The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

to, the landings Of Fred Sahlberg,
near Thomas. A four mile spur is
also being laid to the Mitchell &
Mcclure works near Cloquet River.
The Sparta Iron company will do
great amount of stripping during
the winter months. The company,
in addition to it's own outfit. has
leased a portion of the Gulbranson
Bros. stripping outfit for the work.
Karl Fredriksen, the Sparta tailor
who was among the number burn
ed out in the confla gra ton at that
point last week, has let contract
to Creswell & Faulkner to erect a
22x40 business block on his Main
street lot.
The new spur of the Duluth &
Iron Range to the Stevens mine
nears completion, and the property
will enter the list of new shippers
another season. The mine is said
to have shown up as an enormous
proposition, an estimate of ore
proven being given as 100000 tons.
The Duluth &'Iron Range road
expects to handle about 100000
feet of logs the coming winter, prin-
cipally from the Scott-Graff, Red
Cliff and Mitchell & Mcclure camps.
This is an increase of 100000 feet
over last year, and will be the larg-
est logging business in the history
of the road.
The Duluth & Iron Range ore
scales, which it was reported some
weeks ago would be removed from
Tower and Biwabik to Two Harbors
during the winter, will be removed
to Highland instead. The work of
grading for necessary new tracks,
etc., is now under way. Highland
is some fourteen miles out from
Two Harbors, at the top of the hill.
Capt. Frank Reese has resigned
his position as superintendent of
the Genoa mine at Sparta, to accept
of a proffered position in the Crys-
tai Falls district. Messrs. Fredrik-
sen and St. Julian, of the clerical
force of the mine, accompany him
to his new location. \. J. Sullivan,
former cashier of the Genoa, steps
into the position made vacant by
Capt. Keese's resignation.
Stock piling is going on at the
Clark and Chisholm mines and the
steam shovel is still at work on the
stockpilc of the former. During
the season there has about been
shipped from the Clark mine nearly
100000 tons of ore and from the
Chisholm over 10000 tons. This is
the first season for the latter and it
! has done good work considering
everything. Supt. Messenger in
/ forms us that he intends to add con-
sidera bic to the crew of the latter at
once and will do big winters work
| on the stoCkpile.-Chisholm Herald
III CINNIOIN ~ lllC VI ~
kinley on Saturday last voted on a
| proposition to eXpend $1,000 for the
improvement of the municipal wat
! er works plant and for the issuance
of 81 400 to aid in payment of the
cost of such work. The PROPOSE
tons met with unanimous favor on
the part of the taxpayers Of the
| village. carrying by a vote of u TO
q. The village has been obtaining
its water supply from an old ex-
plorin1 shaft on the TOWNSHIP, now
under option Ivy Supt. Parnelce and
associates, who expect to commence
: exploratory work at an early date
and will likely make use Of the old
shaft in their work. The village,
through its council, has purchased
two lots for the erection of power
house and will sink a new villauc
we'll, thereby owning all parts of
their improved plant. The village
council is composed Of business
men, interested taxpayers, and the
vote on the water works proposition
would Indicate the approval of their
fellOW-townsmen of the economic
! administration of village affairs.
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