Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-17
THE MINERAL REGION.
FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE

fhoM NEW YORK
The following letter is descriptive of some Of the
mines on the Lakes, in which many citizens are in
terested:
Sr. MARY's RIVER, JUNE, ls47.
FRIEND SANDERS Our steamboat stopped this afternoon
at the Huron Bruce Mine, and gave nearly hour
to examine it. Capt Heating board and numerous
party OF US gave his Developments necessarily hasy scrutiny
The vein begins in very near the ST. Mays river lit
tie above the point at which IFS is lost in that of Lake
Huron and where its outlet winds among and is divided by
the thousands of islands which chequer the north end Of tina
Lake 1t is on the British main land, opposite St Joseph
Island, which is also British territory The usual route
steamboats, is the other side Of this island but Capt K in
sts that the route through this channel shorter and better
entering the river by the channel termed the false detour.
this be the STEAMBOATS, and other vessels to and from the
Saul must ultimately pass within mile of this location Al
present Capt Ward considers about ten miles out of his
course.
The course of the vein is think n as w. neither para
lei nor at right angles with the river but about half way
tween We struck about sixty rods from the waters edge
where the principal development has been made went
down into the deepest digging with Kenck, followed along
the course of the vein for the third of mile and examined
the three great piles of already quaed which Heating
estimates at four hundred TONS and which think cannot be
less than that He says he has traced the than
mile inland and found percepbe variation in its width
richness We could detan the steamboat long enough
follow it so far.
The character of the is very fairly represented by the
specimens in Gen. Cunninghams office, Hanover street. and
others to be seen in New York yet should be understood
that these, with almost all others from any mne
a6 specimens You readily select such here but there
much OF the vein which contains rock less copper
think about one-thrd of the vein in the middle richer ge-
orally than the rest of it, The average width Of the whole is
over eight feet II said to grow richer descends but
did not examine it with reference to this point
The of quaryng it q think of no other term SO
appropriate quauyng) is wonderful and be
stated think ten thousand tons Of this may be mined
and placed dock at the river sde ready for Shipment for
less than the cost of transporting much already raised
and dressed from almost any Lake Superior mine Saul Se
Marie, so as to be ready for shipment below. 1t certainly
must be large estimate to make the of delivering
thousand tons of this shpboard $50 O0O IS per
am confident contract would gladly be taken mine and
deliver at the dock for S40 00o and money made on
that Now, suppose the to yield but per of cop
per- and cannot be worth less than $50 per ton ship
board, if not $685. the profit to be made from working
may thus be roughly computed.
Several of company went to another just OPEN
ed by Capt keang this location, not fifty rods west of
this above described 1t about six feet wide the surface
but understand not quite rich the former. Mr. Cut
ting, however, who sits the table wre says the
newly discovered vein appears quite rich the worked
but only two blasts have been thrown of this Just the
river Shore and little can be told by that Nearly mile fur
her west the location, Heating has vein which he
says eighteen feet wide the surface but understand
this is less rich than the worked vein. doubt whether one
as rich will be found very soon. N. e.