The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27
the WESTERN MESABA.
Operations by the Oliver Co. and
Others at West End Explorations.

Operations by the Oliver Co. and
Others at West End Explorations.
! Arthur Ely of Chicago, who has
been Investigating lands in this
vicinity for some time with view
of taking mineral options, expresses
the opinion that there is much yet to
be found and developed on this end
of the range, says the Graud Rap
ids Herald Review. It is probable
that he will have drills at work in
this vicinity in short time. Mr..
Ely is mining man of wide expert
ence, having been interested in iron
Operations on the Michigan and
Minnesota ranges for many years.
Drills are now at work on J. F. Nc
CoTnick's farm, the southeast
iquarter of section q, IS e. This is
the farthest west on this range that
drills have ever been worked.
| Drills at work on property in
section 3, 55.25, owned by ex-Gov.
Lind and Congressman c. b. Buck.
man, have passed through over 200
feet of ore assaying from 10 to s.
per cent iron and averaging better
than 81 per cent: The tract is stu
ated two and half miles northeast
of Grand Rapids. on the east bank
of the Prairie river, and is being ex-
plored by the steel cooperation. A
similar and equally as important
find has been made by the same
company in section 3, an adjoining
Iproperty, and according to reports
| there is now no question that the
Iextention of the Duluth, Missabe &
Northern road will be pushed
Through to the new properties out
from Grand Rapids.
| The Grand Rapids Independent
says that Il glance at some of the
Operations that are being carried on
| by the Oliver Mining company at
Bovey gives one "a better idea Of
what those people are doing and are
|about to do in the way Of develop
ling that section. At present the
company are about to build some
thirty cottages, good substantial
buildings with some foundations,
which will be rented to the en-
ployes. Its proposed to rent these
at a very low figure in order to give
iemployes all reasonable advantage.
1t is the mining peoples wish to
employ as much as possible mar
ried ulen. who will make their
homes there, they being acknowl-
edged the $teadiest. These cottages
are being erected several hundred
feet east Of the present location
where street has been graded and
graveled This is pretty location,
not far from the pretty Trout lake.
a large hotel, large enou gh to &C.
commodate hundreds of people will
be put up for the use Of the en-
ployes and the transient public.
Besides these. temporary camps
that will hold about two hundred
men. will be put up for the winter.
Office room in the way of a build
ing about 3ox90 feet will also be
supplied.
AT the rear OF the present camps,
on the right hand side of the road
lgoing to Bovey, the company is
iputting up boiler house. This
structure will be of iron. with stone
Foundation, and will have lO.foot
smokestaCk, whose base will be
fabout twenty four feet in diameter.
| A similar building will be erected
lat the Holman mine. 1t is under
stood that the land between this
land the shaft now in operation will
be large open pit, and that strip
ping will commence in the spring,
the ore being at a depth of about
thirty feet from the surface.
| A quarter Of million dollars
Twas appropriated for building pur-
lposes at this and other localities in
immediate vicinity enough to do a
lgreat deal of it and do it we'll The
cottages will all be neat dwellings,,
icosting from $500 to $1,000. The 9TH
Ter buildings will be equally as good
land substantial, and the whole will
have the air of substantially that
mining locations generally take on.