The Virginia enterprise., 1897-03-19
MINING MINd7ES.
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take advantage in any way of
the big dock and railway i'm.
provemen:s now under way at
Conneaut until the first of Aug
ust, or probably a little later, on
account OF changes in plans. the
force of these special arrange.
ments for handling Carnegie ore
will be felt by other interests be-
fore the coming season of navi.
CATION is at an end. The new
slip on which modern dock ma.
chlnery is to be erected at Con.
neaut will be $500 feet long and
165 feet wide, and will have, in
addition to a car dumping ma
chine for loading coal, such IA
cllites as will admit of unload
ing 10000 gross tons of ore per
day, most of which will go d.
rectly into cars. The plans are
arranged for unloading at this
new plant two of the Rockefei-
ler ships each day, and it is ex
pected that the cargoes of these
vessels with deeper water in
lake channels will even exceed
5000 gross IONS each. On one
side of the slip will be located
the car dumping machine and an
ore plant of IL rigs, the latter
arranged for direct loading into
cars. On tho other side the
plant will also be of the twelve-
zig kind, but will have storage
facilities. The question of in
Producing electrical power for
the operation of the ore unload
ing machinery has been under
consideration. Contracts have
not as yet been let for any of the
machinery. but proposals will
soon be passed upon, and there
is little doubt anyhow of this
part of the work being in readi.
ness in advance of the railway
improvements Steel hopper
bottom ore and coal cars will be
used or the railway and they
will have a capacity of fifty tons
each. About 200 of these will be
built on first order Tor which
specifications have already been
issued. The cars will probably
cost about 500 each, and orders
increasing the number to about
700 cars will be given later or,
so that the total expenditure on
this item alone will be about
$500, 1000. The new locomotives
will be of a very heavy type, ca
pable of hauling twenty or thir-
ty of the big steel cars loaded.
While it is generally under
stood that the strike is a thing
of the past, the majority of the
men being disposed to give up
what now seems a hopeless un-
dertaklng, there has been no re-
sumption of work a. the Aragon.
Mr.. Smith is in California and in
no condition to talk business, and
the date when work will be re-
J sumed is uncertain. The
! working force at the Loretto is
being gradually increased, and
including the men who are find.
ing employment in getting out
cord wood and mine timber there
must be 200 who have obtained
work since the resumption of op:
erations. The daily product has
not yet reached it's maximum,
about 220 tons day being hoist
ed. The new exploratory shaft
from surface IS making good
headvay.-Norway Current.
Contractor Sweeney, the dia-
mond drill operator, has secured
a contract on the Yawkey prop
erty, just north of Virginia lake,
and started drill crew at work
there on Wednesday. Testpit
explorations on this property
during the past few weeks have
proven the existence of a large
deposit of ore of good grade.
The Calumet and Hecla Co:
has bought the 12o acres of min
eral land lying between the CAL
umet & Hecla and the Tamrack
properties. The price was ex-
actly $500,o00 cash.
Work is progressing favorably
ON the Hale property, hear the
new village of Sparta, which is
being developed by Geo. St.
Clair under a lease from Messrs:
Palmer and Hale.
No QUESTION OF DAr1D's BREED.
An exchange very pertinentiy
remarks: Help a dog out of a
ditch and no matter what kind of
a dog he is-town dog or coun-
try dog, educated or illiterate,
aristocratic or plebian-he will
wag his tail into paralysis to tell