The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15

& will be put on the coming week
H Considerable trouble is still ex
4 perienced with frost. the grouno
!. being frozen to a depth of six
feet from surface.
Winston Bros. & Dear have
put about 60 men at work on
0 their stripping contract at the
: Mahoning. 1t is the intention of
, the contractors to run a day Shift
only this season, using two or
three steam shoyels in the work.
G. A. ST Clair of the Sparta
mine says that the furnace men
this year report that they are
able to use of. the better grades
of Mesabe ore larger percent
age than heretofore. They will
be able to use from so to so per
cent in many cases. Experiments
calculated to bring about the
use of a greater per cent of Me-
saba ore have been in progress
! for some time.
| About 20 Duluth, Mlssabe &
Northern cars are loaded with
ore daily at the Franklin mine.
Some ore may be shipped to the
dock tho latter part of the week.
Nc boats are looked for at the
dock before the Goth inst. It is
said that the Corrigan boats will
be amongst the first to arrive.
The Duluth, Superior & Western
road will not begin shipping ore
to its dock on A!louez bay before
the Goth. News Tribune.
The local management Of the
Franklin, acting under instruc.
tions from Cleveland, commence
ed pumping water from the
Franklin shaft Saturday last,
and active work is expected in /
that shaft as soon as the prepar-|
atory work is complete. At the
Bessemer about rs men are EN-.
ployed, and about 20 cars daily
are being forwarded, the ore be |
ing shipped as hoisted, and a
large additional force must be
employed at the group when &C :
tive shipping begins. At the
Franklin and Victoria shafts
some $4,000 tons of ore is in
stock, left Eover from previous
workings. No news of the re-
ported sale of the group was OBJ
tainable at local headquarters,
neither could aught be learned
:ofthe prospects of work at. the
Victoria shaft this season.
At the Commodore much work
looking to the placing of that
property among the leading ship
pers of the range is Econtemplat.
ed and in progress. From 80 to
100 men are employed at present
and shipments from No. 8 shaft
commenced Wednesday. At this
shaft some $4,000 tons of ore is
in stock, taken out during the
past few weeks in the opening
and development of the mine
from the bottom of the new
shaft. Contractor Sweeney has
been doing an amount of dia-
mond drill work in the explora.
tion of the ore body, and on
Wednesday added the second
drill. A new shaft will at once
be sunk, located at point about
'::s50 feet south of the new No. 3, |
and the men are already uprais-
ing from the 175 foot level for|
same. The Commodore ore is
Of an excellent grade and finds al
ready market.
The report that the Consoli-
dated is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the Penobscot mine at
Hibbing is not credited in min
ing circles, because the proper
ty is not one that the Rockefel
Ter combination would be apt to
covet. It is so situated that it
practically drains all of the
mines in that vicinity, and the
expense of keeping it free of
water is so great that it cannot
be operated economically, and if
there is anything that the Con-
solidated is not looking for on
the Mesaba range just now it is
mines that cannot be worked
save at high cost. AS the re
port is based on the fact that
officials of the Missabe road ex.'|
amined the property and made
some measurements presumable
for side tracks, it is possible
that Eddy Bros, owners of the
mine, are negotiating a freight