The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-10
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

The Black Butte quicksilver mines,
located eighteen miles south of Cottage
Grove, Or, are being operated to their
full capacity.
The Raspberry Mining company. op-
Grating in Dry Gulch, near Helena,
wont: mas encountered gold ore, assays
of which run as high as $500 per ton.
News comes from Alaska that the
mother lode of the Klondike has proba-
bly, been found. The discovery was made
on the right bank of the Stewart river.
near it's headwaters
There are six cyanide mills in process
OF erection in the vicinity of Deadwoo,l.
3: u, according to the Denver Mining
Record, and the process will revolutioniz,-
the mining industry in that section.
In the fourth level in the Mabel NJ.
on Beaver hill, Cripple Greek. at Il .lel.h
OF 90 feet, 4 new vein has been opened
IN the west crosscut that carries ore run
ming from to 1G ounces in gold per ton.
"A great strike was made in thu,
Bull Hea! mine near Dupuyrr, Mont.
recently. The lead proper, which was
four feet wide at this point and all pay
ing rock, developed a streak two inches
wide OF almost native copper.
The Black Hills Porcelain Clay ana
Marble company Of Detroit. Mich. has
set men to work opening up the large de-
post T, OF nthtocsrapll stone which lies west
opening up several mica mines
A big strike is reported on Dorothy
| creek, the upper tributary Of the Nome
river, near Nome. The strike was mao.
by a Mr.. Westby. He took out from,
the discovery claims from 80 to 40 cents
to the pan and as high as $3j in two
| pans.
w. s. Stratton, the millionaire mine
owner Of Colorado, and a number of as
sociatcs, have interested themselves il,
mining properties in Wyoming. and have
Incorporated the Stratton Cripple Creek
Mining and Development company with
q capital stock Of $1O,00OOOO.
west side of Bull hill. Cripple Creck
one on the Trail and the other on the
Gold Sovereign. In the Trail find assays
yield from l to so ounces while 1il,.
screening bring $50 ton straight The
yield in the Gold Sovereign strike is from
$50 to $40 in gold per ton.
The highest mine in Colorado is the
Warriors Mark, on Fletche: Mountain
altitude Of 1900 feet and it is difficult
to get miners to work on the property.
The ore runs $3.50 per ton. The ore j..
honeycomb quartz containing silver
glance and native silver with some gold.
1t almost took the breath away from
Charles Jacobs Of Salt Lake City whe,
3. G.. the other day. that the owners
of the Britannia company had received Il
bid of 81, 5000 for the property. ia
cobs was one Of those who disposed of
their interests some months ago On a ba-
sis of $50, 900 fer the entire property.
Recent quartz finds and partial deveI-
Opment on several lodges warrant the be-
lief that Nome is to become a perma-
nent camp. About sixty-five miles dis
tant, in the Monumental district. and
about four miles back Of Bluff City, one
of the most important quartz discoveries
yet made is now being rapidly developed.
The ore body is an arstnical iron forma-
ton, is eleven feet wide and the assays
Dawson reports that the fact is be-
coming more apparent with the results of
every cleanup on the various creeks of
the klondike district that while the out
put in the aggregate was larger than last
years by nearly Is per cent. the actual
cost of production was so much greater
that few mine owners find Il balance on
the credit side of their ledgers and
large majority of laymen find themselves
utterly ruined, while the wages of hun.
dreds of their Workmen remain unpaid
as the outcome of the winters futile toll.
For years Eastern smetcrs have been
treating gold ore from the west coast OF
South America, which has found its way
to them across the IsthmuS Of Panama.
The smelters are so crowded with bu>l-
ness that they do not undertake to make
returns on ore in the time desired by
mine owners and the direction of the
Shi pments has therefore been changed
The ore will come to the amount of from
800 to 1000 tons per month through San
Diego to be forwarded Immediately to