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

The Black Butte quicksilver mines.
located eighteen miles south Of Cottage
Grove, Or, are being operated to their
full capacity.
The Raspberry Mining company, on-
Grating in Dry Gulch. near Helena.
mont: mas encountered gold ore. assays
of which run as high as 500 per ton.
News comes from Alaska thar the
mother lode of the Klondike has pruln-
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 Dea,lwo,a'.
;. d., according to the Denver Mining
Record and the process will rcvolutioniz,.
the mining industry in that Section
In the fourth level in the Mabel NJ.
ON Beaver hill. Cripple Creek at 4 depth
OF 20 feet. 4 new vein has been u],rl,.i
IN the west crrSScUt that carries ore run
ming from to Is ounces in gold per 1ul.
"a great strike WAS made in ti,
Bulls l1ca! mine near Dupuyrr. Mnu>
recently. The lead proper. which. was
four feet wide at this point anI all pay.
ing rock. developed a Streak two inches
wide OF almost native "copper"
The Black Hills Porcelain Clay :,,l
Marble company OF Detroit. Mirl hts
set men to work opening up the large, de-
post OF llthoyraph stone which lies west
OF Custer. $. y. The company is also
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 nn,;u
by Mr.. We<tby. He took out trn!,,
the discovery claims from 80 to 40 cents
to the pan and as high as $50 in two
pans.
w. S. Stratton. the millionaire min.
owner Of Colorado, and Il number Of as
h., S,,fI,, a.
mining properties in Wyoming. and have.
lncor"rated the Stratton Cripple Creek
Mining and Development company. with
Il capital stock Of $1O.0OOOOO
Two strikes have been made ON the
west side OF Bull hill. Cripple Creek.
one on the Trail and the other ON thu.
Gold Sovereign. In the Trail find ASSAYS
yield from | To- so ounces. while the
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 Fletch": Mountain
above Kolomo The property is at AN
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..
honcycomb quartz containing silver
glance and native silver with some gold
1t almost took the breath away from
| Charles Jacobs Of Salt Lake City whvn
he read in a dispatch from Vancouver.
+. C.. the other day. that the owners
of the britannia company had received a
bid of S1.lOO.OOO for the property Ju-
cobS was one Of those who disposed III
their interests some months ago Gin Il h;l-
sis Of $4,000 fer the entire property
Recent quartz finds and partial devr,-
opment on several lodges warrant the be-
! lief that Nome is to become Il pt.r1l;>-
nent camp. About 81 Xty-tive 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 ar>tnical iron formal
| ton, is eleven feet wide and the ASSAYS
show a value of from S24 to $50 per ton.
dawson reports that the fact is be
coming more apparent with the results Of
every cleanup on the various creeks OF
the klondle district that while the out
put in the aggregate was larger than las,
years by nearly - per cent. the ;ctu:.i
! cost Of production was so much greater
that few mine owners find Il balanrr on
the credit side OF their leIgerS and :,
large ma ority Of laymen find themselves
utterly ruined. while the wages Of hun.
dreds of their WcrkMen remain unpaid
as the outcome of the winters futile ton.
For years Eastern Smcltor> have Ep.u
| treating gold ore from the west coast OF
South America. which has found its way
| to them across the 1Sthmu> of Panama,
! The SmelterS are so crowded with bu>I-
ness that they do not undertake. to maxi,
returns on ore in the time desired by
| mine owners and the direction of the
shipments has therefore been changed
The ore will come to the amount of from
! 800 to 1000 tons per month through San
Diego to he forwarded immediately IL
Pueblo, Col.