The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-14
NEWS FROM THE IRON MINES.
INTERESTING NOTES RELATIVE 70
OUR PRINCIPAL INDUSTRY.
Mesaba and Other Iron Ranges.

| Mesaba and Other Iron Ranges.
The Mine Workers. Progress
i've Union. which seeks to enlist
oil the miners in iron and copper
properties in the Lake Superior
district, has been gaining in
strength very rapidly during the
past several months, the work of
organization having been kept
up steadily after the Marquette
range strike. The accessions
have been chiefly on the Menom.
iuee and Gogebic ranges. In
creased wages, an eight hour
day, and the abolition of the sys.
tenn of employing physician by
the company, and assessing all
miners so much per month for
medical attendance, are among
the chief aims of the union.
The Cincinnati was unfortun.
ate in it's eastern connections
last year. Ridgely and Stuart,
owners of the North Cincinnati,
who also handled the product of
the Cincinnati, have gone into
the hands of a receiver. Their
embarrassment led to many en-
tanglements which involved the
Cincinnatis and caused the long
delays in making payments to
the laborers. It is understood
that the Cincinnati will soon
make a sale of this seasons pro-
duct to other parties and that
funds will hereafter be forth
looming regularly ever month
Range.
1t is probable that operations
will soon be resumed at the Gin
cinnati mine. The mission of
County Surveyor Davis to BIZ
wabik last week was for the pur
pose of laying out the stoclpile
grounds so that advances :Iay
be secured for the seasons ship.
ments. Choppers are now at
work getting out wood to feed
the boiler furnaces and every
thing points to a resumption of
mining soon. It was expected
that the remainder of the money
would be paid out this week, but
it has not yet materlalized.-
Range.
The option recently taken by
the Lake Superior Consolidated
Iron Mires0on three forties of
the ::Mesaba Chief property, on
%. 57-22, is for three and one
half months. Explorations
made two years ago showed a
good body of Bessemer ore, and
it is believed the deposit is 4
large one. The Mesaba Chief is
about ten miles beyond the Ben
nett-Longyear holdings and the
farthest to the west of any Me-
saba properties.
The preliminary work at the
site of the proposed ore dock Of
the new Lake Superior & lsh-
peming railway, above Mar
iquette, is under way. The dock
will extend 100 feet from the
shore and will have two hundred
pockets. The deck will be 81
feet above the level of the water
and 50 feet wide. and will have
six tracks. The approaches
will be $500 feet long, with dou
bic track.
The Canton stockpiles are
growing quite preceptibly these
days and at A shaft there is a
considerable stock of the grade
known as Climax. It is said to
be very desirable in furnace
practice. About 800 skips per
shift are now being hoisted.
Nothing is doing yet at G shaft
and the contracts are making
; slow progress with the railroad
spur to the shaft.-Range.
The Minnesota Iron company
recently closed contract for a
lease with Sibley & Bearinger,
for the rw4 of sw4 and sw4 ol
nw4 of section 20, 63-12. being
eighty acres of the origina
Blackstone claim. The royalty
to be paid by the Minnesota 1ror
company is 80 cents per ton, anc
the minimum output:is placed a
i 1000 tons. An offer of $3.50,
o 900 cash for the fee title to thu
land has been refused.
It is stated that the Minnesot,
Iron company, the Northwestern
: Contract company and F. A
:. Bates have lost the contract ot
the Hale mine and that the fee
owners are about to lease tht
property to other parties. W
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