Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-04-25

United States Army, to his brother BeDja
min Kinney. at Detroit, dated
COPPER HARBoR, Feb. 5. 1876
81 am confident that the excitement will
not aba,e soon. As soon as the people 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
few days since solid mass of pure cop
per was taken out of the earth weighing abou
nine tons.
Near the same place they are taking out an
other mass nearly as large. This belongs &c
the Copper Falls Mining Company. | have
seen them in two or three instances blast on
chunks of pure silver weighing from thirty &c
forty pounds, at the Piitsburg works."
Extract of letter from Abner Sherman, q
person engaged in buying furs, to Genera
Phelps, his employer, of Detroit, dated
LAKE SUPERIOR, Feb. 10, 1916.
Now for Copper and Silver. Cog ant
Magog. The old world or new has neve
known anything to compare with what have
actually seen did not suppose that hundred:
of others would write, corroborating what
shall state. First, TO begin with, Jenning';
works, owned by the P.ltsburg and Isle Roy
al Company, exceeds anything MA, was eve
dreamed of by the most sanguine. 10 the
first place, it is rich in copper. ye; il is deci
dedly silver vein rnnning over mountain. Of
into mountain of some two or three hundred
feet high. l can form no estimation Of the
quantity already got ou,
Ihave just returned from Copper Harbor, by
way of Eagle river. at which place this rich
vein is. The silver is no, like that found las,
summer by the Boston Company, but runs in
continued streaks and even larger, of pure sill.
yer, and 10 many places 10 the vein the silver
holds it together after the rock is broken and
shivered TO pieces. Al one blast. while was
there, they calculated they threw out ten
thousand dollars worth of silver. They
have also got two copper and silver rocks,
weighing from twelve to eighteen hundred,
and some of them are rich in silver, having
silver sticking out in masses and spangles, all
through the copper. They are labeled Cog
and Magog, and stood by the door for Magog,
Now for the mammoth copper rock, found
in Copper Falls River by the Copper Falls
Company, abou, FIVE miles from Eagle river,
toward Copper Harbor. 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 can
form no description, as they have found neither
end nor bottom yet. | went down into the
shaft 10 see il, and found il cleared on one
side 10 the depth of Is feet, on the other foul
feet, ., one end about l3 inches thick. and al
the other say 5 to inches, and think little
thicker a, the bottom than at the top. II is
estimated, by those best acquainted with esti.
mating irregular chunks OF copper, TO weigh
about eight times as much as the copper rock
carried from Ontonsgon some years ago. A
every place where they are at work this win.
ter they exceed their most sanguine expecta
/ tions. have a chunk taken cut of jennings
works about the size Of a hens egg, 10 which
are chunks and sireaks as big as the eud of Eny
I little finger, and have no doubt there is 10
the chunk two or three ounces Of silver"