To Reclaim The Mine

iron Mountain, Mich., Oct. 6.- Water has been turned into the new channel dredged for the Michigamme rlver for the purpose of reclaiming the Mansfield mine, which was flooded several years agro, drowning twenty-seven men. The enterprise has proved even a greater success than the projectors anticipated, for a large body of Bessemer ore has been discovered in the old channel. Six inches below the sand covering of the river bed was a body of ore. A system of trenehing was instituted, and the body was traced nearly 300 feet. A width of thirty feet nas Deen determined, but before the exploratory work was well under way a sand bar formed at the mouth of the new channel and the water backed up lnto the oíd river bed, again submerging the find., A sample of the ore has been analyzed for iron. It is very rich. Whlle the chemist's figures are not available, it is staled no other mine in this district produces ore that approaches it in volume of iron carried. It is Bessemer ore of the flnest quality.' The depth of the deposit has not yet been tesled. While it is possible that the deposit is in the form of a thin capping, such a oondition is not in the least probable. The body has every appearance ot a clearly deftned vein and there seems to be little doubt In the minds of those interested that such it is.