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When Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. asked the Federal Power Commission fortnight ago for permission to build a 2,346-mile, $21,470,000 pipe line north through unpiped country to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the United Mine Workers and various coal companies were swift to protest (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week the coal-men had new cause for worry. Also lured by the low-grade ores now lying undug at Mesabi for lack of cheap fuel to smelt them, Public Service Gas Co. of Montana asked FPC for permission to build...
Although K. P. L. & G.'s application stressed the communities its new line would serve, the company hopes to find a pot of gold at the end of its modest rainbow. The extremity of the projected line will reach the Mesabi Iron Range, richest in the U. S., whose ores now go to the blast furnaces of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. However, Mesabi has also much low-grade ore which has not been considered worth shipping out for smelting. K. P. L. & G. hopes by bringing a low-priced fuel to the site of Mesabi's low-grade...
Gilbert (pop. 3,500), on the Mesabi Range of Minnesota, is a town without visible means of support. Its three iron mines are closed. Most of its employed inhabitants are on the public payroll, supported by local taxes on the closed mines. Some 175 are on WPA. The village employs another 150 as policemen, firemen, street cleaners, librarians. The school board gives jobs to 55 teachers, some 200 janitors (one for every three pupils), each of whom works three to ten days a month. The Gilbert Herald is supported by $4,000 of public printing work...
...Congress was of a different mind. In 1855 the first locks were completed and passed sailing ships carrying 1,447 tons of ore. Boomed by the Civil War, iron mining spread into new ranges in the West. In 1892 the greatest iron producer in the world, the Mesabi Range, was laid open to the grunt and whoosh of steam shovels...
Symbolic was the fact that last week the first freighter out of Duluth carried not ore but scrap iron. Since mining began in the Superior region, more than $3,000,000,000 worth of ore from the Mesabi alone has been transformed into the iron & steel of heavy industry. In 1929 the U. S. Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell...