The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-16

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a head of 1900 feet. The total
weight Of the pumps and con-,
densers is 346,0 900 pounds.
Protection and prosperity, aside
from being the war cry of repub.
licanism, make and are subject
to conditions. In the iron indus
try this season there is an over.
strain for cheapness of produc-
ton, which will tend to carry
wage scales downward instead
of raising them to a reasonable
or equitable rate. Wage reduc.
tons are not found on the road
to prosperity, yet nota few have
been announced in the various
branches of the iron industry
since the advent of the new year
At the Commodore work is
being prosecuted with a churn
drill, the first hole, where the
drill is still situate, being at a
point about eighty feet south
from the end of the drift from
the bottom of the new No. 3
shaft. The drill is now down
about 1903 teet. Hard blue ore
was struck at a depth of 100 or
101 feet, in which the drill was
still operating at the time of our
visit to the property on Wednes-
day. ::
The Cincinnati Iron company
has sued for an attachment on
all machinery and improvements
and on all Gre mined on the land
leased to the Minnesota Ole com
pany, and also for an order en-,
joining the defendant company
from removing any of such prop:
erty or from injuring, charging,
incumbering or disposing of any
such property; and also demand
that the lease held by defendant
company to said lands oe declare d
annulled.
W. E Dorwin, the con tractor,
was in the city Monday evening.
In conversation with au Enter
prise representative, Mr.. Dorwin
stated that he intended shipping
$4,000 tons from the Hale this
season, and that active work al
that property would be resumed
about the Goth. This property,
which is stripper, is owned by
the Thomas Iron company, Of
Easton, Pa, and shipped 70,0C(
tons last season.
The Oliver made it's first ship.
ment of ore on Saturday last,
some 60 cars being taken out in
the work of stripping, Active
shipments for the season will
commence tomorrow or Monday,
when stripping will be discon-
tinued. At present a force OF
about 90 men is employed. about
1000 yards of earth being moved
daily.
The Sellers mine, at Hibbing,
has been closed down, throwing
about IS men out of employment.
The pumpmen are still retained
and the mine is being kept free
from water. The shutdown was
upon orders received from the
owaers Of the property, Pitts
burg furnacemen, the cause or
probable duration of suspension
being unknown TO the local man.
agement>
Contractor Gulbranson will
do an amount of stripping at the
Duluth mine, Biwabik, a Consol.
idated property, this season.
The Duluth was formerly oper-
ated by the milling process, bat
has been idle for three years 1t
has been stripped of it's entire
plant of machinery, and will re
qulre an entire new outfit.
Considerable work is being
done on the D. M. & N. tracks,
in the Virginia yard, the road
bed being filled in and the track
raised about two and one-half
feet at the south end of the yard
where a bad sag has caused much
trouble in the past for outgoing
ore trains, A new siding will
also be run to the Oliver
Capt. Phil Scadden, under
charge of whom the Minnewas
property was proven and devel
oped, died some days ago at his
old home in Cornwall, England.
Capt. Scadden was known to
hundreds of people throughout
the Lake Superior district, who
who regret to learn of his de-
mise.
Capt. M. McCarty was in from
the F'ayal on Monday. Asked
relative to the prospect of open
ing the Norman this season, he