New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-10
Frnm Lake superior.

The Green Bay Adrocate of the 9sth ult. has
news from Lake Superior derived from Mr. W.
n Stevens. who came across the country to Green
Bay, on bis way to Washington
The mines are represented as doing well this
wear. Fifteen hundred tuns of copper have been
ssbinned Of which the Cliff Mine, the largest
Skinned 600 tuns. The whrIwind of speculation
and fraud has now passed over, and there are no
afancy' operations and every company organized
has got real location, and is doing actual bu-
siness in getting out copper
One Of the greatest expenses IN getting the
copper ready for shipment is In the cutting OF 1t
up into movable masses, which is effected by
tedious process with chisel and hammer various
have been the expedients devised 10 facilitate
this operation; machines have been rugged IN
various ways and at great expense, to sa" the
blocks but the copper is 30 mixed with stony par
ticles, that the saws cannot be made 70 WORK
The miners are now about trying new plan
they are constructing gigantic furnace to melt
the masses, and cast them N such pieces as can
be handled. This seems feasible, and II 1t proves
to be So the expenses of mining will be very ma
terially lsssened.
The traces Of ancient mining continue to be
found, and in greater numbers and extent ana
these prove of great service to the miners OF the
present day, by directing to the best locations,
and in presenting to the miner excavations when
could only be effected in years of labor. The
people there estimate their age to be at least two
thousand years, but nothing has been found to
trace their connection with any existing race, ex
cept the bare fact that the copper mined was
carried off by way Of st. Mary River and the lakes
This has been determined by detached portions
being found along the way from the mines to Ste'
Marie.
In regard to the route from Green Bay, the i'd
rocate says:
A road from Green Bay to the most southerly
point of Keewenaw would be less than 200 miles
10 length and while it would shorten the travel
over the present route at least 100 miles, would
open one Of the most beautiful and fertile sections
in the Union-a section which will remain un.
known and unoccupied until such a road Is opened
by the Government. The Lake Superior people
need it most especially for procuring supplies,
driving cattle, &c
The traveller finds the whole distance, to within
few miles of Lake Superior, Astounding in every
resource which will make a country wealthy and
prosperous. Clear, beautiful lakes, are inter.
spersed, and these have plenty of large trout and
other fish Mr.. s. informs us that speckled trout,
foot in length, are found in them. Water and
water.powers are everywhere to be found, and
the timber is of the best kind-maple groves,
beech oak, pine, &c. He says that though the
country is sufficiently undulating he did not IN
the whole distance see hill or knoll which could
not be titled and ploughed with facility. Nothing
is now wanted but few roads to open this rich
country to the settler, and it will soon TEEN with
villages, schools, mills, farming operations, and
every industrial pursuit which the more southern
portion of our State now exhibits.