The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04


The Sonora railroad has contracted
with the BoieO company Of Santa Rosalia,
Mex, to meve 1S0O0 tons of copper
matte and bullion per annum.
"A returned miner from Alaska states
that rich quartz rock has been discovered
on Deadwood creek, which is estima ted
to run as high as $4,000 to $4,000 to
the ton.
The Gold Blossom mine, at Ophir,
Placer county, Cal, has yielded $40
900 cleanup after months run The
Morning Star mine has declared a tivi-
dend of SIS per share.
The Salt Lake Tribune announces a
strike in the Old Jordan and Galena
mine. The ore uncovered assays As per
cent. lead, 90 ounces silver and a half
ounce in gold per ton.
A Nevada man reminds tile Califor-
mans that gold was first discovered in
California January Is, 1913, and that
making the 18th the anniversary is a
mistake. The question has long been
in dispute.
%. T. Chisholm of Bohemian, Mont.
has purchased the Great Eastern Exten-
sion. Montana Chief. Imperial, Great
: Western, and Great Western No. 2
quartz lode mining claims in the Emf
grant district for $1S,OO0.
--Ex-County Commissioner McCrossin
OF lnez. Wyo.. claims to have discovered
4 ledge of copper ore that win run nearly
90 per cent. copper. The location is
about twenty miles west of Douglas, De
velopment work is being done
There is great deal of difference be-
tween the copper mined in Michigan and
that mined in Montana. The copper
taken from Marcus Days big mine is
but poorly adapted to electric work, be-
cause it has greater resistance qualities
than the Michigan copper.
The Consolidated Gold Mines COM
it has in sight upward of $4,000 tons
of ore, sufficient to keep. the new forty
stamp mill running for more than FIVE
years. The average of the ore, discard
ing the rich assays, is $4.33 per ton
The Black Maria, the oldest quartz
mine on the Alaskan coast, has been sold
by Dick Willoughby to the Thomas In
vestment company of Seattle for figure
over S1OO,OU0. says the Juneau (Alaska)
Mining Record. The Black Maria was
located twenty years ago. 1t is a group
of eight claims.
Between 1892 and 1896 the Central
Pacific, California and Oregon, and
Southern Pacific roads patented in Cali
fornia over % O0, 900 acres of land. It is
the belief of most of the Miners associa-
ton that 5OO,O or 6OO,O acres of this
land is mineral land and is therefore held
fraudulently by the railroads. -
The Gsssaseli4attedG Gold Mines COM
pany. Butte county. CAL, estimates that
it has in sight upward of 100000 tons of
ore, sufficient to keep the new 4Ostamp
mill running for more than FIVE years
The average of the ore, discarding the
rich assays, is $4.33 per. ton, while it is
worked at an expense of 1925 per ton.
Michigan copper men are Investigate
ing the merits Of several groups of pros
poets on the northwestern coast of. Tex
ada island, B. c., With view of invest
ment They find conditions there similar
to the copper region of Lake Superior,
and ii they can agree upon terms will
put large force on and begin develop
ment.
In the Nelson division of the SLOGAN
district, B. c., the shipments of ore, bull
lion and copper matte for the week aggre-
gate nearly 1900 tons, bringing the total
up to $7;S91 900 for the year up to date.
The total product of the district will ex-
coed $S,OOO,OOO, which is an excellent
showing for this portion of the province
for 1897.
Specimens Of copper ore from Rapid
river. ldahO,- compare favOrably with the
finest product of the best mines of Lake
Superior. The copper is in the native
state, evenly distributed through the rock,
and can be concentrated at very little ex-
pense. The ledge from which the speci-
mems came is 1900 feet wide and has
been traced several miles.
w. e. Renshaw, who recently Sc
cured the Newton mine at Idaho Springs,
Col, has come upon ten-inch streak of
ore running from ten to seventeen ounces
gold per ton and about 100 ounces of sill
YER. The owner of the Joe Reynolds
mine at Lawson has made good strike
of mineral in the seventh level that will
run 5000 per ton. The owner is Jay Nor
ton of Chicago.
The announcement that the Everett
& Monte Cristo railroad was not to- be
rebuilt, which came from the headquar-
ters of John D. Rockefeller, owner of, the
road, did not strike the terror into the
hearts Of SnehOmish county mine owners
that was anticipated. It simply warned
them that another attempt was to be
made to freeze out. the owners of the
smaller mines. along the railroad.
The Salt Lake Tribune records a
strike in the Cornucopia mine, located on
Treasure. HILL in the Silver CITY division
of the great Tmtic mining district Four
feet Of ore has been exposed, showing the
presence of as much as ninety ounces
silver and 50 IN gold, while in the same
body Is found an arsenical copper which
yields as much as II per cent in that
metal.
II The Gypsy Queen Gold Mining COM
pany, composed Of Chicago business men
that city, have closed contract with the
Missouri Dredges company at Kansas City
for an elevated dredge an immense affair
which is to be attached to the bow of a
steamboat now building in Chicago and
which it is intended to ship west within
thirty days to be sent to the Klondike.
a-According to advices from Cripple
Creek the Campbell lease on the block of
the Little May, south Of the Howell lease,
has opened up what seems to be the south
extension of the Little May ore chute.
The ore came into the shaft3at q depth of
50 feet and at last accounts there was a
body OF 219 feet across. A sample of sew
eral hundred pounds was tested and the
returns showed value Of over $500 to the
ton. -.
There; are noW four shipping mines
granite aGd the seruptiye formation of
Battle moantain. three of. which are bo-
nanZas. The Cripple Greek district is
continually revealing new and interesting
studies, but none of them surpassed this
contact. The ore deposits have been
found lying deep in the granite, with not
shipping 100 tons q day of $40 ore. =
Large lodges Of copper and gold ores
nave idLtly Decn uncovered Oh liTHf1la.
Annette and RevillagigedO islands on the
southeastern Alaska coast Prospectors
declare these, together with Mary and
Prince of Wales islands, to contain noun.
tains of rich ores that will make their uIti-
mate possessors immensely wealthy. Solis
Cohen, just returned from the islands,
declares that hundreds of thousands of
tons can be milled or shipped to smelters
without sinking shafts. =, .f.+sssg r. ;ts %
In the Omineca country, British CO
lumbia, the Mayfower company has
made a strike on Tom creek. which Is
about 125 miles from Hazelton, the head
of navigation on Skeena river. The COM
pany has located the river on both sides
for over two miles, and finds the pay
gravel eight feet thick and giving returns
Of 81 rs to the pan on bedrock, while the
acreage above bedrock il from, $2 10 Sas