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26 MARINE REVIEW. | * [June 20, CLERGUE ENTERPRISES AT THE SAULT. A SUMMARY OF DEVELOPMENT WITH WATER POWER PROJECTS AND IRON MINES--PLANNING FOR AN OUTPUT OF 400,000 TONS OF ORE. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., June 18--More new Clergue works at this point, based upon the sulphur reduction processes discovered by the experiments of the company, are about to begin operation. These works include a sulphur reduction works, that will take the sulphur out of the pyrrhotite ores, owned by the company, and collect the fumes for use later in mechanical and chemical processes. They also include works for the manufacture of this sulphur into commercial products, such as sul- phurous anhydride, sulphite liquor, sulphuric acid and the like, and a sul- phite pulp mill. This is an immense structure, now done, and almost ready to operate. The company has a 100-ton mechanical pulp mill in operation, and has been selling a ground wood pulp made therein. It will hereafter make a mixed pulp, putting into the ground wood a per- centage of sulphite pulp for the various requirements of the paper trade. Connection is now being made between the two mills, and the proper mixing machinery is being installed in the mechanical mill. Pulp con- taining any required percentage of sulphite will be delivered to paper mills. The company has no intention of going into the paper making trade at any time. : On account of the great withdrawal of water from Lake Superior upon the completion of the canal on the Michigan side of the rapids, which is now 90 per cent. completed, there might, probably would be, a gradual lowering of the water level in the great lake, that in time would have a serious effect upon navigation and kindred interests. In order to avert such a catastrophe the company, with the expectation of ap- proval of the war department, is now giving to contractors plans for a steel and concrete dam to cross the river at the head of the rapids. It will be commenced the coming winter and pushed to completion. It will be about half a mile long, with heavy concrete piers at frequent inter- vals, connected by steel gates and shutters. As the power canals of the company increase and take more and more of the water flowing out of Lake Superior, the dam will be closed tighter and tighter, and finally it is intended that the present rapids will be bare. By recent government concessions and grants this company has se- cured additional immense acreage of land, both timber, farming and min- eral, The newest grant is that for the Manitoulin & North Shore line. There are now grants of land for the various sub-companies of the Algoma company that amount to about 5,500,000 acres. Vast tracts of this is woodland, and of this much is the finest spruce and hardwood. The spruce will be used for paper and lumber and the hardwoods will be cut for charcoal making. The company has therefore grants of land that insure material for its industries for a long term of years. Contracts have just been made for the erection of two' large blast furnaces, to be capable of operating with either wood or coke fuel, and these are intended to use charcoal, to be made from woods of the grants. Tests are now under way of new processes for the carbonizing of wood so as to save as much of the byproducts as possible and still leave a fuel of great efficiency. These tests have shown a charcoal hard as coke, porous and of high grade. Byproduct ovens to make sufficient fuel for the entire blast furnace plant will cost several million dollars. These fur- naces are designed to feed a steel works now under way and which are expected to begin making rails in the coming autumn. An open hearth plant will be erected as soon as the rail mill is completed. These steel mills, and other plans for additional works that are not yet announced, will require considerable ore. They will need a mixture of ores to produce a good metal. The Helen mine is a very large property. It is likened by the Ontario bureau of mines to the vast deposits of Michi- gan and Minnesota, and is probably the only deposit so far developed in 'Canada that can bear such distinction. It has a cube, as shown by drillings and explorations, of 200 by 400 by 1,000 ft. If this is all ore it is a very large deposit. It is not a Bessemer ore at present, though the deeper borings show Bessemer at lower levels, and it does not run so high in iron as the Lake Superior shipments have averaged in past years. Its advantage is that the rail haul is but 12 miles, all down hill, over a road owned by the mining company; that the lake haul is short; that the ore is exceptionally good for furnace work, and that it is of as high grade as many ores that are now being shipped and that will be accepted as ex- cellent in the future. This mine lies upon a wall of banded magnetite and jasper, under a capping of siderite, both magnetite and siderite run- ning well in iron. It is a surface deposit, is easily mined, easily crushed and quickly shipped. The Josephine mine was discovered by diamond drill explorations in a valley some 11 miles distant from the Helen, the drillings having been determined upon after an examination of the float mineral by Mr. E. V. Clergue, manager of the mineralogical department of the business. It is apparently a large deposit of Bessemer ore of good grade. It will be opened at once and will ship some little ore this year perhaps. A railroad has been graded to the mine, leaving the Helen line below Lake Talbott and running along at a lower elevation across that lake. This line is railed and bridged for a part of its length and will be cumpleted as soon 'as the rails can be brought in. At the Helen they are installing a second crusher and will operate the two as well as a steam shovel for the rest of the season. They expect to ship about 400,000 tons this year, and have shipped about 30,000 tons to date. The ore dock at Michipicoten is a unique affair. It has but one track and no pockets. It is of the length of about one steamer. It will be enlarged this year, not by an extension to the dock proper, but by storage tracks in the hill at its base. A number of twelve-car spur tracks will be put in, each capable of holding 600 tons in ore cars. The cars will be brought down from the mine and stored in these spurs instead of ore being stored in dock pockets. When wanted the short trains will be shunted to the dock and unloaded, the place of one string of cars being quickly taken by another. It is believed that the short haul from the mines, the few | BEDI RAMEN TID RAW RATION EBL IWAN = \\ Gillender Building, Nassau and Wall Streets, New York City. 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