Mine: Kimball Mine, Crystal Falls, MI

Junietta Mine → Kimball Mine → Became

Operated for 8 years.

From: 1907

Location: E 1/2-SE Sec. 29 of T43N-R32W

Owned by: Corrigan McKinney & Co.

Produced: Iron Ore, hard, red, high phosphorus. Crushed.

Method: Underground, by stoping method. Depth: 344 feet.

Railroad connection: C&NW to Escanaba dock.

Until: 1915

Lifetime Production: 35,757 tons between 1907-1915

Source: [LSIO-1950]

Notes

The Kimball Mine was explored by various companies beginning in 1882 with iron ore finally shipping in 1907 by Corrigan McKinney & Company. [MINDAT] It was located in Crystal Falls along the Shafer railroad branch, in Iron County.

Property description: E 1/2 of SE Section 29, T43N-R32W which is the 80 acres between N46-5-13, 46-5-39, W88-19-32 and W88-19-51.

Also known as the Juniata Mine in 1890. [DD-1890-0118]

Time Line

1887. March. The Kimball mine was opened less than three months ago, but the vein of ore, which is of excellent quality it is said, for a length of 1,320 feet. The principal stockholders are gentlemen connected with the St. Paul (MILW) road. Naturally they feel very jubilant over the fine prosects of the mine. [DD-1887-0305]

1887. March. A new plant of machinery has been ordered for the Kimball mine. [DD-18o87-0326]

1887. April. Work at the Kimball mine goes on favorably, the main shaft has attained a depth of ninety feet in clear ore and will be lowered at least sixty feet more before navigation opens. [DD-1887-0409]

1906. The "dry" at the Kimball mine caught fire and was burned to the ground. The structure is being rebuilt as fast as possible. [DD-1906-1201]

1907. February. Engineers for the C&NW were in Crystal Falls during the week and established a line for a spur to the Kimball mine. The spur branches off the Columbia mine tracks at Irving Jackson's residence and strikes off SE towards the residence of G. Urban, following in the main the present road from the city to the Penola plains. It will cut diagonally across the vacant lots in the Schwartz addition and has but one bad cut, that near the Urban residence.

The Milwaukee established new line to the Kimball several months ago and figuring from the fact that the company branched off from its own line west of the woodenware factory and now that the C&NW is established its own line from its own tracks, one is led to believe that the policy of joint tracks, theretofore pursued by these two companies in this locality is about to be abolished.

There has been much dissatisfaction over the joint track arrangement as the company that is to keep the track open generally consults its own uses of the track in doing so thus hampering the other company when that party wishes the use of it. This condition is especially noticeable in the winter time when the big snow comes and the heavy costs of keeping the track open results. [DD-1907-0202]

1907. April. Quite a stockpile has accumulated from the development work carried on during the winter. Just when shipping will commence from this property is not known. No move is being made by either railroad to build the necessary spur to give the mine an outlet. The St. Paul has over a mile of track to build and the North-Western fully a half mile and, allowing of the greatest dispatching being made with these extensions, it will be well along into the summer before the tracks can reach the mine. [DD-1907-0413]

1907. April. A contractor has been awarded a contract by the Corrigan-McKinney people for the erection of ten houses at the Kimball mine. Eight are the same size plus a large boarding house and a larger captain's home. The mine is right in the heart of the city. [DD-1907-0413]

1907. The CM&StP will put in an overhead crossing on the Kimball mine line where the railroad crosses the road below the mine. [DD-1907-0803]

1907. Alvin Richards, who has charge of the surface work at the Kimball, had a ticklish job to superintend last Monday when he moved a 15-ton piece of crusher from the railroad to the mine. Five teams of horses were required to haul the trucks containing the piecer. [DD-1907-0803]