The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

-Quicksilver ore assaying better than
TO per cent. has been encountered i'll a
hill! near Santa Ana. Cal.
A large body of ore running from 81
to $15.75 gold to the ton has been struck
in the Rand tunnel at Bingham, Utah. -
ming from $4,000 down to $50 per ton
has been struck in the Half Moon mine.
Superintendent Sam Brady Of the
AIichigant copper mine on the upper Pc
ninsula, says its prospects aRseahost ex-
ccllent. @
According to the Colorado SPRINGS
Gazette the Jack Pot is sending out ev-
cry day nearly $500 worth Of ore-in
exact figures $5215,
Some opal deposits, said to be very
valuable, are being opened up near San.
Juan detSkio, state OF Queretaro, Mexi
CO. ..TheStones are Of great beauty and
brilliancy.
"A discovery of quicksilver is reported
from Fullerton, Los Angeles county,
Cal Tbs deposit is said to be a large
one. An option has already been taken
On the property.
The Challenge mine, at Hematite.
\. NJ. is to be developed by Il tunnel
that will cut the vein at depth Of 800
feet Assays from this property have
run as high as $4,000 to the ton. ~"
ON
rich discoveries III Republic district is
extending I'll OYER the old Colville In
dian reserve and prospectors are rushing
Ill from every part OF Washington.
In thesJack Pot mine, Cripple Greek
district, assays as high as 5000 are now
had from the drift run from the winze.
The ore body at this depth, it is thought,
will prove richer than found above -,
The Lucky Boy. gold quartz mine at
Idaho city: Ida, is turning out much
rich ore. The ten-stamp mill is running
day and night. and the average Weld for
the past month has been $27 per ton
The AHnie mine in British Column
hia. which belongs to the CarihOo COM
l',ny, is down thirty feet OH Il six-foot
ledge, the bottom OF the shaft being in
solid ore the. full width. 1t assays $65
i'll gold
In the Little Chief mine at Tintic,
tan, ore WAS discovered duriny the
week running'SO ounces silver, $3.50 gold
i little north and west of the Eagle and
Blue Bell
--ptadwood reports Il rich strike of orc
in the lister mine at Ragged Top owned
ny A. J. Smith and associates: The
ore came from Il vertical and it is. very
rich. samples assaying as high as 5000
ton gold.
me Arlington, in Red River district.
~ NJ. recently came into a three-foot
ve'n' carrying gold, copper and lead,
from which returns of $500 per ton were
obtained. An assay also returned S167
to the ton.
From Randsburg, Kern county, CAL,
a rich strike is reported in the Annex
mine, which lies between the Nancy
Hanks and the Big Horse At sixty-fiye
feet twenty:.inch vein of.$1O0 rock has
he'en uncovered.
The southern portion of Monterey
county, Cal, is having an oil boom. OIL
and natural. gas have both been found in
the vicinity of 1musdale and Fairfield.
aud the flow of Oil in some Of the borineS
IS very promising.
n well-lehned vein of ore about 10
to ~ inches wide, 5 inches of which runs
upwards Of $1,000 to the tonx has bee,,
struck in the Lucky Corner mine, lust
north Of the Jack Pot, says the Colorado
Springs Gazette.
-Good strikes have been made in the
Mammoth and Lower Mammoth at Tin
t nc. otah, the ore in the former running
h'sh IN gold. and in the latter as good
as 81 per cent copper to the tom 90
ounces silver and the rest lead 49,,
An accurate account of the number
OF men engaged in gold and silver mining
IN California places the number at nearly
$4,000. If those engaged in all Other
forms Of mining We're added the number
would probably reach about $4,000.
The Northwest mining syndicate
which recently purchased the Bosun
mine, near New Denver, X. c., has
opened it up and paid for it several times
over by the output Of the property. 1t
cost $500 and the syndicate has cleaned
up $4,000.
While prospecting in the Manitou
last fall the ALosher boys made another
rich discovery ON Dog Fly lake, in the
Lower Manitou stretch, says the Rainy
Lake Herald. The vein is four feet
Sprnkled with geld.
The unprecedented storms of the mast
three weeks have greatly reduced the out
put of the mines in all parts of Colorado.
1t IS estimated that the loss in output
from which there can be no recovery
amounts to $4,000 900 in the total output
for the present year.
A deposit of marble has been dis
covered III the state of Guerrero. NIexi-
co, said to be equal in color and quality
I" the Carrara marble of Italy. A COM
pan! Of French capitalists has interested
ltScit Ill the matter and is preparing to
develop the find OH an extensive scale.
The strike in the Mountain Lion
mine, Republic camp, Wash, places that
mine or footing with the Republic,
and there are plenty more that give
rushed with great rapidity. The aver
age assay of the ore is $40 per ton gold.
-Rossland district, B. c., continues to
Keep up it's record as a big producing
section, and the developments now under
way are adding materially to the OUTPUT.
which amounts weekly to from $500 to
100 tons. The ore averages in value
from no to $>, per ton, and can be
counted on as IL steady thing - -
Coal mining has begun on the Upper
ukon river near Circle City, not far
from the k!ondike, and 100 tons a day
are promised for next summer. This in
trresting development is on the American
SIDE, practically in the Arctic circle, and
hereafter coal will figure in the mineral
output of the Yukon country. :e7. 21G''S7
Talk on the various copper pros
poets III the vicinity of Deadwood, s..
d., is heard OH every hand. The two
large Eastern companies which have pur
chased extensive tracts of mining ground
ON the copper ledge extending south of
l'radwo0d are making extensive, plans
for. mining the copper -ere OH a large
scale
C: l.. Flammer of ST. Louis has sold
to Colorado Springs and Canon CITY min
ing men Il copper claim located III the
w
claim is an extension Of the Ferris and
HaSgerty copper mine which is now
making such a splendid showing. This
mine has Il 12-foot vein of ore which
returns values as high as from IS per
cent. to 60 per cent. in copper. ~ -.
The gold yield of California for 1879
has been variously estimated at from
ooo, 600 to $sOO00,0O0. If the for
mer hgures are correct the aggregate
gold yield of all the states and terri
tories for the entire nation in 1898 for
the first time exceeded CALIFORNIA; VIGIL
in that one year. But if the higher esti-
mates are correct the entire yearly yield
Of the nation has not yet equaled that
amount. $@ 4 IS.
1t has been customary among the as.
savers on the Pacific coast in making
out thelr certificates to compute copper
at Sl per unit-that is, ore going 10 DER
cent. copper was valued at $40. Since
the recent rapid advance they compute
ut ~ per unit, doubling the copper val
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