The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

5 WESTERN MINING NOTES. 5
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The Fern Gold Mining and Milling
company, near Nelson, +. c., has declared
dividend of $4,000.
The Ming Solomon mine, near johann
nesburb, Pa. at a depth of 315 feet, is
producing free milling ore showing $1,000
to the ton.
The Yellow Jacket at Arastrayille.
Cal. has a ledge of gold ore that goes as
nigh as $500 per ton, while the average
Is over $50 per ton.
A number of companies are being
organized to engage in coal mining near
Saginaw. Estimates of the total Amount
OF land leased run from $4,000 to 10000
acres.
Adams Springs, Lake county, Cal, is
excited over a gold discovery made in IL
we'll on the ranch Of Martin Stearns. The
ore is said to assay $5.672 in gold and 800
i'll silver to the ton.
John Lewis of Portland has made n
cleanup on his Leland placer mine, near
Ashland, Or, which has been hig hly sat
iSfactory to the young capitalist The
ground averages $4,000 to the acre.
In q letter from Taiya dated january
Is mention is made of the return of a
party Of eight from Dawson City with 500
pounds of gold. Some of the nuggets ex-
hibited We're as large as Oregon apples.
The richest gold strike ever made in
Mexico is reported from the Conception
del Orc district. state of Cohahuila The
ore assays $42,15O in gold per ton and the
vein is six feet wide. Salvador Malo is
the owner of the mine.
Rich ore has been struck at a depth
of 400 feet in the Roanoke mine near
Stockton. Cal. The ledge is ten feet wide,
containing considerable free gold. and is
free milling ore. Some of it will assay
5000 a ton, and some as high as $1,000
Dividends to the amount of $146,OOO
have been declared in January by the
Cripple Creek mining companies. The
dividends of the Independence and Doc
tor mines, not included in the estimate.
will bring the grand total up to $500, 600.
In the Arlington mine at SLOGAN, B.
T., strike has been made consisting of
solid foot of clean ore that averages
1900 ounces of silver and 3 per cent lead.
1t was made in the lower drift, 100 feet
below the surface, and the drift is in 25O
feet.
Prom the Rand district in California
comes report of the discovery of rich
gold ore in the William J. Bryan mine
The rock was found at depth of 20 feet
and in all 400 pounds We're taken out.
That extracted assayed at the rate of
$4,000 to the ton
Activity around Eldora, COL, has been
stimulated by the sale of the Village Belle
u the Mayham Investment company of
Denver for $4,000 And still more re-
cent sale. is the Enterprise Bobtail mine
to the Eldora Enterprise Gold Mining
company for $lOO,OON
In the Bohemia district near Cottage
Grove, Or, Charles Bruneau tunneled IS
feet and struck ledge 10 feet wide, 4
SS>..t l.
that assays 100000 to the ton. The re-
manning feet contains free-miling ore
that assays $500 to the ton.
In cross-cutting the ledge at the Be-
nanza mine, near Baker City, Cal, big
body of high-grade ore was opened up
and stream of water uncovered suffi-
cient for forty additional stamps. Here
tofore water had to be purchased, and the
strike is Invaluable for the mine.
The Reddy mine ut Lead. s. D., has
shipped to the Deadwood smelter fifty
tons of ore which it is expected will run
close to 800 in gold per ton. Ore speci-
mems of wonderful richness from this
mine are being exhibited. A number of
them assay as high as 100000 in gold to
the ton.
-One of the most important strikes
made in Il mine in Butte, Mont. for a
long time was that made in the Nppur
by the Montana Ore Purcha sing company
when forty-foot lead Of copper ore was
cut through on the south cross-cut at the
;No,foot level. The high-grade ore in the
lead runs Is per cent copper and well up
III silver.
Finds of rich gold ore on Louise
s sfpeet;;, Upper Jaml-QF-Joe creek, Grave
"+erk and Oscar creek in Oregon are
reported by correspondents. Three mug
Iets taken from the Brass Nail gulch
nine, on Upper Jump-Oh-.Joe creek
weighed $13S, $685. and $3.50, respec-
lively. and several other pieces that
weighed from 81 to $40.
In the Cripple Greek district the
Boyle lease on the Lucky Guess has re-
markably rich strike in an up-raise from
the 13O-foot level A six-inch vein of
huorine stained quartz was cut which
shows free gold in profuse quantities.
Assays on the entire lead range from
$500 to $4,000 per ton. Fifty tons of $50
ore and fifteen tons of $3.50 ore will be
marketed in a few days.
On Admiralty island, Alaska, a ledge
of copper and gold forty feet wide has
recently been discovered by Juneau pros
pectOrs. who are endeavOrng to interest
capital in their find. The ledge extends
from salt water to the summit of the
mountains, and is traceable for about
mile The surface assays go from So
to Sc per ton. The property is about
twenty miles from the Treadwell mine.
One of the biggest deals in Klondike
mining property was consummated at
Seattle a few days ago Six claims, To-
Gated on Bonanza, Sulphur and Dominion
creeks and French gulch changed hands.
The total amount involved in the trans
action was $2O0,00O. The purchasers are
Il. J. McCune of Salt Lake, Utah. and
Eugene J. Short of Spokane, who acted
for themselves and for Spokane and New
York parties. Chris Neebur and Carl
Hunt are the sellers. Neebur is an Iowa
boy.
Mrs. Edgar of Tacoma, Wash, has
received a letter from her son, who start
for the Klondike but stopped at some
small island, has struck a rich digging
that he says will pay them all $50 day
Accompanying the letter was small can
vas sack filled with gold dust, valued at
nearly 500. Just where the island is he
were sent from Juneau. Mr.. Edgar says
he expects to come down in May or June.
and, as he can work every day, he will
have nearly $1,000 worth of gold by that
time.
-Wyomings newly discovered gold
fields on the banks Of the Grand Encamp-
ment river have just received most i'm
Black Hills gold district of South Dako-
ia in the form of a report from the as
saying laboratories of the Edgmont and
Union Hill Smelling company of Galena.
S. D., and mining men believe that it will
be the cause of an exodus from the Black
Hills into the Grand Encampment within
the next few months that will vie with
the Klondike rush into Alaska. Careful
assay at the laboratory of the Wyoming
State university shows as high as 73
ounces of gold per ton.
Suicide Among the Germans.
Another social phenomenon has been
laid at the door of the Teutonic race of
Northern Europe; one which even more
than divorce is directly the concomitant