

 will be pushed vigorously. The old mill was 

 in operation a'bout fifteen years, and has been 

 one of Gladstone's most important industrial 

 features. 



keep a crew of men busy until about Dec. 1. 

 Logging operations will not be started until 

 there is a material improvement in the lumber 

 market. In the meantime the company will 

 get its network of logging roads constructed 

 well in advance and will 'cut the cedar poles 

 from some of the land which will be logged 

 when work is started. 



OPERATING AT FULL CAPACITY. 



G. A. Bergland's mill at Bergland, is oper- 

 ating at full capacity and considerable lumber 

 is being shipped. Keeler Bros., who have been 

 operating a portable sawmill at Covington, 

 have decided to permanently locate at Ewen, 

 and will install a saw, planing and feed mill. 

 The Trout Creek Manufacturing Company's 

 sawmill at Trout Creek has nearly finished its 

 cut. The shingle mill will then be placed in 

 operation with stock enough to keep it busy 

 well along into the winter. This plant re- 

 quires about the same number of men to oper- 

 ate it as the sawmill and by following this plan 

 the same crew is furnished employment nearly 

 the year around. 



WILL EXTEND LOGGING ROAD. 



The Greenwood Lumber Company, operat- 

 ing in Ontonagon county, has made arrange- 

 ments to construct eleven miles of logging rail- 

 road this fall and lay the steel upon five miles 

 of it. The lines are being staked out by Will- 

 iam Hannah, woods superintendent, and con- 

 s^ruction work will be started in a very short 

 time. It is figured that this railroad work, will 



USES A TRACTION ENGINE. 



The logging operations ot the Peninsula Box 

 & Lumber Company, of Menominee have de- 

 veloped a unique and at the same time suc- 

 cessful method of hauling timber during the 

 summer months. A traction engine with a 

 string of fourteen or fifteen wagons loaded 

 high with timber, has been a frequent sight 

 in the town of Beaver, where the operations 

 are going on at the present time. The com- 

 :>any is logging the short timber that is ship- 

 ped to the Menominee plant to be sawed 

 nto box lumber. During the winter months 

 the usual logging methods are followed, but 

 during the summer months the big traction 

 engine is pressed into .service. The engine 

 akes the place of from thirty to forty horses 

 and is in every way satisfactory. 



Mershon, Schuette, Parker & Company, of 

 Bay City, bought a block of several million 

 feet of good lumber at Duluth some time ago 

 and one or two cargoes have been received. 



The biggest pile of white pine stumps ever 

 seen in Alcona county burned the other night. 

 There were 1,300 stumps in the pile, and the 

 reflection could be seen many miles. 



