Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-05-02
MINERAL WEALTH.

W. nave reason 10 believe, that the statements
made in the following extracts are nearly cor
rect. few days since we were shown speci.
mems of the SILVER as well as the COPPER ore re-
ferred to. and we know too that several of our
citizens, stockholders in one of the copper com.
panies, some weeks since, were offered most
extravagan. price for the stock owned by them
The silver ore exhibited to VS., is certainly We
ry rich, and we were told, is valued at $40 600
per ton. What source Of wealth. not cnly to
The fortunate owners Of the mines, but to the
nation II the Sitycr ore should prove of one.
half the value now supposed, there is no tel
ling the effect it will produce upon our moni,a.
ry system; it will certainly greatly increase
the bullion of the nation, and give the people
silver coin in place Of the small notes which
now constitute almost our entire circulating me.
Pittsburgh Post.
From the Clevland Herald
Report from the Copper Region.
We have not been inclined to give credit to
all the big stories that we hear about the cop.
per, and especially the siirer of the Lake Supc.
rior country. There is no doub. much cxao.
geration-some of it intended to affect the val.
lie ofstocks, and some not dishonesty, but for
want of knowledge of the value of such mines
But the accounts come so thick upon us, and u
gree so well together, that we cannot rciec,
them entirely. There must be something ex.
traordinary in those newly discovered mines, or
else there is most extensive combination to de.
ceive the community.
We have before us extracts from three let.
ters received at Detroit, within the past few
days. One from Dr. knne. U. s. Surveyor at
Fort Wilkins, dated Feb. ;, lSiG, says-"A
few days slnce,a mass of pure copper was taken
out OF the earth, weighing about nine tons.
Near the same place they are taking out anolh.
er mass nearly as large. have in two or three
instances seen them blast out Jumps of pure sill
rer, weighing 30 or 40 pounds"
letter from Mr. A Sherman, dated at the
"Anse," in February, says--"l should not dare
write ysu what have actually seen did not
suppose hundreds Of others would corrobora,e
my statements. have Just returned from Cop.
per Harbor by way of Eagle river. The silver
is not like that found last summer in the Bos.
ton companys mines, but runs in streaks and
Jumps, the latter sometimes as large asa wal
nut, and sometimes much larger, and of pure
sHpcr.
They have got out two copper and silver
rocks, one weighing 300 and the other $500
pounds. rich in silver, which stands out in mas
ses and spangles
visited the copper rock. ofthe Copper Falls
company, five miles from Eagle river, towards
Copper llarbor They sunk shat, IL fee, in
diameter, 80 feet below the surface, and struck
vein of copper running across the SHAFT They
have cleared away from one side to the depth
OF l3 feet, and on the other AZ feet, and have
found neither end or bottom 1t is ) TO l3 in.
ches thick, and is computed to weigh 3 times
as much as the copper rock OF the Ontonogan |
picked up piece of rock at Jennings in which
there are streaks and Jumps ofsilvcr as thick as
my little finger. What saw can hardly be.
lieve, yet ask you to believe it, for it is every
syllable true. The North American company's s
location is but about 20 rods from where they
are taking out this silver, and the vein runs in
to il.
was preiudiced against the copper mania
until my recent trip, and still think that those
veins may not improve as they 60 down; but
there must be ore where there is so much native
silver and copper"
Some of the rich Polish mobiles resident in Pa.
ris, sold shares in the French railways TO the
amount Of ESQ, 900 sterling, to send the proceeds
TO their lusuIgeut couDtTymeD