The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-12-19
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a friendly argument, of course, that
.. if he could claim Sweden as the place
he would have much more reason to
be proud.
Though the Moe boys did not share
the early dangers and hardships of
the grandsire, they have not spent
their life in a garden of roses; life
on a farm means work, and it means
pots of work, and though it may seem
hard on the boy and the girl, it has
great influence upon them in the
moulding of the character. The Moe
boys worked on the farm, and they
were not hurt by the exertion. Work
and they have always been on friendly
terms, and it fitted them for the
hardships to come. They were not
raised to be mollycoddles, nor heroes
of the ballroom floor: they were
taught from early childhood that work
Is honorable and that the doctrine
! paid down that he who will not labor
shall not eat is a just one.
Since leaving the homestead they
have both been steady at work. AT
|ifirst by the day with the pick and the
Fshovel, and of late working for
themselves, but always working.
Life on the farm taught them not
only that work was necessary and
kgood for man; it also taught them
lifrugality; it taught them the les
son so sadly needed in these days,
that it is not sufficient to labor and
earn enough to meet the necessary
daily emergencies, but it is the duty
of every man to lay aside a little Of
his earnings; to be ambitious and rise
and not content to travel in the same
rut to the end: ~,
Through their perseverance and grit
the boys forged ahead, and in time
they are able to start in for them
selves on a small scale drilling and
hxploring for iron ore. Their opera
tions in the field of exploration grew
with the years; the big mining COM
panies soon discovered that the Moe
Brothers meant business; that they
were not in it to kill time, but really
In earnest, and from the modest be-
ginning they branched out on larger
scale and become one of the we'll
known diamond drilling and exploring
firms in northern Minnesota.
They have drilled and explored
many properties for different COM
panies on all the ranges where ore is
likely to be found, and though the
days of anxiety are over, the days
of activity are ever present; they are
Ihp and doing things from early morn
It'll late at night.
/ In their exploration work they have
uncovered many valuable properties,
hnd in recent years have become inter-
ested in some promising ones them
ljselves.
Lately the partnership which has
existed between the two brothers
was dissolved and merged into a newly
formed corporation under the laws of
Minnesota, known as the Moe Explor-
alton company.
The latest find of the Moe brothers,
Twas made under their corporate name
the Moe Exploration company, on
l;Section 1, in township SO, north OF
frange 10, west, being in the vicinity
Of the city of Virginia. The Moe Elk
Iploraton company, after satisfying
themselves that it was a valuable
proposition, secured an option on the
premises, and lately another corpora
ition was formed to operate the prop.
erty.
J 1t is operated by the John Marks
Mining company, corporation Of
pMinnesota, and Of which most all the
shareholders are local men.
J Speaking of the property, Mr.
Martin Moe said: "Of course, in all
mining and exploration work there
must necessarily be a certain element
LOT chance, because the smartest men
ION earth can't look into the bowels
!; thereof and say for a certainty what
may be found therein. Mining men,
: las- we'll as exploration men have GER
) tain fixed rules to go by; certain
/, ienough that they will not spend
money looking for minerals where ex-
Iperience and natures own signs point
J ito the impossibility Of finding any
) such, but often iron ore is found
where the least expected, and often
! it is not found where by all process
/ of reasoning from indications it
" should be found" .s. szSr--@5 &
) However, it is an open secret that
the find on Section looks like q good
strike, and everybody acquainted with
the Moe boys and with the share
]. holders Of the John Marks Mining
company hope so. zss:.; ..:. .-= { z 3
While working in and about the