The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1825-10-27

this metal. Ii was an article Of almost u
niversal use. Ships could not be built
without it. The cost of copper in single
ship of the line, lately built under an act
of Congress, was $4,000. Merchant YES
sells required proportionate supply. In
all the grain-growing districts of the Uni
ted States, it was in demrnd for stills.
The Mint of the United States made an
nual purchases, sometimes to the amount
of $4,000 for the coinage of cents and
half cents. Combined with zinc, Of which
there was an exhaustless supply in the mi
neral districts of Missouri, copper produc-
ed brass, an article Of such universal use
and application that il was found in every
form, aud in every house, from the cottage
cfa peasant to the palace Of a King, and
applied to every use, from the pin to the
cannon.
Mr.. B. believed that the problem Of the
existence of these mines ought TO be solv-
ed, and that the appropriation of $4,000,
contemplated by the bill, was an object of
no consideration in the magnitude of the
question to be decided.
Mr.. DIoKERsoN was not opposed to the
object of the bill, but he preferred modi-
fication of its provisions. He would pre-
fer that an Agent should be sent TO exam
inc the country, and to make report, and
to have that report returned before the sub
ject was finally acted upon. He was no
stranger 10 the accounts which described
large mass of native copper on tho south
side of Lake Superior, but detached mass
es Of any metal were not considered MS GER
tain indications of mines. lie instanced
the Jumps Of gold found in North Carolina,
and Of other metals found in other places,
and yet without the accompaniment of
mines.
Mr.. BENTON rejoined. He was not
skilled in the science Of mineralogy; but he
know enoughto know that solitary mass
of any metal, found by itself, was not y
sign certain Of the presence of mine.
But here the fact was not what the gentle
man supposed it to be. The indications Of
copper on Lake Superior, was not confined
to the mass which the gentleman had par
ticularized. II was seen in thousands Of
places, in Jumps and in veins, on both sides
of the Lake, on the islands within il, and
extending across the country TO the Falls
of st. Anthony. Mr.. B. said, that it was a
continuation Of that great region of fossils
and minerals, which, beginning upon the
Arkansas river, traversed the state ofMis-
souri,, crossed the Mississippi at the Falls
of ST. Anthony, and exhibited itself on both
sides Of Lake Superior. AS to reports, said
Mr.. B. we have enough Of them. We
know as much as we can learn, by looking
at the surface of the ground. If we want
to know more, we must penetrate the bow
els Of the earth, and that is the precise
thing which the bill before the Senate pro-
poses to do. II is in vain TO say, that we
must not search until we are sure of find
ing. Upon that principle nothing would
be found, except what the chapter Of acci-
dents would give 1t was equally in vain
to argue against the existence Of valuable
mines on Lake Superior, because they
were not yet discovered. The great cop
per mines in England, which now furnish
more than one halfof the whole quantity Of
copper produced by all the mines in the
known world, were only discovered in the
last century; the name Of the great salt
mine in that kingdom, Soiina, was known
to the Roman legions two thousand years
ago; but the vast mine of salt water Of that
spring, was only discovered some fifty
years ago.
The bill was then ordered TO q third
reading.
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