The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-01-16

Twenty ears Ago

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s The following items are taken from
the files of the Enterprise Of 20 years
ago and will be read with interest BY
many Virginians today. The Vir-
ginia Enterprise was: then in its first
volume, having been founded few
months previous by w. E. Hannaford.
These items are FROM the issue of.
January IL, 1894. VII. :s-s<s4:
A cut in wages has been announced
by the management Of the Duluth &
Iron Range. The salaries have been
reduced from the president down, in
Guiding the CLERICAL force and the
machine shop men. The percentage
has not yet been determined, but it
will be slight and the intention is to
make it only temporary, until times
improve.
Messrs. Moore & McFerren are op-
eraing on the northwest of the north
west Of 20, $40. They report con-
tinued good finds and are pushing ex-
ploratory work with all possible rap
idity. About 80 men now find employ
ment at this property and test pit
after test pit is being bottomed in ore.
In conversation with Captain Moore
few days ago he stated that in the
Iron Chief they had discovered anoth-
er monster and they contemplated the
plating of a town at the property
early in the spring.
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j. M. Longyear is reported as hav-
ing said that he did not anticipate any
improvement in the iron industry for
two years and he would not be sur
prised if it did not come in four. The
Michigan mines can now produce
twice as much ore as they can find
market for. AS for this winter, he
feels that much worse times are COM
ing, and with the great Mesaba mines
opening up to compete with Michigan,
the prospects are indeed gloomy.
The Biwabik Mining company
squared their payroll on Friday last.
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About 40 men are now employed at
the Mahoning property near Hibbing,
and about rs at the great Lake Sup
erior. New machinery will be put in
at both these properties in the early
spring and work carried on more ex-
tensively than has heretofore been
possible with the limited plants.
John Mckinley, we'll known to Mes
aba people as one of the original op-
orators of this range, has secured the
right to operate the Moon coal mine
property, near Redwood Falls. He in
tends to abandon the tunneling project
from the bluff which Moon has been
following and determine the proper
point for sinking a shaft by testing
the property with "a drill. Mr.. Nc
'Kinley is of the opinion hat there is
coal Of superior quality at a much
greater depth, and a test for this will
be made as soon as machinery can be
placed on the ground.
Monday evening the new officers
of the Virginia Retail Liquor Dealers
Protective association were duly in
stalled.
One of the most enjoyable events
of the season was the sleighing party
from this city consisting Of two bus
loads, to Eveleth on Saturday evening
last, the occasion being a surprise on
Superintendent Neil McInnis of the
Adams, his numerous friends learning
that it was his 53rd birthday and hav-
ing decided to make it memorable.
The following were present: Mr.. and
Mrs. E. w. Coons, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ross,
Captain Harry Roberts and daughter,
Mckinley, Misses Mae M. Gill, Mar
garet and Eliza Ahearn, Matilda and
Clara Deau, Mae and Julia Schipley,
Ida Andrew, Annie Peterson, Messrs.
John F. Burk, Jared D. Taylor, Thos.
C. Rawley, Edward C. Burke, Thomas
Hamilton, Albert E. Bickford, VIM.
J. Lawrence, A. Newton Brown, Chas.
C. Helmuth, James H. Knowles and
John F. Gleason.
A new safe for the Village of Vir-
ginia from the Cary Safe company of
Buffalo, arrived Tuesday and was
given place in the Office of Village Re-
corder Burk. The safe is a nice one
92x48 inside, and weighs 4,200 pounds.
1t cost 1925 at a factory and is one of
the necessities of we'll governed vii
lage.
The peach crop may be injured, but
the crop of receivers is coming right
along. The latest one is James H.
Knowles, of this city, who on Tuesday
was appointed assignee for the firm
of Culburtson & Richardson of Noun
tain Iron.