Lake Superior mine safety conference line up at Hotel Duluth
Local mining men from Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota attend the Lake Superior mining section safety conference at the Hotel Duluth in Duluth on June 22 and 28. The program features safety talks from engineers and inspectors, a color film on steel works, banquet with toastmaster Walter F. Gries and a technology exhibit of safety equipment.
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F. S. Crawford
Lake Superior
National Safety Council
Hotel Duluth
Duluth
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
F. P. Cole Found Shot at Pasadena Estate
Thomas F. P. Cole mining executive on the Gogebic range died at 77 from a gunshot in his Pasadena California garden on June 3 after years of ill health. A Copper Country native, he led Oliver Iron Mining Company as president from 1901 to 1909 and earlier supervised Ironwood operations. Survivors include two children Fred.
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Thomas FP. Cole
Gogebic
Pasadena
Calif
Cole
Ironwood
Oliver Iron Mining Company
Oliver Company
California
Fred
Family Ties Span Pasadena Reno and Nevada City
L Cole of Pasadena and Mrs Stu art Williams of Reno Nev. A brother William A Cole lives in Ironwood and a sister Mrs Will Stanaway in Negaunee. Another sister Mrs Alma Sheldon resides in Nevada City Calif. Mrs Cole died six years ago.
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L. Cole
Pasadena
Stuart Williams
Reno
Nev
William A. Cole
Ironwood
Will Stanaway
Negaunee
Alma Sheldon
Nevada City
Calif
Cole
Youth Faces Assault Charge In Anvil
Frank Krakovec, 17, of Anvil, bound over to circuit court on felonious assault with intent to kill after allegedly beating Mrs. Toivo Nelmark in Ramsay to rob her. Bond set at $10,000. He confessed to stealing a purse from Mrs. James Bertolas in Bessemer on Sept. 14, 1938, containing $450 and other thefts. Krakovec was in the Bessemer high school senior class but did not receive his diploma at last Thursday's graduation exercises.
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Frank Krakovec
Anvil
Toivo Nelmark
Ramsay
Ben Novak
Grand View Hospital
Leo Isdebski
Angelo Baldovini
Krakovec
James Bertolas
Bessemer
Mining Notes Use Two Shafts
The Oliver Iron Mining Co hoists ore through the Geneva and Puritan shafts while the West Davis shaft is kept for ventilation and ore is trammed underground to Geneva for hoisting. Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co on the Marquette range shifts to a three day week due to weak demand and high stocks. The sixth annual Western Division Metal Mining Congress exposition will be in Salt Lake City August 28 to 31, with a June 6 program committee meeting led by George H. Rupp of Colorado Fuel and Iron. Gogebic range ore shipped and mined figures are listed.
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A. C. Borgeson
Snyder Mining Co
Chisholm
Stanley A. Trengove
Oliver Iron Mining Co
Hibbing
Manitoba
W. B. Paton
Department of Mines and Natural Resources
Winnipeg
Canada
Dominion of Canada
Department of Mines
R. C. Slye
Superior National Forest
Duluth
H. L. Schieber
Supt
Pickands, Mather & Co
Ironwood
Ira O. N. Swanson
Virginia
H. F. Stewart
Butler Brothers
Cooley Minter
Leonard M. Frazee
Bureau of Mines
George W. Drove
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Pittsburgh
Geneva
Puritan
West Davis
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
Marquette Range
American Mining Congress
Salt Lake City
George H. Rupp
Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation
Pueblo
Colorado
Rupp
Revised Township Mine Valuations From State Tax Commission
Revised figures from the state tax commission show a township mine valuation reduction to 3477,000 instead of 887,000 proposed previously. The 1939 total is 6,850,000, down from 7,327,000 in 1938, with detailed real and personal values listed for Anvil Eureka Asteroid Davis-Gen Eva Roy al Wes Davis Puritan Ironton. Subscribe for the Herald.
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Bessemer
State Tax Commission
Mining Counties Invite Secede From Idaho
Northern Idaho counties including most of the Gem State mining region propose secession from the southern counties. Report traces origin to the north while the south says Idaho can thrive without them. The 1938 valuation of the 10 northern counties was about 111.1 million dollars, roughly 29 percent of Idaho’s total. Coeur d Alene district in the north leads in silver, lead and zinc production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Coeur d'Alene
New Tech Board Member Named for Michigan
Stanley H. Zimmerman of Battle Creek is appointed by Governor Dickinson to the Michigan Tech board at Houghton. He succeeds E. J. Oswald of Crystal Falls who resigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley H. Zimmerman
Battle Creek
Dickinson
Board of Control
Michigan Tech
Houghton
E. J. Oswald
Crystal Falls
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Hen
Gogeric
Richard Peterson
Education
J. M. Roche
Chica
I. D. McNeil
Hercules Powder Co
Montreal
O. D. Bowers
Montreal Mining Co
Wis
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co
Wm. Conibear
Cleveland Cliffs Ron Co
Ishpeming
A. A. Bawden
R. H. Ferguson
Republic Steel Corp
Cleveland
Douglas Tippett
Inland Steel Co
Walter F. Gries
Cleveland-Cliffys Iron Company
United States Steel Corporation
Hotel
M. Fellman
George B. Gerry
Hurley
T. F. Cole
American Iron and Steel Institute
Keweenaw
Davis-Geneva
Eureka
Sunday Lake
Wakefield
The
Herald
Dane Benitan
T. Helsey
Herald Publishing Co
Tives
Besse
the Herald
Bessemer Herald
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