The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-05-12
From, the Bu6alo Commercial .4drer-
fISer.
FROM LAKE SUPERIOR.

surpass all that was at first anticipated,
that il is not surprising they should be
received with some grains Of allowance,
and so long as those tales were unverifed
by actual results, we declined giving
them. But now that the mines have
been scientifically worked, and the results
more than fulfil all that the most sanguine
imagined, we DO not feel justified IN with
holding from our readers well-authentica-
ted statements of facts. There now can
! scarcely be a doubt that the mines of
Lake Superior are among the richest Of
the world. and their working will add
immensely to the wealth and resources
of the country. The business to indi-
viduaIs is hazardous, and may be losing,
il prosecuted without due care and knowl-
edge; but if such are exercised, it must
richly repay enterprise:
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
DETROIT. March Is, 1876,
! herewith enclose to you copies of
some letters Just received from Lake Su-
/ perior, the one from DIR. KINNEY, Sur
geon, U. $. A, the other from a a Fur
Trader, in the employ Of Gen. PHEPs, of
! this city. He is, as YOU see, an unleter-
ed man, and he gives facts just as he sees
them with his own eyes. Ii is import
| ant that public attention should be direct
| ed to statements Of facts from authentic
sources. These letters, although seem
ingly extravagant, are corroborafed by
numerous other letters to our citizens
| will thank you TO publish them with
such comments as you please. | vouch
for the authenticity of the letters, ..the re-
spectability Of the writers, and that they
have no earthly interest in either one of
the companies referred to. Rest assured
that SIX months will show that Lake Su-
perior is the richest mining conuntry in
the world,
Extract of letter from DR.. Kinney, Sur
geon US. A. TO his brother, Benjamin
Kinney at Detroit, dated
COPPER HARBoR, February 3, 1916.
81 am confident that the excitement
! will not abate soon. As soon as the peo-
pie begin to come up they will see for
| themselves-they will see what they
never saw before, that is, pure copper and
! silver in bodies from one ounce to five
and eight tons
"a few days since a solid mass of pure
copper was taken out of the earth weigh
ing about 9 tons.
s. Near the same place they are taking
out another mass nearly as large. This
belongs to tho Copper Falls Mining Com
pany. | have seen them in two or three
instances blast out chunks of pure silver
weighing from 80 to 40 pounds, at the
Piusburg works.
Extract from letter from Abner Sher-
man, person engaged in buying furs
to Gen. Phelps, his employer, of De-
troit, dated
LAKE SUPERIOR, Feb. 10, 1916.
"Now for Copper and Silver, Cog and
Magog The old world or new has new
er known any thing to compare with
what actually has an existence in the
mines Of Lake Superior-neither should
| dare write what [ have actually seen
did not suppose that hundreds Of 9TH
/ ers would write. corroborating what |
shall state. First, TO begin with Jen-
ning's works. owned by the Pittsburg and
Isle Royal Company, exceeds any thing
i that was ever dreamed of by the most
sanguine. In the first place, il is rich in
copper, yet it is decidedly a silver VEN
running over a mountain, Of some 1000
or 1000 feet high, can form no estima-
ton of the quantity already got out.
Il have just returned from Copper
Harbor, by way of Eagle River, at which
place this rich vein is. The silver is
not like that found last summer by the
Boston Company, but runs in continued
streaks and in chunks in some instances
as big as walnut, and even larger, Of
pure silver, and in many places in the
silver holds it together after the rock is
broken and shivered to pieces. At one
blast, while | was there, they calculated
they threw out ten thousand dollars worth
Of silver. They have also got two cop
per and silver rocks, weighing from 10 10
Is hundred, and some of them are rich in
silver, having silver sticking out in mas
ses and spangles, all through the copper.
They are labelled Cog and Magog, and
stood by the door for Magog. DR.. Pet
: tit was offered eighteen hundred dollars.
Now for the mammoth copper rock,
found in Copper Falls River BY the Cop
, per Falls Company, about five miles
from Eagle River, towards Copper Har-
J Dor. They were sinking shaft about
ii feet square and Is from the surface,
when the vein running through the centre
of the shaft was found to contain a mass
or sheet Of fine copper, of which they
/ form no description, as they have found
lneither end nor yet the bottom. went