The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-05-19
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BY the explosion in some .un
known manner of a box or par,
OF = box OF dynamite, used by
the drill crew at the Drake &
Stratton company in springine
holes, six men were injured Mon
day morning, at the Fayal,
At the time about twenty mer
were within q radius of a few
feet OF the box Of explosive, and
that more were not injured is 8
mystery. The, cause of the ex-
plosion:is unknown. but it is sup
posed the crew must have :. hae
some. dynamite exploders, one o.
which was in some manner dis
charged. or that q 4park from 8
passing diukey caused,t 1t. While
the men were badly Bruised it is
said all will recover. +
On Tuesday a speciA bearing
a number of the American Steel
& Wire Co.. visited Virginia and
the new property of that com.
pany' at this point-the Sauntry.
From here the party went to Ely,
President Greatsinger, of the D.
& 1. R. joining them. Among
the visitors were ]. w. Gates.
chairman of the board OF direc.
tors; Vice President L. l.. Ell
wood, Vice President VIM. Eden
born, Of St. Louis. the financial
manager of the company; Gent
Manager W. P. Palmer; Traffic
Manager J. S. Keefe; G. l.. Mil
ler. manager of the company's
business in the Pittsburg district
and Directors James Hopkins
and W. N. Graves.
The first steam shovel was put
at work on the Sauntry Monday,
having been moved onto the
property the previous day. On
Saturday two leased locomotives
for the mine also arrived. one
flom the Northwestern Coal Co.
and the other from the Superior
Terminal and Transfer Co.
Another shovel arrived here
Tuesday and is now being set up
and will be ready for work by
Monday. The company has one
more shovel, q style K. 90 ton
Barnhart, Is come On June '15th,
and three standard guage en-
gines. The mine will be in shape
for shipments in sixty days.
The first of a feet of vessels to
carry Gogebic ore to Desoronto,
Canada, arrived at Ashland on
Friday last. The distance is
1850 miles. The Canadian gov
ernment gives bonus of IS cents
the first year, so cents a ton for
the second and 20 cents the third
Tor manufacturing pig iron and
this has stimulated the purchase
OF American ore. A large amount
will go to Cana3a by rail although
none has been shipped there
from here in thirteen years.
Roger Bowser was killed at
the Adams Wednesday, a falling
chunk of ore breaking the stag.
on which he was standing while
preparing a timber set, the un
fortunate man falling some
twenty feet into a chute and be-
ing crushed and smothered.
About rs to 80 cars of ore is
now mined and shipped daily
from three of the Consolidated
lplnes here, says the Hibbing
News. These mines are employ
ing about 300 men and could fur
pish employment to nearly as
papy more.
; A new find of ore is reported
on lapds owned by Mayor J. D.
Murphy, of Tower, on the Yer
million. The ore is hard ore,
eryhigh grade, and develop.
ments thus far have proven a
valuable deposit.
About rs men are employed al
the Auburn, double shift being
worked. : The steam shovel in
the open pit is doing good work,
present shipments from the mine
being from 1000 to 1900 tons
daily.
.Drs. z. K. Brown, of this ci ty,
and j.. R. Eby, of Mt. Iron, have
been appointed as physicians fo1
the Sauntry mine. The appoint
ment bears date of May 5th.
The Sauntry had it's first pay
day Wednesday. Over 100 mer
are now employed at the prop
erty and q night crew is to be
addod as soon as 1,nssihla.