New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-08

half way Of is great length. stretches some fifty
miles Nonhward broad and rugged promoniory,
Terminating ia Kecwenaw Tor Kce~enonl Point.
near lat 49, Or slnos; in the centre ofthe Lake On
tie West shore Of this proroonory, and not far from
the Point j. Copper Hsrbor, around which u the
most approved Mineral region Of Lake Superior
stretching Westward some 80 or 40 miles to the
river ODionagon the only considerable or nayigatie
stream in that quarter. This is not, OF course the
fail extent of the Mineral region for the great Cop
ycr Rock itself was brought from place much Tar
tbcr Inland on branch of The Ontonagon, and prom
siir vein. OF ore known 10 exist hundred miles
back from the Lake. on the SUBMITS OF the Porcu-
pine Mountains Silver is said TO have been found
In good veins near the banks Of the Ontonagon, some
30 10 80 miles inland where the stream having Ia
Ken it last pitch begins to be navgable while even
Gold il said to have been found ON location consid
orsbly East oil Keewenaw Point
All these however are matters on which our in
formation is imperfect, while faith in some Of
them il moderate. That there is Silver in this re-
gion. is otrinsicaly probable and sustained by
much concurrent testimony; that it has yet been
found in such quantities and positions as to justify
and reward the outlay required to mine IT, we do
not know. The Gold report reaches us still more
vaguely. Another season will probably solve many
doubts.
Rich as arc the Copper ores Of many localities, it
"a the safe presumption that all profitable mining
for them mus, for time be confined to mar
row section bordering the Lake approached by
some Of its bays and inlcts This metal is too bulky
IN proportion TO its value TO warrant very exten-
sive land transportation in the crude form Of Ore,
while the process OF Smelling 1t is 80 costly, tedious
aud difficult that We do not know where il s now
perforated Ia this Country We understand that
smelling works are no. in process OF erection near
Boston al Pittsburgh, Pa. and on the Hudson
this city. the last with more immediate reference to
the Copper produc, Of Cuba. Hitherto most Of the
Copper ores mined in this country have been smet
ed Ia England. We trust this is now near its end
The difficulties Of mining Copper, at any consd
erablc distance South Of Lake Superior can hardly
be appreciated by those not familiar with the country
The surface is remarkably rugged and broken, often
rising stecpy into hills from the very waters OF the
Lake with higher hills close behind them, and so,
nicrspcrscd with swamps and morasscs, back to
the mountains which part the tributaries OF the Su'
peror from hose of the Mississippi The aspect is
40 bleak 1.-THE latitude that of Quebec and the soil
80 sterile that settlement of for any other than
Mining purposes is out of the question. The miners
of the interior must make their own roads, where
maxim them is no holiday matter, and must pur-
chase all their forage as well as provisions, in re-
gion where the price Of neither can be low. In due
time il the Mineral region of Superior half just6es
the sanguinc expectations it has awakened there
will BE- good roads and Railroads to all the richest
developments. AT present, those considerably in
land II merely Of Copper, mast generally remain
undistuf5cd. though shngled with permits ex-
lori,ions, discoveries, leases scrps and sundries
The Mincs now being worked are within mile
Of the Lake, where its coast is ihicky dotted with
herbors The shore is 30 bold and the barbors SO
sheltered that vessels laden with provisions, i'm
pcmenis. DC. have safely run up within few feet
of the land put out plank and rolled their barrels
aud packages on to the dry ground, while the
streams all around the Onionason alone excepted
- utterly forbid the idea of navigation that not
bark canoe can be forced up their rocky and pre-
cipitous beds hundred yards from the Lake, If at
all. The timber on the coast is mainly Pitch-pinc
White Cedar, &c. but mile inland generally com
menccs the hardwood. consisting OF Sugar Maple,
etc This region is not heavily timbcred
We hear that one small propeller steamboat has
already been launched on the Lake, and another
tho Julia Palmer will soon be. This will bring
the Mining region practically a week nearer the
world for the voyage from the Sault ST Marie to
Copper Harbor lsomc 200 miles is generally tc-
dious one in the small sail vessels of Superior,
sgsns, the habiiual Westerly winds Of that region.
Though averaged at four five days, it has quite
often taken treble iiveiis uncertainty being part
Of the mischief Hereafter ii will be made in some
twenty four hours, or two days at iarthest.
Loud and general complaints are made in the
West at the alledgcd avoritism, if nothing worse,
OF the War Department, at Washington, having the
supervision of the Mineral region. The mode OF
granting Mineral permits and that Of stopping them
are equally and stringently objected to. In the
the first place, the real working miners and practi
cal explorers of the Mineral region insst that the
Permit, allowing the specified individual to search
for mineral and make hisocaiion, obviously implied
that the search should be made out at Lake Super.
or and not among the official surveys. maps and
documents on file In the War Office. Yet We are
informed tina, locations have been made aud leases
Issued within ten days after the permits have been
grsnicd-sll snug and easy in Washington City a,
no expense OF time toll or travel except in those
constructive journeys which Office holders are repu-
ted dcsh, in, especially where the mileage is hea-
w. These rery constructive permits and leases, often
made without surveys by guess ON the map,
have been allowed to override and supplant the
claims Of real miners who have been for year or
more actively exploring for mineral and for many
months actually located the the tracts thus sum
MARTY taken from thcm--in some cases after per
mi,s have been officially granted them Such pro
cccdings these. especially where generally enact
ed in favor Of single great monopolizing company
popuisrly Though we hope mistakenly known as
the Marcy Company, very naturally excite strong
indignation throughout the Mining region. They
canno, fail TO be overhsuled in Congress.
The objection to the sudden soppagc OF permits,
IN the middle of July last, are equally positive II is
urged that the People of the Far West, and espc-
oially those remote from the great mail routes. had
scarcely learned that the Mineral region was formal
~ opened to exploration and location when the gate