The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-08
MINING NOTES.

The Silver mine in Crook county, Or.
is reported sold to Washington capital
lists for 81, 100000.
A New York company has bought
the Guerigo mine, near San Pedro, Sina
loa, Mex, and some other properties neal
Tapisco, for $150,000 gold.
Copper has now taken place in the
procession of Utah metals, and there are
mining men who believe that with deptf
the lead will be entirely replaced by it.
An important strike is reported from
one of the Black Hawk group of mines
at Randsburg, Kern county, Cal. The
vein is Is inches wide and runs SIS 8
ton.
Spokane reports the sale of the Bun
ker Hill in the Sumpter district, Or. t(
a Canadian syndicate for 100000. The
property is to be foated OH the Montrea
market.
On Seashell inlet. Georgian straits
B. c., a lode, traceable for over mile
shows copper ore that assays from 40 t.
so per cent. copper and from 60 to &C
ounces silver.
The camps in Atlin district, Alaska
are reviving, and within the past month
100000 in gold dust has been taken out
the largest amount by any one individual
being $4,000.
1t is reported from Big Bug creek,
forty miles from Fresno, Cal, that a
man named York has made a rich placer
strike there, the dirt panning out SO to
the pan and averaging 500 per day.
Word comes from Jerome, Ariz., that
rich strike of copper sulphurets was
made in the News company's property
south of Jerome. The Decatur company
operating near Jerome, also struck a
large body Of copper ore.
Cripple Greek sends word that the
cross-cut on the 800 level of the Modoc
on Bull Hill has entered new vein run
ming parallel to the old lead. A ship
ment of selected sack ore is said to have
averaged $1,000 to the ton.
The Mountain Side Coal company
owned by Helena capitalists, has made
an important strike in it's property half
mile east of Chestnut, in Gallatin coun-
ty, Mont. The company now has ten
feet of good, clean coal, and has not yet
pierced the vein.
August was the banner dividend
month for Cripple Creek companies. The
total will exceed 100000. On or before
September 3 the Stratton Independence
Limited will pay monthly dividend of
$15O, 900 dating back to May 1, or $780,
now aggregate $9,OOO,00O.
The mining property at Nye City,
Mont, owned jointly by the Minneapo-
lis Mining and Smelling company and
the Saltwater Mining company, was sold
last week to New York company for
100000 The property consists of nine.
teen quartz claims and 4SO acres of
placer ground In the southwestern por-
ton of Sweet Grass county.
Large outcrops of copper bearing ma
terial have been discovered east of the
Cortez district, in Nevada, and not far
from the Eureka and Palisade railroad.
At camp fifty miles south of Battle
mountain a ledge has been discovered
and number of locations made, the ore
showing II to % per cent. copper. Sc to
500 in gold and about 80 ounces of silver
to the ton.
The Portland syndicate operating on
Prince of Wales island, Alaska is in a
mountain of ore. The face of their tun-
mel, now in 40 feet, is showing good
values, and it is solid ore from mouth to
face. On the opposite side of the same
mountain, within 1000 feet of tide wa.
ter, they have struck body of copper
ore from two to three feet wide that as
says over 500.
Nearly every copper mine and smell
ter in Arizona is being worked to its
full extent and the railroads are now
hauling seven and eight times as much
ore as they did in 1896 and 1897. A
dozen men in Arizona who were worth
100000 in copper-mining properties two
years ago are mllionaires now, while
everyone who had any sort of work
able copper claim year or two ago is
worth. thousands Of dollars more now
than before the copper boom set in.