The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-06-19
News from the Lake Superior Country.

The Detroit Bulletin, of the 4th inst, has re
ceived the first number of the Lake Superio
News In long article, which gives in detail thu
workings of different mines in that region for the
last winter, the editor says: All are in fine health
and high spirits with the satisfactory results O.
mining for the winter and none talk of exchanging
the copper mines for the gold mines of California
The "Cliff Mine - is spoken of as still turning
out immense quantities of copper, such as hereto
fore, and prospects equally good if not improved
They have hundreds of tons at the landing fol-
-hipment. The "Nonh American Company
which is owned principally in Detroit SIS rapidly
moving up to rlvalship with her mammoth neigh
Dor, exceeding their most sanguine expectations
Some masses weighing two and half or threr
tons, and some seven or eight hundred tons Of
barrel and stamps work have been already raised
from the mine, and without any effort at stopeng.
The engine and stamps are erected, and they have
commenced hauling copper TO the lake.
The Minnesota Mining Company" chartered
by the last Legislature of Michigan, has found, at
distance of thirty feet below the surface of the
ground rich lode of copper ore, seven feet wide
with vein four inches thick containing consider
able silver, and on side of this vein vein of
pure copper nine inches thick. They have fol-
lowed this twelve feet in depth and ten feet in
length and find neither end nor bottom. Another
shaft sunk at the distance Of 100 feet, strikes the
same vein Of pure copper. The stock of this
company is now considered worth 800 per cent.
premium.
The Copper Falls, p" North west" =. 90 Lac la
se and ,ss Tnns Conc
panies all spoken of in the News in the most
encouraging manner, a full account of whose
workings during the winter is given in its columns.
The season on Lake Superior is represented by
the News as the most severe ever known TO those
living on the lake, but no suffering is complained
shHsc
the thermometer ranging for length of time be-
tween zero and thrtyfive and thirty-eight degrees
below with an average fall of thirty-seven feet of
snow, and an every day storm with the exception
Of two from the first of November to the first of
February. At Eagle River they experienced a
smart gale and furious storm of snow on the oath
of May.
The first arrival at the Sault from Copper Har-
Dor and Eagle River was the propeller Independ-
ence, on the 9Th ult., bringing Gen. Roberts, Mr..
Hanna, Agent Of the "Cliff Mines" and many
others, together with ninety tons of copper from
the "Clf Mines" Mr. George K Smith, of the
NeepigOn Company left the Saut On the 29rh,
with party of fifteen men, for the mining location
on St. Ignace Island, with the intention of prose-
cutting operations at that point. VIM. A. Burt,
Government Surveyor, and party, were at the Sault
on their way up to resume the surveys in the min
eral region. The propeller Napoleon was to have
left for Eagle River and intermediate ports on the
LIST inst There had been no arrival from Isle Roy
ale up to the LIST inst.
CALIFORNIA EMIGRANTs ON THE PLAINS
The St. Joseph Gazette estimates the number of
wagons which have passed in the vicinity of that
place on the way to California at 1850. These
wagons average four yoke of oxen each, making
"a 800 oxen. The number of men to a wagon
averages four, making 17,40O. About 200 men
more have gone with pack mules. Every eighty
wagons will occupy one mile of the road, and the
whole train will make up grand column of fifty
five miles in length. 1t must be recollected that
those who have started from points south of St. 10
seph, Independence, Weston, Westport, ETC., are
not included in this estimate The whole number
upon the plains cannot fall much shot of $1,000
men.