The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-04
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WAS 4 SPLENDID TRIP



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A delightful and dutereetiug: trip
was'experience Of the party Of Two
HaEbors gentlemen who. under in.
yitation of Chas. Eliasson, were
guests, of the Keweenaw. Western
Development association last SUM-
day Ut their ,nininR property near
Hinoksey, MINI.
nhose'vho:formed the party were
Messrs. W. d. Aoultou, Geo.. Man.
ford, Jaa. C. Towne, fhos. Spaith,
chas. E1iasson and the publisher Of
the News. The journey wac made
Saturday, Hinckley being reached
ut $50 a. m. Sunday morning. The
,uightwas epent and breakfast wac
eaten ut .. comfortable and home.
like afttfe hotel kept by Mr.. and r4rs.
Coffin, which 1has> j,asaay earned a
Asst~esass' reputation. About 6
o'clock Sunday morning the party
started in carriages for the mine,
which 10 located about FIVE miles
southeast of Hinckley. Accompany
ing the party were William Kibhee,
mining engineer and superinteud-
ent of the property; Judge w. H.
Skemp of Cloquet, H. Berglund of
Cloquet and W. H. Lancelot, former
~ publisher of the Independent at
Cleqnet, whorecently sold his paper
that he might devote his time to
development of the property, in
which he is auextensive stockhold-
er.
The country between the town
and the mine is covered with fine
farms with excellent buildings and
every evidence of prosperity. Just
before reaching the copper-bearing
lode the surface of the ground be.
comes more uneven, and although
there are no great hills, the surface
il covered with rocks and is al
together different in appearance
from the farming territory adjoin.
ing.
Arriving at the property the party
was fret taken to the shaft, which
fs now down to a depth of As feet,
and several descended to the bottom,
to view the large vein of copper
bearing rock that isexposed. Thence
the party visited the different parts
Of the property q I'D the outcrops Of
seven yeins that traverse the entire
length of the property from north
east toseutaBwest1 were easily follow.
ed. The property also contains
seven transverse veins, which inter-
sect the main veins at almost right
angles, and it 10 where one of these
transversals joins the mother lode
that the shaft is located. A number
of test pits have been sunk to a
depth of ten or twelve feet at differ
ent places on the veins and every
one plainly shows the Greenish color
OF the copper bearing rocks. Wher-
ever the tzaprock. ou&crops pieces of
the rock were found to contain both
iron and copper ia different forms.
The woEk 10, far done in the CON-
panys shat& shows that all the
geological :requirments for q pay,
ing copper mine are. there. First
there ID the Lake Superior trap rock,
In which the veins are located. At
the top there 10 the iron that" or
Gaping, which is always present
whore copper il found in this dis
trict; theu comes the leached rock;
from which the minerals have been
reached; then the malachite, in
which the company is now working,
After this 10 pierced it 10 the ex-
pectation to either encounter native
copper or tina copper salphides.
The rock now being taken from
the shaft rune abont &l3 to the ton
aacopper and 81 in, silver, with
tfoce of gold. The copper value 10
found In the malachite which 10 en-.
crnstod on the rock found in the
veia matter. All the beat author
itioe In the world agree that this
Hinckley district is a continuation
Of the Keewanian. lode that runs
through the upper peninsula of
Michigan and upon which many
paying mines are located and that
the geology 10 exactly the same.
Eight miles southwest of the Ke.
weensw-Western property is locat.
ed q property owned by J. Bennett
Smith, prominent mining engine.
er, and r. d. LaOoe, a wealthy min.