The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-08
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

"A Boston syndicate has bought the
Shasta county, Cal, for $4,000.
In the Magnetic mine, near Tucson,
Ari., quantity of nickel has been found
and New York company has secured
possession of the properly.
Promising gold discoveries have been
made in the Cone Butte country, Meag-
her county, Mont, and many claims are
being located and filed for record.
Edward Stanton, Calhoun county
farmer, harvested 260 bushels of clover
1925 bushel, or $1365 for the lot. ~
The Upper Peninsula seems to he
good for something besides copper, iron
and timber. An Ontonagon farmer raised
AZ bushels of potatoes on a half-acre Of
ground.
1t requires more than a half mil
lion tons of coal annually to operate the
mines Of the copper country, beside a
considerable quantity of wood used as
fuel at some Of the Mines
Two sensational strikes have been re-
ported from the Annie Laurie, southern
Utah. An S-foot body of ore was IN
covered in tunnel No. 4. and it gives a
valuation of $3.50 ton, of which as much
as $178 is in gold
A dispatch from Helena, Mont, says
the group of iron mines on Bull river
just across the Canadian border, near
Fort Steele, has been bonded for $780,.
O0O. 1t is said that over a million tons
of ore are in sight.
The cid village of Greenland, in On
tonason county, has taken on a new
lease of life of late and there has been
quite building boom there this season.
One Of the improvements to be made at
once is new hotel.
Paul Lancet appears to have struck
an old overlooked gravel channel near
Mokelumne hill, Calaveras county, CAL
He sunk shaft only nine feet deep and
from it took $20S in nuggets in six days,
working only with pan.
The gold commissioner at Dawson,
in recent report on the output of the
district places it at $18,643, 900 for the
months Of June, July and August. These
figures are shown by the export certif-
Gates that miners are compelled to take
| out when they ship their gold dust.
The Charlotte board Of supervisors
has adopted motion stipulating that aft
er November l all persons convicted Of
vagrancy, drunkenness or disorderly con-
duct shall be denied the freedom of the
jail and given only bread and water. The
purpose is to put a stop to the wholesale
tramp business.
Capt. Hoats0n, underground superin-
tendent Of Calumet and Hecla, has re-
turned from Arizona, where he made a
thorough investigation Of the Calumet
and Arizona Copper company's mine,
which he pronounces the biggest new
| mine started in years. Calumet village
holds about $3OO,OOO of the stock OF this
mine.
AT Pontiac the other day Touring
mill, operated by water, came to stand
still. An examination revealed the fact
hot NJ hn or A.
clogging OF the water-wheel by a mass of
cells, which, when taken out and counted,
were found to number the unlucky tlir-
teen, and ranging from three feet in
length upward.
A big copper strike has been made on
the Tolt, twenty miles east OF Seattle,
through five Claims. The ore ASSAYS from
| 10 to 20 per cent. copper and from So to
| 81 gold. The property is about eight
miles from the SnOquaimie branch of the
Northern Pacific railroad and is compare
lively easy of access.
One of the important discoveries in
| southeastern Alaska this season is an
extensive deposit Of gypsum, fifty feet
| sand feet. San Francisco capital has OBJ
tanned contro. of this deposit and will
soon convert it into merchantable arti-
Gle. This is the first discovery of the
kind that has been made in Alaska.
The discovery near Kingman Of what
! is to all appearances large deposit of
! tin ore, and the discovery simultaneously
of tin deposit in the Grand canyon, have
caused much excitement in northern Ari-
IONA. On the property of William Roe
Of Kingman 4-inch vein Of tin ore,
| running about 80 per cent. to the ton,
has been uncovered and aside from the
tin the ledge is heavily filed with copper.
| Near the Western end of the Grand can
yon a fine lot of tin has been found. It
is said to be there In great quantities and
the ledge is nearly 1000 feet in length