The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-26
NEWS FROM THE IRON MINES.

IrEEESTIG OTEs REL4TIvE TO
| OUR PRINCIPAL INDUSTRY.
Mesaba aad Other Iron Ranges.
The Vega Iron company, un-
der the management of Goo. A.
St, Claire of Duluth, has tenn
porarily discontinued operations.
The reasons alleged are that the
demands for ore from this mine
have ceased for the present.
The officers seem to think new
contracts will be made in Il few
days so that work may be re-
sumed. They have asked their
men to keep them advised of
their whereabouts so that they
can notify them at the time of
again commencing work as they
desire to retain their men if pos.
sible. The pumps will be kept
running and the mine will re-
main dry. The mine remaining
idle is a serious blow to it's en-
ployees, but from the expires.
sions of it's officers we believe
that within few days work will
be resumed with a full force
Hustler.
The Mahoning stripping, by
! Winston Bros. & Dear, has been
seriously interfered with by TIE
heavy rains the early part Of the
season, out they are now work
ing overtime to make up.
At the Rust the working shaft
is now down about 120 feet and
sinking is going on without in.
terruption. A number 10 Cam
egon and two number Z pumps
are now in place and no further
trouble will be encountered from
water.
The drill hole in which some
thing over 200 feet Of ore was
encountered on the forty east of
the Pillsbury addition at Hib-
bing, says the News, has had to
be abandoned uncompleted on
account Of trouble with the cas-.
isg and q new hole has been
started q short distance from the
one abandoned. The property
is held by Mcssrs. Chisholm,
Longyear and Prentice.
Capt. Prentice, who is oper-
ating on the -. B. Walker prop
erty, section Is, Sc %, has one
drill in operation at the present
writing.
| Another new Prescott pump
with a capacity of 1000 gallons
per minute, has been ordered for
the Consolidated properties at
Hibbing.
Two drills are now IN opera
ton on the Chisholm -Longyear-
Prentice property on section 6.
1t is the intention to continue
operations on this property until
it has been fully explored.
At the open pit of the Noun.
tain Iron company there has been
put in operation'the largest shov-
ell the consolidated company
ever used, a 65-ton machine. It
has been loading ore cars from
the ore body at the rate of 20
per hour, or ten tons a minute.
This record it can keep up and
a fair claim for ten hours work
is not less than 1870 cars. One
feature of this shovel that will
will commend it to Mesaba oper-
ators is the fact that it has a.
dipper lift of 16 feet in the clear
above the tracks, and a very
long reach.
Capt. John Mailman, who is
conducting operations for the
Arcturus Iron company on Sec
tion 13, 1924, reports a fine out
look. He has eleyen pits bot
toned in ore, and has one drill
we'll into the deposit.
Owing to the slack work now
being done at the Virginia group
of mines. one switch engine and
crew, on the D. M. & NJ, were
laid off on Monday, temporarily.
The new shaft at the Aragon
was opened up this week and
> hosting through it is now in
progress. A curtailment in the
force was made the other day
Between 30 and IS men most OF
whom were on "catch up" work
were let go.-Current.
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