The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-25
WESTERN MINING NOTES

a discovery of coal has been made
near Sterling, Col. where coal now sells
at from So to IS per ton. :,
1t is reported that the King Solomon
mine at Johannesburg. Cal, is turning
out $1,000 ore al Il depth of 315 feet.
1t is now claimed that the gold output
of the Cripple Greek district for 1893
will not fall far short of $2O.OOO,OOO.
-Great strikes Of gold are being made
in the Chuckawalla district, which is
80 miles northeast of Salton and $50
miles from Los Angeles, Cal.
.-ENperts have examined the Rand dis,
trict in California, and say that greater
quantity of low-grade ore exists there
than has been found in Cripple Greek.
Jesse Knight. an extensive operator
in the Tintic district. Utah.. is reported to
have purchased the properties of the
Northern Spy Mining company for $685.
600.
"A valuable strike has been made in
the Atlas mine in Sidney basin. Sncffeis
district, near Ouray. Cot. Some of the
assays run as high as $4,000 in gold to
the tUN.
kiycu county, Cal. pockets Of gold have
been taken out that aggregate in the
ntiyhborhcod of $4,000 within the last
two months.
The Pioneer group of six gold claims,
San Bernardino county, Cal, has been
sold to NJ. w. Clay and D. y. Jackson
of Missouri for $4,000. An English
company has bought the Dale group for
$45.NNO.
A rich strike has been made in the
NIikadu mine in Raboon gulch, i'll Flor
ence camp Id. At the bottom of s.
foot shaft ore was encountered running
81 per pound The ore is free milling
and highly oxodized.
The copper mining industry in Elko
"n'S > rh" corsr Ss1 ct'o %ear 't thy
Salmon river ar, reported to he rich. An
English syndicate has offered to bond the
Nrl,no property for S65,ON.
The Holmes Mining company, CON
trrlltl Icy London corporation, has
bought 1860 acres. covering the townsite
uf Btffeville. New. the two Northern,
Belle mills, and about 25O.OOO tons of
lailn=s, estimated to be worth 1,25O, 900
The Virginia Chronicle says it is re-
ported that nineteen feet of ore is now
showing ut the point of the new strike i'll
the Riley tunnel of. the Sierra Nevada
The average assay of the whole face is
said to be about SIT L ton, and there is
an eightecn-inch streak that goes as high
It's $50.
-Ntfefdl StIlkelS OF Sulu ore are report
cd from IuahH Springs, Col. In the New.
ton mine ore running twenty ounces to the
ton has been found. \ leaSer in the Gold
Medal mine has struck IL pocket of ore
running 5000 to the ton. Charles Col
lom recently encountered streak of
mineral III his claim OH the line of the
Wilcox tunnel. The assays on Il sack
of the mineral show 3.43 ounces gold and
$40 ounces silver per ton. Another strike
is in the Abe Lincoln shaft. where the
values are said TO reach 5000 per ton.
M. ]. Chambers of the Elk Horn no.
tel at Canyon City. Dr. came down from
tn, ~ recently With several hundred dol
l'rs worth of the richest ore which has
Yet been found IN the state The ore will
assay S:52.Nh to the ton. and was dis
covered within two miles of the city. He
"xhihited Il piece about the size of Il
mans hard which he considered worth
between $50 and 500. The quartz was
diSintrgrated that it was of about the
consistency Of mu,l and crunlbled I'D il,
the hand so that it had to he handled very
carefully. Mr.. Chambers said that out of
f"nr lnun,l> Of quartz be washed So. so
The 'i>s"vtrcr, lkr Gusrr, washed out
about $500 Wort til Of gold from the quartz
with snow water