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quartz. A vein dubbed "No. 3" is also expected to be cut through soon. 

 At the surface it is wide and shows up well. Camps were recently built 

 on the ground owned by this company. A steam hoisting plant is also in 

 operation and everything is in good shape for extensive exploration and 

 developing. 



The Olive Mine. — A company is preparing to reopen this mine and had 

 considerable preliminary work done when the wi-iter visited the region. 

 But no actual work on the mine had been done. It is one of the old and 

 paying mines of the old times and will need considerable overhauling. 



Steep Rock. — A company composed of Thomas Rawn and associates 

 are doing diamond drilling work on iron properties here and report has 

 it that some very good results have been obtained. Gold prospecting is 

 also going on in the vicinity. 



Elizabeth. — This is one of the old mines and was a payer. It was 

 owned by Alan Sullivan. Considerable work was done on it, a ten-stamp 

 mill was installed and good camp buildings erected. The mine is on 

 Harold Lake. Mr. Sullivan had a fine log house built there for himself, 

 had a fine fireplace built in it, had his floors covered with oriental rugs 

 and had his walls decorated with the paintings of the old masters. But 

 the mine failed and a Canadian bank took it to satisfy loans that had 

 been advanced on the property. But with the coming of new life to the 

 region, a Mr. A. McKinnon bought the mine of the bank and has been 

 developing it. He had fifteen men employed when I visited it, and stated 

 that he had secured some very fine ore. 



The Foley. — This set of mines are located on Shoal Lake, under the 

 management of the Foley Gold Mines Company, ltd. This company in- 

 tends putting in a large garden this year to offset the cost of supplying 

 its camp. It also expects to clear more ground near it for future use in 

 the same line. Vegetables do well in that section and fresh vegetables 

 will help make the table more palatable. New quarters and more com- 

 modious ones are to be erected for the accommodation of the employees. 

 The mine is one of the old mines and has a stamp mill and other heavy 

 machinery at hand. Also, ores to the northward from the Lucky Joe, 

 another shaft of this group, are found to be very heavy in iron sulphides. 

 When last stamped it is reported that the iron sulphate concentrates as- 

 sayed $7.73 per ton. The fi-ee milling quartz ores from the vein also ran 

 $20 per ton per ore handled. A shaft will also be sunk on the galena 

 vein. Ore from this vein taken in a pit 17 feet beneath the surface as- 

 sayed $30 per ton in gold, $3.58 in silver and 5 per cent in lead, but the 

 veins in each case were thin. 



At the south shaft, owned by the Foley Mining Company, much dead 

 work has been done. The shaft has been sunk 200 feet. From this, then, 

 a cross-cut has been driven eastward 325 feet. This cross-cut has cut 

 four veins from five to eight feet in width and a fifth very rich vein 17 

 inches in width. 



MINING OPERATIONS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF ST. LOUIS AND KOOCHICHING 

 COUNTIES, MINNESOTA, ACROSS RAINY LAKE FROM MINE CENTER, ONTARIO. 



The region covered by the above title is what might be termed a 

 wholly unexplored region, so far as mining is concerned. Its country 



