The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-07

the Duluth & Iron Range dock No
4, at Two Harbors, will be complet.
ed about the 10th. +.
Craswen & Fulkner have secured
the range agency for the Nolan
Bros. & Laird mill, and open lum.
Der yard atSparta.
John Craig. an employe at Hub.
bard & Vincent's mill at West Du.
luth was killed Friday last by being
caught under a rolling log.
c. T. Harvey, of Ottawa, is in Du.
luth this week with a view to inter.
esting capital in a proposed trans.
portation route from that city to
Hudson Bay.
Martin Bros, of Duluth, have
contracted for 5000 ties for the Chi.
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system
and forward fifteen cars daily from
their camps near York.
John Hickey, Jr., and "Pike": Null
laney, the well-known West Super.
ior base ball artist, have formed a
partnership for the establishment
of new cigar factory at Tower.
Marion Bros, one of the leading
Tower business firms, will close
out and the partnership will dis
solve, NJ. F. Marion going to CHS.
holm, where he will establish in
business.
The election for the incorpora-
ton of a city was held at Eveleth on
Friday last, resulting favorabIy to
the proposition by vote of 60 to 80.
1t is rumored a contest on techni-
calities may be entered.
The Scanlon- GIBSON Lumber COM
pany will receive 100000 feet OF
logs in Minneapolis from the terri
tory penetrated by the Duluth, Vir-
ginia & Rainy Lake road. The logs
will be taken all rail to Minneapo-
lis.
The Duluth jobbers again ar.
range for series of excursions
from northwestern points to the
head of the lakes during the sum :
mer. A rate of one and one-ffth
tare has been acceded by the rail-
roads.
Some 200 ore cars from the Du-
luth, Missa be & Northern have been
transferred to the Duluth g. Iron
Range, and are being overhauled at
the Two Harbors shops before be-
ing put into commission .on that
line for the season.
J. r. Mitchell, of Winona, who is
interested with NJ. L. Fay and A. NJ.
Chisholm in several Mesaba mil
ing deals, proposes the establish
ment of a new bank at Duluth. Nj.
Mitchell is president of the Mime
sofa State Bankers Association.
Oscar Olson, an unknown Scandi-
navian, was brought in to Tower
from Rice River last week, suffering
from ydelirium tren1ehs, from which
he died: Olson claimed to. have
come from Virginia, where he said
he had been ON protracted sple>.
+. L. Barnidge, for several years
past manager of the Ver,nilion Ho.
tel, at Tower, on Friday last COM
plated arrangements for the pur-
chase of the property and acquired
same. The Vermilion is one of the
most popular hostelries of tie
range.
A Chicago telegram of the 3rd
tells of a couple of residents of the
windy city who bit at a Mesaba
mining fake, the purchase of a lake
the bottom of which was solid iron
ore. The deal progressed to that
point where it had cost the twain
several hundred dollars before they
found out that the tale was myth
and that they had been robbed of
their coin.
The Eastern Minnesota has Great
ed the position of chief engineer
for that company and has appoint
ed J. D. Mason of St. Paul to the po-
sition. The extensions of the East
ern Minnesota into the iron. one
country and the expected construc-
ton of numerous spur lines has
made it necessary to.creat an engin-
eering department apart from that
of the Great Northern. Mr.. Mason's
headquarters will be in West Su-
perior.