The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
MINING MINUTES.

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per day are being shipped from
the Mountain Iron property.
Some so men are on the Au
burn pay roll. and shipments O.
ore hoisted are gong forward
daily.
The Sellers mine at Hibbine
has this week been transferred
to the Lake Superior Consoli
dated company. and the royalty
reduced from 80 to 25 cents pe,
ton.
The Norman is at presen,
working in the open pit, a force
of but about so being employed
at present. The stockpile a,
this property will not be shipped
until later in the season.
! Corrisan, Mckinney & Co.. OF
Cleveland, owners of the Com
modore mine, have joined the in
dependent mine owners in their
efforts to secure a reduction OF
ore rail freights from tie Mime.
sofa ranges.
No news of the number of men
employed or the amount of ore
beng shipped from the Franklin
group is obtainable for :publica
ton, but everything around the
properties show activity. Work
in the Franklin shaft was begun
last week, and double shifts are
employed at the properties.
The report of the probable
sale of the Roberts mine, at Me-
Kinley. to the Minnesota Iron
company was given publicity by
a Duluth journal on Wednesday,
but the authenticity of the state
ment is denied. The Roberts is
a good property, and will doubt
less commence season shipments
at a early date.
In district court Saturday
Judge Ensign gave judgement
against W. e. Merritt & Co. for
a number of liens for labor and
material put into the Sparta
mine for the defendants, who
were contractors employed by
the Sparta Iron company a year
ago, and declared the claims to
be liens on the fee interest of
the Sparta Iron company.
| At tho Commo odore some 400
to $50 tons per day is being
mined and shipped, a force of
about 100 men being employed
at present. A new shaft, No. 4
is now being sunk on the pro
perty, located some IS feet south
OF No. 3. This new shaft will
be sunk on a southern incline,
tapping the ore body at a point
almost due east of shaft No. 1.
Dock No. 2 at Two Harbors
which has been entirely rebuilt
and the receiving capacity for
iron ore increased by several
thousand tons, is receiving the
finishing touches, and will be
ready to receive boats the latter
part of next week. The total
cost of the Duluth & Iron Range
ore docks, which are five in num-
Der, amounts to 81, 100000, and
the improvements that have been
, made on different sections foot
up to half million.
It is said that officials of the
Oliver Iron Mining Co. had con-
siderable to do with the racent
reduction in rail rates Oh ore
from Gogebic range mines.
Their Norrie mine and other pro.
perties supplying ore to Carne.
gle furnaces are, of course, a big
factor in the tonnage of old
range ores, probably so large
that they would be prompted to
build another railway in the Lake
Superior region. They are said
to have intimated to the manage.
ment of the Northwestern road
that a railway would be built if
an arbitrary policy was pursued
regarding rates.-Marine Re
view.
About 130 men are at present
employed at the Oliver, and the
great amount of surface work
done at the property this season
under the direction of Capt. Gill
for the easier hauling of ore from
the property rapidly nears com
pletion. Two steam shovels are
employed in stripping and load
ing, the shipment of ore from
the mine for the season having
commenced a week since. In
conjunction with the Oliver crew
a surfacing crew is employ ed by
the D M. & N, in putting In