The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-05-24
WESTERN MINING NOTES,

ID. S. Barker, owner of the Silver
Belt mine at Neihart, Mont, has struck
ore carrying 800 ounces Of silver. $50 in
god and 30 to 40 per cent. lead.
&C. s. Robertson has just sold group
OF copper and rgold-bearing claims near
Patterson Pass, Lincoln county, New. to
New, York syndicate for $4,000.
1t is estimated that 81 100000 worth
of gold ore is in sight in the Kendall gold
mines near Lewistown, 100 miles north
east, Of Helena. Mont: This deposit is
the largest in the Northwest.
colorado Springs reports that the
81 ton for mill grade ores. A like ad-
vance has been made on smelter ores.
The price now is 81 and SIT respectively.
WILLIAM La Rean, a former Helena
policeman, has made a rich copper strike
in an abandoned 14-foot prospect hole
nine miles southwest of Helena, Mont.
Assays show value of SSH ton. In
copper it runs about 20 per cent.
Sixteen thousand dollars was taken
from pocket in the Victor mine in
Yuba county, Cal. The ledge RECENTLY
uncovered is said to be filed with fine
gold, with occasional pockets of great
richness
The Bear Gulch group of gold mines
to a Colorado and London syndicate for
$2,00O,O0O. Carl Werngren represents
the purchasers. The property includes
twenty-seven developed and undevcloped
claims.
a rich gold strike is reported from
latin county, Mont, where Red Wetzel,
prospector, in driving a tunnel into a
mound which had apparently broken off
from the side of mountain, found god
ore half pure.
The Cripple Greek April production.
100000, brings the grand total yield
record for the first four months Of 1901
is $1O,618,69O.. At this rate the years
output will be $32, 600, OOO against $22,-
52S,20O for 1900 and So, 743,11O for the
previous year. s 3$ <z i
"A discovery Of & oil IS reported on
Butcher creek, twenty miles west OF Red
ty, Mont. The report is that the pros
pect hole. sunk only few feet, yielded
fifty barrels of petroleum in one day with
, an ordinary pump, and that some places
oil was found oozing to the surface.
Port Arthur, Ont, reports that the
West End Silver Mountain mine, active
after long years Of idleness, has made a
phides m large pocket, and metal is
being ia ken out and sacked for shipment
70 Omaha smelters by ship to Duluth.
The native silver is coming out in very
ldFse pieces ana the Sulpllde is very rich.
"A valuable iron deposit is being de-
| veloped in the Sweet Grass district, near
Great Falls, Mont. The ore body is from
fifty to eighty-fve feet wide and carries
| considera BILE percentage Of copper, and
being a fluxing ore makes it very valu-
able for shelters. A vein of copper ore
was also found, some selections running
as high as 65 per cent, and carrying 100
ounces Of silver and some gold.
The most important silver discovery
near Chloride. -Ari., in recent years is one
just made by Fred Mitchell on his claim
about one mile from that town. The shaft
in which this remarkably rich body Of
horn and chlorides of silver was found
| is down about ffty-five feet, and the ore
body is more than fourteen inches wide
No assays Of the ore>have been made. as
| it is SO rich that it is useless to put it
to this test
The Stockton Mining company, oper-
ating in the Cleora district, Col, recently
encountered a true vein of copper meas
uring fourteen feet and lying on a gran
lite foundation. This extraordinary find
spurred on further research and the lode
was traced over the mountain into Long
fellow gulch, a distance of over a mile.
1t was there uncovered and found to
measure twenty feet in width. This is
considered to be perhaps one Of the larg-
est copper propositions in the country