New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-30
NEW.YORK TRIBUNE.
N,w-Jersey Mines and Mining Allegheny
Copper Company.


.,o.cislly in Copper, have naturally awakened
,,i,t Of inquiry Of enterprise and Of speculation,
9TH regard to Mines and Mining in other portions
4 ire country. In its progress, old things have
h.oome new. and traces or out groupings OF Ores
.,icb have been suffered to slumber for years and
.vsn generations, known but disregarded, have
..rtsd into sudden importance, and often risen to
4. reesrded as the reservoirs Of riches untold, IN
iu.sinable. Many OF the sanguine expectations
TINS raised will almost necessarily DO disappoint
al since nothing can well be more precarious and
unreliable than the ordinary superficial indications
n Mineral Wealth. Your Ore may be rich in
mineral, and for season abundant yet by the
tina you have sunk shafts and erected works at a
cost Of thousands Of dollars, it has repeatedly been
well nigh exhausted your fancied 1ein narrowed
TO mere seam, or unaccountably disappeared
And, even though the Ore hold out, the influx Of
water may have become so great as, with the ne
csssy Of blasting and raising worthless rock to az
ford proper scope for mining operations, and the
ddculties and expense of transportation, to swal.
low up the anticipated profits, and leave but a
neagre return to the shareholders Hardly in any
other business is the necessity for ample means,
scientific direction, and prudent though liberal
Management, so imperative as in this.
In obedience to a promise of some weeks
Standing. we paid flying visit to the mine of
he 'Allegsny Copper Company on Wednes-
a,y last The location ia on a spur of Blue Noun.
t,i, running parallel with the Delaware River
and but half mile distant from it, in the township
Of Pshsquarry, Warren County, N. j. seven
nles above the famous Water Gap through
which you pass in visiting it, either from this City
or elphia--the distance being about so miles
rom the former and 30 from the latter. Pahaquarry
.nther a ughlooking township, so far as our OBJ
,.rystjcn extended; but landlord Schumacher OBJ
.srved rather complacently that there was neither
a priest lawyer nor paper among its inhabit-
,pu-and not many modern Wings He evil
dss,ly considers it wholly or nearly exempt from
,ou. Of the sorest ills Of life, and by no means
bu ulscs to tsrry in. Across the Delaware, the
fsrtls slsdes and bill. sides Of Middle and Upper
Smlthfsld, Monroe Co. Pa rise gracefully from the
water 10 the forest crowned nights in the distance,
Srning one Of the noblest landscapes within our
,spsnbrance-But we are forgetting the Copper
Nine absurdly named Allegheny
Leaving the bank OF the Delaware at mill
steam termed Mine Creek you cross narrow
strip Of cultivated ntervale and are at the foot oil
he mountain, through which the stream has worn
,rorse to the depth of FIVE or six hundred feet-
Half mile from the river at an elevation oil per
ksps three hundred feet, the brook crosses nearly
1t right angles the vein of Copper Ore when Is
thence visible and opened at intervals up the entre
,outhwadrising ACTIVITY TO the summit OF tine
rsunt,in- probably seven hundred feet perpendic-
al.r from the brook and thousand from the river
Thence along the crest Of the mountain, and for
good part within few feet and then few RODS OF
Of ito riverward declivity, the vein has been traced
md occasionally proved for at least mile and
half entirely upon the land Of the Allegheny Com
,sny. Its distinguishable on the unbroken sur
hcs BY peculiarly bright red shale though the
mountain itself is mainly of the Red Sandstone
bundstion. The vein.rock is the same with that
inwhich the Copper Ores (oxydes) of Pennington
and Lake Superior are usually imbedded. Thedip
Of the vein is toward the river at an angle OF 49,
The earth has been entirely removed at the sum
nj, while in the orthwnard looking declivity as al
ready stated men are at work, terrace above ter
race, blasting and taking out ore, all in plain day
light The width OF the vein is about SIX feet, OF
course not uniform. but nearly So so far as 1t has
yet been proved The wall-rock on either side is
distinctly defined and regular
In metallic richness this Ore would suffer by COM
parison with the Native Copper and with much OF
the Ore from Lake Superior for, though assays
have been made of picked specimens which yield
sd@per cent. Of pure Copper the estimate oil the
superintendent in charge makes the average yield
Of the entire lode only IS per cent, and If even this
Is DOT considerably reduced by the actual results OF
extensive smelling, it will be contrary 20 the usual
experience in such cases But in facility and cheap
ness Of working, in apparent extent and inexhaust-
ible quantity. we have heard of nothing to compare
with this. A vein of such length, width and depth,
Certainly not less than six hundred feet from the
creek to the summit) at no place but half mile
30 from boatabe river leading directly to Phila
dsphis, or, by the Morris Canal from Easton, to
NewYork. requiring no drainage beyond proper
Prosecution OF the work, and no raising of Ores for
years at any rate, ought to be immensely valuable,
tminss OF like richness in ordinary localities are
worth working at all. For the mile or SO that the
vein closely follows the brow Of the mountain, as
vel as next the creek where the work is already
N progress. the ore as mined may be transported
byi,s own gravity almost to the bank OF the river
md ss per ton would be liberal estimate for the
Coz, Of mining and delivery on the bank Of the Del
aware. Should smelling on the spot be deemed
most advantageous, the Company's tract OF or SOC
arss is entirely covered with fine growth OF Oak
etc. whether for Timber, Fuel or Charcoal we
snow no place where Smelling could be prosecu
ted more sdvantsgeously or chesPly But, to make
toe most Of this location there should be ten times
the present number of men employed upon IT.
miners, choppers builders, tesmsters, smeiters,
ae-ssy FIVE hundred in all-and a convenient and
'paeloo' boarding house is indispensable. A single
swelling Or small tavern is now the only habitation
within sight save at distance on the other side
dthe Delaware.
The Valley Of the Delaware above Trenton
0asht to be better known than it ia to New-fork-
~ Although two-thirds OF It's waters are drawn
non our State, which 1t bodnds for some sixty or
asnfy miles its rich freights Of lumber for gener
Moons passed annually down to Philadelphia with.
~e exciting thought or an effort on the part Of