The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-26
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

The Casper Range Mining company
has sent to Deadwool Il large quantity
Of copper ore from it's mines ut Casper.
Wye. which was 13 per cent. copper,
$2.2a gold and some silver
A cleanup made few days since ON
forty tons OF ore from the golden Slip
per mine, near Hill City, s. d., gave
$1,000, besides Il ton OF. concentrates.
which sampled $11OO. the average yield
being little over $50 to the ton.
"A letter from Elizabcthtown. n. NJ,
brings tidings of Il great ore strike in olt,
Of the mines near there. The letter states
that in the Black Copper mine pocket
of ore was REACHED that ass',yed 100000
to the ton. The letter adds that the ore
looks almost like pure gold
A rich strike of copper and silver
. has been made in the Receiver mine at
the head of Horse canyon, Mont. At
a depth of 800 feet 4 vein of copper ore
was cut through in the shaft which goes
10 per cent. copper and ~ ounces in
silver.
There arc fifty mines in the SLOGAN
and the prediction is made that before
the close of the year nearly 100 mines
will he shipping. The tonnage for 1897
is estimated at between $4,000 and CO.
600 tons, safely averaging 500 to the
ton.
The Alpha and Black Bear mines
near Ssndow; B: G.. have been sold for
Top, Maggie. Nellie 5. and Cody Star
have been bonded to Victoria parties for
$1,000. \ strike of six inches uf ore
asSaying 800 ounces of silver has been
made in the Cordelia.
"A body of ore which assays us high
as $4,000 in gold per ton has been Ell
rountered i'll the Bonanza King, Il Grip
pie Creek property. Assays of ore taken
from the Excelsior mine. in the same dis
trict, assay FROM $75 to $500 gold per
ton, Ore assaying 500 per ton is being
taken from the Galcna. another Cripple
Creek property.
-Deadwoou reports Il peculiar find at
Redfern station. 1t is Il piece of metallic
iron highly incrusted with gold on one
side. 1t seems to be piece of oXytlized
iron, but on examination is found to be
clean. with probably So worth in sight
ON the surface.
The Letter syndicate of Chicago has
obtained Il bond on 4 large group Of
mines in Rlacktail divide, s. D.. for
$25n,NOO for ninety days. Among the
properties in the deal is the Kicking
Horse group. which represents $15o.000
in the option are developed and pro,luc-
ing.
The present output of the great Bull
in,l-Reck that has already paid 81 .9G1,
coo in dividends, is reported at 800 tons
day. says the Salt Lake Tribune. or
this amount it is said that 100 tons will
yield from 20 to 80 per cent. lead and
from 100 to $50 ounces in silver, while
in few days lot of 100 tons is prom
Used that will average at least POO ounces
silver per ton.
Asbestos was recently discovered in
the Occur dAlene district. The deposit
is claimed to be ineNhauStible. It covers
half 4 mile square and would cost little
to work it. Most asbestos now used in
this country comes from foreign coun-
tries especially Canada, where the best
mines are in the vicinity of Quebec
There has also been discovered recently Il
graphite mine, eighty miles south of the
asbestos mine This lies in lodges and is
regarded as very rich in deposit.
According to a letter from Rat Port
age. Ont. the Suitana mine is producing
port is that its sale for $1.5G0.00O has
beer made to a party of EugliShmen
Some 100 tons of rock from the Mikado
mine returned 500 per ton in gold. The
Yum Yum lying close to the Mika,Io. has
been sold for $50, 900 to an Ontario par
~. The owners of the Frazer are said
tn have been offered $4,000 for the
mine and to have refused. The Angeii-
can Mining and Finance company of
London has bought the Cornucopia mine.
on Shoa! lake for $1OOODO The Bath
island mine has been sold to Toronto
parties for $4,000.
A correspondent writing from San
dow. &. c., states that negOtia tons are
pending for the sale of the Alamo, Cum
bcrfand, SLOGAN mill and tramway and
the Idaho mine to an English syndicate
at price approximating $75O.0O0 Since
they came into the hands of the present
owners the Alamo and Cumberland have
earned over S3On,lWO. Tho Idaho has
already paid in dividends $125.OOO and
is paying $2O,OOU monthly. Develop
ment in the lower levels has exposed inl-
mcnse bodies Of ore assaying between
22o and 200 ounces in silver and 60 per
cent. Lead. Several phenomenal assays
were made from crude ore il short time
ago. one OF them running 1925 ounces of
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