Drilling Contest

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Title: Drilling Contest
Photographer: J. T. Reeder
Subject Headings: Contests - Drilling Contests, Manpower, Persons
Condition: Good
Description: Drilling Contest - Calumet vs. Butte [Number 1 in a series of 11 photographs entered on separate records depicting a drilling contest held in Calumet in 1912. Please see comment section of this record for more information.]
Source of Description: Reeder Negative Database [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Harry Reeder
Date of Photo: August 30 1912
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 10 cm x 13.7 cm
Polarity: Negative
Image No: MS042-065-999-Z796A
Collection Name: Reeder Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• The drilling contest held at the Athletic Park was actually a fund raiser for the benefit of the Calumet baseball team. Twenty-one two-man teams and seventeen one-man teams entered the drilling contest providing an excellent opportunity for those unfamiliar with mining to see how the miners work, as the drills were rigged up and operated in exactly the same manner as if they were underground.The contest marked a new departure in drilling contests in two ways. It was the first time a contest for machine drills was ever attempted and the first time a hammer and drill team working by old fashioned methods competed against modern compressed air machines that were doing almost all of the work at that time.According to the Sunday Mining Gazette dated August 25, 1912, the Ahmeek Team won the drilling machine match. C & H Amygdaloid Teams, Second and Wolverine, Third in Two-man contest. [Further information on this event and a list of contestants can be found in The Calumet News and Daily Mining Gazette newspapers dated August 23, 24, 25, 1912 editions.]
9/22/2010 10:26:30 AM by Christine Holland, Archives