The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-20
MINING GOLD QUARTZ
HELPING THE CAUSE MA
TERIALLY
NEW STAMP MILLS STARTING

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T. H. GiImour, of Rat Portage, Gives
an Interesting Account of the
Operations in Progress in the
Gold Mining Region Tributary to
/ Lake of the Woods and Rainy
River.
T. II. Gilmour, @. c., and Mrs. Gilmour,
| OF Rat Portage. Ont, are guests at the
Ryan, and visiting ST.. Paul on a combined
! errand of business and pleasure. Mr.. Gil
mour was formerly engaged in the active
| practice of law in Winnipeg, but for the
last two years has spent most of his time
In connection with mining matters in
| Western Ontario, and is connected with
some Of the companies now operating in
! that district
| by Western Ontario" said Mr.. Gill
mour yesterday. II mean In this case par
| ticularly the Lake of. the Woods district,
| the Seine river country, and the Manitou
| district. There is a very much larger
amount Of work being carried on at the
present time than ever before, and there
! has been a decided Improvement in the
! class of work being done ard in the char
acter of the men operating there. The
old idea that ten-foot shaft constituted
mine, and justified the erection Of a
| stamp mill is entirely exploded, and many
of the people now engaged in the develop
ment OF the properties are practical min
| ing men. who know that substantial
working capital must be provided before
property can be developed. The work
now going on is being done chiefly by men
from the United States and Eastern Can
| ada, but, at the same time a large
amount of English capital has been in
vested, and some of the properties now
being operated belong to English compa-
MES. The Transvaal trouble, however, has
given a temporary check to new invest
ments by English people.
Zone important feature of the present
| development Of the mining interests there
| is that almost every stamp mill now
being operated is likely to have the num-
| Der of stamps materially increased. For
| instance, the Olive has recently increased
| its ten stamps to twenty-five, the Golden
| Star Is about to add ten stamps more,
| the Sultana, which now has thirty, Is
! 100, and others might be mentioned.
| 1.-The largest amount Of work is being
done in what is called the Lake of the
| Woods district proper. AT the Sultana
| the mills are not being run regularly at
| present, as very extensive work in sink
| ing, drifting and prosecuting Is being
carried on. with the view of blocking
out large ore bodies, so that a larger
| number of stamps may be supplied. The
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Gently started ten s amp mi !. This COM
| pany is composed chiefly Of Buffalo and
Pittsburg men. The Triggs property Is
| one of the most promising in the district,
having a shaft now down $50 feet, and
having dore large amount of eros s-cut-
! ting and drifting. 1t is chiefly owned by
! st. Paul ard Minneapolis men. The Trigss
| property is on Witch bay, on which sew
| eral other properties are being developed
with most favorable indications. The
| Homestake, of Ontario, is considered by
many mining men to be one of the largest
! low grade propositions in the world, as
there is an ore body over 400 feet in
width, which has been traced and stripped
| for a long distance, and most exhaustive
| tests have shown that the quartz can
| be mined and milled at handsome profit
| There are also the Virginia, Gold-Panner
Trojan and Bully Boy, ON which large
| camps are at work, on some Oh which
! shafts are down 200 feet.
ITO the west Of the Lake Of the Woods
| is the Mikado, which is operating a
twenty-stamp MILL and is turning out on
| an average $4,000 a. month, and within
radius of mile of the Mikado large
camps are at work on the Slrdar. crown
Point Imperial, Olympia, Yum Yum and
| Bullion No 2. A five-stamp test mill has
| recently been erected and is now peing
/ operated on the Crown Point property.
| In the Seine river district the Goiden
| Star Is, of course, well known, ana the
| Olive has recently commenced TO operate
I twentv-fiye-stamp mill. The Olive
was commenced as high-grade property
and a shaft was sunk $50 feet in what
| was really a very rich pay streak, but
! nv prosecuting at the 2o0-foot level, II
| was discovered that 1t had an ore ooay
400 feet wide, which could be mlfled at
| large profit In close proximity 10 ,tne
| Golden Star active development work Is
| in progress on the Randolph, Go.den Cre5-
cent Manhattan, Decca, Headlight ana
| M,ckvc Coon. q nd on all of these properties
| are shafts from 100 to 259 feet In depth'
as we'll as other development work.
| "Jn the Manitou country mill is now
| ba,ne erected by the Manitou Lake COLO
| Mining company, all the machinery oelns
|; on the ground, and complete ar COIL
| nressor plant is to be Installed. Inc
| class Reef is also a we'll known property
| IN the Manitou on which active develop
ment work Is in progress Inc owners
of this property are ch1eny OIL 81 AioAi"'
| n. d.
nsaveral we'll organized development
| comnanies are doing much to open up the
| district. The Bullion company is one OF
| The Oldest and has been very successiui,
and IFS shares which were originally sold
at 10 cents. are now quoted on the mining
exchanges of Toronto and Montreal at
f, 6o cents and upwards. The Anglo-Amer-
| tcon Consolidated is another strong COM
| nany having a large number of careful
| iy selected properties, and Whlch mas
| adopted the principle of paying TOT the
nronerties by shares only, ana utlHzins
| all it's funds for developing purposes only.
| rrhe Hon. Hugh ]. Macdonald, the new
| premier and attorney general OF Manito.
! ho 10 one of it's directors and chief
s Va. Mr.. D. c. Cameron and
| other well known local men are on the
| board.
.0The completion Of the Ontario & Rainy
,iver railroad, which is under active con-
struction. having upwards OF 3,OVo men
| Of work at present will be most 1mpor-
| tant factor in the development Oh west
a-n Ontario. as 1t will construct new
! and independent railway from Lake SUI
| nerior TO Manitoba. 1t will cross the
| Rainy river near its mouth, and proceed
] cast through the rich Rainy river valley
| we'll settled farming country 1t IS 10
| aotad ca &C to run within a mile of the
| C1;,,a GoJden Star and other proper
| tIes and further east traverses the great
iron deposits Of the Atikokan range. This
r.ilroad was generously subsidized by
/ - co,-arnn.ent not only of the Domin-