Show FIRST IRON ORE SHIPPED 00 CARLOAD SHIPPED F FROM Ol 1 SPRING TO LOS ANGELES FOR TESTS RAILROAD I SPUR COMPLETED AND ORE BIN TO BE THIS WEEK PAYROLL IS IN IN- CREASING 00 Monday the first carload of or iron ore was shipped from the Columbia Steel Company's mines at Iron Springs when a carload was shipped to Los Angeles where tests will be made to ascertain the percentage of iron content It is reported at the mine that a great deal of the ore runs about 70 per cent iron Manager Adamson says that regular regular regular regu regu- lar shipments of ore will now be made to Los Angeles and fronton Ironton The blast furnaces at Ironton are not completed but ore will be stored there therein in immense quantities awaiting the opening The Union Pacific railroad spur running to the mines is ballasted and ready for use The ore bin of ton capacity built above the spur track at the end of the tramway leading into the tunnel is not finished finish finish- ed but is being used to load ore for shipment This week will vill see its completion however According to the manager the Columbia Columbia Co Co- lumbia Steel company is preparing to tomine tomine tomine mine only a small section of its vast holdings at present present present-a a section reachIng reaching reaching reach reach- ing a a. a half mile south and a mile and a half west of the tunel The tunnel is completed and timbered timbered timbered ered for a distance of feet makIng making making mak mak- ing connection with shaft No 10 Shafts Nos 8 11 and 12 are not yet down to the seventy foot level of the tunnel Th The ore bed Is so deep that the bottom has never been reached Since the Columbia Steel company uses compressed air made by means of for running its drills and for ventilating the shafts and tunnels it was necessary for the company company com corn pany to install its own electric transformers transformers transformers trans trans- formers costing several se thousands of dollars Besides the electric compressors compressors com corn the company has gasoline compressors so that nothing need be held up when the power is off Work continues night and day with three shifts in mines and machine shops Manager Adamson stated that the payroll for last month was and that for October it would likely be not including any of the large amount of contract work nr U |