The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-04-28
THE MINERAL REGION.

The following extracts from recent letters
from Lake Superior have been obtained by
US for publication, and their authenticity and
the disihteLestedness of the writer's may be
relied on. AT the same time, we will repeat
our caution against rash and extravaganr
sPecuations in Mining property and enter
prise. The very fact that the Mining region
OF Lake Superioris surprising the most s1n-
guine expectations will tend to fill the market
with reams of certificates oil Stock in Mining
Companies not worth the paper wasted in
printing them. If you choose TO become in
terested in Mining operations, know who you
trust and what YOU buy.
Extract ola letter from Dr.. Kinney, Sur
eeon U. S. A. 10 his brother, Benjamin Kin
ney, at Detroit, dated.
COPPER HARBoR, Feb'ry 5,1646.
Il am confident that the excitement will
not ahate 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
"a few days since solid mass of pure cop
per was taken out of the earth weighing about
tonsI
NEAR the same place they are taking out
another mass nearly as large. This belongs
10 the copper Falls Mining Company. 1
have seen them in two or three instances
blast out chunks of pure silver weighing from
30 to 30 pounds, at the Pittsburg works.
Extract from a letter from Abner Sherman,
a person engaged in buying furs, TO Gen.
Phelps, his employer, of Detroit, dated
Lake Superior, Feb'ry 10, 1916.
Now for Copper and Silver, Cog and Ma
cog. The old world or new has never known
any thing to compare with what actually has
an existence in the mines of Lake Superior
neither should ] dare write what have ac-
tually seen did not suppose that hundreds
of others would write. corroboratng what ]
shall state. First, to begin with Jenning' S
works, owned by the Pittsburgh and Isle
Royal Company, exceeds any thing that was
ever dreamed of by the most sauguine. In
the first place. it is rich in copper, yet it is
decidedly silver vein running over a noun
tain, or into a mountain Of some 200 or 300
feet high. l can form no estimate 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 strenks and in chunks in
some instances as big as a walnut, and even
larger, of pure silver, and many places in the
vein the silver holds il to gether 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 IL to g hundred.
and some of them are rich in silver, having
silver sticking out in masses and spangles,
all through the copper. They aye labeled
Cog and Magog. and stood by the door for
Msgog. DR.. Petit was offered eighteen
hundred dollars.
''Now for the mammoth copper rock, found
in Copper Falls River by the Copper Falls
Company, about five miles from Eagle River,
toward Copper Harbor. They were sinking
a shaft about IL 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 yet the bottom. l went down
into the shaft to see it, and found it cleared
on one side to the depth Of Is feet, on the
other Alp feet, at one end shout l3 inches