The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
WESTERN MINING NOTES

An English syndicate has purchased
the Lead King mine. Cripple Greek
property, for $15O,0OO
The Pythian Mining company of Col
orado Springs has bought the Last
Chance mine on Bull Hill for $25,OOO.
Ore assaying $1,000 ton in gold is
said to have been struck in the Butte
mine Ohnghouse canyon, Washoe, coun-
ty, Nev.
Cripple Greek district, the Gold King,
has declared its first dividend, amounts
ing to $4,000.
-Accor,ling to the Rainy Lake Her
cid a cleanup ut the Golden Star mine
has resulted in gold bricks worth from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The Colorado Springs Gazette re-
ports another strike in the Damon mine.
samples OF the ore asSaying as high
as $3.50 in gold per ton.
1T is reported here that John A.
OF Spokane. have bought the Cornuco-
pia group in Union county, Or, for $780,
600.
From all indications the rumored
strike on the Pinnacle company's prop
crty on Bull hill is not only Il genuine
one. but it promises to be Il very rich
find
The gold production of Mexico for
1S97-9S was $9,925.O 900 and for 1861
for the 1S97-9S period was $67, 525, 900
and for 1S96-97 $50, $4,000.
The Emergency lode ut Turret, COL,
WAS the scene of Il rich strike recently
that has awakened great interest in the
locality. Assays made i'll Denver lately
show an average of $1S6.5O from ore
taken seventy feet along the vein, and
an average of 1925 per ton surface ore.
A man came down to Discovery on
$500 in coarse gold, which he said he
had taken out i'll two weeks on Otter
creek. Bedrock ON this creek is from
five to ten feet down. One nugget he
had went $3.50 and several others
weighed $50.
The Orpha May mine in the Cripple
Creek district has come to the front
with Il find which may put the prop
trty in the front rank of producers. In
the Sullivan lease Saturday some extraor-
,'inarily rich sylvanite ore was found.
1t has the appearance Of being iii an iron
ore. and has copper-stained texture.
If the ore that has just been opened
up in Work territory proves 70, be pres
ent i'll any quantity. the Work company
has bonanza. From this ore assays
have been had running upward from
tied in Colorado City show great blotches
of Sylvanite. some as large as a 5-cent
piece and an eighth of an inch thick.
President George Bernard has in
part told the story Of the wonderful
wealth of the Elkton mine in the Cripple
Creek district. In the fifth level of that
old-time favorite there is now being
sacked on each and every shift rock that
is worth from 81 to $40 per pound and
better. Alongside of this great mineral
there is big body of medium grade ore
There is great excitement at Spo-
kane over repeated rich strikes in Re
public camp, on the Colville reservation,
Washington. 1t is now demonstrated
that the gold belt is at least seven miles
long and three miles wide and in that
area rich ore chutes are being discovered
almost daily. From an 1S-inch pay
chute on one claim the assay return was
$3.50 per ton in gold
The new goldfelds in Idaho, in the
Buffalo Hump district. will. if reports
prove true, be close rival of Cripple
Creek. Capitalists from Spokane have
invested heavily in the district, and one
Wollistin. who erected the smelter in
Custer county, Col, is the possessor of
several claims, and not long since sold
the Mammoth for ST., 500.
A vein of ore 1 inches wide has been
- encountered in the Fannie Rawlings
mine City Fifty fifty ffouf
sacks have already been taken out. The
values show 20 to 80 ounces in gold
...,., 100 ounces of silver. There are
eighty tons of sulphide ore on which the
mine samples show values of six ounces
of gold, fifty ounces of silver and Der
cent copper. There is plenty of this ore
in sight.
Colorado has new gold-mining
camp called Dawson City and located
five miles southwest of Canon CITY. on
the Denver l. Rio Grande road. A
strike was made in mine called the
N"ET'vr .1r..rs,, uIsCOvereU as
sayed $4324 and $1G,41S. The vein is
) feet thick. 1t has been traced be-
miles west from Copper King. It is nro-
bounced fifteen miles long.
The Rhode Island Copper companv
of Houghton. capitalized Mt s., 5OO.OlM
has filed articles with the Michigan ser,
rotary Of state. The property is valued
at $sOO.OOO and $500, 1000 of the capital
has been paid in. The incorporators are:
Thomas +. and Henry Mason of New
l"rk; Charles }. Devereaux, Isaac II.
William r. Todd of Morristown. \. l.
and samuel B. Harrison of Hancock.
"A strike is reported in the Crowned
Nlng NINE near Prescott, Ari. The ore
on exhibition weighs about three pounds
and IS of partially crystallized white
quartz, carrying spar, lead and SULPHUR
cts free gold predominating, however,
Ar authority says that the free gold car
res at least - per cent. of the value of
the. sample, which was taken from n a.
men VEN and its actual value indicates
ny assay at least $4,000 to the ton.
The Salt Lake Tribune states that
the stockholders in the Ophir Hill Con
s"ilaatett Mining company have inst
p oc a dividend in the same of So
WV Inns amount nestled in the treas
US! When w. A: Clark, the Mon
out Sto,0OO and took possession of the
m1ne ana mill that are located at Ophir.
IS accordingly the last that those who
formerly controlled the proposition win
take down.
In the new Lake Atlin district, Alas
ka, fully $500 claims are already taken,
and the camp will have population of
provided with sluicing facilities, there
was T2OO.OOO taken out in two months
As yet no finds like those Of the .Klon-
dixie have been made, but the deposit is
rich enough so that it can be worked at
profit. 1t has the great advantage.
moreover Of being high-grade in charac-
ter and easily accessible The distance
as the crow flies is less than eighty miles
from Skaguay.
Copper ore has been discovered in
Emery county, Utah. The deposit COW
erS an area Of about 100 acres and is
made up Of series of veins separated
by sandstone layers. The upper vein is
red oxide Of copper, the second vein con-
taInS copper and manganese, the third
ruby copper and the fourth gray cop
per. The entire deposit, so far as can
be seen without any development work
Is thirty feet thick, and at an average
value Of ) per cent. copper, which is
considered very low estimate, there are
millions i'll sight.
"A tremendous strike has been made
in the Mikado mine near Rat Portage
where pay streak of almost pure gold
inches wide has been struck 400 feet
so studded with the yellow metal that
when it is cracked it is held together
by the ligaments Of pure gold This ore
runs $4,000 to the ton. Rat Portage
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