The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-03-09

property, in s, 1918. Louis
Rouchleau is conducting explor>
atory work on sections l and 2.
IS IS. John G.. Brown, ALT
Merritt and Norton Miller are
working on the south part of
section 8. ALI Merritt has pros
pected in the northern part of
section 10, but has quit for the
present. Cole & Mcdonald have
been doing some work west of
Mountain Iron in section 4, but
they have temporarily suspend>
ed owing to a scarcity Of water.
New discoveries have been made
IN section 30. E. D. Parmalee is
sinking shaft near the Nouns
tain Iron. O. D. Kinney is put
ting in drill on the northwest
quarter of section II, So 10. The
Oliver Iron Mining company is
testpitting in the northeast quar-.
ter of section Is, 1919. S. Me-
Gregor is drilling in the south>
west quarter of 6, $3.50. Mr..
Gerlich is drilling on a property
near Mountain Iron. Kimberly
& Jones have II forties north of
Virginia, on which a body of ore
is known to exist. A forty north
of ard adjoining the Franklin
mine, owned by J. T. Jones, has
been acquired by the Republic
Iron & Steel company. It was
thoroughly explored year ago
and contains some good ore.
Harry Roberts is exploring
property also near Virginia. Mr..
Fay is working two drills on the
Yawkey property IN I, 5718. In
section 25, east of Sparta, Geo.
G, Howe is exploring a property.
Adams & Russell are putting in
a drill hole on the line that di-
vides their property from the
Howe property. Cole & Melon
aid have II drills at work on the
Minnesota ranges. The Spruce
is one of the promising new
mines on the Mesaba, situated
on the old townsite Of Eve'eth.
Two shafts are being put down.
The work of unwatering the Clo-
quet mine is finished and drifting
has begun. The Cloquet was
formerly known as the Vega and
was abandoned by the Minnesota
Iron company.
There is great prosperity IN
the towns on the Mesaba range
and the same is true, of course,
Of the Vermillon. The great &C.
tivity in the mines and in explor-
atory work, coupled with logging
operations on bigger scale than
ever before, has added vastly to
the wealth and population Of the
range towns. There is not a
town but what is growing and
the burden of complaint every
where is scarcity Of men to
perform the work that is to be
done. An idea Of the restlessress
Of labor under the excitement of
plenty of work and big wages is
shown most forcibly in the log
ging industry. One Hibbing man
says he has cashed. among other
things this winte:", 1000 checks
for woodsmen for sums not ex-
ceeding IS in any case.
Nature was certainly in a gen.
erous and amiable mood when
she planted vast beds of iron ore
in the ground on the Mesaba and
covered the surface with pine
and other valuable timber, wealth
above and below. And nature
then, as if so soften the stern and
forbidding features of that re
sion, scattered lakes and rivers
here and there.
The wealth of Mesaba range
may be slightly appreciated by
the fact that the shipments from
that division Of the mining re-
gion of St. Louis county will
this year will be about 100000
tons, which is more than both
the Minnesota ranges shipped
last year and which is more ore
than was ever shipped through
the SAUL canal in a single sea-
son previous to 1897. The first
ore to be shipped from the Me-
saba was in 1892.
The Mesaba is the younger Of
the Lake Superior iron ranges
but it easily takes the lead.
When the Mesaba was discover
ed it was feared by some that
owing to the cheapness with
which the ore could be mined it
would be great detriment to
the iron mining business of the
lake repi0n Now nininu mon