The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-12
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Continued good reports come
from the Arcturus Iron company
property, which is the western
most prospect on the Mesaba
range and only 12 miles from the
Mississippi river. There is said
to be about 100000 tons of ore
shown up, and the quality of the
most of it is said to be fine. Work
has been carried on all winter
under the direction of Capt. John
Mailman one of the pioneer ex-
plorers of the range. There is
as yet no railroad running to the
property, but it is but q few
miles from the line Of the Du-
luth, Superior &: Western, a part
of the Canadian Pacific system,
and assurances have been given
that the road will build in as
soon as needed. The probability
is that the mine viii be given
railroad connection and enter tho
market as a shipper the coming
season.
On Thursday afternoon last, at
shortly before six o'clock, Dan,
iel and Celecti Melchori we're il.
stantly killed by an explosion of
dynamite~~at the Genoa. The
exact manner in which the acci-
dent occurred is unknown, but it
supposed that Daniel Melchori,
who was carrying a half dozen
sticks of dynamite into the drift
where the accident occurred, in
some way dropped or carelessly
exploded q stick. His body was
blown to atoms. Aside from the
two men killed, others we're
slightly injured. Deputy Coro-
nor Coons held an inquest the
following day, the jury return
ing a verdict of accidental death.
The remains of the unfortunate
victims were inferred in the Vir-
ginia cemetery on Saturday.
The employees Of the Zenith
mine, after waiting for several
months for past due wages, very
quietly quit work Friday. Some
thing like 100 men are affected
by the walk out. The Zenith
had just lately been working two
shifts, and more active opera.
tions have been going on the last
month than any single month
before. 1t is hoped that the lit.
tie difficulty between the men
and the company will be adjust
ed and operations again resum-
ed. The company has in the
neighborhood of 10000 tons of
ore in stOck.-Herald.
A dispatch to Thursdays Chi
cago Record from Lansing, says
that President Barter, of the
Michigan State Federation of
Labor has returned from Nor.
way, in the upper peninsula,
where he had been for some time
investigating the condition of
the striking Aragon miners. He
says that fully 1000 people are
on the verge of starvation, many
of them having been living for
some time on one meal a day.
The Legislature will be asked to
make an appropriation for their
aid.
The case of the Ainslie Lard
and Mining company against the
Ohio Mining company, ct al, was
dismissed on Saturday last by
stipulation, the :matter having
been settled. Ainslie was the
original owner of the land in
question, on which is the Ohio
mine near this city. DR.. Fred
Barrett secured a lease from him
and formed the Ohio Mining
company. The suit was to annul
the lease on the ground that de-
fault had been made in it's con.
ditions.
The Thomas Iron company, the
new owners of the Aetna mine at
Mountain Iron, will strip and
ship great amount Of ore from
the property this season. 1t is
also safe to say that employees of
the new company will not be
called upon to settle wage claims
at fifty cents on the dollar, as is |
reported in a recent issue of a
Duluth daily to have been the
settlement obtained by employees
of the jack pot operating the
property heretofore.
Two miners, Matt Mattson and
Dominick Reghetti, were instant
ly killed at the Newport mine at
about ten o'clock last Friday
night. The men were working
in room in G. shaft, when a
cave in occurred, burying them