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Show if III "FIELDS ' ai ssppiy eoisT; Striking Data in Report Made for Governor Bam-' Bam-' berger Is on File. Content of Ore Stated to , Be Above That of Lake f Superior Region. j i That the iron Th-lrs of uutlii-m I'l ili. ; given proper d-vf.'lepiiH'nl ;uul Iim iih inrla-tion inrla-tion facMilius, could fl'.-iiiituilc the pU' iron nmrkr-t of the P.ieific .'n.i.s-r. is ilr-nmn- Btr.'itecl by recent i n l si iu;ttlnim nixd-- for ''iovornor Hi'mlK-rr ;i n d hIIut M;r.o officials of-ficials part W-uhirly int-Mvstrd in tho sl:tl';'s industrial enta r-cm.'ii t. The iron ore fields of lion i.-minly are lo-ated. lo-ated. Ciii'i miles soul h of Salt I ;iko and miii's from San 7'orn harlior on the Pari lie coast. The rl-va ion is ::() to 7."i)0 fc-vt, vniher romli(ioi:s beinir fi-vorabln fi-vorabln to all-the-yrar-rouno iron mining opera t ion... The winters are mild, vi I h little or no snow, aiv'l th? Miiiiuncr.s are noi excessively hot. it is stated. Iron ore occurs at the contact of mule-Kit.', mule-Kit.', with either carboniferous linn-stone or cretaceous sandstone. The ore bodies will probably pro to a ret depth on this fr'.'titive -sedimentary contact, the report Says, and the ore occurs as magnetite nnd hematite intimately mixed. Many Big Ore Bodies. The hirger ore bodies, it is shown, are formed by replacement of limeslone. Some ot these bodies ai e the A rinsi romr, the 1 -inrisoy hill, the Pesert .Mf.nind nf the Iron Springs district and the lv,owont orfi bode of the l'into Iron initio dis-1 dis-1 lift. Other lare bodies are the Vermillion Ver-million of the J ion S pri iirs d is trie 1 , ln Mountain I, ion. the Sunburn, the K.nek-bawk K.nek-bawk and Burke of the l'into Iron Maintain Main-tain district, probalily largely ben-atite- lt is estimated that there is lnn.oihl.iinn tons of liish grade iron within "T0 feet of the surface, having an average analysis analy-sis of TS per cent iron. 2 per cent phosphorous, phos-phorous, 5 per cent silica, 3 per ci nt moisture and .05 per cent sulphur. The average iron content of iike Superior ere, as ii rem pari --n;i. is stared to be at present from -10 to T1 per cent, while Alabama Ala-bama iron ore runs from i5 to uS per Millions in Tonnage Paid. Of the tonnage stated as. hein.q- prob- 1 nbly within ".ji'i let of the surface, jt is! thought t hat :iO,(no,nim to o.uoii,fino tons I will be available lor steam shovel operations, opera-tions, for which no stripping of overburden overbur-den will be necessary, the iron ore out- I cropping at the smiaee with no cover j whale-er. H is asserted that mine cost, whether steam :-:lmvel or n udere round, will be as iow as, jf not lower than, that of any similar mining in the iron ore regions re-gions of luke Superior. The statement is made tliat the iron fi-'l Is of iron county coun-ty co nt ai n the la r gest know n L(; linage of 1 undf;veloi)ed iron ore on the North American Amer-ican com ineut. It is shown that i'illsburg plants obtain their iron ore from the Lake Superior d -trict. !l is shipped an averaiz'; clistMin e of pin miles by rad to the Great Lakes, thence down the lakes a distance of ap-proim!.l.elv ap-proim!.l.elv pon miles to Lake Kric ports Mini from LIito i T. i :ni.;; by rail to Pitts-' Pitts-' inirg :;ik1 there converted into pin iron, lit then moves bv rail a dislanc; of to miles to the east coast, is transferred to ; heals and shipped via. the Panama enr.il ! to the vst coast, a distance of some 7aa miles. This conditk n exists, it is said, in normal lime. The present coast supply is derived from the Chicago anil Pitisburg district?, nil-rail shipments being made, upon which freight rales are as follows: Chicago Chi-cago lo Pacific coast. S I :i. $0 to SI ." pr r ton ; Pittsburg to I 'ai ific coast, $ :!0 to .flfl.4'0 per ton. |