The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-09-13
NEWS FROM THE IRON MINES.
INTERESTING NOTES keaoLATIYE TO
OUR PRINCIPAL INDUSTRY.
Mesaba and ether Iron. Ranges.

Mesaba and ether Iron Ranges.
A suit has been brought ii
district court by the Cant>n Iror
company to enjoln the Biwabih
Bessemer company from convey
ing and turning upon the lands
of the plaintiff the waters in a
certain dam or raVine near the
plaintiffs mine. 1t is set forth
that the ore deposits of the plain.
tiff at the location named are
very valuable, and that great
damage will be done if the de-
fendant is permitted to carry
out it's plan in connection with
this stream.
Some 4500 tons daily are row
going forward from the Lone
Jack, day shift only being
worked. From this property
the total shipments for the sea
son will aggregate about one.
half million. From the Oliver,
operated under the same man.
agement, the ore sent forward
the early part of the season, aid
which will represent the entire
seasons output from the prop
erty, was slightly in excess Of
125, 600 tons.
At the Sauntry one new pit
has been commenced since our
visit a week ago and it is the in,
tention of the management to
start two or three more so soon
as possible. Pit No. 80 has been
sunk to water at a depth of SO
feet, while water was encorn-
tered in No. 81 at a depth Of go
feet. Pit 10 is now down sc
feet and No. 20 is down SO feet,
both being still in ore.
The Enterprise is informed
that we were in error in an arti-
Gle in a recent issue in which it
was stated that owing to trouble
with water and clogging chutes,
it was likely the method of min
ing at the Auburn would be
changed from mailing to under
ground. We considered our in
tortnant perfectly :reliable-oth. J..
erwise the statement would not
have found space in our columns
The Dunn Mining Company.
at the head of which is the we'll
known firm of Corrigan, McKin>
ncy & Co., of Cleveland, has this
week closed a deal with the own
ers of the Northern Chief Iron
Company, by which the syndi-
cate secure control of the Ger
mania, Minnewawa, Windsor and
Pence, on the Gogebic.
The Drake & Stratton com,
pany will soon receive another
steam shovel for use at the Bi-
wabik. which will make four
shoyels employed on their con-
tract at that mine. Their three
shovels at this place, two on the
Ohio and one on the Lone Jack,
will be run as late into the win
ter as practicable, as will also
those employed at the Biwabik.
H. H. Porter, general manager
of the Eastern Illinois and presi-
dent of the Minnesota Iron com
pany. and J. H. Chandler, gen.
eral solicitor of the D. & l. r.
r. r. and Minnesota Iron com
pany, accompanied by Mr.. Great.
singer, have been visiting the
company's properties on 5he two
ranges during the week.
There are four pumps working
in the new shat at the Canton,
throwing out about 1000 gallons
of water per minute, and a fifth
pump arrived today. With this
volume of water, sinking is nee
essarily a very slow process
The shaft is now 1875 feet deer
and about Il feet of surface re-
mains. Range.
The Duluth & Iron Range roat
has just let to Barnett & Record
of Minneapolis, the contract fo1
building a % stall addition tt
their Two Harbors round house
This will increase the number O.
stalls at Two Harbors to SO.
Hon. Neil McInnis was III tn
city Wednesday evening. II
conversation with The Enter
| prise scribe he stated that tn
explorations on the McKinle.
townsite were showing up a nic'
body of ore.
The Ohio is shipping from 81
to 40 cars per shift, but has bee1
working day shift only part o
the past week, owing to the ina
b1lity OF the railroad company t.
supply cars.
r. is the intention of the man