The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-12
.NEWsFR0M TIL. IRONMlNES.
INTERESTING VOTES REL.4TIVE T0
OUR PRINCIPAL INDUSTRY, q.
Mesaoa and O.he.' 1.on I.anges,

Nesaoe and Other 1*o" Ranges T.
! Messrs. Stevens & Crockett,
who have the contract for strip
ping and mining the Aetna, at
Mountain Iron, have a force OF
about 100, day: and night shifts,
employed, and are making I;
good showing on the start. :..
At the Zenith 70 men are
employed, the only ore being
hoisted coming from the 9th
level, where development work
lis being prosecuted. The main
shaft will be sunk another hun
.drcd feet this season. making
585 feet in all. ..==s% III i .sss>. mi
! The D. & /. r.. have been Civ.
ling all tneir track scales, both
ore and merchandise, a thorough
overhauling under the efficient
supervision of Mr.. Frank l..
Berry, the we'll known expert of
the Fairbank-M Morse company OF
st. Paul. The 100 ton ore scale
at Soudan is said to be without
an equal in the United States.
Jeffrey Bros. of Duluth, who
own considerable land in 10, So
18. north of Mountain Iron, con-
! template a resumption of explor-
! ations on the property.
! Capt. VIM. White, who is in
charge of the Cincinnati, is work
ing a fair force, and from 400 to
500 tons daily is being raised.
The Minnesota mlnesh has COM
menced shipping it's. 100000 ton
stockpile, the loading being done
with steam shovels.
The Minnesota. Iron company
| is conducting diamond drill ex-
plorations on q, 63-12, east of
Ely.
Cole & Mcdonald, the drill
men, have had an upright boiler
Of an entirely new design built
for them by ]. F. Dacey. It
somewhat resembles an upright
Scotch marine boiler, and if it is
a success they will use this type
of boiler with all their new out
fits. .- 8,
t Carnegie, the heaviest con.
sumer of iron ore in the coun-=
try. has bought no ore as yet
this season, having kept busy on
stock purchased last year. He
says he is going to buy at a less
price than has been decided upon
by the ore miners, and 1t will be
interesting to see how he will do
it. Carnegie has valuable mines
on this range and an interest in
one on the Menominee, but these
cannot begin to supply'his needs.
| Supt. Smith has at length
found both the walls of his vein
at the Southall in 63-12 and it is
exactly $50 feet from. wall to
wall, and the vein is easily to be
traced 1900 feet with this aver
age width. Two shafts are being
sunk and as soon as a depth of
100 feet has been reached drift
will be driven to connect them
N. w. Miner and Marine Review.
Capt. T F. Waters, of Duluth,
was a Virginia visitor Tuesday.
Mr.. Waters recently made a sale
of the Little Mesaba mine, in
which he was heavily interested,
and says that in his case the
panic is at an end.
H. H. Green and c.. II. Sanders
of Iron Belt, Wis.,, who have
been looking around the state
the past month, have taken an
option on the Eldorado, in Bing.
ham canyon, which few weeks
ago opened up a fine body OF
ore, They are letting a contract
for inking.-Bingham Bulletin,
Salt Lake, Utah. ...s -.
! Z. M. Boss, OF Bessemer, he's
been appointed as general man
ager of the Corrigan-Rockefel
interests on this and the. Ver-
million ranges, and also of prop
critics under the same control or
the wessern Gogebic. Mr.. Boss
is perhaps one Of the best known
and most competent mining en-
gineers in the Lake Superior
district, and under his able man
agement we predict that thu
properties controlled by thi:
syndicate will be run on an equal
lied and systematic plan, amica
bic alike to the employer ant
the employees. r..
Watc1. Our Smoke. ~
The committee appointed b.
the council as noted in our las
issue, for the purpose of makin'