St. Paul daily globe., 1894-02-13

Special to the Globe.
RAINY LAKE CITY. Itasca County,
Minn., Feb. S.-The plat of Minnesota's
new Eldorado is completed and the sur.
veyors have left for Duluth. The build
ing boom has already set in here and
some twenty buildings. either of log or
frame, are in process of building.
Every available board or piece of di-
menSion stuff which could be secured at
the Canadian saw mill at Fort Francis,
some fourteen miles distant, has been
gobbled up and teams are in waiting to
take away each load as fast as manu-
featured. This is rather an expensive
method of procuring lumber, however,
as it costs SIT per NJ. at the mill and g
duty is exacted on every thousand feet.
In addition to this it costs nearly if NOT
quite SO extra per NJ to haul the lum-
ber from Fort Francis to Rainy Lake
City.
AdyiceS just received from Duluth
bring the welcome intelligence that the
Wilson saw mill will leave that city via
the Duluth & Iron Range railroad next
Monday (Feb. 12), and will be in run
ming order in less than ten days after
arrival. This mill will work three
eight-hour shifts, with per diem ca
pacity OF $4,000 feet. The same courier
also brings information that the second
saw mill will be on the road here within
the next two weeks. This will be quite
an important saving in cost, as it Is eX-
pected that lumber will then retail at
S14 to SIC per thousand right at the
townsite. One hundred and fourteen
buildings of various sizes and descrip-
tions are already contracted for here,
and will be rushed to the roof as soon
as the lumber can be had.
Belrer & Hildreth's 2O-stamp mill for
crushing the gold quartz will be here
within month and will find ample
work right from the start. In this con-
nection it may be stated that the last
assay reaches the enormous showing of
Sl02 per ton in gold. The magnitude of
this figure can be better appreciated
when 1t is known as fixed fact that the
famous Homestake mine in the Black
Hills, which has paid over 1000, 900 in
dividends to Its stockholders since the
formation of the company, has been
working all that time on ore which only
reached So per ton! The Rainy Lake
gold belt. is not, as some people imagine,
a small isolated spot. but is, on the con-
trary, a well defined belt distinctly
traceable for about eighty miles. prime
ipally in Canada, although the richest
strikes have been made on American
soil. The principal formation is IN tale
slate anu considerable is in the form of
decomposed quartz, easily separated
and reduced.
Quite number of prospectors-at
least 200-have arrived here in the last
places are crowded. The Duluth, Mis-
sabe & Northern railroad will next week
place line of stages in operation be-
tween the end of its track at Mountain
Iron and Rainy Lake City, using the
newly made road, which shortens the
distance eighteen miles under any other
route. For those who wish to be rushed
to the new gold fields the Mountain
Iron route will prove the quickest, al
though the Tower road. via Lake YER
million, is quite popular.
Miners are at work on several of the
properties, and the owners are jubilant
over the result.
The site of the new city. in the neck
of land formed by the intersection of
Black bay from Rainy lake. is charm
ing one. and the place has the advant-
age of having rich agricultural and TIM
Der lands TO support 1t in addition to its
uneQualed gold fields.