The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-07
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

-Eastern capital has taken hold of
the San Fernando copper mines in Next
co and will operate them Oh a large scale.
,-Georgetown convent, at Washington,
is 100 years old. Its centennial ami
versary will be celebrated during the last
three days of the month
The Defender mine, in Amador coun-
ty, Cal, is being developed. The ore
pays $50 ton free gold and the sulphur
cts from 500 to $500 per ton.
"A rich strike is reported on the fifty
foot level of the Bamboo Chief mine, one
mile west of Virginia City, Mont. AS
says show returns of $500 to the ton.
The first copper reduction works ever
operated IN Utah were started recently
at the Highland Boy smelter, now con
trolled by the Standard Oil company.
..-EXtensive copper deposits have been
discovered in San Bernardino county,
Cal, twenty-five miles from Daygett,
The ore runs from to 50 per cent. in
copper
A rich ore body has been found in
the Globe claim near Copper City, Cal.
The ore carries free gold and silver, with
copper predominating, and assays $40
per ton.
The San Juan mine in the Santa Eu-
!alie district, state Of Chihuahua, Mex,
is shipping ore that runs 1900 ounces of
silver to the ton The indications are
that there is still large ore body to
draw from.
Some samples of tin brought to Chi
huahua, Mex, for assay from prospect
only fourteen miles from the city did not
show high percentage of the metal, but
the ore deposit is so large that it is
thought it will prove profitable.
Zinc properties in the Missouri Kan
sas mining district continue to boom and
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MES. One firm, Colley 4 Co., New York
and Boston bankers, purchased $950OO0
worth of Missouri zinc properties during
the week and had previously purchased
about $1,0OO,O0O worth. All are rich
zinc producers.
Two miles from the Great Northern,
in Salmon River district, Wash, noun
tain Of marble was discovered last week,
containing all the varieties from the
purest white to the notified, variegatcd
and black. 1t is the prediction of mining
men that this immense marble ledge will
prove upon more thorough investigation
one of the walls of large and valuable
deposit of Bessemer iron.
Reports confirming the richness and
great extent Of the new gold discoveries
at Cape Nome, Alska, have been re-
riencing stampede greater than that
witnessed a year ago to the Klondike and
it's numerous tributaries. The time neces-
sary to make the trip from Puget sound
ports to Cape Nome, and the new gold
fields is from seventeen to twenty-five
days, with favoring winds.
Capt, McKittrick, son-in-law of Gen.
erty 125 miles from the city of Durango.
1t is an immense ledge of gold-bearing
rock from 80 to 100 feet in width, the
ore sampling from $40 to several thou-
sand dollars per ton. Capt. McKittrck
has obtained a 0ne-ffth interest in the
property and has been made president Of
the company. A mill is to be erected and
the mine developed without delay.
There is promise Of new mining dis
trict in the foothills of the Missouri river
on the road from Helena to Canyon Ferry,
Mont. A lead carrying free-milling gold
ore is being developed and improves in
quantity and quality as depth is reached.
Last week vein carrying copper-stained
ore was uncovered. "A sample of the cop
showed rs per cent. copper, 80 ounces of
silver and $3.50 in gold to the ton.
There is every indication at present
that .Deadwood, S. D., will soon be one
Of the greatest copper centers in the
Western mining states. Copper veins
have been discovered and opened up in
every county in the Black hills, and some
1S!Ad1NuOAy ilCu IeIuiuS nave Deen OD-
tanned from assays made. Expert eX-
aminations of the formations of the COP
per belt of Deadwood show that they
are practically identical with those Of
Butte, Mont.
The new placer diggings in Lower
California, now called the San Rogue !
placerss, are attracting crowds of prospec-
tors. The first consignment Of $15S,OOO
in bullion and dust has been received
here for shipment to San Francisco. The
pay ground ranges from three inches to
two feet below the surface and that the
miners are taking out an average of from
$15 to 500 per day EACH. Nuggets rang
ing by 8 inches have been found. The
gold is 1872 fine, =. u.
=. The rich placer diggings recently dis
covered in lower California, eighty miles
southwest of Calmalli, are bearing out
the reports Of their richness. So great
is the rush to the new placers that the
lbarri mines at Calmali have been |
obliged to close down on account of the |
stampede Of it's 800 men to the new, dig. !
gings. The Ibarri mines are rich pro-
ducers, but men cannot now be found to |
work them. -Four hundred men have
stampeded from the copper mines at |
Santa Rosalia, on the gulf coast. The |
placers are thirty miles long, extending I
1lOng the Santa Clara mountains at nui
altitude OF 1000 feet. a =. IS