Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-17

doubt that much mineral might be bought on the lake
shore for half its actual value.
These mpedimens and dscouragemens il will be seen
are temporary, and do not in the least initiate against the idea
Of the ultimate poducveness and profit of mining on Lake
Superior The time will arrive when the cost of labor
and provisions here will be fifty per higher than in De-
roit when roads will be travelled that shall have already
made when mines may be worked which have not vet
70 be fully proved and when ores and mineral the quality
being asceItaned will command their price readily wheat
cotton think that time cannot be far distant and tina,
dividends on mining stocks in the interim will be exceptions
TO the general rule Meantime, many sanguine hopes will
be chilled and many once Wanted locations virtually aban-
donedsome because they must be- and because they
ought be- scarcely probable that oneha of the eight
or nine hundred locations already made mainly on strip Of
land six miles wide running nearly one hundred and ffy
miles from the Chocolate river the Ontonagon will
ever repay the cost OF proving and working am inclined
to think there will be fewer companies and abated deuge
of stocks in 1885, compared with 1916. hear already
that good many locations have been are to be aba
doned at least for the pesenpehaps nconsdeatey
they made.
And let give glance at the bright side of the
picture have developments of Of nearly pure
coppernot exceptional and isolated but habitua and
tnuous-dung my observations of the last week. which no
man really comprehend and credit without having seen
them will speak of the famous Cliff Nine of the Pitts
burg Company not richer and wonderful than any
other, for do not consider i'll think have examined
two others nearly or quite good-bu because have no
shadow of interest in that mine, hardly know any who has
there be conceivable motive for chaactezng it in
terms Of exaggeron few words then, Of the celebrated
s. Cliff Mine !"
Four miles S. S. w. of the mouth of the decent mill
stream known Eagle river, wenty miles Of Copper
Harbor and two hundred of the Saul Ste Marie you
stand at the base OF steep rocky bluff cliff of trapock
facing southey toward the stream which eastward some
half mile from its base until it finds passage through the
and turns southery to reach the lake. by succession
of falls The base of the cliff is probably five hundred its
summit eight hundred feet above the surface of the lake. and
Its face is hny covered, wherever the rocky chaos will per-
mt it with moderate growth of white birch and poplar
Down the face of this cliff, nearly midway Of its length runs
shallow ravlne or occasional waercouse under this lies
the cliff vein, mne which four drifts have been run into
the cliff at the level Of the base, Intervals of
thirty or forty feet above and below depth of 10
feet from the surface considerably below the bed of the
stream understand that the highest shaft has Welded moth
ing of moment and that all the others run against cross
course OF greensboro after penetrating the cliff abolt quar-
ter of me by which the vein killed. and that all attempts
to trace 1t farther have thus far proved unavanc may
have been mlslnformed on these points,
Approaching the mouth of this mine, the vser finds him
sell confronted by great piles of shining native metal in the
rock part of which wokmen are engaged in bounding
as free from dead rock possible and baeng for Shipment
unks OF pure, shapeess "copper" from the size of egg
that OF mkpan prousey scattered around. But your
gaze OF wonder speedily Withdrawn from these by The spec
tacle OF great black masses OF native metal mainly cop
per with occasional interpretations of SPAR of uncolh shape
and unwiedy size, weighing from to two ZACH
giant masses after all but fragments the original mass hav-
ing been cut IN pieces with the cold che an expense of
$50 to 500 per cut order render it movable ~ human
power Entering the Drift ad, and travelling it for
short distance you that though many of these giant bou
ders have been torn from their original resting pas yet far
more remain within sight, partly embedded in the ock above
or below the drift whence they be blasted out at the
proper time They cannot be blasted hundred pounds of
powder would hardly throw shlngs worth of copper but
the rock may be blasted away from them every de when
they are ready to be cut into such pieces may be elevated
and taken out of the mne In this way huneds of tons
have been taken out while thousands yet remain how many
who guess
Nearly all the copper of this region Of an admirable quail
ty usually alleged with silver render exceedingly
ductie and flexible and Of briancy which commands for
1t high price, II is odd that, while silver found in so
many VEINS no mine of silver has yet been proved on our
side OF the lake, so far have any knowledge. On the
British side rich vein of silver reported Princes loca-
tom which may such and may The spar is quite
brilliant and SNOWY and is said resemble that Of the silver
mines of Mexico Several such discoveries are reported where
one eventually usfes the expectations has excited Imay
WnIe iarther after seeing more H G.