2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/6762Date scanned: 2001-10-05.USBM #43748; Timber trucks. Loading is regulated by height of the side bars on the truck; carried higher timber may strike chutes and be pushed back upon the motorman. The cage is shown in the background with the cage door half open. The company requires this door to be closed when men are riding. Telephone signals and directions in case of fire are seen to the left. Negaunee, Michigan.Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.Donor: United States Bureau of Mines.The Athens Mine was an underground iron mine in the Marquette Range, Michigan. Development on the Athens Mine started in 1913 and the Mine was worked into the 1950s, eventually reaching a depth of some 2,400 feet. The Mine was operated by the Athens Iron Mining Company for the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company was formed by the merger of two major iron mining companies on Michigan's Marquette Range in 1891. The Company had a number of mines operating in the Upper Peninsula by the outbreak of World War I. By the 1940s the high grade iron ores mined underground were becoming depleted. The Company developed a process to concentrate low grade ores into iron ore pellets in the 1950s, and C.C.I.C.'s last underground iron mine closed in 1979.Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlCleveland-Cliffs Iron CompanyIron mines and miningMine timberingMinersScenes, undergroundUnderground miningVehiclesStillImage