Title: Diamond Drilling
Photographer: Walter Harvey
Subject Headings: Persons, Miners, Woody Plants - Trees
Condition: Good
Description: The first necessary item to be given attention in diamond drilling back in 1915 was the installation of the boiler. Here a group of drillers are assembled in the foothills of the Porcupine Mountains of Ontonagon County preparatory to diamond drilling for the Cole and McDonald Co. of Virginia, Minn. Hurontown's Walter Harvey indicates that the drilling was for the White Pine Co. It is known that the Extension sank a shaft in this area and it likely was this company and not the White Pine Co. which preceeded the current White Pine of Copper Range. [Image of two men standing next to the boiler which looks like it could belong to bootleggers of the prohobition era.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Robert Skuggen
Date of Photo: December 12 1970 Greensheet Edition
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 12 cm x 18.8 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-033-005-001
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
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