The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-11-09
WESTERN MINING MOTIFS,

VIII IS = leeC Wlue.
,.-During the first half of October the
G!1 t paid and ordered paid from,
-. Utah mines have been very gratifying
Inc amount in sight is 1887 300.
.-,Assays from the Regulator group at
Alta Alta, Utah, show rs ounces silver, nearly
~ per cent. lead, with per cent. copper.
1t Is said that two feet of ore Of this
q"allty is exposed.
The Salt Lake Tribune says that on
thre> carloads of oar from the Cariss;,.
inc management received Il check for
rea; hing about $1,000.
- good strike of gold ore is reported
at the Waterloo mine, Red Bluff. Mont
ABOUT 1000 tons have been blocked out
IL addition to $50 tons Oh the dump,
all OF which will run very high.
,, IA lot of ore running 1888 per ton has
been marketed from the Golden Star
ValEes alone consisted of $31j.SO per ION,
while the balance was derived from sill
YER.
1t is reported that extremely rich ore
mas been found III the old Spanish min,
III the mountains southwest OF Kichtield.
(,tah. An assay recently made. it is said,
showed some ore taken out to run 5000
to the ton
-foulder. COL. reports that the rich
est ore ever taken from any one mine in
Ward district came from the PuZzler re-
Gently 1T a depth Of less than POO feet
1t yielded a fraction over $1,000 to the
ton IN gold and silver.
1t is estimated that the yielG of gold
IN the koyakuk country, Alaska. this
season will reach $1,50O.OOO. Tramway
par has been paving, since June l. three
ounces of gold to the shovel OF dirt. This
dust assays $3.50 an ounce.
ALL doubt as to the existence Of Il
large copper body in West Helena.
Mont. has been uispelled with the first
shipment of ore to the East Helena Smei-
ter last week. About five tons were IL
the first carload. and the outlook is said
to bc most promising.
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
| pany has declared Il dividend Of S125 a
| share with - cents extra: payable on
| October -. The amount il; $2,4OOOOD.
making Il total so far this year of ST.
SOO.UOO. and a grand total SINCE incorpo-
ration three years ago OF S16,95O,OOO.
| james 0. Handy of Pittsburg, one of
the leading assayers Of the country. says
that Missouri is destined to become one
of the leading gold-producing states. He
bases his statement on the analysis Of
ore taken from Oregon county, which. he
Says will assay from $3.50 to $500 pr
| ton.
Some ore recently taken from the
new shaft on the Silver King mine in
Arizona yielded 80 per cent copper and
is now down $50 feet and shows ore a."
rich as that which made the Silver King
famous as 4 specimen mine twenty years
| ago.
The new gold strike on TeS:ina
creek. in the Copper River country.
Alaska. is fully confirmed by the governs
ment census takers who have just come
| n,,t I
Sl'aN each. The enumerators found 500
whites and 500 Indians in this part OF
the country
The Black Hills Porcelain. Clay and
Marble company has shipped carload Of
marble from the quarry five miles east
Of Custer, S. D.. to Hot Springs, where
it is to be manufactured into monuments
| by an EdgemOnt company. This is the
first shipment Of marble ever made from
the Black Hills.
In the new shaft of the Evening Star
mine on Carbonate hill, near Leadville,
Col, streak of solid lead sulphides was
encountered at the breast of the drift
now being run from the shaft which is
now IS feet long. The values in silver
run higher than anything heretofore
found in the mine.
The Parrot Silver and Copper Min
ing company, also a great Montana prop
erty. will pay it's regular quarterly divi-
dend of $13O share, amounting to
1914. 773, on October 20. making total
for the year of 81 ,379,10O. and a total to
date Of $4.394 ,S34. on an authorized CAPT
tai stock Of $2.3OO.OOO.
Recently there has been very rich
strike of gray copper and galena in the
Trenton mine in the Salero district Of
the Santa Rita mountains, Arizona.
There are two rich streaks of ore. one OH
the foot wall. the other in the middle of
the vein, ore from which runs 200 ounces
ton in silver and high in copper.
The Carissa Of Tintic, Utah. is reg
istering some very sensational achieve
but in Northern Spy ground. which was
recently acquired at cost OF $4,000
spot. a recent shipment of three cars
of ore from the chute on Carissa ground
proper, netted the company over $1,000 in
gold
An important find of quicksilver has
been made in the Spanish Belt range
\ye county. New. The ore is reported to
assay from = to per cent. up to T. per
cent. quicksilver. Some picked samples
are said to assay as high as 80 per cent.
The ore will average. it is said. per
cent. or better.
Cripple Creeks gold output for nine
months in 1900 is as follows: January,
fA,f-c,cOO, l. tDl uil T--1OO.OOO, N1iIcI.
2,225,G2S; April 81 ,433, 900; May, s..
053. 400; June, $2,127,OOO: July, 81 $50,
200: August. 1.7S5. 100: September, ST.
931 .0o0; total. $780, 1888. For Il like
period in 1899 the total was S12 $50, $50.
The total for 1899 was $19,543, $50.
A big strike has been made in the
North Star mine at Marysville, Mont
Picked samples of ore assay far into the
thousands per ton. The vein is between
four and five feet wide and will average
about 1925 ton in gold. The amount
actually in sight above the 4OO-foot level
is about 100000. The North Star joins
the Drum Lummon. which has produced
upward of $1SOOO,0O0.
The district that is now attracting
the most attention is Bluestone river,
about seventy-ive miles north of Nome
and twelve miles from Port Clarence.
This river and its ten or twelve tributa-
ries. including Gold river. are said to ex-
coed in richness anything yet discovered
along the coast, as high as $40 and $50
to the pan being taken out. In several
instances rockers have taken out over
$1,000 day.
The wonderfully strike in the
| Carroll 3. mine in Pleasant Valley dis
| trlCt. Or. still continues to pOur forth