The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-10-20
business during the two days he
remained with us. Besides ma
king a bargain for the old Kim

business during the two days he
remained with us. Besides ma
king bargain for the old Kim.
ball which we note in another
column he secured control of the
Parks and Erikson option on the
land next south of the Voos find.
OF the Hooper and Dunn options
northeast of the Voos and upoI
the Parks ard Roberts option
west Of the Armenia. Work waG
started on the last named lands
Thursday.
Foley Bros, the St. Paul con.
tractors who are at present en-
gagged in building the Virginia
Extension of the Eastern Mime.
sofa, have secured the contract
for building the mammoth new
ore docks to be constructed by
the Great Northern at Alloue,
Bay, Superior. This dock IS te
be one of the largest on the
Great Lakes, and Will be some
seventeen feet higher than Other
ore docks. II is the intention tc
have the dock in readiness fo1
the opening Of navigation mex
season.
The Oliver Mining company
has taken an option on the prop
erty on the Vermilion range,
known as the Sheridan home
stead property. 1t is in section
5, 81 IA, and is owned by John
Semer of Escapaba, Mich. Un-
der the term of the option the
company is to take out a mini.
mum of 100000 tons a year, and
the royalty is 20 cents a ton.
The land is about five miles from
the Duluth and Iron Range rails
road, and is near Tower.
The American Mining Co. re>
Gently purchased of Capt. Harry
Roberts eighty acres adjoining
the Pillsbury, at Hlbbipg. de-
scribed as the south half of
northwest quarter of section 20,
So 20. Explorations on the pro-
perty have proven the, existence
Of q large body Of ore. Capt.
Roberts retains control Of an 80
adjoining, the west half Of the
southwest Of the same section,
which will be explored and de-
veloped the coming winter.
The outlook for another season
continues to grow brighter, and
tlasprediction~4is>~-;sllr sllrsady~=made
that 18, 900, 600 tons Of Lake Su-
per!or ores will be forwarded du
ring the year 1900. The sale of
a block Of Mesaba ore within
the past ten days at $500 at the
mine is Indicative of the present
state of trade.
Treasurer Green, of the Amer
lean Mining company, W. J. Rat
tie, of Cleveland, and others con-
nected with the American Steel
& Wire company are in the city
today. A Geo m p an e d by
General Manager Montague
and u. M. Philbin they view the
Mountain Iron. Fayal and other
range properties.
LOUIS Roch'cau, one of the pi-
oneer mining men of the Mesaba,
has been on the range this week.
Mr.. Rochleau is at present dong
some testpit exploratory work on
81, 58.17, north of the city, and
also looks after other property
interests with view Of develop
ing same.
The Roberts has shipped some
10000 tons ore this season. a
force of about 80 men being em~
ployed. A scarcity of LABOR is
reported from this property,
where men are at present needed
badly to load from stockpile.
Capt. Harry Roberts, Of the
Colonial Mining Company came
over from Hibbing Yesterday.
Capt. Roberts feels good oyer
the outlook for iron, as we'll as
over the prospect for his individ
ual holdings.
Price Mckinney. of Corrigan,
Mckinney & Co., Cleveland, &C.
companied by Supt. Pearce,. of
the Commodore, returned We'd
nesday from an examination of
western Mesaba property.
General Manager Nelson P.
Au!st. of the Oliver Mining COM
pany, now has d neat private
business car in which he travels
in his visit to the various mining
properties under his charge.
The North Cincinati, owned by
the Thomas Furnace Co., reop-