The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
( WEEKLY Current Topics
;, MINING RE- In the
I VIEW. Iron World.

The Fayal is numbered among
the most active of range proper
ties th1s season, the pay roll in
Guiding upwards Of 500 men.
, The mining interests of the
American Steel & Wire company
will hereafter be known as the
American Mining Company's-in
terests.
The Drake & Stratton Go. have
closed a contract fer stripping
100000 yards at No. 8 Fayal
This makes, 100000 yards
they have engaged to, strip al
that property.
| At the Pillsburv mine, Capt.
Orr III change, which was opened
only one year and a half ago,
there is already more than II
miles of tunreling. This OF
course includes all drifts and
cross~;uts. -Sentinel.
The Aragon mine. operated by
the Commonwealth Mining COM
pany, will soon tram it's ore I'M
derground by a pneumatic rail-
way. The officials expect to
have it in operation in
in about six weeks. It will be
the first in the lake Superior
district.
The Oliver ION Mining COM
'pany has obtained a lease of the
Nc Donald forty, portion of the
famous Section 80, and will soon
commence active operations
thereon. This is the first actual
work done on this property, al
though many hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars have been spent
IN litigation.
e. +. Sweeney had the misfor-
tune to get a drill stuck in the
ore on the Enterprise property
some weeks ago, and all attempts
at loosening same have proved
futile. "A week ago he moved
his drilIfrom section Is, near
Sparta, onto this property and
has started q new hole some 300
feet west.
Ppii'es si1ssff at the Valley prop
erty. near Bessemer. is now free
Of wat2r for a depth Of 200 feet.
! Arrangements are now being
made for prosecuting to the
north at the 200-foot level, and
this work will begin this
week. Pumping will be contin
ued until the water is all out of
the shaft.
Hon. Neil McInnis was down
from Tower Saturday, spending
the Sabbath with Virginians.
Mr.. McInnis and D. T. Adams,
Of Duluth, purchased Copper Is.
land, in the Rainy, some months
ago, and are at present develop
ing a good showing thereon.
The island contains upwards of
400 acres, the outcroppings be-
ing we'll defined.
It is understood that P. L.
Kimberly, of Sharon. Pa, has
obtained an option on the town
site property at Eveleth, and
that the work of further explor-
ing the property will be prose-
cuted with vigor, E. f. Sween.
ely put a diamond drill at work
there Wednesday. Mr.. Kimber
~ is expected on the range this
week.
Capt. McGregor, who is ex-
plOrinp on the east end of the
Wright & Davis logging road
trestle, says the Sentinel, struck
ore Wednesday at depth of 90
feet and penetrated distance of
Is feet the first day. Six test
pits will be sunk on this proper
ty at once and there is little
doubt but that it Will soon be-
come a working mine, Billy
Woods is handling the drills.
It seems to be the general
opinion that the Oliver Mining
company, now conducting exten
sive exploratory work in the vi.
entity of Reyes lake, about 20
miles from this city, will find a
mine of high grade ore. Indeed,
we are informed that in one of
the shafts ore showing 60 per
cent in iron has already been
found, and it only remains 10
prove up the amount. Mt.
Press.
There are now twenty mines
ia active operation on the Me-
nominee range, says the Iron
County Reporter, and they are
sending out an average of $4,000
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