New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-24
Life on Lake Superior.

We have recent advices, by mail aud the arrival
of friend, from toe Mineral region on Point hee-
wenaw and more generally from the whole Mine
raj Region of Lake Superior. We condense so
much Of the information as seems to be of general
! interest.
| We gather that the working Mines are doing
fairly. The great Cliff Mine pittsburgh and Bos
ton Company is rolling out the Copper Masses more
profusely than ever and our friend who left Eagle
River FIVE weeks ago says it was estimated that 1t
would have four hundred tons Of solid Copper on
the wharf at the opening ofnavigation in May next
as the yield of the Winters work. THE total yield
of the year which closed last November was about
FIVE hundred tons Our friend says that the works
labored under some disadvantages for the wsnt OF
one present and allcontrolling head, he Directors
not having seen fit to vest such power in any one)
but the richness of the mine is without parallel
The Copper Falls North West Suffolk. and North
American are driving their works this Winter but
are rather doing what il necessary to the future
productiveness Of their mines than attempting 10
realize much at present. The Bohemian and Lac Ia
Belle are also, understand, pressing forward
with good prospects. The North American has
much better show than hitherto good many
com Danies are doing little or nothing this Winter
yet there are probably several at work from which
we have not heard by this arrival
From the Ontonagoo, &c we learn that some To-
cations have been compelled to suspend operations
entirely by the failure of their provisions, y hich
were shipped too late in the Fall on board the
schooner Chippewa, which went ashore in a gale
near Eagle River. From other locations we hear
generally that the Developments of this Winter
have been very encouraging
Til ey have had no cause to join in the general
complaint Of want of snow on the Point this Win
ter. Thirty feet had fpi!en when our friend lelt
about the 18th ult and the snow then lay over four
feet deep closely packed. Our letters complain o.
the difficulty OF accomplishing anything like team
| ing, transportation, &c owing TO the snow U
/ course, they nave more of the same sort now
Our Winter rain storms all snow storms on the
Lake the weather holding steadily though noise
verey cold from November to April THE deep
vast AXE unfrozen in tho center though nearly II
lat 500 North, doubtless exerts powerful influence
On the general temperature. On the Ontonagon
though farther South the Winter is much more Sc
we're than ON the Point)
They had Ball a; Eagle Harbor about the lotl
ul..-perheps the first ever graced by the atten
dance of white ladies on the Lake. There was M
fear of a scarcity of masculine performers bu
there ,sas some apprehension as to feminine atIen
dance which was ioyfally relieved by gathering
OF no less than tcenty girls an matrons. But thes
were not collected without some display OF eners.
and public spirit. For instance. there were tw
present from Copper arbor mine miles distant
who came through by tile help of dog sled, snow
shoes and resoldte purpose. Each In turn walke
half mile or so by the help OF her snowshoeI
then claimed the solitary seat in the dogsled Will
the other took her turn on foot-that is on snow
shoes. Pleasure carriages have not come In last
ion yet above tho Saul St. NJ are, and 1t will pui
zle them to make much hesdv 'ay there, even ate
! roads are made, until some means are devised |
get the better OF the snow.
AT length there is pretty fair blazed trsl
for Winter travellers from Lake Superior to tn
outskirts OF pioneer civilization above Green Ba.
I 1t was made in November by the ma.carrie
who makes the trip up and down each mont
lesving Green Bay on the lst and Eagle Hsrb'
about the 18th. He came down from Eagle Tia
, Dor to L'Anse (56 niles on mow-shoes with i
, pounds on his back ia a little over two days Fro
L'Anse IL over a hundred miles to the next houi
"A sharp walk for four days Cold weather rs nj
feared on this trail, but warm days are terro
I owing to the weight to be carried and the sever
. labor of travelling on snow shoes. good part
the distance is through tamsrsck swamps--s doI
fol acknowledgement with little lakes wn,o
having been covered deeply with snow before the
were much frozen, are rather unsafe footing W
friend broke through one Of them, but ra'nef
. clined going to the bottom of the matter.
We may give more when we have room
K,rhAr yIushexx,~ Wait.